podcasts
5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2023 by Youssef Rizk · across every show →
Everything said about podcasts, oldest first
Sep 20, 2023 negative
Rizk: Long-form podcasts suffer slow adoption due to shrinking attention spans
“The problem with podcasts sometimes is, that's not sometimes actually, podcasts just have a slightly slow adoption rate. You're listening to the thing for an hour, right? Like, we as a generation just don't have attention spans.”
Sep 20, 2023 positive
Mar 14, 2025 negative
Swix: Most podcasts are bad because creators lack real-world experience
“The reason that most podcasts or YouTube videos are shit is they're made by people who don't have life experience, who are not that important in the world. They're not doing important jobs. And so what you want to actually enable is CEOs to each of them make t…”
Mar 14, 2025
Ben-Smith: Podcast Ads Create Unique Dynamic Audio Files per Listener
“Like the way that ads get inserted into podcasts or into most podcasts is actually that every time you listen to a podcast, you actually get access to a different audio file. And on the server, a different ad is inserted into the MP three file automatically.”
Dec 12, 2025
Mirzadegan: Podcasters cannot judge quality until 100 episodes; overreacting kills shows early
“Until you get to a hundred, you don't really know what the quality of the work is. And you kind of are making a pre-commitment that you're going to tune out the noise because otherwise you start overreacting to what any single person thinks about any given epi…”