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Half the podcasts in my queue have suddenly become paid subscriptions. Meanwhile the overall industry is losing listeners. Seems like a lousy business model to not offer a free with ads feed. What a bizarre trend.

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2023/2/9/23592684/decline-of-podcasts#:~:text=Monthly%20listenership%20to%20podcasts%20seems,podcasts%20has%20fallen%20as%20well.

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2022/03/28/monthly-podcast-listening-is-down-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-decade-according-to-study

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Downvoted by kids who don’t understand that content creators don’t do it for free.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 46 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I'm old enough to have known the internet before the ads, and there were a ton of forums where you'd find both information and help for free. Obviously most hobby stuff but still.

I listened to podcasts about roguelikes for example, and hanged out on the popular video game dev forums and it was all free and good.

Serious question: what is the content people create that is so costly today?

I mean it's nice if you can live off your hobby expertise but there's also a question about monetising like everything? Or what am I missing :-) ?

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything needs to be MoNeTiZeD today, even hobbies should be income streams.

Fuck that

[–] mPony@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

if George Carlin was still alive he'd do a stand-up special about this titled "Everyone Is A Whore" or something equally subtle.

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