podcasting

6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2015 by Jason Calacanis · across every show →

Everything said about podcasting, oldest first

Jun 1, 2015
Insight
Calacanis: Podcasting requires two years of unpaid work to succeed
“The only way it worked is if some crazy maniac with a really good reputation and network was willing to work for free for a couple of years, and then the podcast would magically work in year four or five, like Adam Carolla's is, or Kevin Pollack's is, or Leo L…”
Jason Calacanis Jun 1, 2015 ▶ 1:56 Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
Oct 12, 2015 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hartman: Podcasting Monetization Is Straightforward Due to Existing Audio Ad Ecosystems
“In, in the case of podcasting, there are, there's already an established ecosystem of how to do audio ads. And so I think there's actually, in that sense, it's much further along and in many ways can be monetized in a very straightforward way.”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 21:59 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Jun 22, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Wilkinson: Podcasting total market cap was only $500M in 2018
“There was only five hundred million dollar market cap in podcasting two years ago, and so I went out and I bought a top indie podcast player We ended up starting a business in that space”
Andrew Wilkinson Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 32:17 20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
Oct 13, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Söderström: Audio TAM will match social media at 2-3 billion plus users
“I think it is at least as large as social networking, you know, two, three billion plus. The way I think about it is I think music and actually podcasting is a Sort of a core human behavior like communication. And that means that the sort of time in, in, you k…”
Gustav Söderström Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 1:09:40 Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Pittman: Podcasting is iHeartMedia's business least affected by recession
“No, look, I think podcasting is, of all the businesses we have, is the least affected by the macro, because it has such a fundamental strength.”
Bob Pittman Dec 9, 2022 ▶ 42:49 Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 19, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Stebbings: Podcasting is a terrible business for newcomers today
“There are thousands of podcasts that are amazing. But podcast is a shit business to be in now, because it's so hard, unless you started years ago.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 13:10 Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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