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This article is about the media format. For the application from Apple, see Podcasts (software). For the application from Google, see Google Podcasts.

The Serial podcast being played through the Pocket Casts app on an iPhone A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files that a user can download in order to listen. Alternatively, the word "podcast" may refer to the individual component of such a series or to an individual media file.[1]

Podcasting often uses a subscription model, whereby new episodes automatically download via web syndication to a user's own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.[2]

The files distributed are in audio format, but may sometimes include other file formats such as PDF or EPUB. Videos shared following a podcast model are