How are podcasts available for free? Ultra for example took Rachel a year or so,

[mahina]

Plus all the other workers that brought that extraordinary podcast together. How in the world does it make sense, how are they able, to produce all of that and make it available to us for nothing more than a few seconds of listening to an ad? It’s astonishing really.


Very different to TV where sometimes a quarter of the time is ads.

We were talking about Ultra the other day here. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217408696

[enough]

1. Rachael's yearly salary for MSNBC is around $20 million. She probably feels

adequately compensated.

[Goonch]

2. The latest statistics show in 2022,podcasting revenue in the US is expected to hit $1.73 billion

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/podcast-revenue

[LAS14]

3. Where does the revenue for Rachel's podcast come from? This is ....

... a restatement of the OP, but the first two replies didn't address it.

[JHB]

4. Ultra, being a special project, may come under her show's budget...

...or in some other way paid for by MSNBC.

Other podcasts have ads, and some (usually smaller ones) limp along on listener contributions.

[Wounded Bear]

6. TV ads are much closer to 30%, and over in some cases...

Check it out. The typical DVD of a TV episode lasts on the order of 40-43 minutes or so. On the tube, the 20-25 missing minues are all ads.

Saw a couple of new channels pop up on my menu listing recently, showing old movies, TV shows and such. Most of the movies take up 2.5-3 hour time slots, for what are probably 90-100 minute movies.

[mahina]

8. Whoa.

Didn’t realize. Thank you. Ugh.

[dembotoz]

7. thank you 2 epidsode in interesting

between this and keith o. i am suddenly listening to podcasts

[mitch96]

9. The only "plugs" on her podcast are for MSNBC so they are advertising for them selfs?

I don't get it.. Maybe a PSA to worry about what could happen AGAIN to our democracy..
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