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Podcasting Historical Timeline And Milestones

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2004

The Beginning
2004

Adam Curry and Dave Winer are credited with the invention of podcasting. Who exactly did what is up for dispute, but in the end these are the two guys who got it rolling.

Adam Curry

Dave Winer
The Term
2004-02

Ben HammersleyThe term podcasting was mentioned by Ben Hammersley in The Guardian newspaper article.

First Services
2004-10

Libsyn

Liberated Syndication (Libsyn.com) launches as the first podcast service provider.

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2005

Quit your day job
2005-01

Podshow is created by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom. The phrase “Quit your day job” is batted around. Some producers are able to quit their day job. Many are not.

First People's Choice Award
2005-04

Leo LaporteLeo Laporte publishes the first episode of This Week in Tech. Later This Week In Tech wins the first People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Awards.

First Book
2005-05

bookPodcasting: Do-it-yourself Guide by Todd Cochrane released.

iTunes
2005-06

Apple iTunes 4.9 is released with native support for podcasts.

itunes

Presidential Podcast
2005-07

George W. Bush is the first President to have his weekly address delivered as a podcast.

President Bush

Podcast Search
2005-10

Yahoo lanuches a podcast search site. People can listen and subscribe.yahoo

Six Figure $$
2005-12

Mommycast inks a six figure deal with Dixie.mommycast

Dictionary
2005-12

Podcast is declared the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.Dictionary


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2006

Mugglecast
2006

Mugglecast wins People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Awards.Mugglecast

Steve Jobs
2006-01

CEO of Apple Steve Jobs demonstrates how to make a podcast using Garageband in his keynote.jobs

Blubrry Directory
2006-07

Blubrry Podcast Directory Launches.

blubrry


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2007

Keith and the GIrl
2007

keithKeith and the Girl win People’s Choice Award at Podcast Awards.

 

World Record
2007

Ricky Gervais sets Guinness World Record for most downloaded podcast at 261,670 per episode for the first month.

Ricky Gervais

Feedburner
2007-05

Google buys Feedburner for 100 million. Feedburner is a service many podcasters are using to create an iTunes compliant rss feed.

FeedBurner

Yahoo
2007-10

Yahoo closes its podcast directory.


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2008

Manager Tools
2008

Manager Tools win the People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Awards.

Podpress
2008

The  developer of the Podpress plugin abandons plugin and when everyone upgrades to WordPress 2.6 they can’t make a new post. Eventually WordPress steps in to repair plugin.

podpress

Rising Stats
2008

Edison Research reports Americans who have “heard of” podcasting is 37%  Pew Research states that 19% of Internet users have downloaded a podcast.


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2009

Edison Research
2009

Edison Research reports Americans who have “heard of” podcasting is 43% and 25% have consumed “downloadable media.” 32% of audio is consumed on portable media.

ESPN
2009

ESPN Fantasy Focus Football wins People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Award.

WTF
2009-09

markAfter his terrestrial radio show is cancelled Marc Maron launches the WTF podcast.


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2010

Tell Em Steve Dave
2010

Tell Em Steve Dave! Wins the People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Awards.

stevedave


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2011

4Player
2011

4Player Podcast wins the People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Awards.

4player

Guinness World Record
2011-05

Adam Carolla becomes the Guinness World Record holder for the most downloaded podcast after receiving 59,574,843 unique downloads from March 2009 to March 16, 2011.

Adam-Carolla


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2012

Podcast Award
2012

fantasy-focus-logoESPN Fantasy Focus Football wins People’s Choice Award at the Podcast Award.

 

The Up Turn
2012-05

Edison Research states 29% of Americans have listened to a podcast.

Google Listen
2012-08

Google kills their “listen” app leaving no native podcast app on the android platform.

listenhome


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2013

Patent Troll
2013-02

suedPersonal Audio “Patent Troll” sues high profile podcasters for royalties claiming they have a patent on podcasting from 2009.

1 billion!!!!!
2013-06

Apple announces 1 billion podcast subscribers.

1billion

Electronic Frontier Foundation
2013-10

Electronic Frontier Foundation files a petition with the US Trademark Office to invalidate the Personal Audio Patent.


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2015

President Obama on WTF Podcast
2015-06-22

President Barack Obama is interviewed by Marc Maron on the WTF podcast.


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2016

Class of 2016 Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame
2016-07

Dawn Miceli, Drew Domkus, Gary Leland, Mignon Fogarty, Rob Walch are inducted into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame.


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2017

Personal Audio patent troll
2017-08

Court rules in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in which the patent troll Personal Audio did not invent Podcasting.

Amazon Prime Video
2017-10-13

Amazon Prime Video premiers Lore, a television show based on the popular podcast by Aaron Mahnke (ref. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/13/16465922/lore-tv-series-review-amazon-prime-aaron-mahnke-campbell-scott-glen-morgan)


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2018

The Adventure Zone
2018-07-17
The Adventure Zone (from Maximum Fun) publishes a tie-in graphic novel to their first season; the graphic novel hits third on the New York Times Best Sellers List: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/adventure-zone-graphic-novel-tops-new-york-times-trade-fiction-bestseller-list-1130198

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2019

Spotify Acquisitions
2019-02-06

On 6 February 2019, Spotify acquired the podcast networks Gimlet Media and Anchor FM Inc., establishing itself as a major player in podcasting (ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify)


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2020

Joe Rogand And Spotify
2020-05-19

Joe Rogan announced that he had signed a multi-year licensing deal with Spotify... (also ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify)

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