Now three years into its post-music gambit, the Swedish platform remains at the center of the conversation around this question, between its efforts to YouTubeify the economics of podcasting and the broader corporate arms race those machinations have sparked. Spotify still thinks so, as one would expect. Each passing week sees the release of ever more new podcasts, not to mention new episodes from existing shows, once again contributing to a growing sense of unease around the core math problem at the center of it all: Is the growth of talking being matched by the growth in listening? Which is to say, sure! But also, sure.Īnyway, lots and lots of people continued to talk into mics over the past six months. I suppose it’s literally true, though no more true than the notion that many books are simply a collection of words strung into sentences, paragraphs, and chapters, or that many burgers are just slabs of meat between buns. It is, of course, far from the first time I’ve heard the sentiment over the years, typically delivered as a statement of deficiency.
(Perhaps predictably, the essay came down on the opposite end of the matter as myself.) Here’s a quote I’ve been mulling over: “Even podcasting’s most ardent evangelizers would have to acknowledge that many podcasts are oriented around a very basic premise: ‘Here are some people talking.’” So went a recent New York Times Magazine piece on the rise of the athlete-podcaster, pegged to the recent brouhaha around The Draymond Green Show. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Sean Pressley and Taylor Hill/Getty Images
Hamza Syed and Brian Reed of The Trojan Horse Affair Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy.
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