I assume the Siri and Google assistant white noise just download the 20 min file when you ask and just repeat that. Whereas an 8h podcast of a 20 minute repeated sound will use 8h of bandwidth

More video is uploaded every minute than anyone can ever watch in a lifetime. It costs money to store and serve all that.

I can see that, before I uninstalled it, it barely took 2 minute to open it and see that still only about 3 of the people I followed on Twitter are now on it, and my feed is still full of celebrity nonsense rather than anything interesting.

I mean most consumers don’t care about those 🤷‍♀️