Pocket FM puts 93% of audio behind AI

Pocket FM says its annualized revenue run rate doubled to $500 million in a year while AI now powers 93% of its catalog and 99% of new content, according to TechCrunch’s interview with CEO Rohan Nayak. The company says AI makes production about 80x cheaper, with 100 hours of content now possible in a day instead of a year, while humans still supply ideas and stories. Media builders should treat this as a scale-and-economics datapoint, not proof that fully synthetic content wins: keep human IP development and measure retention before replacing creators; the site’s wage-exposure analysis frames that labor trade.