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Introducing Shortcasts! We teamed up with the creators of some of the top podcasts out there to do what we do best: Get the most actionable, interesting, and helpful parts of a podcast episode with fresh perspectives & insight in listens of around 15 minutes.
Shortcasts is a fascinating direction for Blinkist... I already listen to most podcasts at 2x because there's so much good content out there. As a result, more podcasts are getting shorter, like Axios Recap, Recode Daily, and Techmeme Ride Home with their ~15m episodes... but no one's summarizing other podcasts yet!
I'm really curious to see whether this idea will succeed, and if they'll add more shows to the list:
- Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History
- Natalie Lue’s The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
- Nico Rosberg’s Beyond Victory
- Dr. Laurie Santos’ The Happiness Lab
- Farnoosh Torabi’s So Money
- Erik Fisher’s Beyond the To-Do List
- Omar Zenhom’s The $100 MBA Show
- Dr. Rupy Aujla’s The Doctor’s Kitchen
- Blinkist’s Simplify
This is really fascinating. Everyone is a potential client for this service, it seems to me, as podcasts become easier to publish and more approachable as a concept for creators. In my modest opinion, podcasts are the future of so many different kinds of expression. For example, a self proclaimed poet - like myself - can just start a podcast rather than going through the trouble of publishing. Kudos to you guys!
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