Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder particular! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt right here. We’ve had a giant yr, together with almost 100 episodes, a brand new YouTube channel, an ad-free podcast feed, and a slate of nice visitor hosts whereas Nilay was on parental depart. It’s been so much.
We’ve additionally had loads of nice questions and feedback this yr from you, our viewers. It’s now an annual custom for us to show the tables on Nilay for our ultimate episode of the yr, so we pulled collectively all of the suggestions we’ve acquired on subjects like CarPlay, Monday episode visitor recommendations, and — after all — AI. We additionally acquired loads of nice questions over the previous few weeks asking about how Decoder is put collectively, what subjects we must always deal with sooner or later, and the way we take into consideration the format and construction of the present itself.
So as we speak, we welcomed Nilay to Decoder, to grill him on all these questions and extra and likewise to get his ideas on the previous 12 months: What he’s favored, what he needs to enhance, and the way he’s making selections for Decoder within the new yr.
Once we did this final yr, our prime two most often requested questions had been very simple. First: Why isn’t Decoder on YouTube? Fortunately, we mounted that one. We launched the Decoder YouTube channel in October, and we now publish full video episodes each week, beginning with our traditional Monday interview format. We additionally acquired requested so much about an ad-free podcast choice final yr, and we’re completely happy to say that additionally since October, Verge subscribers now have entry to ad-free audio feeds.
We’ve acquired some suggestions about making our Thursday explainer episodes full video, too. Belief us — we’re engaged on it. It’s a bit extra difficult and resource-intensive, and so it’s going to take a while to iron out the kinks. Past that, we’re very excited to experiment extra with format, video, and even dwell manufacturing in 2026. (Come be part of us dwell at CES on January 7, on the Brooklyn Bowl!)
In case you’d like to take a look at among the previous Decoder episodes and information tales we talked about on this episode, take a look at the hyperlinks beneath. Completely satisfied New Yr, and thanks for listening! We’ll be again with all new episodes in mid-January.
Questions or feedback about this episode? Hit us up at decoder@theverge.com. We actually do learn each e mail!
