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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Podcast listeners are not your typical American: they’re affluent, highly educated, and skew male. In 2014, the first season of Serial aired, considered to be the first breakout podcast, with its narrative audio journalism drawing in 5M downloads in the first month. Vertical consumer audio apps.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

Podcast listeners are not your typical American: they’re affluent, highly educated, and skew male. In 2014, the first season of Serial aired, considered to be the first breakout podcast, with its narrative audio journalism drawing in 5M downloads in the first month. Vertical consumer audio apps.