Ashley Carman

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238 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 14 Aug

Ashley Carman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rundown · Is Spotify in Trouble? New CEOs Face Double Threat from YouTube and Netflix · 18 Jan 2026 podcast

while you were cooking or you were on a road trip.

And it feels like now we're just optimizing and losing the fundamentals of what actually made podcasting so fun and critical.

Yeah, so podcasting's ad revenue has increased.

I don't have the stats offhand, but the IAB does a research study every year where they release what the ad revenue is for podcasting.

That said, my concern on this is, to your point, as the money that once went to linear TV starts to diffuse and go throughout the entire media ecosystem, as podcasting becomes more like the creator economy in digital video, I worry that the budgets that maybe would have been spread out to podcasting start to instead go into creator or video content and it gets lumped into that bucket.

So then podcasting itself

which I guess in probably ad buyers' minds is seen as audio, sort of stagnates and sticks where it's been and never gets to go to that larger growth point.

Yeah, I mean, I think AI will be used in ads for sure.

So that actually could be an upside for the industry because if more companies are able to make a really well-sounding audio ad, that's cool.

They can get into the space faster.

On the creation front, I mean, for creators who are making podcasts, AI will probably be additive to their workflow.

And then for the hosts themselves and users who are like, how am I consuming, like, am I consuming an AI podcast?

I too am a little skeptical that your go-to listens are going to be AI hosted.

But at the same time, this market exists for these AI summarized shows.

So I'm a little less bearish on it now and a little bit more like maybe there's just different use cases throughout the entire podcast medium.

I mean, as it's growing, it's becoming more sophisticated.

It's not one size fits all.

So I really have to view it in different buckets.

Well, to be fair, I feel like if you told them you were a YouTuber or a TikToker, they'd probably also give you weird looks.

I think just the idea that people can make a living doing media on the internet is still sort of a foreign concept to some people.

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