Is the Golden Age of Podcasts Over?

Culture Study Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A podcast episode on the state of podcasting? Classic Culture Study Pod. At this point in my career, I’ve been interviewed on hundreds of podcasts, been adjacent to the production of dozens, been the host of three pods, and even watched a fourth pod go through two years of production only to get axed. The podcasting world is so dynamic, so weird, and so complicated… and industry analyst and critic Nicholas Quah is the best person to talk about its shifts, its future, and the best stuff coming out RIGHT NOW.You asked so many good questions (about ads, about funding structures, about editing) that Nick and I did our best to answer — but I also can’t wait to hear your follow-ups, because this world is ever-changing.Show Notes:Find all of Nick’s writing (on podcasts and non-podcasts) over at Vulture; I especially liked this recent piece on the devaluation of the “good interview”Nick’s piece on the Best New Podcasts of 2024 (thus far)Nick’s podcast recs:Hysterical, about a mysterious illness spreading among a group of high school girls in upstate New YorkThe Town with Matthew Belloni, about the business of HollywoodNymphet Alumni, about fashion and cultural trendsWe’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:WTF is going on with kids toys right now (you can take this in any direction)The future of (downhill) skiing and livability of ski towns just generallyThe Present and Past of NICOLE KIDMAN (with Sam Sanders!)The new Gladiator + Paul Mescal JUST GENERALLYWhy does it feel like thrifting sucks nowAnything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segmentYou can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (this is the subscriber-only form!)For today’s discussion: What podcasts are you listening to outside of your normal favs? How do YOU feel about podcast editing?

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0:00.0	the first time I was aware of the word podcast I was driving around in a car in 2003 and the radio
0:08.8	station 1077 which was like the alternative station it actually was the station that um the cast of
0:16.9	the real world Seattle works at. Incredible.
0:21.7	Yeah, I know.
0:22.8	But they had a podcast, and they were like,
0:26.5	it's on like the iPod you can listen to part of our radio.
0:33.0	But like that's really interesting to me.
0:34.7	I love it.
0:35.3	I love it.
0:35.7	That's like Seattle's so in the bleeding edge of things, you know?
0:38.2	Right, right.
0:39.0	And but that it was like part of the radio you could carry with you was the original
0:44.8	conceit, which is something that like I think we've come full circle in so many ways.
0:49.0	Oh, yeah.
0:49.6	But then just remembering how, like where some of these ideas came from and how none of this is new.
0:58.1	Oh, absolutely.
0:58.8	It's radio and the internet, which is both a thing that we always know exists and a joke on Silicon Valley.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:09.3	Hi, everyone.
1:10.4	This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
1:14.0	And I'm Nick Quora. I am a staff writer and critic at Vulture in New York Magazine.
1:19.4	And you have a specialty.
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