I really wanted to like this podcast, because the topics are so important. But it's like the thing is hosted by a bunch of 12-yr-olds. It's a bunch of kids excitedly chattering about the coolest thing they just heard on the news. I just can't. The search for insightful tech commentary continues...

My husband listens to your podcast all the time and I’m usually interested in most episodes. I’ve noticed that one of you always whispers at the end of your sentences… Nilay, maybe? You taper off the volume at the end of your sentences. It’s pretty annoying and your listeners are probably only hearing half of what you’re saying.

Gone are the stories about tech, replaced instead by navel-gazing and political hot-takes. It is really too bad. The website has gone downhill, too, and no longer worth a bookmark. So long, folks!

Recently featured another podcast, called power user, sounded interesting, and within a minute of the interview of asking, whether or not TikTok was being banned or if it was this type of forced sale, these are admits, complete ignorance, and then takes a position of a ban. IANAL disclaimer does not mean someone can answer ignorantly and unchallenged. This channel is just consistently slipping down the hot take slope. Tech by feels cast.

The main crew and cast is the main reason I am a weekly listener. Technology being analyzed through the lens of how it affects our emotions and culture is fascinating to me, and the Nilay/David/Alex trifecta never ceases to entertain. That being said, good freaking lord the Arc episode was unbearable. I love David, but it really felt like he allowed a half-episode advertisement for a product that has some serious complications, without addressing them head-on. There’s a few other examples of episodes that make me want to crawl out of my skin, but all-in-all, love the show.

The latest episode is way to politically influenced for me to be a episode on a tech podcast.

I have been listening to the Vergecast for many years now and it has consistently stayed in my rotation. I really enjoy two of the three main hosts and love when they have guests as well. I like the variety of formats with some episodes focused on an individual topic and others covering a variety of areas. I can understand the style may not be for everyone.

Just rename the show to “The Nilay Patel Political Soapbox” already. This isn’t even a tech show anymore.

This was once a go to podcast for me. However, it's becoming more in more difficult to listen given one host's proclivity for spouting factually incorrect information regarding media companies. For example, there have been several times where a host has misidentified the ownership of the company their talking about. Disappointing to see this continue unchecked.

It has become so negative on big tech. Apple is not a monopoly. You can buy Android/Windows devices. If The Verge wants to help us do something about the internet service provider monopoly. I also agree with a few other reviews: Alex Kranz is a dumpster fire.

Content is good but the hosts are mixed too quiet, have to change volume with the ads

They do have interesting guests and topics from time to time, but it’s tedious without chapters to skip past some of the hosts who regularly insist on discussing their bad takes.

Good content, but I wish there were chapter markers to make it easier to skip around in the episodes

That guy from ARC sounded like an hour long painful ad for his product rather than a discussion.

Look forward to the show every week for years thank you for all you do! If you wouldn't mind just drinking a little bit more water or doing whatever mouth exercises to not be doing smacky clicky asmr type stuff in my ear please and thank you🫶✌️

If you want to know what it what feel like to be part of a friend group where everyone thinks they are the smartest most insightful most virtuous most savvy most edgy people in any room youll love this podcast. This show covers what people who do not actually contribute to society in a meaningful way (food, shelter, infrastructure, health care, education) care about. Nauseatingly self important and San Francisco conformist. Hard pass.

Love the show, but David and Nilay need someone better than Alex on the show. They almost always disagree and at times you can tell Nilay and David don't want to take the time to debate with her or have to respond to something she said from left field. Miss Dieter!

I came for the tech news, but I’m staying for the banter. I love the dynamics between the three of you. For all the reviews saying “Less <name>” I say you don’t understand chemistry or checks and balance systems. Keep up the great work!

The tech commentary of this show is second to none and the banter from cranz, david, and nilay together is genuinely so much fun to hear as a listener. The problem is that it’s so often not a shared conversation - nilay interrupts way too often and it just goes and goes. When we arrive at his end, the universe gifts us a long pause that reliably emanates “..so anyways” energy.

This lady is awful!am sorry I think she is a good person but she is terrible to listen to cause she is very self involved,always trying to say something funny but rarely anything intelligent or substantial. Oh and the forced laugh track from her drives me crazy ! my guess is it’s all some sort of medicine she is on so am pretty sure it’s not even the authentic version of her torturing me 😂 Alex if you read this,it’s nothing personal,please understand you make the show less informative,you tend to say nothing and are so focused on being funny ,what’s that thing you do where you slow down a sentence then end with a question mark ? It’s like listening to teenager ,just torture.

I’ve listened to you all forever, but the show is no longer the “must-listen” it was when Dieter was around. David is super knowledgeable, but his baseline pessimism vibe is kinda a bummer. Alex’s humour attempts don’t land well (with me or the other hosts). Would love if you all would give more mic time to Verge staff like Becca, Victoria, Richard, and Tom! Huge fan of The Verge’s reporting. Hope the podcast recaptures that magic it once had.

This show has become my favorite tech show on a weekly basis. I love the hosts and the weird rabbit holes they go down. The end of year episodes are a tradition and the USBC one in 2023 was terrific. If you care about the minutiae of wiper blade design and power delivery standards this show is for you.

Was this show always empty giggle sessions and I’m just now noticing. I feel like it used to be a good place for info. Now it’s just some well informed people making laughing sounds with each other without spilling any beans my direction. I’ll probably have to unsubscribe. Where can I get some info mixed in with the “fun”?

I enjoy listening to the Vergecast but some of their info is not researched as well as it could be. I think the show would be a good bit more interesting if Alex Cranz was NOT on the show. I don't enjoy her constant attempts at jokes and all her "ya's" that she constantly throws in. She doesn't actually really bring that much of interest to the show... P.S. while I'm at it, maybe if you don't know a lot about trucks don't talk smack about them. 🤨😁

I would more than happily pay for a version of the show with just Nilay and Cranz hosting. David Pierce spends too much time talking over people to only occasionally provide anything funny or useful to the conversation. God what I would give to go back to when Dieter was on the show.

Geeze these iTunes reviews get really heated... The Verge has done an amazing job keeping The Vergecast going since it started out many years ago, and through its numerous host changes. Alex Cranz and David Pierce have brought wonderful fresh perspectives, commentary, insight, and a spotlight to new areas of technology to the show — and Nilay Patel has kept it together through it all. The new Tuesday episodes are great deep dives, and the listener hotline is a fantastic idea. The reporting, production quality, and conversations are top-notch. If you’re at all interested in technology (even in the slightest), you should listen! Ignore those mean-spirited reviews. Cut through them like Scissor Vodka. Snip Snip.

It’s been a absolute craze blaze over the last 96 hours and my guys broke it down in an hour and some change. This was the absolute crazy move by the board. Like the ruthlessness and villain ice coldness to do it so quick! 2023 and AI setting up a very wild outlook for 2024. Thanks Verge!

I can’t remember when I actually stumbled upon the Vergecast, but since then I am all in! I love the Monday episodes, Tuesdays for Decoder, the Wednesday show, and then the Friday show keeps my week flowing. I am a big old tech dork and y’all speak my language. The apex of that is when Nilay, in his review of Moon Knight on Disney basically said, “It’s not great, but I’m gonna watch it.” I am hopeful at some point, I get to hang out with him, and just chat. Keep on keeping on. P.S. to be balanced (and a call out to the disclosures) The Netflix show wasn’t all what I hoped it would be.

I love the Friday show with everyone but the solo shows with David are boring. He tries to be funny but he is not funny.

I find the hosts obnoxious. Alex isn’t quite as annoying, except she needs to contribute more original (and useful) comments rather than throwing in “jokes,” and reacting/responding to what the other hosts say - the other hosts are already overly full of themselves.

How characteristic of your show’s sarcasm and consistent mocking of most everything, shame on y’all. and yea I continue to listen, Marco the tucson cowboy

I’ve been listening to The Vergecast for almost as long as I’ve been listening to podcasts and it’s still my favorite show to listen to. The show has really taken on new life and I can’t wait for my new episodes. The deep-dive episodes are awesome and I really have been enjoying the special themed episodes but the Friday show is really still my favorite. I love the casual conversations between all of them

Alex Cranz sounds clunky when providing opinions about tech companies. Alex sounded especially clunky on 10/20 with her opinions about Tesla, and her opinion Netflix is bad media company…Why? Because they have ”no bangers.”

I work in tech but conversations around tech and gadgets had never interested me but this group is entertaining and gets me to listen about tech stuff multiple times a week. One piece of feedback - I find it a bit off putting when I hear David and Nilay talk over Alex. I assume it’s not entirely intentional but she’ll be mid opinion and they’ll just cut her off and start talking over her. It reinforces the stereotype that tech is a man-dominated industry.

Nothing against Alex but at most times, the show stumbles a bit when she comes in with her input. Maybe it’s her style, but something’s not right. David Pierce in the other hand since he came back to the Verge, he really uplifted the whole show to another level. Finally, we need an ad-free subscription option. It’s really worth it.

The Vergecast is a must-listen for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news and trends. The hosts are knowledgeable and engaging, and the show strikes a perfect balance between being informative and entertaining. I've learned so much from listening to the Vergecast, and I always look forward to the new episodes. Five stars!

Lack of knowledge + inaccurate statements + failed attempts at humor + grating voice. Please replace!

They need to shut up about Elon Musk. It’s super annoying and giving him more attention is just furthering the damage he does to society. Whenever discussion moves to him I either skip ahead or just delete the episode

This is by far the best weekly technology show. I look forward to the Verge every week! The chemistry between the hosts is fantastic, and Nilay is excellent in how he leads the discussions, keeps everyone on track, and explains complicated topics in a fun way — even if he occasionally has stinker opinions (CarPlay is great, Nilay).

The editing was so bad and the glitches so erratic that the entire episode was word salad. I’m not entirely sure what I just listened to, and I only got through about 50% of the episode. Random cuts and leaps back and forth in time, it was surreal. You guys should care more about your audience; this show is way too popular to justify putting out a product this flawed.

This once was my favorite podcast, been listening for around 10 years now. Really miss the old podcast. Nilley had a tendency to mutter his last words of his sentences and can’t understand. It’s funny how years ago the verge team loved Elon Musk, but ever since he started to lean right, they all turned on him. Their last podcast about him was unbearable to listen to. Very bias podcast, I miss the old root talk about technology, pop culture, and phones.

This was frustrating, I’ve been listening for months because the hosts are well informed (and capable of being charming) and the topics are interesting but I finally had to bail out and unfollow because this show is 50% giggling banter and i’m so tired of waiting for them to ‘get on with it’. Hire an editor. This is a 30 min show inflated to 1hr20 by people laughing at their own jokes.

Richard needs to be more on it

Banter can be fun and there is occasional excellent journalism. If Patel was more intelligible and Cranz was less focused on zingers, the quality journalism would take center stage. Also, hearing the word “like” every third word is tiring.

Vergecast has declined sharply after Paul Miller left. Hosts are disconnected from reality and spend every show criticizing technology giggling. This is not the podcast for anyone with an intermediate level of knowledge around technology. Nilay saves all his good takes for Decoder. Vergecast needs to reboot.

This really once was the flagship podcast for all tech podcasts. It’s gone down considerably. Aimless rambling. Inside jokes. Bias coverage. Dieter Bohn and Nilay Patel balanced each other out perfectly. Now we have Alex Cranz… an absolute ear-sore.

I’m way 2 young (13) to listen to this but its funny and i like their views on Netflix and Apple, also pls do more w/ switched on pop

Vergecast audio quality control team (if they exist), be advised that the program either skips back and repeats a segment or it skips forward and one misses the context. Please review the program before publishing. This podcast is too good to be tarnished by not doing this simple quality check.

The audio balancing has changed recently and I have to choose between hearing Nilay while everybody else screams into my ears, or only hearing ~40% of what Nilay has to say. Please try to listen to the podcast on a bus or in a car and you’ll understand the mistakes you’ve made in the audio mixing. Sadly, we can’t all listen to the Vergecast in an audio clean room devoid of environmental sounds.

More tech-politics/culture than I prefer but… It’s still loaded with some solid reporting. Guests can be hit or miss. Lots of banter Truthfully, I only listen to 60% of episodes, not a “must-listen”. I followed @pierce over from wired, and still enjoy his take. Episodes can be a little long, length doesn’t bother me, I’d just say a lot of the time I feel like the 45 min edit of the same stuff might have been the better episode