podcast

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Pluralpodcasts

Verbpodcasts, podcasting, podcast

4 meanings of podcast

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1
nouncountable
An audio or video program delivered over the Internet in regular installments, made for playback on computers or portable devices.
The history podcast has built a loyal audience over five seasons.
Several news organizations now produce podcasts alongside their print coverage.
Similarshow
Note
The series sense: the show people name, recommend and return to, rather than any single installment. Matthew Anniss's Create Your Own Podcast (2016) advises listening to a mix of well-known podcasts and noticing that the best have hosts with a unique voice. In that advice the podcast is the whole show and its personality, not one file. Blogcast is a synonym, and the single-episode meaning is a looser extension of this one.
2
nouncountable
A single installment of an Internet-delivered audio or video program.
Yesterday's podcast covered the election results in detail.
She recorded three podcasts in a single afternoon.
Similarepisode
3
verbintransitive
To deliver an audio or video program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices.
Several comedians podcast independently rather than relying on radio stations.
These days, anyone with a microphone can podcast from home.
Similarbroadcast, stream
4
verbtransitive
To deliver information as an audio or video program distributed over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices.
The university podcasts its entire lecture series each semester.
Broadcasters now podcast their interviews soon after they air.
Similarpublish, stream, distribute
Note
The verb takes its past forms the way cast and broadcast do: the station podcast the debate last night, and every lecture has been podcast. Podcasted also turns up for both forms, but it counts as a common error and is proscribed, so careful writing keeps the unchanged podcast. The object is the content itself, such as lectures or interviews. The intransitive use needs no object at all.
The station podcast the debate the same evening it aired.
Every lecture from last term has been podcast.

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Origin

A blend of iPod (the portable music player made by Apple) and broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley in 2004.