The video-first shakeup of podcast hosting, analytics, and AI with Flightcast’s Roxcodes

Flightcast’s Rox Codes joins us to unpack a video-first hosting
and growth platform built for YouTube, Spotify, and serious
creators, while we challenge inflated web “browser” downloads,
pricing resets, and what actually counts as a podcast in a $3B
market. We weigh useful AI assistants against synthetic co-hosts,
and map the road to practical standards like HLS and Podcasting
2.0.

• livewire host-share data showing consolidation and heritage
brands sliding
• price rises at major hosts and how AI features drive bundled
costs
• web player download spikes likely from bots, scrapers, and
cloud IPs
• what Flightcast publishes where and why video-first
matters
• AI analytics assistant for multi-platform, time-bounded
insights
• clip experimentation on separate channels to validate
winners
• storage choices enabling future video RSS and richer
search
• podcasting 2.0 tags for chapters and transcripts on the
roadmap
• why HLS needs shared best practices before broader
adoption
• Global Studios’ video push and creator acquisitions
• the $3B ad forecast and the definition problem of
“podcast”
• Apple’s Podroll video promos UX quirks and limits
• soundbites, playlists, and underused standards for
discovery
• creator tools: Audacity redesign and Whisper.cpp speed
gains
• a human-first stance on AI: assist, don’t replace

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