vodcast
English
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
English vodcast
From VoD (“video on demand”) + -cast or a blend of video + podcast.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]vodcast (third-person singular simple present vodcasts, present participle vodcasting, simple past and past participle vodcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) vodcasted)
- To deliver video on demand via a podcast.
Noun
[edit]vodcast (plural vodcasts)
- A podcast consisting of video recordings, instead of solely audio.
- 2006 July 27, Mark Sweney, “BBC to launch news 'vodcasts'”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 April 2025:
- The BBC is to launch its first "vodcasts"—the video version of podcasts—with a weekly roundup from shows including the Ten O'Clock News, Newsnight and Question Time. […] A third vodcast, called STORYFix, takes a tongue-in-cheek, high-speed look at the last week's news on the BBC.
- 2019 November 12, Marianne Garvey, “Selena Gomez says she was attacked for gaining weight during her battle with lupus”, in CNN[2], archived from the original on 20 March 2023:
- After the singer was diagnosed with lupus, she tells the vodcast “Giving Back Generation” that she discovered the disease has a direct impact on her weight, which made her struggle privately.
- 2022 November 20, Faith Karimi, “Tosca Musk, Elon’s sister, has a business venture of her own – and it’s all about romance and female sexuality”, in CNN[3], archived from the original on 30 November 2022:
- Musk produced romance films for the Lifetime and Hallmark channels and in 2005 launched a comic web series, Tiki Bar TV, which was hailed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as ahead of its time in the emerging field of vodcasts – or video podcasting.
- 2025 May 23, Fiona Sturges, “Your favourite podcast is now a video – but are vodcasts the future, or just ‘crap telly’?”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 August 2025:
- Reflecting this trend, the British Podcast awards has this year added a new visual innovation award for “outstanding visual podcasting”. All of which means, like it or not, visualised podcasts—or vodcasts, as some are calling them—are happening.
Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)meh₂-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-
- English terms suffixed with -cast
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂en-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *de
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *déh₁
- English blends
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations