It’s widely established at this point in 2025 that YouTube has eaten podcasting , with study upon study indicating that the platform is now the distribution point of choice for audiences everywhere. As a result, YouTube has firmly redefined the ecosystem around video, a shift that largely benefits a certain kind of program — interview shows and chat-casts, usually live-to-tape — while deemphasizing the existence of others that are more audio-first: narrative shows, interview programs conducted without a camera, audio fiction, formalistically adventurous works, etc. Podcasting still means both things, though as more time passes, it’s likely we’ll end up with a media environment where the public primarily associates the word “podcasts” with its video incarnation, in which the audio-fir

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