New podcast creation has fallen off a cliff
by Ariel Shapiro from The Verge - All Posts on (#67XYE)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Hope you all had a great weekend! We've got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for you all, as well as the latest in audio news. Today, Audible lands another star, Spotify experiences another outage, and creators stop bothering to make podcasts when it is so hard to get anyone to listen to them.
Who will be at Hot Pod Summit?
Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn is coming up fast, and we've been working hard getting the lineup together. I am really excited about who we have so far, and I hope you will be, too! Summit headliners include:
- Spotify's global head of audiobooks, Nir Zicherman.
- Dan Zitt, senior vice president of content production at Penguin Random House Audio.
- Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and host of the Happier...