Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Contemporary (2000–) ·2002
Webisode
web episode
- Meaning
- A short episodic video released directly to the internet.
- Source words
- web + episode
- Coined by
- unknown
- Year
- 2002
Background
US television trade press usage, initially for online-only spin-offs of TV shows. The form is now standard; YouTube and Netflix have made the web-vs-TV distinction the word encodes obsolete.
Contemporary (2000–)
Faster coinage, faster canonisation. Brexit and podcast both reached the OED within a decade of first use — historically rapid. Social media has made visibility, not invention, the rate-limiting step.
Two words, one coinage.
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