“On YouTube there’s a certain amount of ‘paying attention vs. “I feel like it’s allowed us to share more with our audience, actually,” adds Dunn.

“So that was different-doing scripted content… The podcast, I feel, is a lot more fulfilling in that we’re able to take a deep dive into topics and interview guests each episode but not make it just about the guest.” “We used to do sketches on the channel,” says Raskin. The comedy partners, New York Times best-selling authors (for the YA novel I Have Everyone But You whose sequel, Please Send Help, arrives in July), and hosts of the hugely popular YouTube channel Just Between Us, have now expended their flagship project into a podcast of the same name for Stitcher. Two of the creators who now straddle the line between what YouTube and podcasting have to offer are the talented multi-hyphenates Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin. If you make the effort, your favorite podcast hosts could be your constant companions all day. It goes without saying that people consume podcasts like water nowadays. Nearly a decade-and-a-half later, that promise has obviously been a little compromised, just as a new challenger has risen as a thorough, intellectual and intimate alternative. The next big filmmaker, musician, comedian, etc., could now come from anywhere, and the price of entry for creators and audiences was nonexistent.

Since its inception, YouTube’s promise was to democratize how people created and distributed videos.

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