Hoover: Podcasting Enables Long-Tail Niche Audiences Like the Web
Ryan Hoover · a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts · Jan 2, 2019 · at 25:33
Ryan Hoover, founder of Product Hunt, discusses podcast discovery and audience appeal on the a16z Podcast.
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“And just like the internet, you can now find a niche, like a tiny little seemingly small little place for you to geek out about some sort of topic or some sort of thing or some personality that you're really attracted to. And so podcasting, just the nature of the internet in general, podcasting is this place where you can find all kinds of shows out there. And it may not be massive, like serial, but there's probably some niche podcasts out there that you might personally love, or maybe a group of people like yourself love.”
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