From the first time that Ben Hammersley, a Guardian journalist, coined the word "podcast" in February 2004 and drew it from the pairing of "iPod" and "broadcast," few would have imagined that this new name would so quickly transform the fate of radio. It took less than a few months for Adam Curry, known as the Podfather, with the program Daily Source Code to show how this fledgling format can free the cycle of audio production and distribution from the constraints of time and frequency.
Today, the podcast has gone from an individual initiative to a global medium; such that by 2025 the number of listeners in the world has reached 584 million people and the number of listed podcasts has reached about 4.42 million titles, and it is forecast that by 2027 this listener community will cross the 651 million mark. This striking growth indicates a structural change in media consumption habits; audio content no longer flows at a set hour, but in the user's pocket and alongside them.
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