This year, the Tribeca Festival has expanded to include podcasts for the first time, featuring live recordings, special previews, and more.
According to Byrne, who spoke on a Tribeca panel about the future of podcasting last Sunday, the medium is poised for continued success, withlistening monthly. As a light drizzle beat down on the audience, Byrne rattled off the reasons for the industry’s exponential growth: It’s an on-demand, creative medium with quick production turnarounds and an audience at scale.
For podcast creators and fans, the current saturation of content is somewhat of a double-edged sword, particularly as media giants like Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartRadio continue to expand their reach—some would say at the“The thing everyone’s talking about these days is discoverability,” said Sarbib. “It’s really hard for podcasts to find their audience.
Mimicking its juried competition for films, the 2021 Tribeca Podcasts program—the first of its kind—features 12 official podcast selections across fiction and narrative nonfiction categories. “We were looking for stories that push the boundaries of what a podcast can be,” said Sarbib, who stressed the immersive and innovative qualities of the inaugural roster.
This year’s official selections, which are eligible for juried fiction podcast and narrative nonfiction podcast awards, include
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