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.

#Why Human Podcasts Die

1. Recording takes time — 1-2 hours per episode
2. Editing takes more time — 2-4 hours per episode
3. Scheduling is hard — coordinating hosts, guests, studios
4. Consistency is brutal — weekly deadlines with no revenue and no audience yet
5. The math doesn’t work — 4-6 hours per episode × 52 weeks = 200-300 hours/year for a hobby

Most people can sustain this for 5-8 episodes before life intervenes.

#Why AI Podcasts Don’t Die

An audiclip podcast can’t podfade because:

• No recording → no time commitment per episode
• No editing → no post-production bottleneck
• No scheduling → no coordination required
• Automatic → episodes generate whether you’re busy or not
• Content is your saves → you’re already finding interesting articles. That IS the content.

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.

#For Newsletter Authors

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.

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