I'm one to talk, really.

I refer to the phenomenon of "podfade," the tendency of many, maybe most podcasts to just stop posting after a relatively short time, about which Steve Goldstein has previously written here, and which came to mind when I was writing an item about a new podcast with a premise that sounded a lot like one I'd reported on two years earlier. I went and checked on the older podcast and was surprised to find that the show, launched with great fanfare, had posted four episodes and....

That's it. Four episodes. They made it a whole month before shutting it down. And that show was using existing material -- old interview tapes, edited -- so it's not like they ran out of material. They just ran out of interest.

What's interesting about that to me is that this wasn't a hobby podcast. It was a podcast launched by a fairly large newspaper, with a staff and a mandate to expand the company's mission into podcasting, and someone just lost interest or dropped the ball. How does that happen?

Do you have any listeners? Does it matter? Let's parse this out a little. Everyone wants a big audience for what they do, but for podcasting, the number of shows that get big download numbers is... well, it's minuscule. And many of the big shows aren't all that honest ...

The other day, I saw an animated discussion of podcast listenership measurement on Facebook. There were podcast producers, most of them new to the medium, debating the merits of the IAB with some of the prominent hosting company leaders, and it was interesting on a ...

Oh, yeah, I was gonna tell you about my process. Here's what I did: I decided that I didn't have enough time for a long-form podcast. Short-form -- the rough equivalent of a daily two minute radio feature -- was something I COULD do. So, I came up with the idea of ...

You want to be on Spotify. Then again, you want to be on every platform. But being on Spotify sounds cool, so you want that. Yet there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that through Spotify itself. Problem? Not if you use one of the bigger podcast hosting ...

There is always a reason not to do something. For podcasting, it's all about not knowing what to say, what the topic should be. It's fear that nobody will listen. It's a lack of technical know-how. Money's short. It's a time problem -- always a time problem. Always ...

I would explain to you why there's been a gap posting here, but it would be boring and involves a wide range of stuff from travel to kidney stones and stuff. You don't want to hear about kidney stones. Unless, that is, you're the host of "The Kidney Stone Podcast." ...

One thing podcasts aren't great at is covering breaking news. Take the Super Bowl, for example: Sure, you could have cranked out an "emergency podcast" the moment the game was over. Or whatever Trump's up to: You could do immediate reaction to whatever he's just ...

I'm working on some projects these days that could have gone either way- they could have been podcasts, and could be video. One of them's going to video, and when I made that call, I thought about how you make that call - how you decide when something should go visual or ...

Have we reached Peak Podcast? It's a fair question. Do we have too many podcasts, and too many good-to-great podcasts? I don't think so, considering that three-quarters of Americans still don't partake, but it's also a fair question to ask if the sheer number of ...