Audio formats, and especially podcasts, have opened up new communicative and creative possibilities. It is an ecosystem in constant evolution and turmoil, which has a wide impact on all audiences, but especially on millennials through a new way of telling stories, whether real or fictional.

The rise is global, but it cannot be understood without its relationship with some contemporary information and communication trends: the emergence of the voice as a tool for contactless technologies, the rise of platforms, the commitment of the media to multimedia and transmedia formats, or the flourishing of digital narratives that are shaping a new cultural canon.

The new era of the podcast brings together research and new proposals for audio and new sound formats that are playing a relevant role in areas such as communication, journalism, audiovisual production, education, etc.

It also offers a comprehensive overview of the origins of podcasting, its present and the keys to understanding and taking advantage of the trends in this growing industry, what we can expect from it and how it will shape up in the coming years according to international experts and researchers from Prosodia, the 1st International Congress of audio in Spanish.