Keeping up with Serial? Your next spoken-word fix could arrive from Overcast,Pocket Casts, Castro, and Spotify or Deezer Serial didnt singlehandedly revive the podcast as a media format – the efforts of radio broadcasters and many independent producers have grown and sustained audiences in the years since podcasts were hyped as the next mountainous thing in tech.
Yet,Serial has undoubtedly fuelled a surge in interest in spoken-word shows which in 2016, are as likely to be listened to on a smartphone as a computer. And there are apps for that.
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Source: theguardian.com