Does anyone listen to podcasts anymore?
By Alexandra Reid
Mitch Joel sparked an interesting conversation recently on his blog when he argued that podcasts could make a comeback.
Joel runs the popular podcast Six pixels of separation and admitted that the podcast is a guilty pleasure for him to ask interesting people his burning questions. He also confessed that he had no data to back up his claim that podcasts could be on the rebound, but listed a handful of successful podcasts which are acting as indicators that consumers do in fact have an appetite for longer, in-depth and content-rich audio programming. These podcasts are:
- Foundation, with Kevin Rose
- Here’s the thing, with Alec Baldwin
- Nerdist podcast, with Chris Hardwick
- Pursuit of spark, with Julie Burstein
- WTF, with Marc Maron
