The intimacy of earplugs. Image: mattlowenmusic.com
From the foul-mouthed chew-the-fat comedy of award-winning podcast WTF with Marc Maron to a really serious conversation with a good book in World Book Club, podcasts cater to all tastes and are fast becoming the weekly habit of millions globally.
According to RawVoice, which tracks over 20,000 shows, the number of unique monthly podcast listeners has tripled to 75 million in the past five years, and last year iTunes eclipsed one billion subscribers.
