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two people who could've texted instead, broadcasting to nobody for ninety glorious minutes
means a digital audio program, usually episodic and conversational, that you download or stream and listen to whenever you like.
from A blend coined in the early 2000s: "iPod" (Apple's music player) fused with "broadcast." A British journalist is widely credited with proposing it in print around 2004, and the word stuck even as iPods faded — the "pod" now floats free of any actual device, like a barnacle outliving its ship.
- name origin
- coined from iPod plus broadcast in 2004
- completion rate
- most listeners quit before the halfway mark
- sheer volume
- over five million shows, most fewer than ten episodes
- the equipment
- a microphone purchase precedes most podfade deaths
- word of year
- podcast won New Oxford American's 2005 title
the joe rogan experience — most-listened podcast globally with 250+ million monthly listeners
serial — true crime podcast that freed adnan syed in 2022 after 23 years in prison
stuff you should know — longest-running podcast, started 2008, covering obscure topics
true crime junkie — true crime podcast with 300+ million downloads about unsolved cases