

It has now been downloaded or streamed more than 68 million times and has sparked what has been called “ the great podcast renaissance. The most listened-to podcast in history, Serial became the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads or streams on iTunes. Just as Truman Capote did with his true-crime thriller, In Cold Blood, the listener (then the reader) was in the thick of things, experiencing the crime and surmising how it had happened. Duolingo's English Spanish podcast had over 13 million downloads Duolingoīut it was with Serial that the podcast landscape really changed the format had everyone revisiting a 1999 murder case where a high school student, Hae Min Lee was found dead and her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, who was charged with the murder had always protested his innocence.
