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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by scarface74 on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:41AM (#22288981)
Yet three of the podcasts I mentioned have survived for well over a decade.

If you target a high income demographic. It’s a lot easier to get direct response advertisers selling either expensive items or subscription based products where the lifetime value of the customer is high.

Back in the day people said the definition of a podcast was two guys talking about tech sponsored by SquareSpace.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by macspoofing on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:58PM (#22291473)
>Yet three of the podcasts I mentioned have survived for well over a decade.

That's because podcasts are still part of an open ecosystem. I think the current system works very well and I don't want it to change, but I can see a walled-garden arise and lock the majority of content away behind proprietary podcast clients (much as video content is locked inside the YouTube garden).

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by scarface74 on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:00PM (#22292635)
How much of that is because delivering video is expensive. Most analyst think that Youtube is still not profitable.
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