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Liberated Syndication launches as the first podcast service provider (Libsyn.com)
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Adam Curry, former MTV Video Jockey, with the cooperation of RSS feed developer Dave Winer, created podcasting, a sophisticated method of broadcasting that makes audio content available to listeners at their convenience, in an always on state. They are believed to be the first in the world to record and make available a podcast. https://www.voices.com/resources/articles/podcasting/history-of-podcasting
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Podcasting was first mentioned by journalist Ben Hammersley in an article he wrote for The Guardian titled Audible Revolution
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Apple adds a podcasting platform to there iTunes 4.9 update, making podcasts far more accessible.
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President George W Bush becomes the first president to have his weekly address available in podcast format. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast/)
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Podcast is declared the word of the year in the Oxford Dictionary
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Leo Laporte publishes the first episode of "This Week in Tech." Later that year he wins the inaugural peoples choice award.
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CEO of Apple demonstrates how to create a podcast using garage band during a keynote address (https://internationalpodcastday.com/podcasting-history/)
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Ricky Gervais sets a record for an average of 261,670 downloads per episode for his first month of content. (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/feb/06/radio.newmedia)
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Edison Research states that the number of Americans who have heard of podcasting has reached 37% and 19% of all internet users have downloaded a podcast (http://www.edisonresearch.com/podcast-research/)
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ESPN's Fantasy Football Focus podcast wins the peoples choice award
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Adam Corolla enters the Guinness Book of World Records for most downloaded podcast as he reaches an incredible 59,547,843 unique downloads between March 2009-11 (https://internationalpodcastday.com/podcasting-history/)
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Edison Research states that 29% of Americans have listened to a podcast (https://internationalpodcastday.com/podcasting-history/)
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Apple announces that there have been 1 billion podcast subscribers (https://internationalpodcastday.com/podcasting-history/)
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President Barack Obama is a guest on Marc Marons wildly successful WTF Podcast. (http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_613_-_president_barack_obama)
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Joe Rogan receives 90,000,000 total downloads for his podcast over the month of February in 2017 (https://www.reddit.com/r/howardstern/comments/5s6jj4/joe_rogan_experience_had_90000000_podcast/)
