Half the podcasts in my queue have suddenly become paid subscriptions. Meanwhile the overall industry is losing listeners. Seems like a lousy business model to not offer a free with ads feed. What a bizarre trend.

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2023/2/9/23592684/decline-of-podcasts#:~:text=Monthly listenership to podcasts seems,podcasts has fallen as well.

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2022/03/28/monthly-podcast-listening-is-down-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-decade-according-to-study

  • hoshikarakitaridia
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    1 year ago

    This might also be because one of the biggest advertisers for podcasts went belly up. Coffeezilla made a video about it recently.

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      1 year ago

      It always felt like the entire podcast industry was running off the money of like three companies but it was such a weird idea I couldn’t believe it. I guess it was true.