From the Field Archive

Yapping in a podcast may be worse than on TV

December 29, 2005 · 1 min read

There’s a lot of talk these days about video podcasts taking off in 2006. And, I certainly agree that hobbyists will take to it like they have with audio blogging/podcasting. Jakob Nielsen recently discussed how video podcasting may be worse than TV from a usability perspective in his [Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online](http://www.useit.com/alertbox/video.html) article.

Of course, even if video podcasts won’t suck and their usability will not be challenging there’s still the slight problem of business model: will there be enough advertisers interested in small-market (long tail) video blogs? Will a subscription model work? It’ll be fascinating to watch everyone try and make money on it!