Podcast Overload – On my Om

It is amazing how huge Podcasts have become. It is simply amazing how an RSS feed with an MP3 attachment has changed so much.

To give you a quick overview of the state of podcasting, there are about 465 million podcast listeners, a number that will increase to 505 million by the end of 2024 — a clear sign that the market is hitting a maturation, at least in the United States, which has about 100 million active listeners. At the end of January 2023, there were five million podcasts with 70 million episodes.

I'd love to create a podcast to accompany the Weekly Thing. But the time commitment is just too much. And, well there are already 5 million podcasts. Yikes.