Podcasts Are Always Dying

The number of new podcasts launched dropped 70% in 2022 compared to the year before and down 800,000 shows compared to the high at 2020. But it's not all gloom and doom: 2022 saw 26.1 million new podcast episodes published up 44% from 2019. "I think what might be different about this time around is that you did finally maybe reach the saturation point where new shows could no longer find an audience"