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• In the latest episode of The Feed, Libsyn report which mobile apps downloaded podcasts from them in October. Apple Podcasts is the highest, at 58%. Of note: only around 40% of Libsyn shows are published on Spotify (so the app will be under-represented in these figures). Libsyn won't publish any numbers next month, because of work they're doing on Spotify passthrough.
  • Pocket Casts was 1.14% in August 2019. The app went free in mid September. It now accounts for 1.3% of all podcast downloads. In December 2018, it accounted for 1.4%. The move to free does not seem to have paid-off: yet.
  • Google Podcasts has more than doubled in the past year, up from 0.91% last December. (Google Play Music Podcasts, an unconnected and competing Google-branded podcast player, is still confusingly available).
• Is the Apple Podcasts app coming to Windows? Apple has been advertising for a "Senior Software Engineer - Windows Media Apps": "The Media Apps team is looking for a creative Senior Software Engineer to work on the next generation of media apps for Windows."
• A staffer at The Late Show with Steven Colbert, Aaron Nemo, has made a weird and slightly dark The Daily Remix. Stay for the end.

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• Triton Digital has integrated Voxnest into their Podcast Metrics platform. The tool allows podcast advertising buyers to have an independent view of download data, designed to improve the trustworthiness of analytics. Both Podcast Metrics and Voxnest are IAB Certified.
• Locked On Podcast Network has concluded its first $750,000 funding round. The company claims it's the #1 producer of daily, local sports podcasts, and produces over 140 unique sports podcasts across 60 US and Canadian markets.
• Podcasting needs a new standard, says Ollie Judge: a reverse feed for the user. "If listeners could maintain their own database generated by their favourite app it would extend the potential of each show they listen to."
  • Along the same lines, What's New In Publishing also highlight why it's so hard to scale paid podcast subscriptions. (Our Editor has a solution for that).
• A Motley Fool writer has realised that Netflix is making podcasts now. Had he been reading Podnews, he'd have seen reporting of Netflix-made podcasts on Nov 18, Nov 1, Jul 5, Feb 13, Oct 29 2018, Apr 25 2018, and Dec 27 2017...
• How I make... The Freenoter details the microphones and tools that Tom and Tamsen Webster use to make their new podcast.
• How I make... Podnews is the same thing, but for this newsletter and our podcast.

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• Lifehacker posts how to make your podcasts sound like NPR. It's all about the audio quality (and nothing to do with strange intonation or out-of-the-blue blasts of jazz).
• Evo Terra says you need just three links on your website to promote your podcast.

• Spreaker Prime: Junkfood Cinema is a shame-free celebration of cult cinema hosted by critic Brian Salisbury and Marvel Studios screenwriter C. Robert Cargill. They’re using Spreaker Prime to make hosting and advertising easier.
• Let us make you an offer you can't refuse: the secrets of a real-life Mafia hitman, The Enforcer follows gangster Anthony Salvatore Luciano Raimondi, who served as a top enforcer to the Colombo family for more than three decades. (Podular / Carpe VM / 360 DMG / Acast)

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• CBC/Radio-Canada and Acast have announced a podcasting sales partnership, allowing Acast to sell advertising and sponsorship to clients outside of Canada. Acast are already helping monetise other public service broadcasters, including the BBC and Radio New Zealand.
• The subject of Serial season 1, Adnan Syed's case will not be heard by the US Supreme Court after an appeal was denied. No reason has been given.
• "Advances in technology since podcasting adopted the RSS 2.0 open standard could strengthen bonds between producers and their audiences. Or, driven by commercial pressures, these technologies might be used to bring surveillance, intrusive ad tech, and monopoly to one of the last redoubts of the open Web." PRX has announced a one-day symposium, Emerging Threats to an Open Ecosystem, to be held in February in New York NY, USA.

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• RADIO·COM has announced it is to add live and on-demand content from Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country.
• The Video Show, an event in Washington DC, USA, has a full podcasting track on December 5. Speakers include Eric Nuzum and Melissa Monte. You can currently get in for the whole day for $49, including an exhibition hall with 80 exhibitors.
• Australia's Audiocraft has a nice new website. They run a podcast agency and annual festival.
• The IAB Australia is wanting (Australian) media agencies, creative agencies and marketers to fill in a survey about your experience with audio advertising, including podcasts.
• Radionomy, a free online radio streaming provider, is to close on 1 January 2020, shuttering over 8,000 online radio stations. Radionomy was attractive since it paid music licensing fees via Belgian music collection agency SABAM. The company have offered a free year's Shoutcast for Business service to those affected, but added "Shoutcast does not manage broadcasting rights. It will, therefore, be up to the producer to go to the various licensing agencies in his country to pay the fees directly." The company closed their US streams in May. The parent company owns TargetSpot, and promised to bring WinAmp back this year.
  • RadioKing, a competing streaming company in France, is offering 50% off their similar streaming service if you use the code BYEBYERADIONOMY
• Why don't many podcast apps display episode images? One tells us they're not used very much anyway, but "once upon a time we displayed episode images throughout the app and emails but found that the consistency of the show image really helps people identify the show. Also, it means we can avoid writing out the name of the show, which saves valuable space in the app."
• An event: the Africa Podfest "Unconference on Podcasting 2" in Nairobi, Kenya, will be held on December 10. It's free, and part of the lead-up to Africa Podfest next March.
• Clarification: plays from Spotify are counted in all Libsyn accounts: they are broken out per destination for accounts paying $20/month or over ("advanced statistics"). Destination data, and IAB v2 certified figures, are not available for those with basic statistics. We meant to say that yesterday but didn't make that very clear.

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• LinkedIn - where all the worst people on the internet live, or an opportunity for podcasters? Sarah Mikutel interviews Josh Steimle, creator of 60 days to LinkedIn Mastery, about how podcasters can use LinkedIn to connect to and grow our podcast audience.
• Laurel Staples shares three mistakes she made when starting her first podcast. Spending too much on podcast equipment? Check...

• Spreaker Prime: True Crimecast is a true crime podcast that adds a unique perspective to the genre. Each episode takes on a different case where the hosts try to get to the truth by sharing interesting details and theories. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• The Weird Tales Radio Show supported Podnews for the last twelve months. Lawyer turned award-winning writer and sometime werewolf-hunter Charles Christian has a weekly feast of folklore, magick and scary tales. We're grateful to them for their support! (Omny Studio)
• Good Kids: How Not To Raise An A**hole is a new podcast from Lemonada. "This isn’t just another parenting podcast. It’s a quasi-manual for how to raise better humans," they say: and good enough for Facebook to censor ads for, which probably means it's excellent. It's just 15 minutes long: seven episodes are now available, and expect more every week. (Lemonada / UTA / WestwoodOne / Megaphone)

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• Magellan report that DraftKings, a US gambling company, is now in the country's top 15 podcast advertisers list. The top is Geico, an insurance broker; Spotify is at #9.
• Libsyn's changes to become a "Spotify passthrough" destination - so Spotify appears in their standard stats - has had the effect of instructing Spotify to download every single episode all over again, the company says, causing a spike in download numbers. "Don't panic!", they add. Spotify stats are available for users paying $20 or more per month.
  • The company has also announced a new independent director: Brian Kibby, CEO of N2Ventures and Senior Partner of N2Growth, an executive search firm that works with private equity companies and venture capital firms. He's over here on Twitter.
• AccuRadio, a humanly-programmed online music service, has released data which they claim demonstrates that human curation is better than algorithms.

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• In France, media research company Médiamétrie will start measuring podcasts on January 1. Like radio measurement in some countries, the company will use a small electronic gadget known as a "portable people meter"; podcasts will need to be watermarked with an audio code; and panelists will need to plug both their headphones and their phone into the meter for it to register. (That won't work with Bluetooth). The company admits it has yet to approach independent podcast producers, preferring to talk to its current clients in radio and television. It has also worked on its own download guidelines to rival the American IAB's.
• Jake Brennan ("Disgraceland") and Brady Sadler have launched Double Elvis Productions, with four music-focused podcasts for iHeartMedia. The company has Podfund as an investor. The first podcast will be Dear Young Rocker, a podcast which will start with some remastered episodes from her initial podcast, and a further ten new episodes from the story.
• Podblade has launched a $20 podcast editing package: "a low-cost editing solution that allows podcasters of all sizes to outsource their post-production without spending an arm and a leg". The flat $20 fee per episode also includes social media content, said Apple Crider, a co-founder of the company.
• Sonos has spent $37.5m buying a voice assistant: a French company called "Snips" which claims to perform more tasks on the device rather than use cloud computing. One of the co-founders of Snips, Rand Hindi, is leaving the company as part of the deal, which is reported as being a low valuation.
• Too busy to listen to podcasts? easypodcasts offers short clipped "takeaways" of them, complete with a transcription.
  • Opinion: It's generally expected by publishers that a podcast app won't edit the audio (or make other "derivative works"). This is the second such app covered by Podnews this month that does so. "Copyright infringement" seems a big phrase to use in this case; but I'm not entirely comfortable with other people cutting my podcast up. Some publishers want a little more control.
• Presumably in a bid to increase page impressions from furious podcasters, The Spectator's Matt Labash has posted The Pod Delusion, highlighting why he "hates all podcasts".
• Podcasting websites are getting excited that Emily Ochsenschlager, former director of podcasts at National Geographic, has apparently joined Apple Podcasts. "What if Apple produced their own podcasts?" they ask. But in March, our Editor wondered how Apple could revitalise Apple Podcasts - not by just producing exclusive content; but by selling it instead. Is this the master plan?

• If you do an interview podcast, just two words can make your small talk - and your interview - more interesting. Guy Raz and Tim Ferris use them all the time. If you're curious, they're over here.
• 500,000 Downloads In One Year and 1,200 Reviews Later: What I Did (or Think I Did) to Continue to Grow as a Podcaster is a set of ideas from Steve Sarumi, from the Super Effective Pokemon Podcast.

• Spreaker Prime: Latter-Day Lesbian is hosted by Mary and Shelly (the latter) who share their raw, honest and funny life experiences. Shelly is a divorced mother of seven dealing with leaving the Mormon church and learning about her sexuality for the first time. They’re using Spreaker Prime to host for free and make more money.
• Gee thanks, just bought it focuses on the stuff you want to buy next. "All the life-changing under-the-radar products you didn’t think you needed — like hand warmers that double as phone chargers, foot hammocks, and full-face ice masks". We miss Sky Mall magazine. (Forever35/Caroline Moss/Acast)

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• Exclusive: US podcasts rule the world, according to new subscription data from Pocket Casts. The data shows the podcasts subscribed to most by Pocket Casts listeners in 2019: Podnews requested data for the UK and Australia. Pocket Casts is now free on Android and iOS.
  • In the UK, British podcasts account for 38% of the most-subscribed shows in the country, with the BBC responsible for half of them - 19% of the full list. The UK scored highest for news and comedy podcasts, which account for a third of all subscriptions; Brits don't listen to true crime, though, with half as many subscriptions as the worldwide figures.
  • In Australia, Aussie podcasts account for just 21% of the most-subscribed, with the ABC responsible for 12%. Australians listen to significantly less comedy, it seems.
  • Worldwide, North American podcasts account for 91% of all top subscribed podcasts: the other 9% from the UK.
• The above data is from the Pocket Casts app - but is it representative of all podcast users? In the US, The Podcast Consumer Tracker from Edison Research, released yesterday, highlights differences between users of iPhone vs Android, and different apps, too. Tom Webster told Podnews:

  There are not only differences between Apple Podcast-primary users and Android-primary users, there are also differences between those and Spotify listeners. And these differences are, frankly, wonderful. You can eyeball the Apple charts and get a sense of the types of content that do well with their users—iPhone users and public media fans are a Venn diagram with a great deal of overlap, for instance. But when you look at Android users you see some real differences in political bent, for instance—you see conservative shows like Ben Shapiro do a lot better than the Apple charts might suggest. And with Spotify, one of the biggest differences there is youth (Spotify-dominant podcast listeners are younger than the average) and more of a predilection to short, daily news shows than the average listener. All of this rolled together gives us a very robust and variegated picture of a diverse and thriving audience.

• Spotify's new Your Daily Podcasts feature appears to give us some understanding of the total amount of new people using it: at the time of writing, it's showing 85,036 followers, a figure that appears to be rapidly increasing. Most people would never hit 'follow', but it's a useful guide to its growth. (h/t Mark Moriarty) We can also reveal that if you go to sleep listening to "Your Daily Podcasts", it'll still be playing when you wake up. Yawn.

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• A Dutch true-crime podcast may be the latest to potentially solve a crime - in this case, possibly identifying a victim of one.
• Luminary Podcasts is promoting a low-price subscription offer: currently, 50% for your first year in the US and Australia and slightly higher savings for Canada and the UK.
• Bello Collective co-founder Dana Gerber-Margie is stepping down as co-editor.
• Esquire have written a long piece about the history of the podcast.
• Correction: as far as we can tell, the incorrect information about host images in Apple Podcasts's email last week was, itself, incorrect information from an Apple Podcasts support team member. We've reverted the amendment to our copy of the email.
  • As an aside: while Apple welcomes episode images in your RSS, it seems that the only place they actually display is in a search: and not when playing them back or viewing them elsewhere. Bug?

• Here are 10 Things New Podcasters Can Do to Boost Downloads from Tae Haahr, including the simple "tell everyone you know"
• If you want engagement from your podcast listeners, use your show notes, says Evo Terra - "the “show notes” that appear in the podcast app on the device that your listener is using to listen to your episode."

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• Family Ghosts isn't another spooky paranormal podcast - instead, it's about those stories and rumors that follow families around, sometimes for generations. It returns on December 3rd, and the first three episodes focus on the descendants of the last known slave ship to arrive on US shores. (WALT FM / Spoke Media / Megaphone)

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• Acast has launched its own podcast host, called Acast Open. The service offers three tiers, one of which is free; and adds automated episode transcription and an audiogram tool. If you're on Acast Open and you become large enough, you may be invited to be monetized by the company, too. The product replaces Pippa, which they purchased earlier in the year.
  • Pricing shows that the 'Starter' pack is free, including analytics, a podcast website and embeddable player. You can host multiple shows with it; you'll be given a 301 Redirect if you want to leave; and you are allowed to sell adverts in your podcast.
  • We've reviewed the terms - the only unusual term is §7.1: you can't have ads on your podcast that promote a competitor of Acast. We've updated our unusual clauses page with this, though it seems fair enough.
• The Joe Rogan Experience is the most popular podcast in the US, according to the first data from Edison Research's Podcast Consumer Tracker. The report also says that 54% of podcast listeners listen to independent podcasts every week.
• Google has announced an alternative for the daily news briefing service on Google Assistant ("Hey, Google, Play Me The News") - "Your News Update" offers a personalised mix of individual stories from publishers instead. It has initially launched in the US. This is bad news for some podcasters, who have got significant traffic from the older News Briefings service.
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• The Last Podcast On The Left is going to become a Spotify exclusive. It had previously signed with Rooster Teeth. Spotify has also announced a slate of new podcasts.
  • The Hollywood Reporter carries a long interview with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff.
• The Podcast Number is a new service for hand curated podcast recommendations delivered weekly via SMS. You can text 347 815-9536 to get started (so we guess it's for US/Canada only).
• Registration prices for Podcast Movement 2020 and Podcast Movement Evolutions both go up on Cyber Monday. You probably want to book now.
• Podcast host Whooshkaa is to work with Astro Radio, Malaysia's radio network, to enable on-demand audio across four different languages and 17.3m weekly listeners.
• Lasso Audio claims it is the first ever talent and management agency for podcasters, helping audio creators negotiate their contracts and expand their audiences and stories through other types of media.
• Bossjock Jr, a podcast and audio recording app for iPhone and iPad, has added software gain control for compatibility with more USB microphones.
• Event: Audible Live: The Sun King in London, Wed November 27, is a panel event with David Dimbleby and journalists about Rupert Murdoch, to accompany The Sun King podcast.

• Holidays are coming, holidays are coming... but should your podcast take a break over the holidays? Kate Young from Share Your Genius has some options to consider while you consider the turkey.
• Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is important for your podcast, too. Rachel Corbett writes a beginner's guide to podcast SEO to help more people find what you're working on.

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• Spreaker Prime: You've heard the stories about bloody murder and horrendous homicide, but what about the rest of the crimes committed on a daily basis? The podcast Mugshot brings you stories about the crimes you didn't know you needed to hear... Robbery, fraud, arson, stalking, assault, and more. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• As part of the digital side of Book Week Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust has launched their Conversations podcast. Produced by BAFTA-nominated podcaster Ewan Spence, the short-run series brings together writers, poets, and storytellers to talk about home, readling, childhood, and language.
• The second official WWE podcast is coming on December 2nd. The New Day: Feel The Power is a weekly podcast from The New Day’s Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Big E. (WWE / Endeavor Audio / Megaphone)

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• The Los Angeles Times and Wondery have launched Detective Trapp, a new true-crime podcast following Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp, who unmasked a serial killer. Dirty John's Christopher Goffard, who wrote and hosted the series, says that the podcast is "a profile of a detective of high competence and uncommon dedication". (LA Times / Wondery / ART19)
• Libsyn has alerted its customers that Spotify will shortly be "passthrough" on their platform, allowing Spotify stats to be in the main Libsyn numbers. Libsyn have also released improvements to their show notes editor and file replacement tools.
• ClipGain·io is open for beta testers. The product is "one-click audio engineering", promising to take your audio and filter it, level it, and make it "sound better than Roman Mars in one click". There's a video explaining it.

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• The Castro podcast app now works with the Apple Watch.
• Spotify is investing in original podcasts for India.
• The host of Strong and Free, Christopher Balkaran, shares what he's learnt after podcasting for a year.
• Chartable has quietly added a new feature for users of their SmartLinks which help you monitor your podcast marketing: now, there's a way for you to automatically pull in the latest episode if you've just published it.
• Event: Radio TechCon, London, Mon November 25.
• Event: Queer Podcaster's Meetup, London, Tues November 26.

• Spreaker Prime: The Gratitude Podcast, hosted by Georgian Bentado, features successful people and shares their fascinating stories about how gratitude has helped them get to where they are now. Plus, you get a Daily Gratitude dose of advice to keep you feeling grateful in the ups and downs of life. He’s using Spreaker Prime to make hosting and advertising easier.
• Diana: Case Solved, a podcast looking into the death of Princess Diana, has "finally hunted down the driver" of the white Fiat Uno, and has demanded a new inquest. (Endeavor Audio / Broad + Water Studios / Megaphone)
• Culture First is a new podcast from Culture Amp, an employee engagement platform, on business culture and managing change. The monthly podcast will start by covering relationships at work, scaling culture, and activism in the workplace. (Culture Amp / ART19)
• The UK is having a General Election. LBC Election 2019 is a UK election podcast from LBC, planning to put politicians and their policies under the spotlight. It's a temporary rebrand of For The Many, one of the station's podcasts. (Global)
• Electioncast is the BBC's offering, oddly given the category of "government". Hosted by Adam Fleming, it's a temporary rebrand of the popular Brexitcast podcast. (BBC Radio)

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• Breaking: Spotify has (just) launched Your Daily Podcasts, an algorithmically-driven podcast discovery playlist that promises "an easy way to discover new shows while also keeping up with old favorites". If you’ve listened to at least four podcasts in the past 90 days, you’ll find the playlist in the “Your Top Podcasts” shelf on Home or in the “Made For You” hub on browse. It's available for free and premium users within the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
  • Of note: "If you’ve never listened to a story-driven sequential show we think you’d like, you’ll get the trailer or pilot episode first" - a reminder for all of us, therefore, to remember to record a trailer episode (and mark it as such in the RSS).
  • We got three episodes of podcasts we listen to: The RadioToday Programme, then Podnews, then The Missing Cryptoqueen, followed by a podcast from TED Talks Daily, a trailer for The Misfits Podcast, and a trailer for Australian True Crime. It seems effective, works well, and the recommendations were appropriate. Is podcast discovery fixed now?
• Breaking: Comedy podcast network Headgum has launched Gumball, a marketplace to allow brands to buy host-read advertisements directly from podcasters. Gumball has been in-use internally at Headgum for its own podcasts, and has been used by 300 brands for over 4,000 host-read ads.
• Podcast live events will bring in over $55m this year in the US, according to research from podcast membership company Glow.

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Premiere—Phish's Millennium Festival 20 Yrs Later — After Midnight tells the story of Big Cypress. Phish built a city for 80,000 fans in the Everglades, and played a 7-hour set, ending during sunrise on 1/1/00. Limited series features band, crew & fans.

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• Podcast host Blubrry have announced a new post-production service, including dedicated professional support.
• The BBC is to make a BBC Sounds app available on connected televisions in January 2020, enabling listeners to hear podcasts and catch-up radio on their television sets.
• October's Australian Podcast Ranker has been published, with Crocmedia's AFL Trade Radio at #1. The ranker is opt-in, and does not include the ABC or Mamamia, two large Australian podcasting companies.
• Yesterday, we quoted Libsyn's Rob Walch about what happens if you mark your podcast as explicit: that you're removed from Apple Podcasts in many countries. Jack Rhysider, who hosts an occasionally potty-mouthed podcast Darknet Diaries, says things have changed somewhat, and that "it's hardly a hurdle now".
• Australian podcast publisher Mamamia has won a prestigious award - winning Best Use Of Podcast at the international Native Advertising Awards 2019 in Berlin. The podcast, The Split, was produced with Westpac, an Australian bank. From the press release, one data point: monthly listens to Mamamia's network are currently around three million.
• Podcast host Omny Studio have added two new end-points for podcasters using their platform: to Deezer and to RADIO·COM. (Our podcast directory page has the details of how to submit to these and others).

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Thanks to their support, we were able to spend a little time on something new. Spotify's personalised feed looked interesting, so we coded a switcher tool today, as a bit of a test. It helps you check whether the podcasts you listen-to on your current podcast app are also on Spotify (or, you know, many others). It's likely to break with your own OPML files, but give it a go (and tell us if it breaks!)

• Spreaker Prime: Morbidology is a weekly true crime podcast that takes an in-depth look at some of the world's most heinous murders using investigative research and primary audio – including 911 calls, interviews and trial testimony – to share each true story. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• Sake On Air is celebrating its first year's anniversary. It's the world's first sake and sochu dedicated podcast. They're hosting their first-ever live audience Q&A in Tokyo. Mmm, umami taste. (Blubrry)

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• The Royal Family are in the news again - but Netflix's latest move into podcasting comes with The Crown, launched today to accompany season 3 of the show. Presented by Edith Bowman, the twice-weekly podcast delves deeper into the stories, with insights from those involved with the show. Earlier this month, the streaming giant launched a podcast accompaniment to Daybreak. (Netflix / Somethin'Else / Simplecast)
• There were over 11,100,000 new podcast episodes in 2018. Listen Notes have developed a new "stats" page, looking into their database of podcasts (which appears to include all in Apple Podcasts). 21% of podcasts are hosted at Anchor, and a further 11% at Soundcloud, the results show. (Some great data for any pitching documents!)
• What's up with European podcasting? Mateusz Sójka looks at data and trends for many countries in Europe. A useful look into each country's adoption of podcasting.

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• "There are so many trash podcasts, and so many people who need to sleep; why not bring them together?" Science supports your habit of falling asleep to stupid podcasts says Vice.
• Podtrac have released their top 20 US podcasts ranker. The Daily is still #1; NPR have eight shows in the top 20. The ranker is opt-in and not complete.
• Richard Davies reckons there are five beautiful things about podcasting, including: "Unlike broadcasting, everyone starts at the beginning of a podcast episode."
• Writing in a Facebook group, Libsyn's Rob Walch reminds us what happens when you mark an episode as explicit:

  "If you have one single episode (out of the 301 max episodes Apple will index) flagged as explicit - your show is explicit and no longer will be in the Indian Apple store or about 18 other countries that combined represent more than 20% of the world's population. If you have one episode where you were going to mark it explicit - it is better to see if you can edit the episode such that it is not explicit."

• Spreaker Prime: The Yaron Brook Show is hosted by Yaron Brook, renowned best-selling author and world class speaker, who discusses news, culture and politics from the principled perspective of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. He’s using Spreaker Prime to host for free and make more money.
• The Axe & Crown is back for a second season from Eli McIlveen and Sean Howard. This season of The Axe & Crown sees the cast, especially Stan and Betula, embarking on new ventures, some legal, some not. (Fable and Folly Productions / Libsyn)
• The Freenoter, with Tom Webster (you may know him as that great speaker from Edison Research) and Tamsen Webster (you might know her as a speaker trainer and "idea whisperer"), covers all the angles of how to build a profit from speaking for free. (Omny Studio)

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• Exclusive: With 18 nominations for iHeart-owned shows, how exactly did the nominees for the iHeart Podcast Awards get chosen? Yesterday, an iHeart executive said it was up to the panel of companies who judged the awards. Today, one person on that panel can reveal that this is not true.
• Apple's email to all podcasters yesterday contained a set of specifications for host and guest images... which were wrong. We've amended the corrected specifications: they want square, 2400px images, not what they originally asked for.
• Libsyn's revenue continues to increase, according to its Q3 2019 report. For its podcasting business, Libsyn earnt US $10.5m in revenue in the first nine months of 2019: up 14% from $9.2m in the same period last year. Libsyn has 67,000 podcasts on its platform, and also owns an internet hosting company, Pair.

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Premiere—Phish's Millennium Festival 20 Yrs Later — After Midnight tells the story of Big Cypress. Phish built a city for 80,000 fans in the Everglades, and played a 7-hour set, ending during sunrise on 1/1/00. Limited series features band, crew & fans.

• How is Spotify using podcasting? An interesting example is Harmonize, a branded music podcast "from P&G and Spotify", featuring conversations about conscious and unconscious racial bias. Using interviews with musicians, the podcast launched with a companion playlist on the Spotify platform.
• The Wall Street Journal covers the rise of programmatic advertising for podcasts, and the concerns it may erode the medium's intimacy.
• Slate is now making half of its overall revenue through podcasting.
• Which of these three pieces of artwork do you like? I've got $23 for a new microphone, what should I go for? How do I make this audio appear in both ears? If you'd like an online podcasting community without all this nonsense, Build A Better Podcast is a new initiative from Brandon Hull's HelloCast that might just be for you. You can apply to enter now.
• Data: Jeff Vidler from the Canadian Podcast Listener 2019 notes our coverage of Nielsen yesterday, that podcasting is not replacing radio. "This reinforces what we see in The Canadian Podcast Listener 2019 as well," he says. The survey has also published information about how people discover new podcasts - results pleasingly similar to the Australian data seen last month.
• Want to help long-form podcasts in Texas? The Drag Audio Production House at Moody College at UT is looking for your help to release a number of podcasts. UT has more than 30 legendary Pulitzer-Prize winners; they're raising money to help produce more great stories.
• Dan Misener from Pacific Content covers audio funnels - the reason why Charles Schwab has more than one podcast.
• Transcription service Rev, which recently lowered its payment to its contractors, is under fire after a point-by-point rebuttal of its "morally and ethically unacceptable" stance to pay.

• Wondering what hiding an Apple Podcast - through iTunes Connect - does to the iTunes API listing? We hid this one - ID 1176327926 - on Friday 15 Nov 05:16 +0000.
  • As of 05:34, the page returns a "Cannot Connect" error, a search does not return this podcast itself, but does return episodes of the podcast. Episodes are still visible at the time of writing, in the iOS desktop app, at 07:32. (We're searching for "James Cridland", and the podcast is "James Cridland - Radio Futurologist").
  • The iTunes API search result does not now return the podcast either, and nor does the API lookup - our podcast page correctly (phew!) returning a 404 error.

• Spreaker Prime: Dungeons & Randomness is a weekly Dungeons and Dragons podcast that highlights the moves from over 20 players (and 100 characters) who play in one world in where their actions impact one another and tell a giant, sprawling story. They’re using Spreaker Prime to increase exposure and maximize monetization.
• Ledlow & Parker is a new basketball podcast. Kristen Ledlow & Candace Parker will use their unique insight, knowledge & connections to go inside the latest league storylines. (Turner Sports / WarnerMedia Podcasts / knit)
• In the Adult Swim Podcast, new Rick and Morty feature episodes launched this week, including the artists, writers and directors behind Rick and Morty Season 4. They offer their unfiltered, inside perspectives of each new episode. (Adult Swim / WarnerMedia Podcasts / knit)
• More Rick and Morty - Ricksplained features special guests from the hit show to help overexplain the secret deeper meanings, whether or not those meanings are intentional. It's represented by PAR. (New Rockstars / Megaphone)
• A wild Pokémon podcast has appeared! EXP. Share features two friends who play every generation of Pokémon game, gym by gym. Future seasons will see the hosts take on every game in the Pokémon franchise (so we've possibly a while to wait until that vague disappointment of finding yet another Zubat). Episodes drop every Tuesday. (Anchor)
• What does it feel like to belong in two places, and nowhere at the same time? In My Arab Identity - بودكاست الهوية, hear from Arab-Australian migrants on how they’re dealing with the complexities of a mixed identity. - بودكاست "الهوية" يسلط الضوء على التحديات التي يواجها المهاجرون العرب وابناؤهم بسبب هويتهم المختلطة في أستراليا وكيف تغلبوا عليها. The podcast is in both English and Arabic, and an interesting listen. البودكاست باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية (SBS Arabic 24)
• PodSchool's back: short podcasts to help from Mamamia’s Head Of Podcasts, Rachel Corbett. This new season starts with the thorny subject of "how to record with multiple USB microphones". (Whooshkaa)
• Secret Leaders, featuring interviews with high-flying CEOs and forward-thinking founders, is back for a new season, starting with the British-born founder of Slack. (Simplecast)

Our email overfloweth with exciting new podcasts, and we can't always squeeze yours in. We're sorry about that.

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• Is podcasting replacing radio? New data from Nielsen suggests that it isn't: their medium and small market edition of their Audio Today Report has just been released. Included in the data: 90% of podcast listeners also use radio every week (that figure is also replicated in their national Audio Today 2019 report released earlier). These podcast listeners prefer news/talk radio, though, over the most popular format in medium and small markets: country music.
• Apple has written to all podcasters announcing a major change: you can now hide new shows until you're ready to launch them: so they won't be visible in search until you make them appear. They've also published their holiday submission schedule and some revised updates to those selected for host and guest images. If you didn't get it, we've reproduced the email for you.
• Spotify is now more popular than Apple Podcasts in Equatorial Guinea and in Sweden, say Voxnest. Sweden is a major achievement, partially because Spotify is based there, but also because podcast listening is particularly high in the country.

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• Modus Hub is a super-useful directory of resources for podcasters, created as a response to the International Podcast Association's findings earlier this year.
• You've only got three years to launch a podcast, says Molly Beck of podcast host Messy. Meanwhile, Malcolm Lemmons has stopped podcasting and reckons you shouldn't start because it's hard work.
• The Spark Christian Podcast Conference has published their conference schedule. The event is in Houston TX, USA, on February 21-22, and is organised by podcaster Misty Philipp: Christianity is one of the most popular podcast categories, but the least represented at mainstream conferences.
• Rudy Guiliani is still, apparently, considering a podcast.

• Spreaker Prime: True Crime Fan Club Podcast is a show for for the ultimate true crime enthusiast. The host peels back the curtain and gives you a glimpse into the life and crimes of some of the most evil minds of our time. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• Tumble, a science podcast for kids, has won a science journalism award. “The originality and creativity that went into these two pieces is remarkable,” said National Geographic editor Christine Dell’Amore, in the AAAS press release announcing the awards. “These podcasts taught kids a ton about science in a fun and engaging way.” (Tumble / Gen Z / PRX)
• The Latest is a new podcast from the New York Times, focusing on the current Impeachment. It is due to come out every evening. (NYT / ART19)
• This is who we are is a music podcast (and new album) from Sean Watkins. During each episode, Sean plays the studio track from his new album and follows it up with an intimate conversation with the artist who inspired the song. Guests include Jackson Browne, Inara George, Peter Asher, Kate Micucci and more. (Campfire Media / Anchor)
• Cross Country Coffee Roadshow is back for a new season: Linda and Dan McGarry are driving from San Diego to Seattle, one coffee-shop at a time: interviewing the owners, customers and baristas. Even though they're driving to the birthplace of Starbucks, they "stop at only the best independent coffee shops/roasters". (Blubrry)

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• The UK's first all-podcast radio station is to launch shortly. Podcast Radio will be available across London, and was announced this morning at RAIN Summit Europe. "We already have a wide variety of podcast partners to provide content and this will be growing over the next few months as we bring on some big names," says Gerry Edwards, Podcast Radio's CEO.
• Podcasts on Pandora are now available in their website and desktop app. Pandora now boasts "thousands of shows", using their Podcast Genome Project announced last year. You can listen to Podnews on Pandora if you're in the US; if not, here's what it looks like
• Data: 24% of audio listening is to the spoken word, not to music. NPR and Edison Research's Spoken Word Audio Report has been released - the survey reveals that spoken word consumption (which includes podcasting as well as speech radio) has increased considerably in the past five years.

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• Using a little music that you know you shouldn't? Pex, which automatically scans social media for unauthorised use of commercial music, is now automatically scanning podcasts for music. It can identify clips as short as half a second. (Here's our guide on how to use commercial music in your podcast).
• The nominees for the iHeartMedia Podcast Awards 2020 are out. "In addition, the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will present three Icon Awards to pay tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture."
• Magellan have published their first list of top podcast advertisers in the UK. The top three UK brands are Sky, BT and the UK government; the top three overall also include Norton 360 and SimpliSafe.
  • The top 15 podcast advertisers in the UK, downloaded via a UK IP address, includes two companies who do not operate in the UK and who cannot sell UK people anything: ButcherBox, a meat delivery service only available in mainland US, and RocketMortgage, a service that is similarly US-only. What a waste.
• BFM, Malysia's business radio station (and a podcast leader in the country) have signed with Triton Digital.
• Microsoft have launched a podcast. "The In Culture podcast brought to you by Microsoft is a platform for musicians, artists, fashion designers, gamers, and creators to tell their stories and how they have harnessed Microsoft's technology to make strides in their prospective artistic fields!" Interesting to note, no prominent "subscribe with Apple Podcasts" link on the podcast's homepage. (Simplecast)
• Zvook, an AI platform matching brands with podcasts based on content, has launched their early beta. With 500,000 podcasts in their database, they're now encouraging podcast hosts to claim their podcast, so that the company can reach out if they find a suitable brand match.
• The National Lampoon Radio Hour podcast has revealed its launch date: the comedy sketch show returns on December 19.
• iVoox has partnered with Comedy Central to offer a podcast version of its Spanish Comedy Channel content.
• It's nearly the season of predictions - but Podigee's Mati Sojka is early: writing five things that will change in podcasting over the next few years.

• Spreaker Prime: Reality TV RHAP-ups is a podcast from the RHAP Network of shows that covers everything from The Bachelor, Bachelorette, MTV Challenge, Big Brother and more reality TV that you love. They’re using Spreaker Prime to make hosting and advertising easier.
• Websleuths is the biggest true-crime forum for citizen sleuths, and owner Tricia Griffith has teamed up with Jessica Everleth, an Emmy-nominated executive producer, to produce a podcast series featuring breaking news, high profile and unsolved cases, crowd solving, and exclusive guests such as true crime authors, filmmakers, investigators, and other experts. (Anchor)
• Overshare is "like a private group chat, gone public." It promises no BS conversation about everything from sex and relationships to mental health. (Mamamia)
• Do you wanna build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman. Inside Frozen 2 has released a trailer for the upcoming podcast. New episodes will release every Wednesday, starting November 20th, concluding on Christmas Day. (Disney/ABC)

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• 63% of the world's smartphones run Android, say ScientiaMobile, however Apple iOS slightly gained over Android in the last quarter. At least 80% of Android users have the Google Podcasts player, if not app, preinstalled; Android users can also use Spotify, Pocket Casts or other apps, but not, of course, Apple Podcasts. (We've updated our Google Podcasts FAQ today).
• Forever Dog's comedy podcasts will be on Stitcher Premium first, the companies have announced. Shows will play first on the Stitcher Premium platform, released ad-free and in multi-episode sets: described as "binge-friendly".
• YouTube have released new terms of service, which allow the company to terminate your access if YouTube think you're "no longer commercially viable". The company says this is nothing to worry about. We've added them to our unusual terms of service section.

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• Descript has released a new update. It features "um-detection", and a way to remove all those "um"s and "er"s with a single click. It can also deal with audio levels, including setting a correct LUFS level. (We've more on LUFS here).
• The BBC and UK pay-TV operator Sky have agreed a new content and technology partnership. The press release notes "The broadcasters are also exploring a range of other partnership opportunities, including the availability of BBC Sounds on Sky and NOW TV platforms". NOW TV is a rebadged Roku device within the UK.
• Podcation 2, an audio fiction creation event, will take place in mid May in Salem MA. Last time, the event was responsible for the birth of Jupiter Saloon. The press release goes into more detail; applications are being accepted until November 22.
• Transcriptions come cheap - very cheap, according to this contributor, claiming that Rev·com has cut its base rate by a third to US $4.50 per hour, pre-tax. The US federal government has mandated a minimum wage of $7.25.
• Storyboard, an app for hosting private podcasts, has launched a new Enterprise plan including single sign-on capabilities.
• Entries for the Publisher Podcast Awards close on November 22. The event celebrates the best in podcasts from media and publishing organisations, and is open worldwide.

• Spreaker Prime: Sistah Speak: The Walking Dead is a podcast devoted to the AMC series, The Walking Dead. Sistah J, Sistah K, and guest hosts discuss the latest episodes, theories raised by fans of the show, and give personal opinions from a Sistah’s point of view. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Norway's VG newspaper have launched Hunting Warhead, a true-crime podcast following a chase of a darknet forum operator only known as Warhead. Hunting Warhead launches today. (CBC Radio)
• Crooked Media and Pineapple Street Studios are releasing a Pod Save America special series on the Iowa Caucuses. The series aims to help listeners understand why Iowa is the first state in the primary process, how the caucuses work, and what it takes to win. (Megaphone)
• Juntos We Shine's season one returned yesterday with more guest details: it's a collaboration between Univision and POPSUGAR, showcasing the stories of remarkable men and women who are committed to making a difference in their communities. (ART19)
• A new scripted podcast from Gimlet launches tomorrow. Motherhacker stars Carrie Coon (Emmy & TONY nominee, Fargo, The Leftovers) as a single mother struggling to support her children, and the sharp turn her life takes when she starts phishing over the phone for a shady identity theft ring in order to survive. (Gimlet)

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• Spreaker Prime generated over $1m of podcast ad revenue in its first three months, according to the company. More than $600,000 went directly to podcasters. Spreaker Prime launched on July 30, using Podnews sponsorship as part of its launch.
• A study of over 3,000 16-39 year-olds across eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region reveals that close to three-quarters of them listen to podcasts; 40% on a weekly basis. 36% preferred replayed radio shows featuring their favourite personalities, according to the data from Xtra Insights.
• Entercom CEO David Field gave the prices paid in cash for Cadence13 ($34m) and Pineapple Media ($14m) in an earnings call; that's below the reported prices at the time. The company, which owns RADIO·COM, has announced that it's to get onto Bixby voice assistants

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• iHeartMedia's digital revenue, including podcasting, rose by 33% in Q3 2019. Broadcast revenue shrunk by 0.6%; and overall income slid by an alarming 24.6% year-on-year.
• Triton Digital paid $8.5m for Omny Studio, it was revealed in owner Scripps's earnings call. Triton Digital revenue is down more than 10% but is refocusing on core businesses. Revenue at Stitcher is up by 41.4%, says the iHeart-owned InsideRadio.
• Is Spotify using WebSub? Our Editor dives into our podcast server logfiles to discover.
• Fireside, a podcast host, has a number of additional features including dashboard dark mode, shareable videos, automatic episode tweets, and player enhancements.
• Resonate Recordings has announced v2.0 of their podcasting product.
• Indianapolis Monthly writes a long-form article on Crime Junkie, which is not altogether positive.
• Prediction time - in 2020, UK podcasting will see more drama and sitcoms, says Katherine Kerr. Meanwhile, the Irish Times looks at how Irish podcasting hit the mainstream.
• American Public Media are to cut twelve positions in a reorganization. Irish broadcaster RTÉ is closing a number of digital radio stations, shuttering their DAB broadcasts entirely, making 200 people redundant and cutting pay for others. In Australia, the ABC will no longer produce Olympics radio coverage in a cost-cutting move.

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• Spreaker Prime: TheThinkingAtheist, hosted by Seth Andrews, is a polished and relaxed show where the host discusses – rage-free – challenges about the religious beliefs that defined his youth. He's using Spreaker Prime to increase exposure and maximize monetization.
• The Chad Whittle Podcast speaks to media professionals: his guests have included reporters for ABC television, sports hosts, and the latest features Podnews's Editor. (Anchor)
• One To Grow On, a farming podcast, is focusing on Navajo activists and farmers about food sovereignty on the reservation. The podcast, from Austin, fosters agricultural literacy and nuanced understandings of food production.
• American Jihadi is released today from Endeavor Audio - the stranger-than-fiction tale of an Alabama-born terrorist running for his life and the journalist who befriended him during his own darkest moments. What does it mean to be a journalist, a ‘hero,’ and an American? (Megaphone)

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• Adobe have given a preview of automatic de-umming, in a piece of work they've called #ProjectSoundSeek powered by Adobe Sensei. They also demonstrated #ProjectAwesomeAudio, a way to remove noise, fix EQ, compression and more at the touch of a button. The sessions are described as 'Sneaks', and the website notes that "some of these innovations actually make it into Adobe products", so it's unlikely that they'll be launched imminently.
• Anchor has launched a product to produce trailers for your podcast. Here's an example.
• Podtrac has released new top ten publisher rankers for US audience. NBC News debuts at #9. The data's opt-in. The number of iHeart listed shows have increased from 268 to 299 - iHeart has declined to send us a list.

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• French podcasting means business, says Sarah Toporoff, who went to the second annual Paris Podcast Festival and tells us that professionalisation was the message from the event.
• The share of time spent listening to spoken word audio has increased 20% since 2014, and this growth is cutting into time spent with music. So says the to-be-released Edison Research and NPR Spoken Word Audio Report: you can register for the free webinar here.
• Oli Walters has joined Podfront UK as Head of Sales. Walters joins the Wondery/Stitcher joint venture from Audioboom; he's also worked for UK commercial radio operators Bauer Media, KM Group and Global Radio.
• Google Podcasts has had a small tweak, reports Android Police, enabling multple episode select. You'll need to be running the latest beta of the Google app to see it. The product still has no automated downloads.
  • Google Podcasts was launched 17 months ago. Google Play Music Podcasts, an entirely different product, is still, confusingly, operating in some countries.
  • We, and podcast hosts in general, are still unable to programmatically check whether a podcast is listed in Google Podcasts, after changes the company made in early August.

• Spreaker Prime: If you’re on the hunt for a new binge-worthy podcast, Luminol is the mystery podcast you’ve been searching for! The show features everything from murder and aliens to conspiracy theories and strange happenings in history. They’re using Spreaker Prime to increase exposure and maximize monetization.
• Conversations from Media 2.0 will feature some inside conversations from an off the record event the investment bank, LionTree, holds in LA each year. The first episode features Chris Balfe, who is partner of Red Seat Ventures, helping talent from traditional radio and television help build their digital businesses. (Kindred Media)

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• Music app Deezer has added a dedicated 'shows' tab in their app for podcasts and other content including radio. It's now live in their iOS app.
• NPR has announced a new, Saturday, edition of their daily news program Up First. It starts this weekend, delivered by 8am.
• JetBlue, a US airline, has signed a deal with Spotify for podcasts in their in-flight entertainment system. As the airline’s exclusive podcast partner, the agreement will bring podcasts from Anchor, Gimlet, Parcast and Spotify Studios to seatback screens.

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• John Rosso from Triton Digital, who are technical partners for the Australian Podcast Ranker, announced at the ASI Conference in Prague that The Netherlands will launch a similar podcast ranker in early 2020.
  • Russo also said that Triton Digital will voluntarily resubmit certification to the IAB every two years. "Just like we do on the streaming side, we have an audit team that works with the publishers, who work with the hosting companies and the CDNs and annually audit them to make sure that the quality is kept very high. You may not know this but IAB certification is a one-time only deal. As soon as you get certified, you never have to do anything. But: Triton Digital will volunteer to be recertified every two years."
• A new podcast network has been launched by 30-year-old CurtCo Media, based in Malibu in California.
• Podcast host Transistor has a new website (built using Statamic and Tailwind CSS). They've also announced that they're now supporting 1% for the planet, giving 1% of sales to environmental nonprofits around the world.
• ART19 also has a new website, and a slightly tweaked logo. See it below, in our "gold supporters" section: we're grateful to the company for going for gold this week. (You can be like them).
• BBC Sounds has 2.7m weekly active users in the UK, the BBC's Alison Winter announced at the ASI Conference in Prague yesterday.
• Podspace is a new podcast host. Based in Sweden, they are also the only “independent” host in Sweden that’s certified by the Association of Swedish Advertisers which uses IAB 2.0 as the technical foundation for their national podcast ranker (so their stats are also IAB 2 compliant). The company also has support for ad campaigns using dynamic ad insertion.
• An arm and a leg, a podcast about the true cost of health care in the US, is a finalist for the True Crime category of the Discover Pods awards. As Dan Weissman, the host, says, there are no police, investigators or prosecutors in the story about the US healthcare system, but quite a significant body count...

• Spreaker Prime: Dogma Debate is a podcast hosted by comedian and actor, David Smalley, who respectfully invites believers to provide evidence for their religions, crystal healing, ouija boards, witchcraft, politics and other worldviews. He’s using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut hosting costs.
• 30 for 30 Podcasts from ESPN is back for a new season from November 12th. The season kicks off with a story about two of the most famous women in sports, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird. (ESPN Radio)
• What shall we do about...? features a prominent Australian celebrity to try to improve or even solve some of the world's less pressing issues. Nothing too trivial will be left unturned, they say. (Whooshkaa)
• Rightnowish is an podcast from KQED, talking with artists, creators and culture keepers from across the Bay Area. The podcast, hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw, is released every Friday. (KQED)
• But where are you really from? is a new podcast from the BBC Asian Network. It's a question that all Asian people have been asked - in this podcast it’s a jumping off point into the hilarious history of top notch comedy guests. 'Proper' Asians Eshaan Akbar and Nim Odedra plus self-described coconut Sunil Patel discover just how 'Desi' their guest is with a series of scenarios and challenges. (BBC)

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• Manoush Zomorodi is back at public radio, after being selected to be the new host of the TED Radio Hour, one of the world's most popular podcasts. She replaces Guy Raz, who announced in July that he was stepping down.
• Edison Research are releasing their Spoken Word Audio Report on Tuesday in a webinar. You can register for that webinar, free, here and also get a copy of the report. It promises to show how spoken word, including podcasting, fits into US consumer behaviour.
• The Onion and Sony Music Entertainment are working together to produce The Topical, a daily satirical news show, launching in January. "A daily news podcast provides an opportunity for The Onion to access and inform billions of presumably illiterate people previously deprived of the finest reporting the world has ever known," says The Onion's Jordan LaFlure.

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• Podcast host RedCircle has added dynamic insertion, allowing you to add ads or other content to podcasts in a dynamic way (perhaps adding today's ads to your back catalogue of shows). It's free for podcast creators.
• Podcast host Captivate has launched Captivate Sync™, a WordPress podcasting plugin. The company has a history of WordPress development.
• Podfan, a membership support service for podcasters, has dropped charges for recurring listener support. The move follows competitor Glow, who did similar last week.
• Audio fiction podcaster Sean Howard has posted a view of the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards judging screen for the audio fiction category. He notes that judges get to choose from five different pre-selected podcasts, and are unable to select other shows. It's unclear how those initial podcasts were chosen.
• MusicsExchange is a service that sells theme songs for a one-off, exclusive, payment.
• Morning Brew's Josh Kaplan writes a long, and helpful, list of experiences of selling podcast advertising for the first time. In it, he patiently explains all the different bits of how podcasting works, in order to explain how difficult it is.
• The BBC's James Purnell shares some download figures for the Corporation's podcasts - the Missing CryptoQueen is close to 1m plays. The final episode dropped this week, with an interesting twist.
• Digital lifestyle media company Ozy Media has raised $35m, in part to fund new podcasting. Investors include iHeartMedia.
• HotPod turned five years old this week. To celebrate, Quah publishes a list of things people are frustrated by in podcasting. Fair warning: this is a depressing, miserable read.

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• Spreaker Prime: Catlick, hosted by B.T. Harman, features the lost story of how spies, villains and midnight vigilantes nearly destroyed the South's grandest city. The podcast is part true crime, part memoir, and part history-teacher-you-wish-you had. He’s using Spreaker Prime to make hosting and advertising easier.
• Uncommon, a long-form interview podcast "helping you build your knowledge, skills and mindset through interviews with unique individuals", interviews James Cridland, Podnews's Editor. Here's the episode on YouTube. (Neuralle Media / Simplecast)
• Facebook's Face 2 Face is back for a third season - this time they're in New Zealand to discover inspirational tales and wisdom from creative leaders at the top of their game. (Whooshkaa)
• The latest episode of Be The Drop was recorded live in Adelaide SA, Australia, and is an interview with James Cridland, Podnews's Editor. (Narrative Marketing / Libsyn)

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• Brazil is the #2 country for podcasting in the world, according to new statistics released by the Brazilian Association of Podcasters. Spotify hosted a podcasters summit in São Paolo last weekend, announcing that monthly podcast consumption in the country, on Spotify, has been growing by 21% every month since January last year.
• Exclusive: Audible UK has announced the winners of their Audio Production Grant (which was announced in May). They will be awarded a £5,000 grant and will get free access to Audible’s state-of-the-art studios in Barbican, London to develop one of their own productions. The company tells us:

“The panel of judges were hugely impressed by the commitment, skill and varied approaches of all four finalist teams both in the recording studio and of their final produced pieces. Due to the high quality of all four entries, the judging team found it a very close and tricky competition to judge, but are ultimately delighted to announce that the winning team is Adrienne Quartly & Hannah Price with their production of Treasure Island. Adrienne, Hannah and their team stuck to the brief they had devised for themselves and delivered a production with a distinctive soundscape of musical and sound tones and pulses, which was richly layered to create an atmospheric, contemporary production, complimented by solid performances and sound effects. The brief suggested an unusual approach to such a normally organic piece, and that is precisely what was delivered. The team also displayed proficiency in the recording studio throughout their four hour session - they were excellent at communicating their audio vision with their actors, with clear focus on the schedule and a calm, professional approach to technical problem solving. This resulted in excellent, nuanced performances and believable character choices forming an excellent platform for the unusual production style mentioned. Audible hopes to work with the team fully on something even more demanding in future.”

• Spotify has been revealed as the title sponsor for Pods Up North, a conference in Manchester, England. The event is on November 23.

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• The Asia Podcast Summit has an event this Friday at Google Singapore. Get your free ticket today - literally, today - to get in.
• The full judgement against TuneIn has been published. The company lost a court case in the UK last week. Notable: "If you do not target the UK, you do not need a music licence for the UK", says the judge.
• In a radio conference in Barcelona yesterday, Rune Born Schwartz shared some podcast stats from Denmark, showing significant growth over the last two years.
• "Once you have the on-demand habit, you can’t go back," said Somethin'Else MD Steve Ackerman at London's Drive to Digital conference. The conference, aimed at UK terrestrial radio broadcasters, was dominated by news of disruption from podcasting, on-demand and other services.
• Netflix is testing a way to watch movies at faster speeds. MarketWatch compares the experience with podcasts.
• More people than ever are creating podcasts in the United Arab Emirates, says The National, estimating that the country is producing 400 different active shows. The country has 9.4m people.
• Accessibility is a big thing for websites, say Elena Fernández Collins and Wil Williams writing for Podcast Movement.
• A new "magazine", Podcast Magazine, is to publish early next year. The magazine is digital-only: it's free to subscribe.

• Spreaker Prime: Love HBO’s new show Watchmen? Then Who Watched The Watchmen is just the podcast you should be listening to! Each show breaks down the storyline and interesting details of each episode. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• Influence takes a deep dive into the world of advertising: the good, the bad and the ugly. WeTransfer CCO Damian Bradfield hosts the podcast, which asks how much of a say we really have when it comes to the things we buy. (WeTransfer / Pippa)
• Final Sessions is a new music history podcast from music publishers Warner Chappell. The first season focuses on the music of Harry Nilsson. (ART19)

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• Forrester Research has predicted that podcasting will become the next $1 billion media market next year, 2020. The IAB predict it'll hit $1 billion in 2021 and Magna predict it'll hit $1 billion in 2022, so someone's bound to be right.
• TuneIn has lost a major court case in the UK. Brought by two large record companies, the ruling given was that TuneIn is unlawfully linking to international radio stations that do not have UK music licences. Under copyright law, music licences are required in each country where content is consumed. TuneIn is currently the default podcast service for Amazon Alexa smart speakers, and the default radio service for both Amazon and Google.
• Apple TV+, the company's new streaming service, has a show about a podcaster. Truth Be Told airs on December 6th. (via Benjamin Bellamy)

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• Veteran British broadcaster David Dimbleby is to host a podcast. An Audible Original, The Sun King will be all about the rise of media baron Rupert Murdoch. Dimbleby stood down from the BBC's Question Time program at the end of last year.
• The Vancouver Podcast Festival is nearly on us; it gets featured in the Vancouver Sun.
• Who makes a great podcast host for branded podcasts? Pacific Content's Dan Misener shares his company's learnings about the person you want to host your podcasts.
• Why do podcast companies try to complicate things?, asks Captivate's Mark Asquith. "Many of the 'old school' people in the industry still try to hold on to podcasting being complicated, generally making newer podcasters feel bad about themselves and treating them like fools. This has to stop," he says.
• Caution: Libsyn achieved IAB Certification in August, but that doesn't mean you'll get access to those numbers. We've been alerted by a number of podcasters that basic Libsyn plans do not give access to IAB Certified statistics. In September 2017, the company claimed "ALL users" would get "more accurate download numbers", and though they may dip a little, "➩ They will, however, be IAB Standard!"

• YouTuber News, a should-be-horrible-but-actually-is-quite-good YouTube show about YouTube celebrities, is launching a podcast, astonishingly called YouTuber News: The Podcast. It's presented by Benedict Townsend, and will start on November 5th. (Global)

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• Netflix is to launch its first original scripted podcast. The podcast, a companion podcast for Daybreak, will stream exclusively on Spotify until Dec 12. "The podcast will branch off from season 1 to tell a story of a group of teens, who decide to make a podcast during an apocalypse."
• PRX and Google Podcasts have launched Pod casting 101, a ten-part video series to help early-stage podcasters. The videos are translated and subtitled into Spanish, Hindi, French, Arabic and Portuguese. Google adds some helpful tips from Luvvie Ajayi, while PRX taps up advice from Sean Rameswaram: they both present the video series.
• Edison Research's Tom Webster has written a piece on what your podcast download numbers can't tell you, arguing that 'reach' is just as important as downloads.

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• Radioplayer, an online live radio platform that also includes podcasts, has signed two separate deals with broadcast consortiums in Italy and Spain. They're the eleventh and twelfth countries to sign up.
• The Spanish online newspaper Libertad Digital and its radio station esRadio have launched a set of new podcasts. The launch mentions a new report that claims 39% of Internet users in Spain listen to podcasts.
• Soundtrap, a multitrack tool from Spotify, has announced that its transcription service will now be available in more languages than just English - it's available in French, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese and... well, it is owned by Spotify... Swedish.
• "Most podcast advertising is very rudimentary and not personalized," said SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer on an earnings call. "Frankly, this area is ripe to be disrupted and improved." The company owns Pandora, which has seen a 5% increase in subscriber revenue.
• Spotify will start looking at monetisation of podcasts in 2020, according to Daniel Ek, the company's CEO on an earnings call. "Streaming was to Netflix as podcasting is to Spotify", added the CFO, Barry McCarthy, bullish at the effect it's having on user engagement.
• Podcast Ad Reps have added Techmeme Ride Home to their representation list., bringing the number of podcasts represented by the sales house to over 60, with 4 million downloads per week. Ride Home Media focuses on concise daily podcasts.
• Pod Life is a brand new book about podcasters - why they podcast, how they got started, what keeps them motivated, and what they've learned along the way.
• Here's what else you need to know today: Dave Shaw (Politico, Scripps, Marketplace) is rejoining The New York Times as a senior audio editor, and the first Washington-based member of the “Daily” team.

• Slow Burn is back for a new season, tackling the murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G; it's been marketing its podcast by handing out CDs in New York. (Megaphone)
• Radio Rental, a horror anthology podcast from Tenderfoot TV, has launched with its first two episodes. (Not this Radio Rentals. Or this Radio Rentals). (Tenderfoot TV / Cadence 13 / Megaphone)
• The Second Oil Age, written and created by host Robert Lamb, follows Synøve Pan, voiced by Angèle Masters, a specially-conditioned agent of the UDEX Oil Corporation as she investigates the disappearance of an oil executive on the deep-sea Atlas Station. The first three episodes were released yesterday. (iHeartRadio)
• Go With Nugget for Parents joins a kids podcast from family travel company Nugget, designed to inspire and educate listeners on the beautiful diversity of people and places around the world. (Blubrry)
• Academic, TED alum, and advocate Sinéad Burke has launched As Me with Sinéad, talking to all sorts of notable people about their deepest fears, secrets and what it’s like to live in their bodies. Guests so far have included Victoria Beckham and Riz Ahmed; next week, Jamie Lee Curtis. (Lemonada Media / Megaphone)
• The Double Shift podcast, focusing on the personal side of being a working mother, returns for a new season, including a live show. (Critical Frequency / Lipstick and Vinyl / Libsyn)
• The WWE has launched their first-ever weekly podcast, After The Bell. In the first episode, Corey Graves is joined by Triple H, WWE Universal Champion, Seth Rollins, WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion, Bayley ... and the legendary Ric Flair.

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• HBO Max, a new pay-TV service, will feature podcasts in its mobile app, says Cnet, "so subscribers can listen to, for example, a podcast about the HBO series Chernobyl while on the go."
• Spotify has a new app: Spotify Kids launched yesterday in Ireland as a beta, and contains music and podcasts curated for children aged between 3-10. It's for Premium customers only, and contains no ads.
• Google pulled all ads from the podcast app Podcast Addict in early September, claiming a violation based on the podcast app "hosting explicit content". It doesn't, of course; it's a podcast app: but the presence of adult podcasts in the service was enough to pull virtually all of the ads for the free version of the app. Google has since restored the ads.
  • The screenshot in the above story would appear to indicate that the app achieves somewhere in the region of 210m ad impressions per month (263M for the period shown). The typical earning from an AdMob banner is anywhere from $0.15 to $1.50 per thousand; assuming it's $0.15, that could represent $32,000 in monthly revenue from ads. Contacted by Podnews, the developer of Podcast Addict declined to comment to our nosy enquiries about revenue, which is fair enough.

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• There's a new academic paper on podcasts: "Podcasting as Social Scholarship", including "recommendations for social work scholars, practitioners, and leaders related to the effective use of podcasting to increase the public impact of scholarship and research." Nele Heise links to it, noting that it's behind a paywall: it'll cost $20 to access.
• The shortlist for the UK's Audio Production Awards have been announced. The awards night will be on November 28th.
• Podfund have announced two new creators in their portfolio. The Locked On Podcast Network, and If These Ovaries Could Talk, a podcast about LGBTQ families.
  • The founder of the Locked On Podcast Network, David Locke, spoke with Podcast Movement. The network has 130 individual podcasts for local US sports teams.

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• That's Incredible - stories to share with kids is a new podcast from Australia's Mamamia. "We've been getting a lot of emails from parents saying it's doing what it was supposed to do... entertain the kids in the car," say the producers. (Omny Studio)
• The Do You Even Blog podcast has, as its guest this week, Podnews's editor, James Cridland. The show's called "Podcasting, Google, and why audio reigns supreme". (Podbean)
• The producer and co-host of The Successful Encore Career Podcast has been announced as the winner of AARP Ohio's Disrupt Aging Award. Congratulations to them! (Captivate)
• Born and Raised is back for a second season - a six part series about love and dating from children of immigrants in Canada. (HuffPost Canada / Soundcloud)

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