Podcast is declared the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. Ricky Gervais sets Guinness World Record for most downloaded podcast at , per episode for the first month. Google buys Feedburner for million. Feedburner is a service many podcasters are using to create an iTunes compliant rss feed. The developer of the Podpress plugin abandons plugin and when everyone upgrades to WordPress 2. Eventually WordPress steps in to repair plugin. To make a podcast, all you have to do is buy a mic, install a recording program on your laptop, and start talking.
Maybe you favor the talk-show podcast, such as Pod Save America , in which people interview each other or, less frequently, one person talks directly to you about contemporary events. Or maybe you prefer narrative podcasts, which methodically explore a single story over a full season, such as the Watergate scandal in Slow Burn. There are useful industry-expert podcasts like Scriptnotes hosted by two successful Hollywood screenwriters that provide an unfiltered view into a particular business.
There are fully fictional podcasts, such as Homecoming adapted into an Amazon TV show starring Julia Roberts , that offer the pleasures of — and occasionally struggle to escape the stilted sound of — old-time radio dramas.
Voice acting is hard, kids. And, of course, there are true-crime podcasts — so many true-crime podcasts. So, so many true-crime podcasts. These are shows like Everything Is Alive , an unscripted interview program produced by Ian Chillag, in which the subject of each interview is an inanimate object a pregnancy test, a can of generic cola. No talking, just walking. For real. The form, which once seemed like it might not be particularly good at anything, now seems to be good at nearly everything.
And podcasts increasingly are learning to do things no medium has done before. If podcasts sprang forth from radio, then started to borrow from written essays, novels, movies, and TV, they are now learning to be podcasts in all that entails. The two of them personify two distinct eras in podcast evolution. When Blumberg left This American Life in to start Gimlet, he bet on a future in which podcasts were not just a curiosity but a popular and increasingly lucrative emerging cultural form.
And Glass, his mentor, is arguably or, you could say, inarguably the spiritual godfather of podcasts, even though he and his show remain tethered to public radio.
TAL has been available in podcast form since Not every current podcast sounds like a TAL spinoff — some sound like drive-time radio shows, or audition reels for aspiring shock jocks, or lively arguments among friends over beers at a favorite local bar, or the monologues of rambling relatives at endless family dinners, or the mumbled and strangely compelling musings of people confined to padded cells — but the distinctive TAL aesthetic, which has proved both adaptable and resilient, has emerged as the sound of the podcast revolution.
It suggests a wide-open eye avidly searching the world for wonder under an ever-so-slightly arched eyebrow. The most obvious reason TAL casts such a long shadow over the podcast landscape is that so many of its distinguished alumni and current practitioners produce the most innovative podcasts. But this tone, as it exists now in podcasts, did not arrive instantaneously or fully formed.
The most popular current podcasts often bear the imprint of their distinctive origins. Marc Maron had two failed radio shows at Air America, and another scuttled online show, when WTF was born : He and a producer would sneak into the Air America studios after-hours, smuggling their guests upstairs aboard the freight elevator.
No wonder the show sounds like a mash-up of pirate radio and personal diary — its origin story contains a bit of both. When Taberski was well into the project, a podcast-production company convinced him that his tale was perfectly suited to a podcast, partly because it would benefit from an episodic structure and partly because his story was, in essence, about his own obsession, which is excellent podcast fodder.
A similar moment marked the development of Serial. Both came from TAL, but they had to reorient their thinking around an extended story told week to week, in chapters, in real time. Koenig first thought of it as an audiobook. But producer Snyder recalls listening to an edit of the second episode with Koenig and another TAL producer, Nancy Updike, and being dismayed that the installment, which focused mainly on the relationship between two characters, felt so flat.
From that question, Snyder and Koenig realized that Serial was not about the murder victim or the accused murderer but Koenig herself. Sarah is the protagonist. When Snyder moved on to S-Town, she and her co-producer and host, Brian Reed, had a different revelation. It was a novel. Bush had his weekly address delivered via podcast.
One of the most notable developments that saw was Apple introducing podcasts into iTunes 4. For the next decade and beyond, podcasts would largely be associated with Apple, especially because iTunes and the Podcasts app released in were the main destinations where most listeners could find, download, and subscribe to podcasts.
A month later, Lance Anderson became the first podcaster to take his show on the road with a live podcasting tour he called The Lance Anderson Podcast Experiment. In October , This American Life launched a podcast version of their popular radio show which, to this day, continues to be one of the most downloaded shows on the podcast charts.
In the year that followed, when zoomed into view, podcasts began earning recognition for the massive audiences they were accumulating. English comedian Ricky Gervais set the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded podcast , with more than a quarter of a million downloads per episode. This record would later be surpassed by Adam Carolla for his podcast The Adam Carolla Show , which achieved 59 million unique downloads.
Radio personalities and comedians thrived in the early days of podcasting. In , stand-up comedian Marc Maron launched a new podcast show where he interviewed a diverse range of guests from his garage studio, and it went on to become one of the most beloved shows of the medium. In the years to come, it started to look like podcasts had reached something of a plateau.
They had carved out a particular place in the public consciousness, and the medium had bred its own celebrities, conventions, and breakthrough successes. For a moment, it appeared as though a sizable portion of the podcasting industry had been overtaken by already-established media companies that had simply found a way to repackage popular radio and TV broadcasts to dominate the top 10 charts, week after week. Platforms such as Podbean , Spreaker , and Anchor may help with hosting and promotion by guiding you through the process.
Some of the best publicity comes from your own listeners. Once you begin attracting an audience, word-of-mouth will help you keep going. As you rise through the ranks, you may wish to upgrade your recording setup with higher-quality equipment and perhaps even a dedicated recording studio space. You may want to pick all this gear up beforehand, but it's expensive and you may want to try your hand at podcasting before you spend that kind of money. One way to do this is to record several episodes ahead and keep them "in the can," ready for your release day.
You can plot your ideas out in advance, too, to keep yourself on schedule. You may benefit from writing a script to use before the recording session, but many podcasts' hosts banter between each other in a friendly unscripted conversation on one or many topics. One nice thing about modern recording and editing software, it is not too difficult to edit recordings to remove a flubbed line. Just relax and have fun! Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close.
Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. Internet Basics. How Podcasting Works. An empty studio waits for a podcaster to take the mic in June Podcasting History " ". Listening to Podcasts Listening to podcasts is easy. Audio File Formats. Read More. Creating Podcasts " ". Plug a microphone into your computer. Install an audio recorder for Windows, Mac or Linux Audacity is a free, well-known and respected option for all three.
Create an audio file by making a recording you can talk, sing or record music and save it to your computer. Finally, upload the audio file to one of the podcasting sites.
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