@brianboyer Preach! I was working on a set-top product down the street at WaPo around then. I still think there’s an unrealized opportunity there. Smart TVs always felt like the natural hardware for video podcasts. I’d much rather have a feed-native “vod-catcher” UX on my TV than the current Roku app-silo experience.
YouTube is the 800 lb gorilla, but I wonder whether the right alliance of hardware manufacturers, creators & payment rails could build something more open less platform-dependent