As podcasts pivot to video, the term for platformless audio shows is losing its meaning.
The Verge·2025-12-22 15:02

I think we're going to stop using the word podcast, or at least it will start to feel outdated. At the end of last year, I wrote about how podcasts started to experiment with video, taking hosts you've only heard voices of and putting them into a well-lit studio, competing on a whole new playing field, aka YouTube and Tik Tok. I think next year will be really hard to define what is a podcast and what is just like a video show. Just like how no one really uses the phrase web series anymore, I think the word ...