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• Adam Curry has launched a new, open podcast directory for app developers, working with developer Dave Jones. Speaking on a new podcast, Podcasting 2.0, Curry and Jones worry that "Apple is starting to tinker with their directory", and say that the company is "a very centralised private entity that is controlling pretty much what everybody considers the default yellow pages for podcasting." His alternative, The Podcast Index, promises that the "core, categorized index will always be available for free, for any use". You can sign up to be a developer on their developer portal.
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• iVoox has opened the voting for the third edition of los Premios iVoox de la Audiencia 2020. You can vote for your favourite podcast here - en Español. You've until 20 September to vote; here's more information on Twitter.
• Meanwhile, the virtual ceremony for the Latin Podcast Awards will be on October 10, with Spreaker. See podevents for your local time.

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• Spotify is working on a set of new features for their app, including a method to save your favourite podcast episodes. The company is also advertising podcasting in a new campaign running in 23 markets, and a TV commercial running in 16 markets globally.
• Rachel Corbett has joined Australia's commercial radio broadcaster NOVA Entertainment as Head of Podcasts and Digital Content. A former radio and television presenter, she runs PodSchool, an online podcasting course, and previously worked at Mamamia as Head of Podcasts.
• Acast Australia has hired six new people: Tom Roach (SCA), Katalina Haddad (NOVA), Isabella Gibson-Giorgio, Michelle Smith, Diana Lee and Teresa Ly. The company ended a relationship with NOVA Entertainment on Monday.
• SCA, Australia's largest commercial radio company and owner of PodcastOne Australia, has entered a partnership with SpokenLayer which creates automated short-form audio content for smart speakers.

• Chartapalooza: Why Every Podcast Chart Is So Different - Steven Goldstein posts a helpful article about podcast data, including the US podcast networks measured by Podtrac and Triton.
• How to make, and sell, branded podcasts - Wonder Media Network's CMO Shira Atkins (Digiday)

• 70 Million is back for Season 3 starting next Monday. Each week, the Peabody-nominated podcast from Lantigua Williams & Co brings localities taking action: from the school-to-prison pipeline, to racialized policing, to the spread of COVID-19 in jails. 70 Million is also an open-source podcast that provides syllabi and resources to the public. The trailer is out now. (ad)
• Changes with Annie Macmanus returns for a second series. Radio presenter Annie Mac, now using her full name, is to interview extraordinary people including actor Michael Sheen, American singer-songwriter Beth Ditto, and British author and activist Bernadine Evaristo. Her first guest is novelist Zadie Smith.
• Our Mothers Ourselves interviews the children of extraordinary mothers. It's a new podcast from longtime New York Times reporter Katie Hafner, who started the podcast around Mother's Day this year while covering the pandemic. It aims to offer something "a little more uplifting in the midst of so much grimness".
• The Yes Theory Podcast has been launched by Entercom's Cadence13 and Headspace - focusing on the messy process of self-improvement and explore how we can all become our truest selves. Yes Theory has a social media reach of over 9.3 million.
• Tomorrow, WNYC and HISTORY release Blindspot: The Road to 9/11, bringing to light the decade-long “shadow struggle” that preceded the attacks. It's hosted by WNYC reporter Jim O’Grady.

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• Popular music podcast Song Exploder is to remove many of its shows because of music licensing costs. Creator Hrishikesh Hirway posted on Twitter that "I’ve always hoped they’d all be available forever, but the reality of music licensing makes that impossible". In a plot twist, since we reached out for comment, those posts have been removed: could that mean that a music and podcast service with a full licensing deal might have reached out? Here's hoping.
• In the US, Google Podcasts now comes with a personalised news feature in the "explore" tab in the app. Google says that the feature has been in Google Assistant for almost a year; much like NPR One, it plays a mix of individual news stories based on your interests, location, user history and preferences.
• Wildcast, a new platform for podcast networking and productivity, has launched. The service helps find guests and schedule ad trades, and is free in their startup period.

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• Spotify-owned Parcast is unionizing, reports The Verge. Spotify has voluntarily recognised Gimlet, and is negotiating with The Ringer's union.
• Podcast host Castos now offers private podcasts, for employees, members or family. The company has also added a way to invite individual listeners by email, and integration with the Wordpress plugin MemberSpace.
• Audioburst has released Creators Premium, describing it as "a comprehensive audio marketing management platform dedicated to helping podcasts and radio shows grow their audiences". It produces transcripts, social video clips, and audio search.
• Podcast host Omny Studio published a privacy policy for listeners in May, joining Acast, Buzzsprout and Captivate, we discover. No other podcast host has clear privacy policies to explain to listeners what happens to their identifying data when they listen. (Here's ours). Writing personally, our Editor called for these in December 2019: if privacy is as important to some podcast hosts as they claim, we look forward to seeing their privacy policy for listeners, too.
• Trust Wondery to produce great-sounding podcasts. Don't trust them as a weather forecaster. (Seriously, we'd love to know the results of this A-B test, sent to two different email addresses of ours.)

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• Untapped Podcast Ideas (Buzzsprout) - monkey tennis doesn't appear to be in this list, but urban farming is.
• ICYMI: Eight Things I Learned Making a Podcast about How F*cked We Are (Rob Deitz).

• 70 Million is back for Season 3 starting September 14th. Each week, the Peabody-nominated podcast from Lantigua Williams & Co brings localities taking action: from the school-to-prison pipeline, to racialized policing, to the spread of COVID-19 in jails. 70 Million is also an open-source podcast that provides syllabi and resources to the public. The trailer is out now. (ad)
• How did Jordan Harbinger get into podcasting? In the latest episode of Oxford Road Presents: Divided States of Media we learn how he got into podcasting, plus his thoughts on self-censorship, and defending yourself against misinformation. Listen, or - exclusive to Podnews - read the transcript.
• Owen Grover, formerly of Pocket Casts and iHeartRadio, appears as a guest on Kinsider. Discover what he's doing now; and what he thinks of Joe Budden, indie podcasters, Apple, media, and more.
• True-crime podcast Where the Bodies are Buried may have uncovered a crime scene in Peru IL, USA, according to local reports.
• Former US presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is to launch a podcast, says the Washington Post. The show, called The Deciding Decade, is with iHeartRadio.

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• Podcast advertising is "surging back", according to new research from Magellan AI and Westwood One. Comparing June to January 2020, the number of US podcast advertisers has increased +18%. Looking at the top 400 podcasts, advertising represents only 5% of content, the research says (on average, commercial broadcast radio would be about 20%).
• Advertising within Pocket Casts is sold out until November, the company says. Pocket Casts also no longer takes podcast listings automatically from Apple's directory: "Call it a hunch, but I doubt that directory is going to remain open," says CPO Russell Ivanovic. (We link to their submission page, and everyone else's for that matter).
• In quarantine, we're listening to podcasts for an extra half-hour a week. That's the findings of Edison Research, which unveiled data from its studies in a short, 13-minute presentation.

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• Germany now has a podcast ranker. Called Pod Ratings, it claims that the most popular platform for podcast listening in the country is Spotify, and that the most popular podcast is Gemischtes Hack, which became a Spotify exclusive a year ago.
• Entries are now open for the Australian Podcast Awards. The awards are open to every podcast in Australia, "whether you're on your own in the kitchen, or work with a large team in a fancy studio complex". You've got until September 25th to pick your categories and create 15 minute best-of MP3s. (Podnews is a supporter; our Editor is an organiser).
• RADIO·COM is to be in the dashboard in nearly seven million General Motors cars in the US, the company announced. (We list how you can add your podcast to RADIO·COM).
• New UK company Crowd Network "aims to become Europe’s largest podcast network" after attracting £500,000 (US$670,000) seed funding. The company is staffed by ex-BBC employees, and is based in Manchester; they've partnered with Acast for hosting, distribution and promotion.
• Cuban podcast platform CubaPod has launched Podcáster, a management system for podcast creators. The not for profit platform also offers a Telegram bot, which allows you to subscribe to podcasts and download audio in different bitrates.
• If you pitched a potential show to TheNextGreatPodcast, a competition run by Tongal and iHeartRadio, be aware that, according to the rules, Tongal now owns the rights for your idea until at least 18 May 2021. Good luck.
• A transcription app, Transcryber, is in beta for iOS devices. It works in real time and has "no per-minute costs", which suggests it'll be a paid app once it leaves beta.
• Random feedback corner: no, our podcast isn't recorded by the narrator of Peppa Pig.

• A good way to promote your podcast, says Blubrry, is an Elevator Speech Sandwich, one of their Guerilla Podcast Marketing ideas.
• How to tell if your podcast is a success from your download numbers (Rachel Corbett)

• Podcast Me Anything's guest today is Bryan Barletta, the Editor of the new adtech weekly newsletter from Podnews, Sounds Profitable.
• What happens if the NRA goes away? No Compromise is a new investigative series from NPR, focusing on the far-right gun movement: pro-gun groups eager to fill any real or perceived power vacuum.
• ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia has partnered with The Good Bits, which features erotic stories from New York Times bestselling authors Alessandra Torre and Sierra Simone and USA Today bestselling author Stefanie London. ARN's Corey Layton says it's "testament to our ongoing commitment to supporting great Australian podcast content."
• There are over a million podcasts out there, and only Zack Robidas has listened to every last one of them. The Pod Spotter focuses on a different podcast each week that deserves attention for being offbeat, totally unique, or just plain weird.
• UK politician and Edwardian caricature Jacob Rees-Mogg has launched an official UK government podcast, Why Parliament Works. Fittingly, the podcast is hosted on Anchor.

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• American Public Media and reVolverpodcasts have announced they're to make Spanish language podcasts. Brains On en Español will be their first release: "available exclusively on a major podcast platform that will be announced this fall." Hmm. Does it begin with A?
• Podcast host Fireside has launched the Fireside Pro Plan, which they describe as a "plan for podcasters who are becoming serious about their show". The plan includes a number of collaboration features and enhanced analytics.
• Acast has launched a feature allowing listeners to rate podcasts in the Acast app. Since launching this month, people have left more than 45,000 in-app ratings for 9,000 different shows. (We list how to add your podcast to the Acast app and many others).

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• Podcast Day Online takes place on October 26: a virtual version of the popular cross-Europe podcast event. Speakers include Earlonne Woods from Ear Hustle, Julie Shapiro from Radiotopia, Steve Pratt of Pacific Content, and our Editor. Want money off? Use this code: PODONLINE20
• Want free promotion for your podcast? International Podcast Day 2020 is on September 30th; as a gold sponsor, Podiant wants to showcase your show during their session.
• Honouring the best of the European Internet, The Lovie Awards are still open for entries: if you thought you'd missed the opportunity to enter their eleven new podcast categories, they've a grace period until 25 September.
• Spotify has announced its latest content deal with "the internet’s longtime favorite comedic personalities and fashion & lifestyle icons Rickey Thompson and Denzel Dion" for an upcoming podcast series.
• Lemonada Media is switching from Westwood One to Stitcher's Midroll for ad sales.
• Westwood One has picked up Inside of You, a podcast with Smallville actor Michael Rosenbaum.
• Headliner is now integrated with Blubrry.
• Based in Philly? The Philadelphia Podcasting Society is conducting an online census to understand how it can better help podcasters during the pandemic.
• A nice tweak: when you get your podcast listed in Spotify for Podcasters, they now give you the link it'll be on, reports Solid Gold Podcast Studios, who've just launched language and literature podcast The Reading Room.
• The Economist posts in this week's issue that Podcasting provides a space for free thought in China. (Your library may make The Economist free for you, via the RBDigital app).

• 8 ways publishers are making money from podcasts (Media Voices Podcast, Esther Kezia Thorpe)
• How to find and book guests for your podcast (Pacific Content)

• Are you afraid of having to make a phone call? It's called telephobia, and a podcaster in the UK has explored it by ringing people at random. The Worry About It Later Podcast is hosted by CK Goldiing, an award-winning creator, writer & filmmaker.
• Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR’s entertainment and pop culture round-table podcast, is to go daily later this year, and has a fourth co-host, Aisha Harris.
• In a world where we are so dependent on our phones, our computers and the internet, what happens when you don’t protect yourself online? Criminal Domain is a new podcast from Ampel, talking to victims of cyber crime in a podcast presented by NortonLifeLock.
• Fraudsters explore scams that have made millions and the fraudsters behind them, like Enron and Jim Bakker. A Spotify Original, hosted by Seena Ghaznavi and Justin Williams, it's from the guys behind The Last Podcast on the Left.
• From scooters to last-mile delivery, ride-sharing to smart infrastructure, we might be in the next great mobility revolution. City Talks, the newest podcast from the Ford Motor Company, takes a look at new trends.
• Comes A Time is a new music interview series with Dead & Company and The Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge, and comedian Mike Finoia. Their guest today is Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.
• Talking Tales from Tulika is a new Spotify Original show for kids in India. The podcasts launch today, in English, Hindi, and Tamil, and feature characters from popular childrens' books from Tulika Publishers.

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• Joe Budden won't re-sign his exclusive Spotify deal, according to his latest episode. In a 114 minute segment, he complains variously that he has been "pillaged" by the company, that he didn't like the host-read advertising and refused to do any, that he wasn't paid a bonus that he believed he was entitled to, that he wasn't allowed any vacation, and that Bill Simmons called him to question why he'd taken time off when his father was ill. We've a rough machine transcript of his comments. Billboard reports that Budden was offered a significantly larger deal by Spotify, which he declined.
• The IAB Tech Lab has released a guidance notice about Apple Watches resulting in inflated podcast numbers. We reported this behaviour on June 12. Any downloads to the Apple Watch will "no longer be counted toward any totals reported for the podcasting industry" from October 1. Legitimate downloads from Outcast, an Apple Watch app, may now be invisible to podcast hosts.
• NBC Universal spent $822,000 on podcast advertising in July says Magellan AI: the company was promoting their new Peacock streaming service.

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• iHeartMedia has signed an agreement with US sportscaster Dan Patrick for a slate of shows on The Dan Patrick Podcast Network.
• Ashley Graham Is Launching an Instagram Live Series All About Podcasts reports Marie Claire.
• The Bello Collective interviews Carolina Guerrero and Daniel Alarcón, who came up with the idea for Radio Ambulante - and highlights the growing audience for Spanish language podcasts in the US.
• Produce an Arabic podcast? Dubai-based Finyal Media is running a talent hunt to join their network.
• Yesterday, we said that the first podcast sponsorship from Chevrolet was with Blue Wire Media. It wasn't (though it's a good client to have) - here's a sponsored podcast from Chevrolet in April 2016. Sorry.

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• How to Use Your Existing Podcast's Platform to Discuss Current Events (Jamila Souffrant of Journey to Launch & Stephen Hart of Trailblazers·fm, at Podcast Movement's Shift 2020 event).
• Your podcast doesn't suck: it just needs un-stuck says Evo Terra.

• PBS's science series NOVA has a new podcast, NOVA Now, which launches today. The first episode has an in-depth examination of the technology and systems behind mail-in voting ahead of the 2020 election. The host is Dr Alok Patel; it's being made by WGBH and PRX.
• Also from WGBH, All Rev'd Up - where faith intersects politics and culture - is back for a new season. The first episode is with Kamala Harris, as the first Black woman on a presidential ticket.
• On The Mic, "A Podcast About the Business of Podcasting and Audio Advertising" from Ad Results Media, is in the middle of a three-part series about women in podcasting; the hosts of LadyGang are in the latest episode.

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• First look: Podcasting is seen as more trustworthy than traditional media coverage of the current pandemic, according to new research published by Media Monitors today. The research also suggests that the pandemic has meant many listeners now use podcasts for information as well as entertainment.
• Audible has unveiled new pricing for a new subscription podcast service. Audible Plus will offer access to exclusive Audible podcasts for US$7.95/month. (Luminary charges $4.99/month for their subscription service). Audible's Rachel Ghiazza apparently clarifies to The Verge that the platform is developing podcast content, but isn’t pulling them in from third-party RSS feeds. Confusingly, Podnews reported that Audible, and Amazon Music, have emailed podcasters to get them to submit their RSS feeds for a forthcoming service.
• How accurate is geo-targeting by IP for podcasting? Bryan Barletta delves into the technology, and highlights that this is a big opportunity for Spotify to benefit from tighter targeting that's unavailable to the rest of us.

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• US culture website Vulture is to "double their podcast coverage" according to a release. HotPod will now be published in Vulture; Nick Quah will also produce a new weekly podcast recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed.
• Quality beats quantity in podcast advertising, according to an article in Built In. Westwood One and Signal Hill Insights have released data showing podcast advertising drives brand equity.
• Podpraat reports that Podcastfestival in the Netherlands is now selling tickets for their "offline conference" - yes, an actual physical conference, in Amsterdam in September. One session is in English; the others are advertised in Dutch (though Wil Williams won't be speaking Dutch, we presume - dat zou heel indrukwekkend zijn!).
• How has podcast listening has been affected by quarantine? Edison Research has a free webinar this Thursday.
• Привет! Bonjour! Apple is hiring for a Podcasts Editor in Moscow, and another in France. (More Podjobs)
• Super-exciting user-agent corner After we suggested it, Podlink is now correctly setting the useragent of its RSS crawler, greatly helping podcasters who use their universal links. PodTail has also set their own RSS crawler's useragent, thus allowing better monitoring of their browser-based podcast player; and universal link supplier Podfollow is also correctly setting their RSS user-agent after Podnews got in touch. Google Podcasts is also fixing a bug in its Android app, which we spotted was not giving a correct useragent for automated downloads. If our traffic is anything to go by, that means an extra 20% of downloads correctly attributed to Google Podcasts. Find all the useragents in this Github repo.

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• Why would anyone listen to your podcast? Denis Murphy has worked out why: after 115 podcast episodes.
• Podcast Expert Allyson Marino On What Makes A Good Show, How To Get Started And Much More (Forbes)
• Who's app buttons should you put on your podcast's website? - from February this year, some interesting data from our own pages.

• The Communicate Influence Podcast speaks with Toronto podcast producer and journalist Kathleen Goldhar about how podcasting is now an essential part of journalism.
• My Amazing Body, from Queensland Health, is back for a second season. The podcast explores interesting, unknown and misunderstood parts of your body, featuring interviews with medical experts and stories from Queensland in Australia.

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• Best known for playing Prince Vultan in the Flash Gordon movie, actor Brian Blessed is to do his first podcast. A bedtime stories podcast, it'll be released early next month, with UK broadcaster Union Jack Radio.
• Triton Digital has released their latest US Podcast Ranker. The top 10 networks, and top 5 podcasts, are unchanged; total downloads were up 1.1%. The ranker only measures participating publishers.
• Bryan Barletta posts a super-interesting and very technical piece about reporting ad impressions on podcasts - particularly, what's actually possible, and how useful an IP address actually is.

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• SyncFloor, which offers music licensing for projects including podcasts, has partnered with JioSaavn's Artist Originals.
• AJ Feliciano has been named Head of The Roost, Rooster Teeth's podcast network. (Congratulations, AJ!)
• If you help podcasters publish their shows, or work in support for a podcast host, you may have wondered "Where is Google Podcasts getting this podcast feed from?!" We wrote a Google Podcasts RSS Helper today, designed to answer that question. At last!

• Top five tips for novice podcast editors (Tanner Campbell)
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• The Parkinson's Podcast from the Michael J Fox Foundation has been relaunched as a monthly show presented by broadcaster Larry Gifford. Larry also presents When Life Gives You Parkinson's, a personal journey into the condition he was diagnosed with three years ago this week.
• 'Oxford Road Presents:' has launched a new series: The Divided States of Media. Launching in partnership with The National Institute for Civil Discourse, it's focused on the current state of media against a backdrop of an increasingly polarized populace.
• The Podnews podcast is now available on Gaana. Here's every podcast directory we're in, and how to submit yours, too.

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• More visibility for podcasts from Google - Google Podcasts now appears in the app-switcher that's on every Google website. And, there's more improvements for Google Podcasts for Web, reports 9to5Google. However, Android 11's final beta, which will be the next version of Android, still does not have Google Podcasts as a default app, although Google Play Music has been removed. Apple iPhones have Apple Podcasts pre-installed, of course.
• A competing app for Google Podcasts is Podcast Addict: an update has been rejected by the Google Play store, because "of a policy violation", though no details have been given of what the policy violation actually is. The app has been removed multiple times by Google in the past: if you'd like to help, here are all 18,112 words of the Developer Programme Policy.
• AdsWizz has launched AudioGO, a self-serve ad buying service to connect smaller advertisers with large audio publishers. It's now out of beta, and available here.

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• The IAB have announced their final schedule to IAB Podcast Upfront, including speakers from the New York Times and ViacomCBS. The event, which will be virtual, is designed for publishers to preview their latest podcast programming to advertisers: attendance is up by 400%, they say.
• SCA's PodcastOne Australia grew its revenue in the year ending June 30 by 96%. The division is now cashflow positive, according to the company, and brought in $4.6m (US $3.3m). That's less than 1% of total revenues for the broadcaster, however, which fell by 18.2% to $540.8m (US $388.4m).
• The BBC is launching a a new topical comedy podcast - Comedians vs.The News will be hosted by two New York comedians. The show, which will also be carried on BBC World Service Radio, launches at the end of August.
• A new service, Camflare, has been launched. Calling itself "the easiest way to record & receive video", it uses a web browser and webcam to get anyone to record video and audio for you: it connects to Dropbox as well. It's free for 2020.
• Echoverse has been launched by Whalerock Industries - the company describes itself as "a next-generation content studio that creates premium sci-fi, supernatural and fantasy audio dramas," Mark Stern, formerly at US television network SyFy, will serve as president of the company.
• In India, podcast producer Suno India has received funding from Tollywood movie producer Shobu Yarlagadda.
• Podcast Movement Virtual has unveiled the platform they will be using for their event in October.
• If you don't like graphics, Shellcaster is a terminal-based podcast manager, written in Rust.

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• 5 things that derail podcast success (Steven Goldstein)
• How I Made A Kick-Ass Professional Fiction Podcast For Just $20 (David Vienna)

• Hospitality Forward is a new podcast, talking to journalists to discover how they generate story ideas and how hospitality and travel experts can get on their radar by sharing their own newsworthy stories in a compelling way.

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• Spotify has launched a new music-and-podcasts playlist in the US called Daily Sports. It includes updates, including exclusive content, from The Ringer, Spotify's sports podcast network, as well as other content.
  • The company has also partnered with US broadcaster C-SPAN to bring key speeches from the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention for free.
• Spotify is also rolling out The Input, a four-part video series on Spotify for Podcasters. It's designed to "educate podcasters big and small on how to make the most of Spotify and our tools." They are sponsoring our tips/tricks section.
• Deezer has launched an analytics app that shows your podcast's performance on the platform. It claims it's the only streaming service offering podcast insights on a mobile app.

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• Libsyn has got a glowing, and detailed, writeup from an investment company - a useful look inside the podcast host.
• The BBC has released data about its podcasting and its BBC Sounds app - in Q2 there were 240m "global podcast downloads across the world". The most popular podcast within BBC Sounds, the corporation's UK-only app, was Grounded with Louis Theroux; the most popular on third-party platforms was the Global News Podcast
  • If that 240m downloads number includes all podcast listening for the BBC (it's a little unclear if BBC Sounds's podcast plays are included), that would mean an equivalent of 80m downloads per month, and would place it behind iHeartRadio, NPR and the New York Times in the Podtrac rankings. The BBC blocks Google Podcasts.
• Poddle is a new, free, podcast app for iOS and Android. "If you want to take the complexity out of the Podcast listening experience, Poddle is what you need."
• Hypercatcher, an iOS app, describes itself as "an Interactive Podcast App unlike any other". It appears to use MP3 chapter points to enhance the listening experience. The company is offering a premium version of The Daily by the New York Times.
• Podtrac have returned to publishing weekly updates. They had produced these during the worst of the pandemic; the return of their weekly data is sponsored by iHeartRadio.
• AdExchanger claims that podcast measurement is improving as the industry shifts from downloads to streams.
• Looking for a transcription tool? How about Microsoft Word? The word processor now allows you to upload audio files and transcribe them. It's not available to everyone yet, and there's a limit of two hours per month.

• One simple idea to get more podcast reviews (Jeremy Enns)
• A little thinking on podcast stats from Evo Terra highlights that different podcast apps work differently in terms of consumption.

• In The John Bartolo Show Sarah Jane Rodriguez, a 2nd Amendment Advocate, stops in to discuss all things 2nd amendment and her recent move into the non profit world. Listen now
• Sci-fi series The Orphans has returned for a new season, with six new episodes from six new writers, and all recorded in lock down. The team videoed the experience and have produced some behind-the-scenes writeups.

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• Podcast host RedCircle has launched a new, automated ad platform that makes it easy to buy host-read ads on thousands of podcasts. "We’ve simplified the buying experience in what has traditionally been a very fractured market, helping brands buy on one podcast, a hundred, or more," says CEO Michael Kadin.
• Congratulations to the Podfest Global Summit, who claims that they "just hit the number that sets the Guinness World Record for Largest Virtual Podcasting Event in a Week".
  • Fun Friday Fact: The Guinness World Record for the largest glass of orange juice was set by podcasting's Rob Greenlee in June 1998. It measured 2,313 litres. Here's a TV report featuring a youthful Rob and a quite laborious setup for a joke.
• Podtrac have released their top 20 US podcasts for July 2020. Surprisingly, Serial has risen from below the top 50 up to #11: because of the publicity surrounding the NYT purchase of Serial Productions, maybe? The ranker only measures participating publishers.

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• SemaBox is a new podcast studio setup in Nairobi that lets anyone record a podcast. Come in, record, and within 24 hours they'll send you a finished version to share it with the world, according to an interview with Paula Rogo.
• Timber Media interviews Misha Euceph, the producer of the Michelle Obama Podcast.
• Giphy is now integrated into Headliner, to allow you to add stickers and GIFs to any social video you make of your podcast.
• Libsyn has an investor call today at 11am Eastern, following release of their Q2 financial results.
• More fun from Amazon's terms and conditions for podcasters, section 7.11.7: "Ads for incontinence products ... must be frequency-capped at 3 times per 24 hours (3x24)". "How could a podcast, with baked-in advertising, keep track of the number of impressions per listener?" asks Mike from Sips, Suds, & Smokes who adds "that's a pretty shitty deal" - we see what he did there.

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• Two options when your podcast isn't landing (Jeremy Enns)
• Leveraging Pinterest to promote your podcast (We Edit Podcasts)

• In The John Bartolo Show Michael Keith Chiesa, an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in the welterweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Chiesa was the winner of FX's inaugural The Ultimate Fighter: Live. Listen now
• Happiness. What is it - how to we find it, and how do we keep it once we have? Singer and songwriter Joss Stone has launched her own podcast, A Cuppa Happy, which launched on Monday featuring an interview with illusionist Derren Brown.
• Smoke Screen: Fake Priest is the story of "Father" Ryan Scott who was accused of swindling millions of dollars over thirty years. New from Neon Hum Media, it launched yesterday.

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• After Podnews reported it on July 23, Amazon has apparently dropped the condition that, in order to be on Amazon Music/Audible’s upcoming podcast service you agreed you would not criticise Amazon in any way. According to The Desk, that portion of Amazon’s terms has now been quietly removed. However, we took a look: and what's it's been replaced with appears to be much more restrictive.
• Exclusive: Podcast Radio has teamed up with crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The UK radio station and digital audio platform was privately funded for its launch in February, and to celebrate its fast growth and further expansion plans, it is inviting members of the public to join in by owning shares in the company. (Hear Podnews on Podcast Radio every day)
• Who's the #1 podcast in the US? Media Monitors has released their US top 25 podcast ranker - Edison Research released their own earlier this week. Both are based on audience recall, and measure 'people' rather than 'downloads'; Media Monitors uses research undertaken over two weeks in June, while Edison Research's study took 12-months, ending June 24). Both have The Joe Rogan Experience at #1, and The Daily at #2, but 40% of the shows in the top 25 don't exist in the 'other' top 25.

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• That sign behind you might be worth money: a man from Seattle has paid $3,200 for a podcast sign made famous on the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast.
• Auphonic is now integrated with Zapier, allowing you to automatically start processing your audio with Auphonic as soon as it's put into a Dropbox folder, and even to add metadata.
• The Podcast Academy has their August Social today from 5pm Eastern. It's a virtual event - we might pop in for coffee.

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• Dan Misener from Pacific Content looks at square podcast artwork and suggests you should consider other formats for other platforms. (For the record, we use 2048x1024 landscape in our hero images).
• How I make... Podcast Pontifications - Evo Terra tells us why it takes 3.5 hours for him to record an episode that lasts for less than ten minutes.

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• In The John Bartolo Show Brittany Mae, an instructor with an amazing journey into the training space. She has worked with several brands quietly throughout the firearms business while developing a knack for connecting with her students. Listen now
• Entercom's RADIO·COM has launched Battleground America, a daily podcast diving into the 2020 Presidential Election in the US.
• Factual America is 26 episodes strong, and is a podcast focusing on the country that affects us all, wherever we live: the United States of America. "Our passion lies in unearthing and supporting American stories," the company says, told through the lens of documentary filmmaking.

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