Podcasting as an opportunity to recover and renew the audio feature genre in Spanish: A case study of Cuonda and Podium Podcast

Abstract

Starting from the analysis of the programmes and the production strategies of two of the biggest podcast platforms in Spanish (Cuonda and Podium Podcast), this research explores in depth how the rise of this format for distributing audio content is playing a key role in recovering and renewing the audio feature genre. This type of content, in disuse in speech-based radio broadcasting in recent decades, has ended up being strategic for new platforms, as it combines investigative journalism with aesthetic and narrative resources usually associated with radio drama, such as seriality, recreations and the design of sound atmospheres.