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What is a Podcast? A podcast is like a magazine subscription. It’s a way of subscribing to a source of audio content that you like, making sure that you get new episodes whenever they become available. In your case, that’s sermons. Lots of people think that just having audio files on their website means that they have a podcast. They don’t. Having audio content is an indispensable part of having a podcast, but it’s not the same. For example, if you upload your church’s sermons to your website that’s great, but it’s not a podcast. If your church members like downloading the sermons, they will have to come back each week, or every couple days, to check if there is a new message available. If there is, they need to download it manually each time. If you had a podcast, you would still upload your sermons to your website, but your website users could now ‘subscribe’ to your podcast. This means that a program on their computer (often a free media player like Apple’s iTunes) would be ‘hooked up’ to your website, and would automatically check for new episodes every day (or more or less often, depending on the user’s preferences) and when a new sermon is available, automatically download it. Having a podcast makes it much, much easier for people to download your church’s sermons. If they are using iTunes and have an iPod or iPhone (as untold billions now do) then your churches sermons will be automatically downloaded and moved to the iPod whenever it is synced with the computer. The end result is more people downloading and benefiting from your church’s sermons. |
