TED Tech - Podcast Rankings and reviews

3x pre-roll ads, 15 seconds of real intro, followed by 4x more long ads? Are you kidding me.

I respect TED and benefit from their broad scope of content. That does not justify packing this many ads into your podcasts. Pushing out ad-farm episodes tarnishes the journalists’ reputations, and makes their guests look like they’re being milked for cash imo.

I find it insulting, as if they don’t value my time, or think their podcast is more valuable than it is. A sub-20 minute podcast made of clips from existing TED content does not deserve 7 long ads in the first 5 minutes.

I don’t know why some of the TED audio podcasts feel the need to have random background music - which sometimes feels somewhat incongruous to the content that it is accompanying.

You have some good short pieces but you should really stop putting a music track onto it when the person is talking. It’s one thing when music is added to narrative fiction podcasts but it feels very out of place on your fact-based show.

The people that come on this show are highly intelligent and not afraid to express there personality,creating a unique atmosphere and what they talk about is even more interesting

The episode about NFTs doesn’t really address the criticism against NFTs in any meaningful capacity. They don’t talk about how many artists have had NFTs made of their content without their knowledge or consent. They don’t talk about how many people have lost access to the images tied to their NFTs. They don’t talk about the energy consumption of crypto mining. I was expecting them to actually talk about the specific technological details of how NFTs and blockchain technology work, but it sounds more like an advertisement disguised as a podcast episode. “Folding Ideas” on YouTube has a great video about NFTs.