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Podcasts: Let’s get meta

Asynchronous, on-demand talk radio was a bold proposition back in 2004, when podcasts first started making waves. Less than 20 years later, podcasting is a big business. But monetization has its downsides: What began as a freewheeling, do-it-yourself space is evolving into a data-obsessed sector dominated by tech giants.

Asynchronous, on-demand talk radio was a bold proposition back in 2004, when podcasts first started making waves. Less than 20 years later, podcasting is a big business. But monetization has its downsides: What began as a freewheeling, do-it-yourself space is evolving into a data-obsessed sector dominated by tech giants.

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Featuring

Kira Bindrim is the host of the Quartz Obsession podcast. She is an executive editor who works on global newsroom coverage and email products. She is obsessed with reading and reality TV.

Ana Campoy is the deputy finance and economics editor at Quartz. She is obsessed with dictionaries, mushrooms, and the Atacama desert.


Show notes

Adam Curry, an MTV host, credited with being the ‘Podfather

Steve Jobs’ 2005 keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in which he talks a lot about podcasting

This episode uses the following music from freemusicarchive.org:

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