Half the podcasts in my queue have suddenly become paid subscriptions. Meanwhile the overall industry is losing listeners. Seems like a lousy business model to not offer a free with ads feed. What a bizarre trend.

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2023/2/9/23592684/decline-of-podcasts#:~:text=Monthly listenership to podcasts seems,podcasts has fallen as well.

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2022/03/28/monthly-podcast-listening-is-down-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-decade-according-to-study

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Screaming? Apologies if you read that tone, that wasn’t my intent.

    It was you who started screaming about me not wanting to pay for stuff lol.

    I was responding to this line you wrote in your first post:

    Serious question: what is the content people create that is so costly today?

    As for this:

    Whatever, keep paying if you can’t find like-minded people I guess.

    In many cases may not pay, but I also don’t expect the creator do to the work for free. I can choose to go without the content and not pay. However I don’t blame or judge the creator for charging for their work. They have a choice and I do too. I just don’t complain about the choice the creator (as a Podcaster in the context of this thread) makes if it means I have to go without. They own me nothing.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I guess the funny part is you trying to explain basic capitalism(or whatever you are trying to explain; I need something I pay for it, I shouldn’t be “EnTiTLeD” whatever that was about …) For free :-)