Mur Lafferty assumed both producer and hosting roles at Escape Pod with Episode 241.

Near the end of 2013, the company announced that due to a combination of increased listener demand and a decline in contributions, they were three months from insolvency.

[7] As of January 2016, Escape Artists added a fourth podcast, as Cast of Wonders joined the company.

On rare occasions, other types of content have been made available on Escape Pod, such as metacasts (episodes discussing the achievements and future plans of the show itself), the year's Hugo Award nominees, an interview, book and movie reviews, PDFs for Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty and Infected by Scott Sigler, and a special issue for flash fiction less than 1500 words.

In 2008, Escape Pod refocused its attention back to its science fiction roots, leaving horror, fantasy, and young adult stories to the sister podcasts.

Stories are read by people associated with Escape Pod as well as voice actors and members of the podcasting community.

[22] Escape Pod is distributed under the Creative Commons attribution non-commercial no-derivatives 3.0 license.

Any of the show's episodes may be downloaded individually from Escape Pod's website or received via a podcatcher.

Escape Pod contracts with the authors for non-exclusive audio rights, paying semi-professional rates.

[23] Escape Pod sold five collections of their podcasts at PodDisc, a CD fulfillment site that closed in 2016.