Comments on: Researcher sees huge growth in podcast audience

U.S. podcast audience will number 56 million by 2010, according to a new forecast.

[Andrew J Glina]

Predictable Predictions

Very unbelievable predictions. Why would 75% of people go back to packaged music when radio and satelite-radio offers a similar deal? My prediction is that Podcasts will be forgotten by 2010 when satelite radio (or digital wireless?) recievers are intergrated into mobile phones, most of which will have 4GB+ of flash by then.

[random_foo]

Podcasting? Wait for Videocasting

Sites like http://www.vobbo.com/ allow users to record their own video broadcasts for anyone / everyone to see. It shouldn't be long until video casts - amateur newscasts become very common. It's the next evolution in blogging, and only a matter of time.

[mjkeliher]

Vidcasting won't cut it

Sure, it sounds cool - podcasting with video instead of audio. And yes, it's technically possible. But video doesn't serve the same purpose as audio.

Most of these vidcasts will just be talking heads, a person in front of a camera. That's not interesting enough to warrant the extra effort to produce, distribute, download and watch video. You can get the same thing with audio.

Plus, you can't watch your favorite vidcast while you're driving to work or watching your kid's baseball game. But you can listen to a podcast.

Audio is just as powerful as video in this situation, and even more flexible. Vidcasting will serve some good purposes, but podcasting isn't going away any time soon.