
- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Podcasting in a Platform Age explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the medium is injecting professional and corporate logics into what had been largely an amateur media form. Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media corporations. Legacy radio and new media platform giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are also making big (and expensive) moves in the medium by acquiring content producers and hosting platforms. This book focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization. Through a close read of online and press discourse, analysis of podcasts themselves, participant observations at podcast trade shows and conventions, and interviews with industry professionals and individual podcasters, John Sullivan outlines how the efforts of industry players to transform podcasting into a profitable medium are beginning to challenge the very definition of podcasting itself.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Podcasting in Transition
- 1 Podcasting as a Twenty-First-Century Cultural Form
- 2 Podcasting as a Media Industry—Formalization from Above and Below
- 3 Distribution and Exhibition Shifts—The Platformization of Podcasting
- 4 Professionalism and the Myth of Meritocracy
- 5 Podcast Conventions and the Entrepreneurial Dream
- 6 Market Information Regimes in Podcasting: Formalization and Audience Metrics
- 7 “This Episode Is Brought to You by …”: Advertising and Podcast Monetization
- Conclusion: Platformization and Podcasting’s Third Decade
- References
- Index
- Imprint