Well, it’s not really going to be a problem with podcasts themselves, but rather the hosts and the content.
I’ll use an example:
I like Butch Walker. I think he’s incredibly talented, interesting, and entertaining both in his live show and in interviews.
So when podcasts really started to pick up steam, I would search Butch Walker in the podcast app and listen.
The first time I listened to Butch Walker get interviewed on a podcast…it was the first time…so the interviewer had created this great piece of content by simply asking Butch “How did you get to where you are today”.
With Butch’s response being a very entertaining version of “I started over there, then this happened, then that happened and now I’m here.”
Ok. Awesome. That was really fun. Never heard Butch do that type of interview before. I really enjoyed that…so I’d like to enjoy another podcast where Butch Walker is getting interviewed for an hour.
I click on the next podcast that Butch is a guest on.
It turns out the person who started this next podcast had the same idea for their podcast as the first person. ‘I’ll get musicians on here and have them tell their awesome stories about how they got from there to here’.
And that wasn’t a bad idea for a podcast, but I just heard that podcast. But since I’d only heard that type podcast ONCE before, I thoroughly enjoy the second one too.
Then I click on the third podcast down…and that person had the same idea for a podcast TOO! So now I’m on round three of Butch getting asked pretty much the same questions. Still not bad but now its starting to losing some luster…
You see where this is going for the podcast world…what has happened and what is happening and what will happen.
We’re going to need better podcasters. Podcasters who have different ideas, a more focused reason for doing a podcast. Podcasters who will bring artists in (or whoever) and have a podcast beyond “how did you get to where you are today?”
(And I will say again, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that type of podcast. It’s just that there’s lots of those podcasts and more new ones all the time just like it.)
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