Q2. What was the effect of podcasting on the media market?
Podcasting seemed to both democratise access and break content free from the tyranny of the schedule, in media markets where traditional broadcasters invited audiences to have more control of their media experiences (Johnson, 2012 & Perez, 2012).
Q3. What is the emphasis of Street in The Poetry of Radio?
As Street in The Poetry of Radio, the Colour of Sound notes, what the authors used to know as ‘radio stations’ (his emphasis) are increasingly becoming “platforms for audio experiences” (2012, p.112).
Q4. What does Bill Adair say about serial?
Serial showed that in thedays of Wi-Fi, it is easy to subscribe and download” Adair concludes “Serial is something of a gateway drug, leading many of us to other podcasts.” (2014).
Q5. What could be behind the growth of serial?
the improving skills of podcasters could also be behind the growth, as whilst “podcasts used to be pretty amateurish ... today's top podcasts ... are full-scale productions with real staff, budget, and industry expertise behind them.
Q6. What is the way to get your podcast to break the iTunes records?
Retrieved from: https://medium.com/forthe-love-of-podcast/serial-makes-me-want-to-stop-podcasting-83b78948f43Dredge, S (2014, November 18) Serial podcast breaks iTunes records as it passes 5m downloads and streams.
Q7. What could be the role of serial in the podcast industry?
Serial could represent a reminder of the medium for lapsed listeners or an incentive to explore for newcomers, as Reviewer Bill Adair (2014) offers, “Many of us hadn’t downloaded a podcast since the iPod era, when you had to go through the hassle of syncing with your desktop computer to get a new episode.
Q8. What did the Edison team say about podcasting?
They stated that - “We’ve tracked podcasting since 2006 in this research series, and The authorstill remember the days of hunting down an RSS feed, copying it and pasting it into iTunes, downloading the podcast to my computer, and then syncing it to my iPod to listen to later” Continuing the researchers added “Today, all that friction has been reduced to just one step; thanks to the convergence of Broadband access, computing, and media server that is the modern mobile phone.”(Webster, 2014).
Q9. What was the important factor in the growth of podcasts?
As for podcast listeners specifically, podcast consumption accounted for more of their “share of ear” than any other form of audio, including radio.
Q10. What was the format of the podcast?
Episodes were distributed via a conventional podcast RSS feed, through the podcasts website, and on platforms such as Soundcloud and YouTube.
Q11. What did the average user do with the ability to download podcasts?
Only when Apple embraced podcasts in 2005 and added the capacity to download podcasts via iTunes did the process finally become more fluid and one that the average user could navigate.