![]() “When that sounds normal to you, increase the speed,” advises Malaga. Collins, the super user who devotes half the day to podcasts, listens on multiple devices, including his Xbox via Spotify.įor those who want to accelerate their listening, start slow and increase the speed in 10 percent or 25 percent increments. ![]() Apple and Android watches’ sensible controls can conveniently start and stop podcasts from your wrist, set the speed, and activate other features, notes Cridland. “It knows where you’ve gone up to and what you’ve listened to” as you move between devices, Cridland says. While he uses the Castro app to create a listening queue, Cridland prefers Pocket Casts for syncing shows among multiple devices, such as his desktop, car, phone, and smart speakers. James Cridland, editor of the Podnews daily newsletter, advocates using tools to increase listening time. “I can allow it to act like radio stations used to act,” she says. Zomorodi uses NPR One to discover what her colleagues are working on and to uncover random episodes. She favors Overcast for creating lists and Apple Podcasts for searching. “I’m so anal about how I do it,” she says. Zomorodi uses six podcast apps to stay organized for her 15 to 20 hours of listening per week. “They step back and think about those periods in the day that they actually have time to listen but may not have thought about it before,” says Pearson, who now listens during lunch-something he couldn’t do pre-Covid when he was often eating out for business. The shift in length allows users to listen during shorter activities that previously had been podcast-free. Most podcasts were 45 minutes or longer until two or three years ago when the industry started to trend toward podcasts of five to 15 minutes that can fill otherwise open pockets of time, says Will Pearson, chief operating officer of iHeartPodcast Network, which has 470 active shows including Stuff You Should Know. Driving, exercising, and cleaning are popular activities during podcasts, but heavy users incorporate episodes in many other ways: Walking the dog. ![]()
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