Remember in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic when live audio was suddenly everywhere? The trend briefly became popular thanks to Clubhouse before seemingly every other online platform copied the feature for themselves.
Since then, live audio has mostly become a footnote to a strange time when we were all stuck at home at the same time with nothing to do and listening to hours-long streams of strangers talking to each other passed off as entertainment. . Now LinkedIn, a bit late to the live audio party, has opted to ditch its standalone live audio events.
In The company says it will no longer support native audio events starting next month. Users will no longer be able to create new events starting December 2, and previously scheduled events will no longer work after December 31. Instead, the company is “bringing together” audio events with its live streaming feature, LinkedIn Live. LinkedIn Live, however, requires creators Third party tools to configure streams. So while audio-only streams will still be able to exist on LinkedIn, some additional steps will be needed.
LinkedIn isn't the only company changing course on live audio. , and all have shut down their pandemic-era live audio products. Even Clubhouse (which, yes, still exists) from the format last year. However, the feature is going strong in x despite some technical issues.
