The podcast graveyard is vast. An estimated 75-90% of podcasts stop publishing before reaching 10 episodes. The industry calls it “podfade.”
The cause is always the same: unsustainable production effort.
Most people can sustain this for 5-8 episodes before life intervenes.
An audiclip podcast can’t podfade because:
The only thing you do is save articles. If you stop saving, the podcast pauses. When you start again, it resumes. No guilt. No audience to apologize to.
This is especially relevant for newsletter authors considering a podcast. The biggest risk of adding a podcast to your newsletter is abandoning it 2 months later — which looks worse than never starting.
AI-generated podcasts remove this risk entirely. The podcast runs as long as you publish your newsletter. It can’t podfade because it’s generated from content you’re already creating.
The best podcast is the one that keeps publishing. AI ensures it does.