Seems wrong with a First Amendment country and a constitutional republic. Is the podcasting boom over? As Sirius, Spotify and Amazon Music all slow or cut spending on podcast projects? Some audio world insiders are voicing concerns that the industry is primed for contraction. But business, in fact, is booming. Ad sales surged to more than 1 billion last year and the number of podcasts on Spotify more than quadrupled between March 2020 and September 22 to a deafening 4.7 million