{"id":125,"date":"2006-04-22T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/04\/100000-podcasts-by-years-end.html"},"modified":"2006-04-22T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T14:29:00","slug":"100000-podcasts-by-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/100000-podcasts-by-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 podcasts by year&#039;s end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/News\/Story\/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&#038;siteid=google&amp;amp;amp;guid=%7BCE04F479-B9CD-497A-89D2-D5855CA6F263%7D&#038;keyword=\">CBS MarketWatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lk001\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/\">FeedBurner<\/a> said it&#8217;s now managing feeds for 47,000 podcasts and facilitating delivery of 1.5 million episodes a day. Eighteen months ago, it managed 6,000 podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>The average podcast has 35 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/101usesforbabywipes.blogspot.com\/\">101 Uses for Baby Wipes<\/a>&#8221; has more than 20,000 subscribers. Careful, though, because that show is about a lot more than Baby Wipes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podcastingnews.com\/archives\/2006\/04\/podcasts_surpas.html\">Podcasting News<\/a> quotes Feedburner as saying that the number of podcasts it manages &#8220;now exceeds <strong>the total number of radio stations in the entire world<\/strong>.&#8221; (emphasis theirs). That&#8217;s a great sound bite but totally an apples and oranges comparison. The cost of launching a podcast is about the same as the cost of a class III radio license. It&#8217;s way more difficult to launch a radio station than a podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Cool chart, though:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.podcastingnews.com\/images\/podcastgrowth4-18f.png\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 370px; height: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podcastingnews.com\/images\/podcastgrowth4-18f.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lk001\" href=\"https:\/\/101usesforbabywipes.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBS MarketWatch: FeedBurner said it&#8217;s now managing feeds for 47,000 podcasts and facilitating delivery of 1.5 million episodes a day. Eighteen months ago, it managed 6,000 podcasts. The average podcast has 35 subscribers. &#8220;101 Uses for Baby Wipes&#8221; has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/100000-podcasts-by-years-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-21","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}