Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (<i>Welcome to Night Vale</i>, <i>Radiolab</i>, <i>Serial</i>, <i>The Black Tapes</i>, <i>We¿re Alive</i>, <i>The Heart</i>, <i>The Truth</i>, <i>Lore</i>, <i>Love + Radio</i>, <i>My Dad Wrote a Porno</i>, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet Media, Audible.com, Edison Research, Libsyn and others),<i> Podcasting</i> documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media. The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in ¿Podcasts¿ app, the runaway success of <i>Serial</i>, and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment, which reverberates to this day, is the focus of <i>Podcasting</i>. Using case studies, close analytical listening, quantitative and qualitative analysis,