vodcast

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/ˈvɒdkæst//ˈvɒdkɑːst/

verb

To deliver video on demand via a podcast.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

verbvodcast (third-person singular simple present vodcasts, present participle vodcasting, simple past and past participle vodcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) vodcasted)

present singular third person vodcasts · participle present vodcasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes vodcasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes vodcasted

  1. To deliver video on demand via a podcast.

    Synonyms: vidcast, videocast

nounvodcast (plural vodcasts)

plural vodcasts

  1. A podcast consisting of video recordings, instead of solely audio.

    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.

    2019 November 12, Marianne Garvey, “Selena Gomez says she was attacked for gaining weight during her battle with lupus”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023
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    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.

    2006 July 27, Mark Sweney, “BBC to launch news 'vodcasts'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2025

    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.

    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, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2022

    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.

    2025 May 23, Fiona Sturges, “Your favourite podcast is now a video – but are vodcasts the future, or just ‘crap telly’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025

    Synonyms: vidcast, videocast

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo deliver video on demand via a podcast.

nounA podcast consisting of video recordings, instead of solely audio.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*widéh₁yeti
  3. Proto-Italic*widēō
  4. Latinvideō
  5. Englishaudioinflu.
  6. Englishvideo
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
  8. Proto-Germanic*an
  9. Proto-West Germanic*ana
  10. Old Englishon
  11. Middle Englishon
  12. Englishon
  13. Proto-Indo-European*de
  14. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  15. Proto-Italic*dē
  16. Latindē
  17. Latindē-
  18. Proto-Indo-European*(s)meh₂-
  19. Proto-Italic*manus
  20. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁t
  22. Proto-Italic*manuðō
  23. Latinmandō
  24. Latindemandāre
  25. Old Frenchdemander
  26. Middle Englishdemaunden
  27. Englishdemand
  28. EnglishVoD
  29. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-der.?
  30. Proto-Germanic*braidaz
  31. Proto-West Germanic*braid
  32. Old Englishbrād
  33. Middle Englishbrod
  34. Englishbroad
  35. Proto-Germanic*kas-
  36. Proto-Germanic*kastōną
  37. Old Norsekasta
  38. Middle Englishcasten
  39. Englishcast
  40. Englishbroadcast
  41. Englishvodcast

From VoD (“video on demand”) + -cast or a blend of video + podcast.

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APA

vodcast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vodcast

MLA

“vodcast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vodcast. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vodcast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vodcast.

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