Podcast vs. Broadcast — What's the Difference?

A podcast is an episodic series of spoken word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient and integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices.

To communicate or transmit (a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming) to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network

A series of digital media files distributed over the internet to which a user can subscribe by means of a syndication application.

To make known over a wide area

The content of one or all of the files in such a series.

To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.

To distribute a series of digital media files over the internet in a format accessible by a syndication application.

To communicate or transmit a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming, to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network.

A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

The act or process of broadcasting a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming.

(loosely) An individual episode of such a programme.

A signal, message, or audio or video program that is broadcast over a communication network

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

The act of scattering seed.

(intransitive) To deliver a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

Communicated or transmitted by means of broadcasting, as over a communications network

Of or relating to the broadcasting of audio or video content over communication networks, as in television or radio.

Widely known.

Scattered over a wide area.

In a scattered manner.

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.

Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.

Widely in all directions; abroad.

By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.

A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.

The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

(transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.

(transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.

(intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.

To sow seeds over a wide area.

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

An act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; - usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.

Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); - opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.

To transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.

To disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.

To spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.

Message that is transmitted by radio or television

A radio or television show;

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;

Sow over a wide area, especially by hand;

Cause to become widely known;