Other forms: podcasts
A podcast is a talk show you listen to online, episode by episode. Listen to a podcast, a podcast episode, start a podcast.
The name blends iPod and broadcast and was proposed by a journalist in 2004, which is why it is stuck with a device most listeners never owned. It is a feed rather than a platform, so anybody can publish one.
1nounpodcastA talk show you listen to online, episode by episode.
“I listen to a history podcast on my way to work every morning.”
podcast is a show.
A blend of iPod and broadcast, proposed by the journalist Ben Hammersley in 2004.
Blend of iPod and broadcast. iPod and broadcast, probably coined by Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA