What is a podcast?

Would you like to hear one or several experts talk about your favorite hobby or topics?

What if you could listen to them when you want?

And from anywhere? For example, walking in the park, your city, the beach or taking your dog, In the car, in the gym, waiting in the doctor's office, in the queue of the super, cooking or quietly on the sofa of your house.

If your answer is yes, then ... you are interested in the podcast.

Maybe you think we're talking about the radio. But no App Development Company in Netherlands want to talk about the podcast, which is another type of content and is consumed differently. We would say that it is something like a radio to suit you. In fact, many radio programs are passing their recordings to digital format in order to be distributed and listened to as podcasts.

The podcast is a voice recording that hangs on the Internet so that those who are interested in the topic on which they speak can access the information when they want and from anywhere.

In addition, they offer the possibility of subscribing, so that every time a new content is published in a podcast channel you do not need to find it, you have it available on your mobile and you can listen to it with a single click.

The vast majority of podcasts are free. In the United States there are about 50 million people who listen to a podcast every day. On the other hand, podcast consumption grows at an average of 25% globally, according to Edison Research.

In Netherlands, 70% of podcast users listen to it on average more than twice a week, according to the App Development Company in Amsterdam. Below you will see the list of countries where most podcasts are heard. The first, of course, is the United States. Curiously, China ranks fifth and Netherlands is the tenth country in the world in number of listeners and the number one of Spanish speaking.

TOP 10 countries for podcast listeners:

1. USA

2. United Kingdom

3. Canada

4. Australia5. China

6. Japan

7. South Korea

8. Germany

9. Sweden

10. Netherlands

 Podcasts are heard almost 100% of the time from the mobile (which is something we always carry today), although you can also listen to them from a computer or tablet.

Podcasts come to cover this need for information and offers us the possibility to consume it whenever we want. Imagine that you are fond of history, dog care or English for business. Where to hear something about such concrete topics? Well you can imagine: App Development Company in Rotterdam.

You will find podcasts of almost any theme. For example, now for professional subjects you may be interested in listening to a podcast about digital marketing or entrepreneurship, but on Saturday morning, you go to your parents' house and spend 30 minutes in the car, you can listen to one about Japanese cuisine, and On Wednesdays you go to the gym, one in the mood.

An example you have in my podcast (Ana Nieto): Triumph with your Book, directed to any author or writer interested in writing, publishing and selling your book successfully. With one click you can listen to interviews with authors who have managed to be bestsellers and tell how they got it or how to effectively use social networks to sell books.

You will see that all podcasts have, by way of presentation, a cover that is like the cover of a book.

ITunes is by far the best-known podcast platform. But there are others, we see later.

In the year 2016 almost half of the new cars will go with Internet connection and according to App development Netherlands in the year 2025 everyone will enjoy the connection. This means that podcasts can be heard as you now hear the radio in the car.

Usually podcasts are usually accompanied by a web or blog. For what reason? One of them and the most important for the listener is that in the blog they can see other content that amplify or clarify what is said in the podcast.

How to listen to a podcast?

The podcasts are designed to reproduce, download and share the contents (in audio) and have them on hand for when we want to listen:

1. First you need a mobile (you can also listen to it on a tablet or computer)

2. You need an app (mobile app) to access your favorite podcast platform. There are some. The best known are: iTunes, iVoox, Spreaker, Stitchet and Souncloud (*).

- For iPhone (and those that have iOS system): the app is called "Podcast" and you do not have to download it, it comes by default unless your iPhone is more than two years old. Clicking on that app will go directly to the iTunes platform where all the podcasts are uploaded.

- For Samsung and all devices of the Android system, the most common app is iVoox (others that are also well known are Spreaker, Stitcher or Soundcloud.

3. You have to open the app by clicking

4. Search for content that interests you. How? You can do this in two ways:

- Looking for specific content: the app MLM software Ahmedabad you use to listen to the podcast will have a search engine (usually identified with a magnifying glass icon). Write the topic that interests you. The contents related to what you have written will appear, which are called episodes.

- Look for a specific podcast: it is as if you tune into a radio channel that you like and there you will find all the content that has published a podcast, which are called episodes.

5. Click on the episode that you have chosen and start listening. That yes, better with the helmets. You can also listen to it in the car or with speakers through Bluetooth.

(*) But is it necessary to register on all these platforms? Absolutely. Typically, each podcaster shares its audio files on all of these platforms, so you should only check on which platform podcasts you are interested in and sign up for.