Podcasts combine elaborate and artistic sound production with thematic concerns ranging from scientific research to slice-of-life journalism. Discussion and content within a podcast can range from carefully scripted to completely improvised. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient and integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices.Ī podcast series usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event.
The Serial podcast being played through the Pocket Casts app on an iPhoneĪ podcast is an episodic series of spoken-word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening.