Does Podcasting have a future here?

[Hosehead]

It does in the US http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/144/pod-star.html?partner=homepage_newsletter

 

[Hosehead]

Silence. Hmm. No future in Africa then.

 

[diabolus]

I think people are not aware of the power of podcasts that's all . I use them extensively, especially while driving.

I think a big limitation was the bandwidth required to download these podcasts. An hour long audio podcast can be in the 60MB range and most podcast subscriptions are WEEKLY (i.e. Engadget/PCMag )

There's also VIDEO podcasts that are becoming very popular, all the ipods/zunes can play these things and they are actually perfect for small screen devices since they're episodic content which you can consume "on the move" .

 

[Hosehead]

I think a big limitation was the bandwidth required to download these podcasts..

Yep. Absolutely no future in South Africa then on the mobile video podcasts. speed and costs.