Post #2111280

2026-04-15 21:02 UTC

Just to make this clear, these video integrations want us to stop editing the audio and start editing the video. We don&#39;t do this with Upgrade and it&#39;s why we&#39;re not on Spotify. If you do video on Spotify it throws away your podcast audio file and just uses the audio from the video version. We put way more effort into our audio than our video edit because most of our audience is listening. To change this would require us to change our entire process. Not impossible, but a very large undertaking

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@jsnell@zeppelin.flights 2026-04-15 21:05

In addition, to do Apple Podcasts video you have to pay one of Apple's 4-6 (depending on how you count) partner video hosting companies. Which is entirely antithetical to how podcasting is supposed to work.

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@hagen@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 21:10

@jsnell@zeppelin.flights i would really like some data on how many people actually WATCH video podcasts. like sit down and truly look at the whole thing. not putting it on and then do chores around the house for example.

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@davextreme@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 22:10

@jsnell@zeppelin.flights I am hardly ever listening to a podcast somewhere that I’d be able to see video*. If more podcasts did video, I worry they’d make assumptions on your ability to see them, making the audio product worse. * typically driving, on a walk, cooking, folding laundry, painting Warhammer minis—all have my eyes somewhere else

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@tinyfly@mstdn.social 2026-04-16 13:55

@jsnell@zeppelin.flights keep up the good fight. I can’t ever see myself regularly watching a podcast. I’ll occasionally check out the video just to see what people look like but that’s about it.

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