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soulboy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 2:48 pm Are podcasts still considered an audio medium? The big bucks are now on YouTube so many are "video-first" formats, with the occasional bone thrown to listeners with a description of what the viewers can see.

Here is a prime example of the BBC.

Ed Gamble hosts the official visualised podcast for the ultimate game of trust and treachery.

Isn't that just a TV show?

Well, quite; one YT channel I follow does these 'visualised' podcasts which is a pity as I would listen to them in the car if they were audio-only...

Meanwhile, the BBC has changed the title of the article I linked to earlier and dropped the "hacking" from it.

It's just people chatting, but with fucking enormous microphones in front of their faces. Because it's a podcast.

Radio stations now stick cameras in studios, they're still radio shows not Later with Jools or the Graham Norton show.

They've been doing it for years. I remember Victoria Derbyshire doing it in the early 2010s.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 5:07 pm They've been doing it for years. I remember Victoria Derbyshire doing it in the early 2010s.

That was a TV studio show with audio broadcast on the radio. There are podcasts that make an effort with some sofas and guests knocking back some bevvies but its mainly heads behind mics in a studio.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 4:27 pm It's just people chatting, but with fucking enormous microphones in front of their faces. Because it's a podcast.

Ah yes: Reassuringly Large Microphones, the trademark of so many podcasts.

Unless your RLM says Neumann or AKG on it, you can fuck off.