Davison: Creating audio content is easy, but RSS distribution is broken
Paul Davison · Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth · May 6, 2021 · at 31:06
Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison explains the thesis behind social audio compared to the technical and distribution hurdles of traditional podcasting.
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“You know, it's not hard to create good spoken audio content. The challenge is that it's hard to produce it and to distribute it. As I'm sure, you know, guy, right. Given the constraints of the RSS based ecosystem, like for most people, it's really, really hard.”
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