Podcasts - Topics

What are the best podcasts to recommend to beginners? Podcasts as an information source: deep insight or background noise? What makes a podcast entertaining? Do podcasts get better or worse after signing a big network deal? Fiction podcasts with full sound design are radio drama coming back around Two hosts talking about nothing for an hour is the most popular format Why do podcasts covering the same news story all sound identical? Why do true crime podcasts feel like hanging out with a friend? Radio drama with live sound effects is being rediscovered through podcasts Podcast ads for products nobody would ever buy are oddly memorable What separates a podcast from a radio show with an RSS feed? How do podcasts make money when the host reads the ads? Fictional mystery podcasts get cancelled after one season while real ones never end Listening at 1.5x speed makes some hosts finally sound normal Fictional mystery podcasts that imitate real reporting blur a line listeners care about Interview tape vs scripted audio drama: two ways to listen to the same crime Why 25-minute chapters beat hour-long episodes for a commute mystery podcast How much sound design does a fictional mystery podcast actually need? A mystery podcast that shows the answer in the trailer has already lost A mystery podcast needs a voice you distrust before episode three Without visual evidence the listener of a mystery podcast is always a step behind Finding episode one of a podcast that has run for eight years Interview podcasts where the host clearly never read the guest's book Audio-only clues let a mystery podcast describe a room better than a camera can show it Two hosts and one case per season became the default mystery podcast shape Why does every podcast spend twenty minutes on the intro before the topic? Sleep podcasts and history podcasts serve the same purpose for different people Starting a podcast costs almost nothing and almost nobody sticks with it