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<li>Fiona Sturges, writing for The Guardian, writes about "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/27/podcasts-rush-to-video-turning-them-into-dreadful-listens?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2025-12-29">how podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens</a>" - highlighting recent podcasts that contain content that only works in video, while producers "seemingly forget about their listeners".
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<li>Roman Mars is among those who shared the piece on social media, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/romanmars.bsky.social/post/3mazgr7pn3k22?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2025-12-29">commenting</a> "I just think it’s so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show".</li>
<li>Plenty of debate around this in the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasting/comments/1px9nvh/painful_to_hear_how_podcasts_rush_to_video_is/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2025-12-29">/r/podcasting subreddit</a>.</li>
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<li>How long have you left it between seasons? How about 21 years? Back in early 2004 - even before Apple got involved in podcasts - <a href="https://podnews.net/podcast/izmaf"><cite>My Pods Forecast</cite></a> was born - but sadly was also one of the first to podfade, even making it as an example of podfading in a book - <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Tricks-Podcasting-Masters-Rob-Walch/dp/0789735741?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2025-12-29">Tricks of the Podcasting Masters</a>, by Rob Walch and Mur Lafferty, in 2006. An <a href="https://podnews.net/uploads/tricks-of-the-podcasting-masters-podfading.webp">excerpt from that book</a> also highlights the, er, slightly unusual nature of the how this prediction show does the predictions. The good news is that the pods are unharmed, and <a href="https://podnews.net/podcast/izmaf"><cite>My Pods Forecast</cite></a> returned over the weekend.
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<li>The host of the show tells us: “So little about what podcasting means is the same as the early 00s; it feels like the culture has wilted. So many corporate partners and metrics to hit. I really want to do this as punk as possible. I think I’m 89 pence (US $1.20) invested so far, for the domain name. I want the internet to be fun again and somewhere you can have a dumb idea and make it happen.”</li>
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<li>Driving while listening to a podcast? <a href="https://studyfinds.org/podcasts-wont-slow-driving-reactions-phone-calls-even-hands-free-will/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2025-12-29">That's fine, says science.</a> Phone calls? Not so much.</li>
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