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The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week ...
Spotify knows something is wrong with its podcast strategy — and these past few weeks have proved it. The company’s missteps reveal how fundamentally different the formula of success is in ...
We asked the staff at The Verge what their current favorite podcasts were. Here they are, including Ear Hustle, Lost Notes, Trump Inc, Code Switch from NPR and The Daily from the NY Times.
The pilot episode of “No Such Podcast” features a declassified story of NSA’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) contributions to the U.S. government effort to take down Osama bin Laden, one of ...
Podcasts are in the middle of a numbers and people crisis. After a year of layoffs and canceled podcasts, 2024 may be the podcast industry’s big reckoning.
Spotify’s podcast and audiobook discovery will get a boost from Google Cloud’s AI. The company says its experimenting with Google’s AI tools to improve content discovery and personalized ...
What is it about podcasts that make them so... podcasty? At The Verge, it has long been our goal to create podcasts almost indistinguishable from mankind itself. Hello, I’m The Verge Mobile ...
More YouTube creators are getting into the podcast game, including Ethan Klein, David Dobrik, Joe Rogan, and Marques Brownlee. That means launching new channels dedicated to podcasts is a smart ...
At a virtual briefing attended by The Verge, Apple’s global head of podcasts, Ben Cave, said that annual plans were increasingly popular with new subscribers on Apple Podcasts.
Everyone’s getting their podcast lawsuits in before the year is over. Plus, how 2024 could be the year we will finally get better analytics.
CNN, Vox Media, The Washington Post, and WNYC all produce impeachment podcasts. Even Rudy Giuliani is considering launching one. The trend speaks to the power of big podcast networks.
Music has always helped bring podcast stories to life in the background, but now, it’s a major part of some shows. Songs debut exclusively on podcasts and then become available to stream elsewhere.