In a perfect illustration of the tendency of technologies to speed up as they catch on, 80 million NPR and public radio station podcasts were downloaded in the first year and a half that NPR introduced podcasts to its listeners, back in August of 2005. Ten years later, it takes one month to reach 76 million podcast downloads, and that just for NPR-produced or distributed shows.
There are some fun factoids from the story NPR tells from its decade of podcasting, including one about a meeting Bryan Moffett, now general manager of National Public Media, then an analyst who had worked on the podcast launch, had with an Apple competitor in the podcast distribution space.
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