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Ars Technica brings us 10 years of podcasting: Code, comedy, and patent lawsuits
While podcasting hasn't yet become as massive as other media, it's made its mark on the popular culture landscape despite being the baby of the group. A 2014 study from Pew Research shows that podcasting appears to have leveled off after its first decade the number of Americans who have "ever" listened to an audio podcast was down slightly from 29 percent in 2012 to 27 percent in 2013. Today, fifteen percent of the United States population still listens to podcasts weekly, according to a survey of over 2,000 Americans by Edison Research. If true, that would be around 48 million people in the US alone.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 16 2014, @05:34PM
I listen to a lot of podcasts, like 6-10 hours per day. (I need to drown out noise in the cube farm where I'm stuck, no radio reception, heavily firewalled internet. I sometimes listen to music, but usually would prefer to learn something.) Mostly I listen to science and tech podcasts, but I pick up a lot of history, some news, some panel discussions of current social issues, whatever.
I'd be interested in discussion of some of the SN stories. Not just a rehash of what's posted, but discussion of technical, political, economic, whatever issues relevant to some of the stories. The discussion need not be by world-class experts, though that would be interesting, just by people who generally know what they're talking about and can bring in relevant information not mentioned in TFA. Geekspeak, coming out of KUSP in California, would be a good model, I think.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday August 17 2014, @07:16PM
AC indirectly brings up the good point that there is no "podcast format" there's just lots of different styles with a common delivery technology.
Right off the top of my head, there's the "morning zoo/political roundtable", "the interview", "slowly produced college lectures". Also on another orthogonal axis there's frequency, daily, weekly, monthly, once in awhile. And finally topic, so is this basically a leadership monologue or summarize stories or summarize a story or background on a story or an interview or others.
So at least 3 * 4 * 5 = 60 or so possible presentations for any specific theme.
I listen to (or skip) around 10 or so hours per week of podcasts. I think it would be hard to find 10 hours per day of actual content. I listen to around 20 hours per week of audiobooks, both fiction and non-fiction.