Does AI mean the hours people spend passively listening to podcasts is going to increase or decrease?
Discussion
Increase.
But the number of podcasts may increase even more relatively.
They will increase unless we become very selective over our listening choices. Who really deserves your time and energy?
Decrease. Most people listen to podcasts at work it seems.
Predicting the attention economy relies on many variables, not least is the length of the long tail and how distinctive the voices are within it. If we are all locked within our 15 minute SMART cities with no jobs or ways of expressing ourselves in any other way, expect an explosion of production but with tiny audiences...
I’ve been thinking about this. And about the role of confirmation bias in listening habits.
Increase, it will give you information made specifically for you and will end up creating content that makes a listener feel the belief they had was correct