Despite its short history, podcasting has always existed as a media activity used by users engaged in other activities. It’s ...

The “HBO of podcasting” will not arrive because someone declares it. It will arrive because someone finally decides to build ...

Selective focus of mouth of young smiling women recording podcast and doing live streaming using microphone and headphones in recording studio For years, podcasting sat on the sidelines of media ...

In 2024, podcasts are about as mainstream as media gets. Sure, their audiences are hugely fragmented and largely invisible to one another — the monoculture remains dead and rotting. But the medium is, ...

NPR dominated the podcast space in the early years. And public radio remains influential, routinely holding several of the top 10 downloads. But podcasting has exploded with new voices, new shows and ...

The medium is at an inflection point: Investigative deep dives are out, cheaper chitchat is in, and it’s got to be on video to break through: “We’re literally just a bunch of YouTubers now.” By James ...

If you want to make it in podcasting, you need two things: curiosity and passion. “You can’t fake those two,” Eric Nuzum, co-founder of the podcasting company Magnificent Noise, told me. I spoke to ...

NPR prides itself on bringing its listeners podcast programming for different tastes and sensibilities. Some bring the biggest news like Up First, NPR News Now, and the recently launched Sources & ...

I miss the office, I miss seeing our teams all over the world, as much as I miss analyzing each juicy new episode with the members of My Dad Wrote A Porno, or perusing copies of the latest Pod Bible ...

In 2005, Apple’s Steve Jobs helped catapult podcasts as mainstream media when the tech giant introduced its native Podcasts app. Vulture podcast critic Nicholas Quah takes us through how podcasting ...