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What is podcasting?
Podcasting is the preparation and distribution of audio files using RSS feeds to the
computers of subscribed users. These files may then be uploaded to streaming
services, which users can listen to on their smartphones or digital music and
multimedia players, like an iPod. A podcast can easily be created from a digital audio
file.
Podcasts are typically available as a series of prerecorded talk-radio shows that users
can download to their computers or mobile devices. Podcasters often publish episodes
on a regular schedule.
There is no prescribed format, length or style for a podcast. They may cover a range
of subject areas, but an episode often focuses on one topic or story. Some podcasters
read from a script, while others improvise.
They also changed how advertisers monetized it. Podcasts can be monetized through
subscriptions, purchased ad time or crowdsourcing platforms, like Patreon.
These feeds list all the podcaster's episodes. They can also automatically submit the
RSS feed to podcast directories, where listeners can access them.
Buzzsprout
Podbean
Podcast Websites
Simplecast
Spreaker
A podcast directory is an application that listeners can use to search for, store and
listen to podcasts. When listeners subscribe to a podcast, their RSS feed automatically
updates their device with new episodes.
Blubrry Podcasting
Podbean
Spotify
Stitcher
TuneIn
Podcast production is not complex. A podcaster can save a digital audio file as an
MP3 and upload it to the hosting platform or other service provider. The MP3 file has
its URL inserted into an RSS Extensible Markup Language document as an enclosure
within an XML tag.
Podcasts can be registered with a content aggregator, like AllTop or Feedly, which
add them to their directories. Podcasts are generally audio files, but the same process
can be used to prepare and share image, text and video files.