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Someone was telling me that podcast listenership has declined significantly recently.
Was it just me trolling you about your listenership?
I listen!
They're doing great! Top 25 as of a few seconds ago.
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There was a whole thing where Apple tweaked their default podcast app and it killed download numbers. Originally, when you subscribe to a show, it would download the last 5 episodes. Now, you need to manually download anything to hear it. Since most people subscribe to a show and only listen to an episode or two, it reaped havoc with podcast sponsors when they realized they'd been paying for 5x the number of listens they actually got.
That shouldn't affect the number of boosts, though, since that already requires a manual action and should be completely divorced from the empty downloads problem.
Someone was telling me that podcast listenership has declined significantly recently. I forget who said it and I can't find a source, but folks might have grown fatigued with the format or found other mediums like short form video or AI convos more to their liking. Or digital content broadly is increasing and podcasting is not as competitive.
Beyond that, I stopped listening to bitcoin podcasts a few years ago when I felt like they all shifted the majority of their focus to non-bitcoin stuff: ETFs, treasury companies, freedom tech, and AI. It also got kind of incestuous - their guests kept repeating, and they'd have on the other podcasters that did the same thing, and had their investment companies on, and their grant recipients. So the topics got broader but their guests got narrower and seemingly inauthentic.
I still like the format personally, but I think I've moved from $20 CDs to buying $1 singles. I find myself listening when a particular guest is on rather than every episode.