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• Wondery's Dr Death has hit the #1 spot in Apple Podcasts worldwide, after translated versions were released last week at Podcast Movement. They're the first to launch a set of translated podcasts across the world. (Here's how the Apple Charts work).
• 16% of the UAE listen to podcasts weekly, and they spend a quarter more than non-podcast listeners on food and drink. Thirsty work, true crime. The full research from markettiers 4DC is now out.
• Spotify is adding podcast playlists, allowing anyone to share playlists with their friends. Zach Kahn has spotted this, and added this playlist including some episodes of Today, Explained. Meanwhile, Spotify is also working on Stories for Playlists, says Jane Manchun Wong, including video clips and tracks from a Q&A from an artist.

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• Of the 39% of smart speaker owners who've tried to listen to a podcast through it, only 26% have succeeded, according to Voicebot.
• Podtrac have released their top 20 podcasts list for July. iHeartRadio's Stuff You Should Know has dropped to #3, being overtaken by This American Life at 2. The Daily still remains at #1. The data is opt-in and US-only.
• PodHunt - like ProductHunt but for podcasting - officially launches today, on ProductHunt, naturally.
• Gimlet had a rebrand at the end of May. Here's more about that from a design website. "With its typography, it gives the company a feeling of authority, but its colours and use of imagery mean it still feels playful and approachable." The company responsible is GrandArmy.
• The team behind The Fantasy Footballers have been snapped up by US satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM. The podcast will be aired weeknights on the Fantasy Sports Radio channel, and a new live show featuring the hosts will go to air every Thursday.
• In an opinion piece, Tony Compton highlights the false premise of the podcast craze: "Sticking ill-prepared people in front of a microphone and calling it a podcast: all the technology in the world won’t make those podcasts successful."
• The second round of the Google Podcasts PRX creator program is underway. So far, they've been to a Red Sox game. They lost.

• Spreaker Prime: Lost Origins explores all things ancient mystery, alternative historical theory, extraterrestrial phenomena, and lost civilizations. Hosts Andrew and CK are using Spreaker Prime to earn money and save on their hosting costs.
• Public Comment are a series of open-ended essays blending memoir, politics, and culture. Its host, Sean O'Connor, hopes they are "a commitment to thinking with clarity, elaborateness, and depth". (Podbean)
• Reasons to be cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd has recently released its 100th episode. The podcast talks to smart thinkers from across the world. Episode 100 was recorded in Abbey Road Studios in London. (Acast)
• Dave Jackson's School of Podcasting focuses, in its latest episode, on insights from Podcast Movement. (Libsyn)
• The latest episode of The New Media Show, recorded at Podcast Movement itself, included Lindsay Bowen from Pandora let slip that the company will share advertising revenue with podcasters; and an unusual pronounciation of Cochrane. (Blubrry)
• It's like The Daily, only for fans of murder and thievery! Parcast is launching Today in True Crime. The show starts in mid September. "Here's what else you need-to-kill-today". (Megaphone)

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• Crime Junkie has pulled five episodes, apparently after the show was accused of plagarism. Sources have, belatedly, been added to the show-notes of other episodes. Quoted in Variety, creator and host Ashley Flowers says, in part: "We are committed to working within the burgeoning podcast industry to develop and evolve its standards on these kinds of issues." The latest episode makes no mention of the issue.
  • Meanwhile, a post in the Crime Junkie Reddit group makes accusations of suspicious reviews that appear duplicated, perhaps bought.
• Podcast Movement is doubling in size next year. The team have announced that Podcast Movement 2020 will be in Dallas TX next August, while a new event, Podcast Movement Evolutions, will be in February in Los Angeles CA.
• The host of ABC Radio's Start Here podcast, Brad Mielke, was asked questions by the Podcast Movement team. "Podcasting is a great format to explore the complicated," he says, in a wide-ranging interview.

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• Joe Rogan's podcast makes $75,000 per episode, according to Michael Bisping, a UFC middleweight champion.
• PRX/PRI merged a year ago. The CEO, Kerri Hoffman, has posted a look back at the first year; and announced that there will be a new community podcast studio in Washington DC.
• Research: What are broadcasters and newspapers doing with new forms of audio? The Reuters Institute has published this fellowship paper (in which Podnews is cited), which looks at developments in the UK, Sweden, Germany and Australia. It's written by Aura Lindeberg, Executive Producer of Audio, for Finnish broadcaster YLE.
• Spotify appears to have problems linking direct to episodes in their web player. While a link to a show works fine, a link to an episode appears to fleetingly appear, followed by an error message.
• Kellie Riordan from the Australian ABC Studios posted some things she learnt at Podcast Movement 2019.
• At Podcast Movement, Evo Terra spotted Podnews being recorded. On the road, we use a Shure MOTIV MV5 microphone, into Hindenburg Journalist Pro. (The Hindy link is one they advertise here occasionally, which gives a 90-day free trial). Our podcast is over here.

• Spreaker Prime: On The Latch is a podcast "by gay men, where no topic is off limits". They're using Spreaker Prime to earn money and save on their hosting costs.
• Hitman is a new true crime podcast from iHeartRadio, following the real story of Lawrence Horn — an engineer at Motown records who was behind some of Motown’s greatest hits by the Supremes and the Jackson 5 — and the peculiar circumstances surrounding the murder of his ex-wife, son and friend. (iHeartRadio / Megaphone)
• Matthew Sweezey writes how he created an award-winning podcast. We first covered Electronic Propaganda Society in May. (Soundcloud)
• Drinks Adventures starts a new season examining Four Pillars Gin, a flourishing Australian distillery in Healesville VIC. (Whooshkaa)
• Radio Undead is supposed to be an interview podcast interviewing the ghosts of serial killers and cult leaders, but they never quite get around to that. They recommend The Holmes Hotel as a good place to get started. (Soundcloud)

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• Podcast Movement wraps up later today. Our Editor is presenting a session on Google Podcasts (10.00am, Gatlin E6).
• A detailed study into Spanish-speaking podcast listeners has been released by Podcaster@s. Based from a self-selecting sample, it shows that Spotify is most popular, and that Apple is just as popular as YouTube for podcast listening. It also touches on ideal podcast length, attitude to advertisers, and more. (Go to the end for a summary).
• Wondery announced at Podcast Movement yesterday that their hit podcast Dr Death was now available in a variety of languages as part of the company's global expansion. Dr Morte, 死亡医生, Dr Muerte, Dr LaMort, and Dr Tod are now all live.

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• Patreon has announced a new secure way to share video for supporters, using Vimeo.
• Veritone has announced that its artificial intelligence software aiWARE will be used on the ART19 podcast platform. It'll automatically work out what individual podcast episodes are about, to allow programmatic ads to be based on the content of that episode.
• Lila Shroff from glow·fm has written her takeaways from Podcast Movement. Among other things, she suggests that audio fiction is becoming more popular.
• Podsend is a new tool in early release, letting you share and comment on audio. It might be good for sponsor ad approvals, bonus audio for your supporters, or a way to annotate audio for your editor.
• The CBC are developing five of their podcasts for TV. The Canadian public broadcaster made the announcement at Podcast Movement: shows include Tai Asks Why.
• The Cork Podcast Festival (Oct 11-13) in Cork co Cork, Ireland, have announced that Acast are partners for the event. It's Cork's first podcast festival.

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• Spreaker Prime: The A24 Project focuses on every single movie released by A24, a ground-breaking movie company. They're using Spreaker Prime to earn money and save on their hosting costs.
• The host of Start Here from ABC News, Brad Mielke, spoke at Podcast Movement. "What I've learnt is how much more information you can get out of a good piece of sound than even the interview. How you use sound to tell the story [can be as important] as the voices you speak to".

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• Today, Podcast Music are covering the announcement that "everything about using music in podcasts is about to change" (3.45pm in the Broadcasters Meet Podcasters track at Podcast Movement). The press release sounds exciting; it's massively welcome, but a little more complicated: notably it's for US podcasters only, it'll start next year, and there are no agreements yet with any record labels. We have the full details of what has been agreed.
• It's now easier to be listed in Pandora - the company has launched Pandora for Podcasters, a tool that the company calls a new self-service hub, where anyone can submit their podcast for listing. The Pandora Blog has more details. (Of note: European podcasters aren't allowed to submit podcasts).
• Auxbus, end-to-end podcast creation software, has launched at Podcast Movement. The service assembles podcasts and distributes them automatically to a variety of podcast hosts.

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• Podcast host Libsyn has released the company's latest financial reports. In the first six months of 2019, Libsyn's podcasting business made $6.9m in revenue, up from $5.9m for the same time last year. Shares were down 3%, but remain close to a record high.
• Pikast is a new podcast app for book lovers: helping you find conversations with authors about books. The app contains details of over 100,000 books in podcasts .
• More podcasts are going premium, and asking their audience to pay. The blog of the app Flick contains a series of posts on that decision, and how podcasters are doing it.
• Your Editor is speaking in two sessions today at Podcast Movement - a session about podcast newsletters at 11.30am (Gatlin E1); and moderating Podcasts in emerging markets at 2.45pm (Gatlin E1). He's also speaking today in Oslo, Norway, at the NRK Podcast Day.

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• Podcast Movement starts today, after a busy day of pre-meetings yesterday. The largest podcast gathering in the world is in Orlando FL, USA between now and the end of Friday. The main stage will be streaming live throughout. We're there too!
• The International Podcast Association held its first board meeting at Podcast Movement last night. It's a brand new group that seeks to bring together the podcast community and to support and accelerate the growth and success of every individual and organisation within podcasting. The group's website contains a survey to help set the group's priorities.
• Spotify has brought their platform, called Spotify for Podcasters, out of beta. The enhanced podcaster portal offers a new blog, support for teams, and most interestingly - a way to discover "the top music artists that their podcast listeners play on Spotify". Podnews listeners like Taylor Swift at #1, and Elton John at #2. Disappointing.

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• We reported on Triton Digital receiving IAB Certification earlier this week. The company has now published details: the certification is for the Triton Podcast Metrics tool, and Triton's Tap ad server. Podtrac have also published detail of their Certification,
• HiStudios is a new podcasting content venture from Himalaya. Launched in March, the company is opening studios in Los Angeles CA, USA next month. Partners of HiStudios also receive follower bonuses for every person who follows their podcast on the Himalaya app.
• Group Nine Media, owner of brands including NowThis and Thrillist, have signed with iHeartMedia to bring an exclusive portfolio-wide podcast slate to the iHeartPodcast Network.
• Spreaker has launched a content development program for podcasters. Called BLOOM, the first podcast partner is Flatrock, a true crime podcast; five podcast launches are expected by the end of this year.
• Simplecast has added analytics for their popular web-based player.
• RadioPublic have added "tipping on the web", a new tool for users of their Podsite podcast website product. RadioPublic don't take a cut of your donations.
• More Banana Podcasts is a network of women-led producers, making edgy, fun comedy shows. Expanding to ten shows in the past year, they're crowdfunding to help them continue to expand.

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• Spreaker Prime: Sistah Speak: Claws is a podcast devoted to the TNT series, Claws. Sistah A, Sistah J, Sistah K, and Sistah LM are using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut hosting costs.
• Healthcare in the US costs an arm and a leg, so there's a podcast looking at the price to pay. Hosted by Dan Weissmann, it's just wrapped up season two, with a third season coming in the next few months. (Blubrry)
• List Envy collects top 5 lists from "actors, writers, musicians, comedians, scientists and podcasters" - as long as both guest and host Mark Steadman agree. A podcast for the professionally curious, it launched this week. (Podiant)
• The Financial Times has rebranded their culture podcast to Culture Call. A transatlantic-hosted podcast, it interviews people who they believe are shifting culture. (FT / Acast)

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• Commercial music is coming to podcasts, according to a pre-announcement. SoundExchange and PodcastMusic are set to announce a service "to provide a new solution for the rapidly growing podcast industry to secure music with fully integrated global licenses". The service is set to launch next year; the press release says that "participation in this service by publishers, labels, and other rights owners is on a voluntary basis." The announcement will be made on Thursday at Podcast Movement.
• Libsyn, Triton Digital and Podtrac are now IAB Certified.
  • "We believe we had a responsibility to the industry to be officially certified by the IAB Tech Lab", said Laurie Sims, Libsyn's President.
  • Podtrac is due to post a detailed article on its website this morning with more detail of their certification.
• The BBC have announced that they'll remove their live radio streams from TuneIn for listeners within the UK, citing a lack of listener data. However, podcasts will remain on the platform. They've also announced further enhancements to their BBC Sounds app, adding more new categories and support for Chromecast. They removed their podcasts from Google Podcasts in March.

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• UK radio broadcaster Bauer has decided to withdraw from DAX, preferring to sell its audio advertising itself through a relaunched service called Bauer InStream. The company claims it's a brand safety issue; DAX is operated by its main UK competitor, Global.
• Is YouTube really the #1 destination for podcasts? Here's a sneak preview from the Canadian Podcast Listener with more information from the hundreds of people they surveyed who said just that. "What we’re learning about podcast listening on YouTube could create some strategic opportunities for podcast networks and content creators."
• ART19's targeted podcast marketplace now includes more than 200 shows, the company has announced.
• The New York Post is launching a celebrity news podcast, called Sources Say. It'll be represented by sales house Cabana.
• EditPoint is a new iPhone app that may help podcasters give notes to their audio editors - allowing you to make timestamped notes to send to others. It has a 14-day free trial.
• AWS CloudFront doesn't automatically compress RSS feeds (the documentation notes it will compress an incorrect application/xml+rss mimetype, but doesn't compress the correct application/rss+xml mimetype. Your Editor clearly has too much time on his hands, but he's reported it, and AWS say it's on the roadmap to be fixed.
• We reported in May that US clothing retailer Betabrand hosts weekly live podcasts in-store. There's more information in a retail website. "The podcasts and related social posts introduce Betabrand to an audience 100x the number of shoppers who’d visit the store on any given evening."

• Spreaker Prime: Spawn on me is the internet’s definitive video game podcast featuring and spotlighting gamers of color. The host, Kahlief Adams, is using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut hosting costs.

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• Children's content producer in the UK Fun Kids has launched a podcast network, incorporating its own shows and other providers including Storynory and The Week Junior.
• RadioPublic has unveiled a proposal for a new technical protocol called PodPass. The "simple protocol" could enable, for example, access to subscription podcasts, or bonus content, in your favourite podcast app. (So perhaps you'd subscribe to Fiasco, a premium podcast on Luminary, be a supporter of Alba Salix Royal Physician and get bonus content, and also get a podcast as part of your subscription to the Economist ... but get all this content in Pocket Casts.)
• The IAB has unveiled details of Digital Content NewFronts West, in early September. Podcast hosting company ART19 are one of the speaking companies, in an event to connect digital publishers with ad agencies.
  • Expect to see more podcast hosts gain IAB Certification today. We're here on Twitter.

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• Podcast Ad Reps, a podcast sales representation firm for indie podcasters, is benefiting from added focus as the company's founders concentrate full-time on the service.
• ESPN claim their podcast audience increased 17% year-on-year in July. Additionally, content created specifically for podcasts grew their downloads 25%. The data is from Podtrac.
• On Friday, we listed a special feed, full of podcast trailers (to help you find a brand new podcast to listen to). Today, another one to manually add to your podcatcher: the top 5 voted podcast episodes from Podhunt.
• As people begin travelling to Podcast Movement, Ma'ayan Plaut writes how to market yourself at podcast conferences. We'll be at #PM19, from late Tuesday afternoon.
• Tool: Compare your podcast's cover art with to other shows in your category. Written by Justin Jackson of Transistor.
• Event: PodcastFestival 2019 from the Podcast Netwerk, in the Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 28 September. Speaking will be Tim Howard, EP of Reply All.
  • Also in Amsterdam, Storytelling in the digital age, with Leon Neyfakh from Slow Burn, on 10 September. Unexpectedly, Podnews will be in the audience too!

Thank you to Danny in Cape Town, South Africa for becoming our latest personal supporter. Danny's working on "a podcast-related product". Be like Danny.

• Formerly of 99% Invisible and NPR and now host of Bellwether, Sam Greenspan did a Reddit AMA last week. Among many things, we learn that he was born with the name Gordon.

  I hope that the idea of what a podcast is begin(s) to transform. Right now they're treated kind of like TV shows—they come out on a regular schedule, or have seasons, and have a very specific format. What would podcasting look like if they were thought of more like indy movies? Or records?

• 9to5mac wonder out loud what Apple's motivations are in podcasting.

  My theory is Apple wants to keep Spotify from getting enough power to take over the industry. Apps like Overcast and Castro are good for the industry in Apple’s mind. They keep the market open. An Overcast customer is not a Spotify podcast user.

• In case you missed it, here's what our Editor thinks Apple should do next, writing personally on Medium.

• Spreaker Prime: The Blume Saloon is a "hilarious sort-of book club with Alison Michael and Jody Worthington", making their way through Judy Blume's books, one by one. They're using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut hosting costs.
• Futility Closet covers forgotten stories from the pages of history. It's hosted by Greg Ross, who kindly just increased his personal support for Podnews. Be like Greg (Libsyn)
• Unusually Short Stories may hold the record for the shortest podcast in the world: daily updates, never more than 30 seconds. (Transistor)
• Tempest - moving stories about life, people, and cars - starts its second season today. The first episode is a gritty tale about a pool shark with a penchant for Jeeps and a very long night in a lonely mountain town. (Acast)
• Eater's Digest is new, promising the wildest, most important stories from restaurants and kitchens around the world. (Vox Media / Eater / Megaphone)
• The Elevate Music Podcast aims to educate and inform musicians about the wellbeing and health issues they may face. "Studies have shown that pop musicians feel unsupported in their careers with health and wellbeing issues", says the host, Lucy Heyman. (Elevate Music / Help Musicians / Wisebuddah / Audioboom)

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• Google have officially announced that podcast episodes will now appear in Google Search for users searching in the US in English. "We’ll soon add the ability for publishers to specify a playback destination, such as a third-party website or app," the announcement says - perhaps for companies like the BBC and Radio France who deliberately blocked Google Podcasts.
  • What Google giveth, Google taketh away - outside the US, searches for "This American Life" or even "Podnews" currently have no play buttons for podcasts within search. (Compare a US search and an Australian one). We hope they're back soon.
  • Podnews's Editor, James Cridland, is moderating What Google means for podcasters at Podcast Movement (Friday 10am, Gatlin E6). The session promises "a technical dive into Google’s recent moves in podcasting, including discoverability and SEO"; we'll have speaker information soon.
• Will we get music licensing for podcasts? Maybe - a trailed announcement, apparently from SoundExchange and Podcast Music, failed to materialise today. A deleted story cached by our RSS reader named the two companies, claiming it is an "integrated global licensing solution" for podcasting, but we have no further details.
• Apple have written to podcasters, letting them know that the new categories are now live, and giving some tips to maximise your show's potential on the platform.
  • Meanwhile, Spotify continues to take Apple Podcast listeners away from the platform. Voxnest reports that in July, podcast listeners in Austria, Czechia and Romania are now preferring to use Spotify over Apple Podcasts.

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• Podcast host Libsyn saw a 26% increase in new podcasts hosted by Libsyn in the first six months of 2019. The company says the growth is fueled by celebrity podcasters.
• Glow, a subscription podcast platform we first mentioned in April, has raised US$2.3m in funding. It's already used by over a hundred podcasts.
• US broadcaster Cumulus, the owner of Westwood One, saw 5.9% revenue growth in Q1 2019, driven by growth in podcasting, according to their investor call. They claim 52 million downloads for March 2019 (which would put them at #5 in Podtrac's rankings); and that their podcasting business is profitable.
• US broadcaster Entercom claimed in its investor call that its purchases this week of Pineapple Street and Cadence13 will give it more than 150 million monthly downloads; beating NPR's 141m figure and becoming the largest podcaster in the world.
• US broadcaster iHeartRadio is to broadcast podcasts on broadcast radio every Sunday night. Sunday Night Podcasts will be produced in different versions for different radio formats. The Verge reports that over 270 of iHeart's stations are being told to broadcast the show: "it is a strong recommendation from us centrally," says Conal Byrne, president of the iHeartPodcast Network.
• Dan Misener has built a podcast trailer podcast feed, for avid podcast listeners who want to keep abreast of new podcasts.
• Congratulations to the Horse Radio Network, which celebrated its 11th anniversary this week. Glenn Hebert sends us a blizzard of numbers: 8,000 + episodes, 11,000+ guests, 5,900 hours of programming, currently 32 hosts, 33 sponsors and 16 active shows.
• Advice: How to run a podcast booth at an event (The Podcast Host)
• The Dublin Podcast Festival has announced its lineup - it's in November. Tickets go on sale on Monday.
• InsideRadio/PodcastNewsDaily has published The Most Powerful People In Podcasting. Conal Byrne, president of the iHeartPodcast Network, is deservedly at #1. For the record, the publication is owned by iHeartRadio.

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• Spreaker Prime: True Crime Bullsh**t is a serialized, investigative podcast exploring meticulous and enigmatic serial killer Israel Keyes. it's hosted by Josh Hallmark, He's using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut his hosting costs.
• Sobre Podcasting, is a new Spanish-language show "for all those obsessed with podcasting, keeping you updated with everything you need to know about the podcasting industry from a less U.S.-centric point of view". Sponsored by Libsyn, it's presented by Elsie Escobar. (Libsyn)
• Retail is your business is a new business podcast from MouthMedia Network, launched after their Fashion is your business podcast made it to 300 episodes. (Omny Studio)
• It's back, baby. The Ron Burgundy Podcast returns for a new season, starting with Kamala Harris, a US presidential candidate. (iHeartRadio / Megaphone)

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• Entercom, a large US radio broadcaster that owns 235 stations, has bought podcast studio Pineapple Street Media for US $18m, and bought the 55% of Cadence13 it didn't already own, valuing the company at $50m, according to the Wall Street Journal. Pineapple Street Media will be re-christened Pineapple Street Studios as part of the deal.
  • In a separate announcement, Entercom has also announced the launch of the RADIO·COM Sports Digital Network, consisting of live programming and podcasts.
• Meanwhile, US radio giant iHeartRadio have announced plans to translate and launch many of their hit podcasts in multiple languages. In the first wave, they'll translate six podcasts into "Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, German and more".
• Westwood One's founder Norm Pattiz now owns PodcastOne, who have launched a new, always-free, podcast hosting platform for independent podcasters. LaunchpadDM promises that podcasters retain full ownership of their podcast and relationships with podcast aggregators, and when a show "begins to gain significant listenership, the creator may be offered the opportunity to become an official PodcastOne partner, including production and sales resources and support".

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• Audiences prefer shorter episodes and familiar hosts, according to a US survey. The survey also claims just 10% of US adults listen to podcasts several times a week. Edison Research suggests the number is more than twice that.
• Later today, we're expecting an announcement about music licensing in podcasts. Follow Podnews on Twitter to stay in touch.
• Luminary are "thrilled with the interest they've seen" since launch, according to a piece in The Daily Dot.
• Libsyn has announced a new global partnership to distribute podcasts on Deezer, the global music streaming service. Deezer has 14m users. Blubrry will be doing similar next week. (Deezer all the places to put your podcasts, including, yes, Deezer).
• Podcast host Transistor has added a new embeddable player that supports multiple episodes. (Not with Transistor? Here are embedded players you can use).
• Wavve has launched free "Wavve Link pages" with an episodes page - here's ours - including links to subscribe and more information. Here's where to claim yours
• Monocle, which publishes a number of different podcasts, is launching a new daily podcast. The Monocle Minute starts this Monday (though isn't, yet, in Apple Podcasts). Monocle also produces The Monocle Daily, which is currently on haitus.
• At Podcast Movement, CEntrance will be showing off the MicPort Pro 2, a "portable professional recording interface for your laptop, tablet, or smartphone".
• Evergreen Podcasts is the first podcast company in history to receive Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credits.
• Dave Zohrob from Chartable has spotted a new section in Google search - a podcast episode search result, complete with play buttons, which appeared on a desktop Google search for "podcast charts". We see it too, but only in an incognito window for some reason.

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• Spreaker Prime: Jade and XD describe their podcast as "the blackest show about nothing" - offering social commentary on anything and everything. They're using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• Condé Nast men's lifestyle publication GQ has officially launched its Airplane Mode podcast on Megaphone. The podcast, about living healthier and smarter, initially surfaced in May. (Megaphone)
• Inside Podcasting launches next week: Skye Pillsbury interviews podcast hosts about their craft, including Martine Powers from Post Reports, Leon Neyfakh from Slow Burn, and Jason Calcanis from This Week In Startups. (Skye, mine's a pint of a decent craft IPA). (Libsyn)
• The subject of Countdown to Capture, a podcast from the Newport Beach Police Department, has been captured, partially after tipoffs from podcast listeners. British-born Peter Chadwick, 55, was captured in Mexico and has been extradited to the US to face trial.

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• Breaking: Veritone One has announced Influencer Bridge, a pay-per-performance advertising platform for podcasters, YouTubers and Instagrammers. Podcasters earn money once a transaction takes place – for instance, when a listener uses a podcast's unique promo code to purchase an advertised product. You can sign up today.
• Next week at Podcast Movement, Cleanfeed is launching what they call the first ever browser-based multitrack recorder, good for editing remote interviews and adding effects like noise reduction. (It'll be at booth 325).
• Podcast Movement's main stage will be streamed live all day Wednesday and Thursday. The last event of Thursday is a live taping of the New Media Show, with Todd Cochrane (Blubrry), Rob Greenlee and Rob Walch (Libsyn), Lindsey Bowen (Pandora) and Sarah van Mosel (Stitcher).

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• Podthon is a free virtual summit for podcasters, which will be held this weekend. Podthon ’19 will showcase more than a dozen speakers at all levels of the independent podcasting industry, says a press release.
• Posting on his personal Facebook account, Dave Jackson reveals that podcast host Talkshoe does not offer a 301 redirect if you wish to leave their service. Our article on choosing a podcast host suggests checking that you can redirect your RSS feed directly from the dashboard; but it's unusual for a company to simply not offer the option at all.
• PRX have confirmed Charlotte Cooper as their new Director of Audience Growth. She joins from New York Public Radio. PRX have also confirmed Jason Saldanha (WBEZ, Amazon, The Chicago Humanities Festival) as Content Director.
• Google Podcasts has updated its web interface, unfortunately breaking the ability for podcast hosts (or us) to check whether podcasts are correctly listed in the platform. We've removed those checks from our podcast pages.
• Posting on Medium, our Editor, James Cridland, has written his analysis of the recently announced Open Downloads initiative.
• 50 podcasters share the tactics they used to grow their shows in a well-researched advice piece from Buzzsprout.

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• The Audiocraft Podcast is back for a new season, from the recent festival in Sydney NSW, Australia. Expect episodes from Ian Chillag (Everything is Alive), Adam Shand (The Trials of the Vampire), Lorena Allam (Guardian Australia) and Avery Trufelman (99% Invisible) Podnews was a media partner. (Acast)

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• AWeber has announced its second Beyond the Podcast Virtual Summit on September 18th. It's free, and will include six podcasting experts including Captivate's Mark Asquith, Dave Jackson and Harry Duran.
• Coleman Insights have revealed that the biggest show in podcasting is The Joe Rogan Experience, which was mentioned, unaided, by 14% of 1,000 (US) podcast listeners they asked. Serial was in second place, at 6%. "The leading brand is top-of-mind with only 14% of podcast listeners, and he started his show 10 years ago", says CEO Warren Kurtzman.
• Stitcher have announced their Q3 2019 slate for Stitcher Originals and Earwolf. Expect new shows from Jameela Jamil, Aasif Mandvi, Joel Kim Oster and Mitra Jouhari; Verified investigates the potential dangers of the sharing economy; new seasons of The Dream, LeVar Burton Reads, Dead Ass with Khadeen & Devale, Science Rules! with Bill Nye, and more.

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• NBC News profiles Earios, the "first all-female podcast network".
• RadioINK reports that Beasley Podcast Network, owned by a US radio network, has achieved "10m downloads in the quarter", an increase of 15% from 2018. There are 40 shows in the network.
• US radio sales company Focus360 has invested in Lipstick & Vinyl, a podcast network that focuses on delivering underrepresented voices.
• Cumulus Media's Westwood One Podcast Network has hired four new producers. Madena Parwana (ex Bloomberg) is Senior Producer, Core Content; Lou Pellegrino (Cadence13) is Senior Producer, Development; Rebekah Wineman (WSJ) is Audio Mixing Engineer/Studio Technician; and Sarah McCrory (Fox News Channel) is Associate Producer.
• In Washington DC, Vox Media are looking for a part-time Engagement Manager for Podcasts. (Podjobs is free for your job posting, too).
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• Spreaker Prime: Switch, Pivot or Quit is a podcast that lets you sit in with your girlfriends and chat all things career changes and challenges. These influential women often find themselves in Apple Podcasts’s curated list of “Inspiring Women.” They're using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• Geek Speak has, as guest in its latest episode, Brad Smith from podcast host Simplecast. His first computer? A 386. Your Editor's was a Commodore PET, young man.
• All The Wiser "uses the power of personal stories to inspire you to live your life to the fullest", and donates $2,000 to a nominated charity on behalf of each guest. This week's guest will be author Nora McInerny, on what to do when someone you know is going through something really terrible. (Acast)
• ArtsVote 2020 is a US politics podcast, being hosted by musician Ben Folds. (Anchor)
• The (French-language) TDActu NFL Podcast is inviting its audience to come and take part in episode 300 at the Hard Rock Café in Paris. (Soundcloud)

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• Podsights have released an Open Downloads specification, designed to be open and comparable with others. They have cited their problems with the IAB v2 standard, and explained that they have "decided to open source a spec for how we count downloads and share our blacklists with the podcast community as a whole." The company has also released code to calculate downloads according to the simple spec on Github.
• 'Podcast Live: Politics' is returning to the UK this Autumn on Saturday 5th October. Already part of the live event is For the Many with Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith; Chopper's Brexit Podcast; and The Week unwrapped. Tickets are available today.
• Who's the best podcast host? is a question often seen in podcasting Facebook groups. We'd like to answer that question by helping people make an informed choice. Feedback on this is very welcome.

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70 Million is back for Season 2 — 70 million adults in the United States have a criminal record. How did we get here and what do we do now? The open-source podcast goes deeper this season into how people, neighborhoods, counties, and cities are breaking cycles of incarceration by trying bold solutions--starting with the local jail. Find episodes, toolkits, and other resources at 70MillionPod.com, and hear us on Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic or wherever you listen. (70 Million is produced by Lantigua Williams & Co. and funded by the Safety and Justice Challenge at the MacArthur Foundation.)

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• Pod Hunt has quietly soft-launched, describing itself as "Product Hunt for podcasts".
• HelloCast, a podcast planning tool, has unveiled enhancements and new pricing plans, including a free forever plan for solo podcasters.
• Cast Feed Validator has released an updated, v3, version of their podcast RSS validation service, which checks for a number of new issues including Apple Podcasts categories. (We've added links from our podcast pages, too).
• Podtrac has published July 2019's top podcast publishers. It's opt-in and US-only, but NPR has increased its lead over iHeartRadio.
• Event: The New Media Summit, in September, in San Diego CA, USA, is the fifth such event, where "150 attendees have the opportunity to take center stage to pitch 40 top podcasters and get booked on their shows on the spot".

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• Podcast interviews need to take the next step forward, says HelloCast's Brandon Hull:

  "The world doesn’t need another 60-minute interview that’s bland or lacking in any flair from the host, with all the pressure put upon the guest.

• What does podcast addiction look like? Stuart McGurk from GQ magazine subscribes to at least 50 podcasts.

  I can’t remember the last time I had a bowel movement that wasn’t accompanied by the voice of Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s former chief speechwriter, who hosts Pod Save America.

• Spreaker Prime: Southern Fried True Crime explores historical and contemporary true crime in the South. Join native Tennessean, Erica Kelley, and her Southern sass to see just how fried the justice system can be in the Deep South. She’s using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut her hosting costs.
• If you love jokes and hate misogyny, this is your podcast. Dude talks to a lady has reached episode 100, with comic Janet Hyde inviting (mostly) male comics to tell her a joke about women or gender, and having "surprisingly intellectual conversations with men that really need to happen." (Blubrry)

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• After nearly ten days without any categories in Apple Podcasts, the new categories are now live in the company's apps. Our own podcast's listing is correctly in the new Daily News category, in the iOS and new macOS versions of the Apple Podcasts app.
  • Are Apple's new podcast categories not updated in your podcast host? We'd like to hear about it if so. Email in confidence to updates@podnews.net and we'll do some digging as to why.
  • Apple Podcasts on the web has upgraded their audio player. It now offers skip forward and backward.
• She Podcasts LIVE has unveiled highlighted speakers and details for the event, in Atlanta GA, USA, in early October, including the chance to pitch a show to PRX and two podcast ad agencies.
• Want to get together and talk podcasting? The Podcast Fans Global Meetup is on Saturday August 17th, wherever you are.

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• In the UK, podcast listening is almost as popular as listening to "digital music tracks", and for young people podcasting's already beaten music, according to Music:Ally. "Digital Music Tracks" in this context is your own MP3s; music services like Spotify remain rather more popular, though.
• Libsyn has a new website. "This does not change how you create a podcast," adds one of the support team.
• Podchaser has published more information about their ratings and creator credits now appearing within Player FM.
• Secrets is the theme of the latest podcast listening list from Podcast Brunch Club, which is like book club but for podcasts. The playlist includes four episodes from TED Radio Hour, Family Secrets, The Tip Off, and Showcase from Radiotopia. You can join in on the discussion by joining one of PBC's 60+ in-person chapters around the world or by participating in their virtual chapter.
• Social podcast app Breaker is beta-testing on Android. AndroidPolice get a sneak preview. (Thought: with Swoot, Breaker, and at least one other 'social' podcast app we're aware of in the works, any chance of a shared social graph between them?)
• Scout FM has added support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The app is a "podcast radio" service with curated playlists.
• LA-based business content publisher Podco Media Networks has launched a podcast content network, and acquired two existing podcasts, Confessions of a Marketer and The Innovation Podcast.
• Independent podcast network Relay FM is five years old, and they're celebrating with some nice t-shirts.
• Royalty news: The Queens' grand-daughter, Princess Eugenie, is to launch a podcast highlighting modern slavery; in musical royalty, Dolly Parton is doing a podcast with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad; and in podcast royalty, Adam Curry is seemingly launching a brand new podcast, posting a pilot episode to Twitter.
• Advice: Ryan Christoffel explains how he edits his podcast on an iPad; growing your audience with a podcast survey (The Podcast Host)

• Our open list of podcast user-agents is also significantly updated on the Open Podcast Analytics Working Group repository on Github, and there's a Slack group we'd welcome anyone to. updates@podnews.net for an invite.

• Our podcast pages normally mention who hosts the podcast by examining the audio URL: we've now also open-sourced that data for others to contribute to it if it's useful.

• Spreaker Prime: Forth and Ten is a “sport-ish” focused podcast hosted by three comedians. A recent listener said, “They say laughter is the best medicine, and I can’t get enough. My coworkers think I’m crazy because I listen on earbuds, so it looks like I think thin air is really funny!” They’re using Spreaker Prime to make hosting and advertising easier.
• Coinciding with National Missing Persons Week, The Disappearance of Des is the story of Desmond Francis Carr, who disappeared 40 years ago today. There's thought to be only been one sighting of him since: until, that is, this podcast uncovered another one. (Nova / Acast)
• The NewsWorthy was one of the first podcasts to get investment from Podfund. In an interview with the company, Erica Mandy gives advice and detail about how she puts together her podcast. (She's also a Podnews personal supporter.)
• Top-10 Apple Podcasts podcast Talking Clean with Irene covers how to live a sustainable, natural and toxin-free life - everything from palm oil sustainability to how to store and preserve your vegetables longer. (Wavelength Creative / Nourished Life / Omny Studio)

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• Marketiers and 4DC have released the first part of a report into podcasting and the UAE. 16% of the adult population of the United Arab Emirates are weekly podcast listeners, the data suggests. The full data is released later this month.
• Podcast app Castbox has launched Livecast, a free audio streaming service that lets podcasters go live with the tap of a button. Podnews went live on this service a month or so ago, and it worked well as a method of hearing from listeners.
• Spotify have released their first quarter 2019 earnings results, and a fancy infographic. Revenue is up 31% year-on-year. Of note from the report:

  Our podcast audience grew 50% quarter-on-quarter and has nearly doubled since the start of the year ... We are seeing increased demand for podcast advertising ... Over time, our ambition is to reinvent the podcasting ad experience by building a new tech stack to enable targeting, measurement, and reporting capabilities like we have for our core Ad-Supported offering.

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• Data: Nielsen reports that podcasting is growing in Canada, with 33% of Canadians saying they're listening to more podcast content than they did a year ago. "39% of teens say they spend less time listening to music because of their podcast consumption".
• UK podcast agency 4DC has signed a partnership with Fresh Air Productions to expand their podcast offer.
• TuneIn has a new CEO, Juliette Morris, who was previously the company's CMO.
• Podcast host and streaming company StreamGuys have announced a comprehensive API for their live stream repurposing and podcast management system, SGrecast.
• Advice: Writing for Podcast Movement, Dave Jackson reckons that you should stop using your "limited technical knowledge" as a reason to not do a podcast. Amy Woods highlights how My Dad Wrote A ... has repurposes the hell out of their content - content that, in the beginning, was repurposed anyway.
• There are now more than 731,000 podcasts in Apple Podcasts, says My Podcast Reviews.
• It’s now day nine without any categories in Apple Podcasts apps while the company reworks them. Do they need a new computer?

• Spreaker Prime: The Real Weird Sisters is hosted by two wizards in training who can’t get enough of Harry Potter. Slytherin to the wonderful world of Hogwarts as each episode digs deep into a chapter from the beloved series. They’re using Spreaker Prime to increase exposure and maximize monetization.
• Rick and Morty are coming back next month. Pickle Me This is a Rick and Morty podcast, "binging our way through seasons 1 and 2" with show news and behind the scenes details. (Bald Move / Starburns Audio / Megaphone)
• The team behind The Fantasy Footballers - a fantasy football podcast with over 100m downloads - have been interviewed by Sport Techie on how they engage with their fans. (Libsyn)
• Thinking Freely is a new podcast from the ACLU of Maryland, "to inform Marylanders about what’s happening politically – from the courts to the streets – so they can get involved and realize a more equitable Maryland for all."

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• How much does it cost to host a podcast on Amazon AWS? We work out the numbers so you don't have to. Mostly - it can be very expensive indeed, and you lose so many features it's not worth it. Unless...
• Michael Barbaro's trademark ... stresses and ... pauses? They're written into his script, which is single line-spaced and all in capitals. Sadly missing from this script: how he writes "Here's what else youneedtoknwtdy".
• Pandora reckon that discoverability continues to be an issue for podcasting. Speaking in an investor call, the owner of Pandora, SiriusXM's CEO Jim Meyer, says that podcasting is "like a flea market," and that content "is up there, but nobody can find it easily". "Right now, it seems to be a race as who can put the most stuff up," he also said, "which personally, I don't believe is what is going to win." Pandora currently lists 3,000 podcasts (including Podnews).
  • The company highlighted a recent agreement to do a radio stream with instructors of a fitness cycle brand. "I thought you're amazing. It's so creative," gushes an analyst from Merrill Lynch in response.

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• Podcast host Blubrry have announced the launch of full, dynamic ad insertion. CEO Todd Cochrane calls it "another podcast component that creators can easily manage at an affordable price".
• Advertisers are opening their wallets to podcasting, says Jeff Vidler from Audience Insights, with new data from the company's recent work with Westwood One and Pacific Content. Meanwhile, if you're a subscriber, the Financial Times claims that the future of podcasting will be highly personalised, claiming "the fusion of great content and artificial intelligence may herald the arrival of a voice guru: a trusted companion and adviser, armed with data from past listening choices, who anticipates listeners’ desires better than they can."
• Magellan takes a look at advertising within the new Apple Podcasts category of true crime. The most frequent advertiser is hair-care brand Madison Reed.
• Got (exactly) the same name as another podcast? Spotify won't let you in, it transpires - it rejects your podcast if it shares the name of one already on its platform.
• A 50 page report on getting started in podcasting, of particular interest to current magazine and newspaper publishers, has been published. It's free.
• Radiotopia is adding two new podcasts next month. They've acquired AdultISH for its second season, and unveil Passenger List, a fictional mystery thriller about a plane that disappears with 256 passengers on board.
• It’s now day eight without any categories in Apple Podcasts apps while the company reworks them.

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• Spreaker Prime: All Crime No Cattle details the most fascinating true crimes from the Lone Star State. From small to Texas-sized crimes, y’all won’t be able to get enough of these stories. They’re using Spreaker Prime to host for free and make more money.
• Rob Greenlee is a guest of Podcasting Made Easy, delving into the past, present and future of podcasting. (Libsyn)
• Emma's Diary features stand-up comedian and actor Emma Willmann, in a daily podcast recorded from wherever she happens to be. (Anchor)
• The Offside Rule, a football podcast hosted by three women, has been signed by UK radio station JACK Radio - a station that plays music exclusively by female artists - for broadcast every Friday night at 7pm.

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• Spreaker have launched Spreaker Prime, a service that offers free hosting, a 60% cut of advertising sold, and access to Spreaker's podcast marketing team. They describe it as a "white-glove" service. (They're also supporting our "Podcasts" section).
• Nederlandse Podcastluisteraars, research into Dutch podcast consumption, has been released today. In English, here are some of the highlights, notably that the most popular way of discovering new podcasts is "from the host of podcasts I already listen to".
• It’s now day seven without any categories in Apple Podcasts apps while the company reworks them. Spreaker has supported them since last week; podcast app Player FM has completed integration, though points out that their own categories are more detailed. Podnews podcast pages, like this for The Thing About Cars, now display the Apple primary genre (in this case, 'comedy').

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• Podcast host Podigee has launched redesigned, IAB-compliant, "Unified Podcast Analytics". It "not only makes us fully compatible with the IAB guidelines, but also goes much further in some areas - with technical specifications that, in our opinion, have not been described concretely enough by the IAB."
• RadioPublic's Podsite product, which gives any podcast a website, has received a number of updates.
• Jacobs Media has unveiled their schedule for Broadcasters meet Podcasters, a multi-day track at the Podcast Movement 2019 conference in Orlando that promises to "combine the energy and electricity of the podcasting space with the expertise, talent, and reach of the broadcasting world".
• The Dave Ramsey Show has moved offices, to a new, six-story headquarters just outside Nashville TN, USA. Meanwhile, The Willard, a historic hotel in Washington DC, USA, is to get a multimedia production facility later this year.
• Earlier this month we covered Nielsen's Podcast Listener Buying Power Service. Here's more information about it - it aims to understand listeners by the genre of podcasts they listen to.
• Edison Research has won an award for The Infinite Dial, the company's media consumption study.
• Why do people love podcasting? Matty Staudt describes what he calls the three Es of podcasting; Content10x highlights what they call epic podcast repurposing to help promote your podcast; Laura AlOtaibi highlights the do's and don'ts of starting a podcast; how to build a successful podcast (Matt Alder)

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• Spreaker Prime - Switch, Pivot or Quit is a podcast that lets you sit in with your girlfriends and chat all things career changes and challenges. These influential women often find themselves in Apple Podcasts's curated list of "Inspiring Women." They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.
• Do The Right Thing, a comedy panel show, returns for season 7. Guests will include Aisling Bea, Sarah Millican, Miles Jupp and Joe Lycett; they've just posted a best-of compilation of season 1-6. (comedy·co·uk / Acast)
• The Paranormal Podcast is celebrating its fourteenth anniversary today, with 597 episodes to date. The host, Jim Harold, started producing the podcast on July 29th 2005, and went full-time in 2012. (Libsyn)
• How To! with Charles Duhigg is new from Slate. Each week, Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, takes on listeners’ toughest problems and with the help of experts finds the answers to questions you’ve always wanted to ask, but couldn’t. First up is "How to withstand pain". (Megaphone)
• Meditative Story, a "a genre-making podcast that combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with the immediate, science-backed benefits of a mindfulness practice", launches today. (WaitWhat / Thrive Global / ART19)
• The Big Ones, a podcast that ponder life's pressing ethical questions with Earios founders Maria Blasucci and Amanda Lund, has returned for a new season. (Earios / Acast)
• Daditude is a "parenting advice series for dads by dads co-hosted by fathers and Australian media personalities, Vic Lorusso and Al Del Bene". (Global Story Network / Whooshkaa)
• About Time is a look at our complex relationship with time. The second episode, currently out, has a quantum physicist, Carlo Rovelli, clearing up misconceptions about how time works. (Timely app / Buzzsprout)
• Podnews is our own podcast, but we mention it here because it now has bespoke music, thanks to Devaweb. We think it sounds ace.

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• RAJAR, the UK audio measurement company, has published the latest edition of their MIDAS study for summer 2019, which claims 16% of UK adults listen to podcasts weekly. That figure increases to 26% of 15-24 year-olds. The data also says that 92% of all listening to podcasts is done alone: that figure compares with just 54% of live radio. The numbers aren't directly comparable with the Edison Research data seen in other countries.
• It’s now day six without any categories in Apple Podcasts apps while the company reworks them. Omny Studio and Zencast has both announced that they are supporting the new Apple Podcasts categories. Pocket Casts say it intends to support them and suggest publishers adopt them. "Apple’s leadership in the space is still meaningful and the [new] categories do feel like a good step," the CEO Owen Grover told us.
• Podcast app Overcast was updated last week. You can now share up to 90 seconds of a podcast on social media, and it features a better recommendation engine (which no longer uses Twitter).
  • Tip: if your listeners 'star' your podcast in Overcast, it will appear higher in the recommendation results (if you serve dynamic content, here's the Overcast user-agent to tell your Overcast listeners); and if you take a break of a few months, your podcast will disappear altogether from recommendations until you return.

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70 Million is back for Season 2 — 70 million adults in the United States have a criminal record. How did we get here and what do we do now? The open-source podcast goes deeper this season into how people, neighborhoods, counties, and cities are breaking cycles of incarceration by trying bold solutions--starting with the local jail. Find episodes, toolkits, and other resources at 70MillionPod.com, and hear us on Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic or wherever you listen. (70 Million is produced by Lantigua Williams & Co. and funded by the Safety and Justice Challenge at the MacArthur Foundation.)

• Amazon Prime has cancelled Lore after two seasons.
• CNBC Africa focused on the growth of podcasts in the continent, with an interview with Breaking Silences co-host Dominique Alonga.
• PodTales, a "festival of audio drama and fiction podcasting", returns to Cambridge MA, USA on October 20th. It'll be a free event, and promises to bring together fiction podcasters for panel discussions, workshops, and guest spotlights.
• Podnews podcast pages now include ratings from Podchaser, as well as styling work. Here's Hello from the Magic Tavern for you to enjoy.
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Thank you to the Global Story Network - the world's new home for great storytelling - for becoming our most recent corporate supporter. Human connection starts with a story, they say. Be like them.

• How many podcasts will be downloaded by Australians in 2019? Courtney Carthy works out it'll be 780m. He went on to post about what that means for potential revenue in the country:

  Arguably this is another example of podcasts in 2019 being like the internet 20 years ago. Not because it’s in a bubble, but because it hasn’t figured out ways to make money that are also valuable to audiences.

• Justin Lake says that the golden age of podcasts is coming to an end.

  When big money is at stake, history has taught us that what is best for the consumer almost always takes a backseat to what’s best for the media company.

• Timestorm, a podcast selected for the initial PRX Google Podcasts creator program, launches this week. It's an audio fiction podcast with two twelve year-old twins who travel through time to save Puerto Rico's true history. (Cocotazo Media)
• News doesn't have to be miserable and negative. In Happier News is a weekly roundup of positive and happier news stories, from a TV news reporter who spent years reporting the negative. (Anchor)
• Marketing podcast Future Proof interviews Danielle Lee, Spotify's Partner Solutions Global VP, on the company's aspirations - and why marketers should be "leaning in" to audio. (Saïd Business School / Oxford University / Kantar / Libsyn)

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• On Producthunt, we notice a new service called AdBarker: it's a dynamic ad insertion service for your podcast using your existing podcast host, and promises high CPM rates.
• We've learnt that Apple's previously-announced podcast categories were quietly altered earlier this month. Changes include a removal of Arts>Literature, Society & Culture>History and Sports>Outdoor; a new Education>Language Learning; Health is now Health & Fitness; Sports>Fantasy is now Sports>Fantasy Sports; Religion & Spirituality>Other was announced but has since disappeared; and a tweak from TV & Film>Aftershows to TV & Film > After Shows. We've updated our list of the changes.
• It's now day three without any categories in Apple Podcasts apps. There were visible categories on show pages within the new Apple Podcasts desktop app for macOS Catalina, but these have been removed.
  • The new Apple Podcast categories are also live on Simplecast, with some useful information for all of us; and by micro·blog and Fireside. Castos and Seriously Simple Podcasting support is coming early next week. Meanwhile, Spreaker has announced that enterprise users can now exclude ad categories.

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• Player FM has integrated Podchaser ratings in its app
• DiscoverPods has launched the 2019 Podcast Trends Report Survey. Last year, nearly 1,200 people participated - this year, they'd be keen for you to take the survey.
• The BBC's Alexa skill has been improved, allowing you to resume podcasts you were previously listening to on the corporation's BBC Sounds app. While the BBC enhances its Alexa app, the BBC continues to withhold its podcasts from competing Google speakers, after the corporation complained of unfair prominence of Google's own app. Speaking of which...
• Apple has been criticised by the Wall Street Journal for unfair prominence, apparently putting their apps first on Apple's App Store searches.
• Mosaic Media, a talent agency in Los Angeles CA, USA, has launched its own podcast company, Ninth Planet Audio. It's making a number of Luminary exclusive podcasts.
• Targetspot's Dominick Milano has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development in North America. We hope he's got a big business card.
• Shares in Libsyn are cheap - it "trades at half the valuation of its peers", says an article in Seeking Alpha. They're trading at near record levels; double where they were last year.
• In Portuguese, Agencia de Podcast posts What data is relevant in a podcast?. Other hints and tips (in English) include: the importance of getting your feature episode right (RadioPublic); Apple Podcast Provider Pages are a built-in cross-promo opportunity (Pacific Content); and how to find podcast sound effects (ThePodcastHost).

Thank you to John Murch from radionotes who is our latest personal supporter. Based in Adelaide SA, Australia, he produces the Radionotes podcast - where "those in music talk life, and those in life chat music". You should be like John.

• Design podcast Revision Path has been selected as the first podcast to be admitted into the Smithsonian. Eleven of the podcast's 300 episodes have been selected for the museum's permanent collection. (Glitch / Simplecast)
• Season two of iHeartRadio's Hell and Gone delves into the mysterious death of Janie Ward, a 16-year-old high school student who died at a party in 1989 in Marshall AK, USA. (iHeartRadio / School of Humans / Megaphone)
• Would you travel to over twenty US states to do your podcast interviews face-to-face? Andy Levine does, for Second Act Stories. The podcast focuses on people who have made life and career changes, like Jane Canapini who launched a travel blog. (Libsyn)

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• Spotify's winning the battle - enterprise podcast host Voxnest has published an Apple vs Spotify comparison for June 2019, comparing usage on the two podcast apps. Since May, Spotify has become the most popular of the two apps in the Netherlands, Germany and Bulgaria. (Earlier this year, our Editor made some suggestions about how Apple could regain their place.)
• Ten hours after we published yesterday, Apple emailed all podcasters highlighting that their new podcast categories are now live. As we reported, they advised that the category menu (in Apple Podcasts) "may be temporarily removed". Category browsing remains unavailable in apps when we went to press, to the consternation of some podcast publishers.
  • Acast, Buzzsprout, Transistor, Podbean, Captivate and Megaphone are some of the publishers that have switched on the new Apple podcast categories for their users. (We've also shifted to using News > Daily News in our podcast as the primary category.)
• Spotify has purchased a music podcast. A nine month-old podcast The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers will become a Spotify Original; it'll continue to be available on all platforms. (Libsyn)

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• There's a new #1 podcast advertiser in the US, according to Magellan. The top three is #3 Geico, #2 ZipRecruiter, and #1 BetterHelp. BetterHelp is an online counselling service.
• Adswizz has announced that their new software release fully supports the RAD podcast measurement framework. Remote Audio Data (RAD), the output of NPR working with 30 companies, is a method for sharing listening metrics from podcast applications back to publishers.
• YPod is a list of podcasts in the Welsh language, born of frustration that you can't filter by language in any podcast app. It also links to Welsh-language radio. Chwarae teg!
• Amplifi Media and Skyview Networks have partnered to produce branded podcasts and custom audio solutions. Skyview will give clients access to over 5,000 radio stations to help promote their branded podcast or smart speaker skill.
• Indian language internet users are expected to reach 536 million by 2021, leading to a growth in podcasts in Indian languages.
• In Apple Podcasts, this podcast looks good; and it has five stars too. Apple check all new podcast in their directory, right?

• Investment podcast Kindredcast interviewed Hernan Lopez, the CEO of Wondery in early June, in this episode. He praises the listener choice now available with Luminary and Stitcher Premium. (ART19)
• The BBC has launched Deep, Down & Desi: Brown Girls Do It Too, a podcast aimed at opening up conversations surrounding sex among British Asian women. (BBC Asian Network)
• Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop has launched The Beauty Closet, a clean beauty podcast. (Cadence 13 / Megaphone)

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• Apple appears to be in the process of putting their new podcast categories live. They announced them at WWDC earlier this year.
  • The Daily now appears in the "News" category, which was previously called "News & Politics"; however The Wilderness appears to be in the same category under the older "News & Politics" name. They both reference "News & Politics" in their RSS feeds. (The iTunes API that everyone else uses is still returning the old names).
  • Scuba Obsessed is in the brand new 'Wilderness' category. Their RSS feed specifies "Sports & Recreation > Outdoor".
  • Browsing via category appears to have been suspended in Apple Podcasts apps, including the beta Apple Podcasts macOS and iOS 13 apps, and, we understand, iTunes too.
• Blubrry has already activated the new podcast categories in their platform; and we understand Libsyn should follow suit today. The Powerpress Wordpress plugin has a new release to also support the new categories.
• Can't update your categories to the new ones yet? Don't worry: your podcast will not be de-listed.

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• Distorted, a UK audio production and syndication company, has launched a new service to get your podcast on radio stations across the world. The company already produces shows for iHeartMedia, Sirius XM, British Airways and more.
• People don't hate ads. They hate bad ads, according to podcast ad company Zvook, which gives two tips on getting your listeners love your podcast ads.
• Podfan has launched in beta, promising a Patreon-like membership service. We haven't enabled payment, but our page is over here.
• American Public Media has hired Liliana Kim as Managing Director of Podcasts. She starts August 19th. She joins from Viacom, and was formerly at HBO and PBS.
• What podcasts are young people listening to - and how do they discover them? The Los Angeles Times talks to four 'young people' to find out.

Thank you to Mandi Kaye for her kind personal support of Podnews. Mandi is host of Pop Culturally Deprived and many other podcasts in the Eloquent Gushing media network. You should be like Mandi.

• Fancy a podcast consisting of nothing but birdsong? The Radio Birdsong Podcast is just that: first heard on UK radio station Classic FM's test transmissions. (Podbean{
• Black Enterprise focuses on the team behind Earn your Leisure, which was launched in January, now has "more than 6,500 subscribers". (Anchor)

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