The history of the word 'Podcast'
So an episode of The Vergecast looked at the past, present, and future of podcasting, and host David Pierce (who was recording from his car ala the style of many early podcasters) talked to James Cridland about what a podcast even is and what on earth we should do about YouTube. I really liked James’ definition (“on demand audio-first content, some... See more
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Review the short history of podcasting and you’ll find a few seminal moments. There’s the format’s invention, of course, quickly followed by its official inclusion in the Apple iTunes directory. Then there’s Apple’s 2012 rollout of a standalone podcast app that was featured on the home screen of over a billion iPhones and iPads. Finally, we have th... See more
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Podcasting is the printing press for the spoken word,. The revolution that Gutenberg unleashed when he invented the printing press, may have taken 40, 50 years, 60 years, 100 years to gain steam, even goes faster now, but that is exactly what podcasting is. Everybody's like, "Oh, we have too many podcasts." That's like saying you have too many movi... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
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So first let me define what a video podcast is. In technical terms, it’s a series of videos released episodically and distributed through RSS and downloaded by viewers through syndication channels.
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Podcasting has been around since the early 2000s, but Anchor, a podcast platform launched in 2017 that simplifies podcast creation, was reported to be powering 70% of all new podcasts as of Q1 2020 and believes that its monetization platform effectively doubled the number of podcasts running ads.
Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment
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Podcasting is a medium made for this kind of storytelling; if journalism is, as someone once said, “the first draft of history”, then maybe podcasting is the second. As a medium, it has a wider intellectual bandwidth than broadcasting, which has to address mass audiences, whereas podcasting can serve niche interests and make more assumptions about ... See more
John Naughton • The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton
Play the long game.
People really underestimate **just how early** @joerogan was to podcasting.
2004 - Term "podcasting" is coined (ipod + broadcasting)
2005 - iTunes starts supporting podcasts
2009 - @joerogan starts his podcast
2012 - Apple launches standalone mobile app… Show more
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