Yahoo! it is in the heat of process to return to have interesting numbers for the investors and, among moved others, they decided to close Yahoo! Podcasts a pity for a service that grows to firm enough rate, although much less express than for a year. He is quite interesting to see that, at least according to Hitwise, Yahoo! Podcasts was the visited service less of the 32 “officials” whom the vestibule offers and seeing it thus it is not going it to surprise much people; in fact I am sure that the closing of Yahoo! Photos was more annoying even though all the users happened to use flickr. This makes me think if the cost of producing, of publishing and of publishing Podcasts (of a more or less professional form) does not finish being the great problem that restrains the growth of such; because nor Odeo that vió that problem when it was sent finished being profitable… And although those costs esten supported by different actors (production and edition by podcasters; distribution by the store; hosting sometimes one and sometimes another one) so far the only source that there is is the publicity and are not being great investments of the advertisers in that format.
Source: Denken Uber