After Age of Audio: Podcasting’s Structural Question

At Podfest Multimedia Expo in Orlando, a screening of the documentary Age of Audio stirred a set of questions I couldn’t shake about where podcasting actually is today. Watching the film as someone who has spent years building audio inside nonprofits and movement spaces, I found myself both focused on podcasting’s origin story as well as its current phase. During the Q&A, I asked whether the film’s ending was pointing toward an existential question about podcasting’s identity—or a more practical one about economic instability—because the medium today feels pulled in multiple directions at once.