Wisdom

Ad skipping will become the default, and baked-in ads won't survive

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a few years, ad skipping is just going to be the way this stuff works, man. Everything is going to do it. everything's gonna do your baked in ad sorry it's not gonna survive it's just not

Episode 267: Chocolove (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:04:42 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Today's AI ad-skipping apps are crude and cut out sections that aren't ads, but first versions always are and these tools will improve. Within a few years every app will skip ads, so baked-in ads won't survive and podcasters need other ways to get paid.