There are today >175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on Spotify/Apple, a # which is growing by >3,000 every week, largely due to a single 8-person company (Inception Point AI, which bills itself as the “audio version of Reddit”). The AI podcasting market is worth 4 bil today, up from 3 bil in 2024
Source (November 2025): "Inception Point AI [is] a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400,000 subscribers — so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts. [...] The price is now so inexpensive that you can take a lot of risks [...] At a cost of $1 an episode, [the approach is] quantity-over-quality" Source (December 2025): "The artificial intelligence (AI) in podcasting market size has grown exponentially in recent years. [...] The growth in the historic period...








