Audio formats and especially the podcast have opened up new communicative and creative possibilities. It is a boiling and constantly evolving ecosystem, which has a wide impact on all audiences, but especially on millennials through a new way of telling stories, real or fictional.   The rise is global, but it cannot be understood without its relationship with some contemporary informative and communicative trends: the irruption of voice as a tool of contactless technologies, the rise of platforms, the media's commitment to multimedia and transmedia formats, or the flourishing of digital narratives that are shaping a new cultural canon. The new era of podcasting brings together research and new audio proposals and new sound formats that are playing a relevant role in areas such as communication, journalism, audiovisual production, education, etc. In addition, it offers a complete vision of the origin of podcasting, its present and the keys to understand and take advantage of the trends of this growing industry, what we can expect from it and how it is shaping up in the coming years according to international experts and researchers of Prosodia, the International Congress of audio in Spanish.