THE RISE, RISE, AND RISE OF PODCASTS

摘要

The first came in 2005, less than two years after the launch of the first mainstream podcast to have an RSS feed (Christopher Lydon's Open Source), when Apple offered more than 3,000 free podcasts on iTunes. Steve Jobs explained that podcasting was like "TiVo for radio," which sounded cutting edge at the time because it kind of was. No pesky commercials! F-bombs for everyone! The iTunes push meant podcasts became more discoverable to millions of people who otherwise would have had no idea they existed.