Why Podcasters Will Be Stuck Doing Video
Matt Deegan,
Matt on Audio,
Mar 22, 2022
The point being made in this post is that since so many podcasters either start as videocasters, or have added a video feed to their audio, the result will be that most podcasters will have to add video. I don't think it will work out that way; while video and video podcasting work fine for, say, "a pair, or gang, of people chatting", many podcasts don't follow that format, and would not work well at all on video (think, for example, of the Dinner Party Download, which was a series of mini-documentaries tied to the courses of a meal at a dinner party). And I think a lot of video just doesn't work on audio - my Stephen Follows Instructions series, for example, or hiking videos, or Tom Cruise movies where there's no dialogue. The increased commercialization of podcasting, however, could push online audio and video toward convergence, to the detriment of both.
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