This was a very abrupt notification, and there was NO mention of it in the pre-recorded sessions from ebay Open yesterday, which suggests that the decision to end the podcast might have been made AFTER those sessions were recorded, which I believe was just a few weeks ago at most.
Again, I hope this was not due to a health issue for Griff (he's no spring chicken...and neither am I , for that matter).
And, of course, this might not have been Griff's decision, it might have been made by higher ups....it certainly would be in keeping with other recent decisions, to cut back on some of the category specific social media sites, to consolidate the ebay for business facebook page with the ebay facebook page, and so forth.
It will be interesting to see if there is any acknowledgment of the end of the podcast at today's ebay Open session. (and perhaps an announcement of a successor program, although Griff's statement on Tuesday gave no hint that there would be a successor.
This is of course speculation, but I know of at least one podcast that is considered an ebay "partner", which suggests ebay might have decided to budget money to support multiple podcast "influencers" rather than continue an in house podcast. Perhaps they will also make ebay execs and employees more available to some of these podcasts?
Time will tell.
