The Audio-First Era Has Arrived

Three trends converging:

Podcast listening is at all-time highs. 500M+ monthly podcast listeners globally. Listening time per person increasing year over year.
Always-in-ear hardware is ubiquitous. AirPods, Galaxy Buds, bone conduction headphones. Many people wear earbuds 8+ hours a day.
AI can now generate infinite audio content. Any text → natural-sounding conversational podcast. The supply constraint is gone.

We’re entering an era where audio is the default consumption format — not text, not video.

Why Audio Is Winning

Text requires your eyes, a screen, and focused attention. Three scarce resources.

Video requires your eyes, a screen, and focused attention. Same three scarce resources, with bandwidth added.

Audio requires your ears. One resource. And your ears are free 80% of the day.

The math is simple: the format that requires the least exclusive attention wins in an attention-scarce world.

Every piece of text content — articles, newsletters, reports, documentation, training materials — is a candidate for audio conversion.

The businesses that move first gain:

audiclip sits at the center of this shift: turning any text content into a two-host conversational podcast, automatically, in any language.

The businesses that asked “do I need a website?” in 1999 and waited until 2005 fell behind. The same will happen with audio.

Audio isn’t a feature. It’s the next default format.