400. What’s a Podcast Anymore?
30 July 2025

400. What’s a Podcast Anymore?

The Audacity to Podcast®

About

This fundamental question that has been challenged and even abused: what is a podcast anymore? There's plenty of misinformation and disinformation out there about what a podcast is. My efforts to help set the definition straight may be fruitless, but there's more to consider here than only the meaning of the word.


This is my 400th episode of The Audacity to Podcast, to to commemorate this milestone, I want to jump back to this fundamental question because how we answer it will affect the future of our content and even of the whole podcasting industry.


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The definition of a "podcast"

    https://whatsapodcast.com

Other attempted definitions of a "podcast"
What's wrong with redefining what a "podcast" is?
True podcast distribution and consumption are unique
Strict definition versus usage description
Is the definition a "gatekeeper"?
Should you really call your content a "podcast"?

    More about calling your content a "podcast" vs. a "show": https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/are-you-really-a-podcaster-and-should-you-really-be-podcasting-tap182/

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