Some analysts believe so. Personally, I enjoy listening to a very small subset of podcasts because they contain information I want to hear. A lot of the other very niche podcasts don’t appeal to me because I don’t really care about someone’s movie reviews or whether or not they like so and so the famous person. Obviously I’m not suppose to listen to all of them nor does anyone, but I sort of do see a lot of the indie casts going away once the original “magic” for them is lost. This is part of the reason I haven’t started doing my own podcast yet, I don’t have much in the way to say. I’d much rather produce something worthwhile than just speaking drivel.
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Is Podcasting a Fad?
During the planning stages of TBAiT, one of the managers at the station kept asking, “Is blogging just the CB Radio of our times?” Now there’s more speculation about the future of podcasting. Today SnapTurtle points us to a Marketwatch…
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I personally think some of the media industry are treating this like a fad.
And the feeling the ‘original’ podcasters have towards the new commercialized stuff is not open arms. If anything they will be part of the reason that some podcasters give up.
-Owl