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               Something strange is happening to podcasts. On
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               , you can find daily surf reports for Los Angeles, San Diego, and Honolulu, a dedicated show called "Snakes," another called "6 7," a Chuck Mangione fan podcast, a show titled simply "Pasta," and separate programs for "Good Manners" and "Bad Manners." There is a podcast called "Cringe."
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               The numbers are striking enough to be almost absurd. One company, Inception Point AI, run by a former podcast executive, now operates more than 10,000 active shows, including a network that produces the ones listed above.
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               called Daily News Network, operating across more than 400 locally branded feeds, was putting out roughly 11,000 episodes a day earlier this year.
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               The Podcast Index, an open-source tracking 
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               created were likely AI-generated.
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               The economics driving this are simple. Programmatic advertising 
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               Scale that logic across thousands of hyper-targeted feeds and the returns accumulate. Some hosting platforms allow shows to opt into ad marketplaces with no minimum audience requirement, which means something like a podcast dedicated to cranberries (
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