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• Gimlet and Spotify have adapted their scripted series Sandra for a set of new markets. Sara (in France), Susi (in Germany), Sonia (in Mexico) and Sofia (in Brazil) claim they are "the first truly localised adaptations ever made of a hit fictional podcast". While Wondery's Dr Death was first to produce translated versions, Spotify are making these adaptations in the countries themselves, and adapting for "culture and nuance". Episodes drop July 7.
• First look: Want to win over $100,000-worth of prizes? Supercast has launched their Paid to Podcast competition, with a grand prize including cash, a trip to San Diego to have lunch with Pat Flynn, promotion and a pro ticket to Podcast Movement 2021. All podcasts that enter will be considered for an investment offer from Supercast's investors, Tiny. You can enter now.
• After WWDC, Apple executives have been making appearances on podcasts. Apple Marketing VP Bob Borchers and Product Manager Ronak Shah appeared on Upgrade; Apple SVP Craig Federighi talked on Waveform; John Gruber's The Talk Show snagged Federighi and VP Greg Joswiak. Apple Podcasts' boss Ben Cave? Not so much. We need more aloof British accents in podcasting, Ben.

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• Audio sales house DAX has teamed up with actor Kevin Connolly to launch a podcast network. Action Park Media will focus "on podcasts in all genres and creating intellectual property to develop for television and film".
• The latest Triton Digital Podcast Report for Latin America has been released. The top 3 was unchanged: total downloads for the top 3 slightly fell (by half a percent).
  • Edison Research release their Latino Podcast Listener Report later today in a webinar, focusing on US latino audiences.
• YouTube temporarily removed a chess "podcast" for being 'harmful or dangerous'. The Agadmator Podcast was discussing the current pandemic; it appears an automated algorithm pulled the live stream after it spotted the c-word.
  • Clearly that rule isn't for everyone: a recent edition of the Joe Rogan Experience appears to have contained "advice" on how to avoid catching COVID-19: advice not backed up by peer-reviewed medical evidence and in one case entirely disproven. Neither YouTube, Apple or Rogan's host have removed that, though.
• Maple Media, who bought podcast app Player FM earlier this year, are about to buy another, unnamed, podcast app - according to the Los Angeles Business Journal, which claims that "podcast biz is heating up".
• JustPod, a podcast newsletter covering the Chinese podcasting scene, has published a new edition. It focuses on the removal of two popular podcast apps from the Chinese Apple App Store, and the podcasts that are available in the country.
• My RØDE Cast, a competition to win $150,000-worth of podcasting equipment from RØDE, had 1,778 entries. The winner was A Latto Thought, an upcoming podcast that 'dismantles post-racial myths'. The press release links to every entry.
• Data: We earlier worked out that the BBC had 117m podcast downloads per month globally in Q1. The BBC iPlayer, the corporation's TV service, saw 570m UK-based stream requests in the month of May, according to a press release. The UK often appears towards the bottom of global podcast consumers: but Edison Research's Infinite Dial survey, which would give more comparable data, isn't compiled in the country.
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• Radio Days Africa, a radio-and-podcasting conference normally held in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a free virtual event this year, and runs over most of July. It's free to attend.

• New to podcast advertising? Five things you should know, from Adam King, Group Sales Head at Acast AUNZ.
• The Second Captains Podcast has 12,766 paying subscribers, each paying €5 (US $5.62) per month. Here are other examples of podcasts from Ireland that use Patreon and other forms of membership.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Maria Konnikova is a journalist, a best-selling author and an international poker champion: a title she earnt while researching her latest book. Fans of poker and human motivation should listen to her interview
• A senior US Veteran Affairs official has been fired, she says, for making a podcast. Politico report that Allison Gill produced Mueller She Wrote, and performed a number of live shows, while on medical leave.
• Being a podcaster is a skill. "I had to learn how to be a better communicator", said Joe Rogan in a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with Jon Stewart. A full round-up of the show is in the Podcast Notes newsletter.

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• What's next after iOS and Android? KaiOS is the third most popular mobile operating system in the world, aiming to help the 3.5bn people who aren't yet connected. In India, 70 million KaiOS phones have been sold (costing US $7.85 each). PodLP is the first podcast app for the platform; Thomas Barrasso writes about the development experience - and tells Podnews that Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania are among the top countries using the app so far. It makes money from ads and podcast sponsorship.
• First look: Free podcast host Sounder has launched the Sounder Discovery Suite, which they call the first-ever keyword-based analytics tool, along with Audio SEO and Soundbite Sharing, all free for creators. The release also marks the launch of a new player, tech stack, and Sounder’s move out of beta.
• EW Scripps is, apparently, looking at selling Stitcher ($). Podnews is told, by someone familiar with the matter, that the company has been looking for buyers for some time.

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• Audiocraft, an Australian podcasting conference, has announced ites first set of speakers. The event, normally held in Sydney NSW, will be virtual this year.
• iHeartMedia and VICE News are to produce a new show. VICE News Reports, will be a new weekly investigative series covering critical news subjects from around the world. It'll launch in Q3/2020. Condé Nast has also announced a podcast network.
• The Independent Filmmaker Project has extended its 2020 submissions process to close on July 1. IFP is seeking innovative audio creators in any stage of development to participant in IFP Week 2020’s inaugural Audio Hub. Selected projects will meet with top distributors, financiers, and programmers.
• Voxnest is planning a Podcast Advertising Industry Summit: free to virtually attend, it's on June 30, 1pm-3pm Eastern.
• Where's iVoox in your podcast stats? Probably nowhere: but there's good news: "iVoox applications use an anonymous user identifier on each mobile device for requests and they are not identified with their own user agent, but we plan to implement it soon."
• Megaphone is now hosting podcasts from 'Noisier', a Bristol UK based production company. Their first show, Real Narcos, has topped the charts in many different countries.
• Zoom is to offer end-to-end encryption to all its users after work by the EFF.
• I don't care about Kim Kardashian's Spotify deal, says Africa Podfest's Paula Rogo, who is to write a regular Medium column about the African podcasting scene.

• Podcast Movement looks at How podcasters can leverage YouTube
• Also from Podcast Movement: tips for great sound design
• How we made 100 episodes of our podcast, and how you can too (Simon K Jones)
• Time For Your Hobby posts a useful list of podcast resources.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Slavery is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. Tom Ballard is a former Homeland Security agent who reluctantly got involved in chasing down global child trafficking. Learn how much money it makes
• Marketplace Minute is a new show from Westwood One and Marketplace. It's a 60-second report, updated three times a day, for smart speakers and podcasts. It'll also be aired on commercial radio in the US.
• From Gimlet, the latest episode of Science Vs has a return guest: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, giving an update on the spread of the pandemic in the US.
• Bloomberg has a new serialised podcast, Foundering, which will bring its listeners inside one big story from Silicon Valley each season. The first season will explore the story of WeWork through interviews with people who lived, worked and partied with Adam Neumann.
• Me and AU is a new fiction podcast from Canada, where love and fandom collide. The series features a majority Canadian and LGBT+ cast.
• Launching today, All Hands talks with CEOs and other C-level leaders about how being a “people first” company is a strategic advantage. The first guest is Mike Volpe, the CEO at Lola.

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• iHeartMedia and WarnerMedia Entertainment have signed a deal to co-produce a slate of companion podcasts to promote HBO Max and their upcoming catalogue of original and legacy shows.
• Wondery has launched its own podcast app - no, you can't be included in it, it's just for their stuff. It's iOS only for now, "Android coming later". It's free and quite pretty; the goal is to upsell to the WonderyPlus subscription service, at US$4.99/month.
• Spotify stopped ingesting new podcast episodes for a while yesterday: delays of over five hours were seen for some new episodes. Spotify told Podnews: "We can confirm that we have experienced an ingestion issue this morning, resulting in some delays in certain podcasts episodes being uploaded to the service. The issue has been addressed and we expect to have everything back to normal shortly."
  • The company is also releasing an exclusive show with VICE News - Painkiller: America's Fentanyl Crisis next week. We also hear more exclusive announcements are on the way.

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• Big numbers: Podchaser says they just surpassed 6,000,000 podcast credits; while we hear that Great British Podcasts, the weekly podcast recommendations newsletter from the British Podcast Awards, has just signed up its 100,000th subscriber.
• Stitcher has launched a new system to get your podcast featured by the platform. (You can also pay). They're especially looking for "podcasts about hobbies" and "podcasts to take to bed", if you fit there.
• Need an intro to your podcast? A company called BuildBubbles have produced a free podcast intro generator. Using speech-to-text, you can hear our free intro in our podcast (we play it in the middle, confusingly)
• Work in audio in the UK? The UK Audio Network is doing some work about audio pay transparency. Come fill in this survey and help them, anonymously, collect salary information about the UK sector.

• Should you start up a new podcast feed for every new podcast idea you have? (Rachel Corbett)
• How to dramatically improve your branded podcast listenership (JAR Audio)

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Coffeezilla: a prolific YouTuber who exposes fake guru scam artists and alerts would-be victims to the tactics used to part them from their hard-earned money. Learn what to spot
• New from Acast: This Moment, a look at the unique viewpoints of two longtime friends based in Sweden and NYC, internationally renowned chef, Marcus Samuelsson, and ground-breaking hip-hop artist, Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité. Samuelsson is the chef behind Red Rooster (Australians: no, not that Red Rooster).
• Court TV has released its first serialized podcast series, called Murder and the Menendez Brothers: A Court TV Mystery.
• The RSPCA Australia has launched season two of their Humane Food podcast. "We want the public to be able to make more informed choices about what they consume," they say.
• The Bump 'n' Grind is a weekly in-depth history lesson on the world of burlesque with Angie Pontani, the producer of the New York Burlesque Festival.
• Land of the Giants is back for a new season: focusing on Netflix, and how a tiny tech company disrupted Hollywood forever. Produced by Vox Media Podcast Network, it's narrated by Recode's Peter Kafka and Rani Molla.
• New today, African Folktales tells diverse traditional stories from Africa, a podcast for Black audiences with Black voices.

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• Our photo story: Do you talk to the person sitting next to you on public transport? New podcast Mesto47 looks at human stories from one of the longest train rides in the world: the Trans Siberian Railroad. Above - handing out flyers in Siberia wearing a big KFC fries costume, an eighteen year-old who dreams of becoming a rapper, but is studying to be a mining electrician. A fun idea, and a fun picture - so we crowbarred it into today's newsletter.
• The top three most-aired radio spots last week in the US were for podcasts. Ads for iHeartRadio's The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Fake Doctors Real Friends and Missing in Alaska were all played over 64,000 times on US radio last week. We calculate that's an average of almost two ads per hour (6am-midnight) on every iHeartRadio station.
  • Did it work? iHeartRadio's campaign - we estimate it would cost $1.9m if they were buying it - did make a difference, it turns out. All shows saw a significant increase in the Apple Podcasts chart during the week - the chart is worked-out using new subscriptions. Ron Burgundy wasn't even charting before the ad campaign (it's in a break).
• Spotify have announced in-app offers for podcasts, adding visual banners allowing listeners to redeem offers "when the time is right". They've alpha-tested it in the US and Germany (we're told Last Podcast on the Left and Herrengedeck were the two shows). It's a potential replacement for having to remember an offer code.

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• iOS 14, the next version of Apple's operating system for the iPhone, has been announced. Widgets will be available for the home screen, including one for podcasts; and Apple Podcasts will gain a "Smarter Listen Now", which the company describes as: "a new Up Next — your personal episode queue that makes it easier to resume where you left off. Find the latest episodes of shows you already love or discover a new episode picked just for you."
• Google is now promoting podcasts in their Assistant Snapshot feed, which appears on Google smart speaker displays and Android phones.
• Finding the best part of your podcast to promote - Headliner's Neil Mody goes into the technology, and neuro-linguistic programming, that the company uses for their automatic podcast videos service.
• Stay Forever is a German-language podcast, funded by more than 500 members, who pay almost €3,000 (US$3,400) a month. In an English-language article, they explain how they achieved it. Oder auf Deutsch.
• Ohana is both a Hawaiian term meaning ‘family’, and a new community tool for podcasters, allowing listeners to connect. It launches in alpha today.
• TuneIn claims a 27% year-on-year increase in online listening, and has unveiled a new ad campaign, "Hear Here".
• Your privacy is important when you're searching for a new job. On Podjobs, our podcasting jobs website, we've removed all third-party frameworks, font resources and analytics from the site.

• John Gilroy writes about mistakes to make on the Apple Podcasts directory, especially focusing on your metadata.
• What is Podcast Metadata and will it improve the success of my podcast? by Gabrielle Corbett also looks at metadata - this time, getting it right for Spotify.
• Martin Bamford has got to episode 500 of Informed Choice Radio, a personal finance podcast. He covers 25 key learnings from the experience. (We hit episode 800 of ours last Friday, apparently).

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Coffeezilla: a prolific YouTuber who exposes fake guru scam artists and alerts would-be victims to the tactics used to part them from their hard-earned money. Learn what to spot
• 180 Grams is a brand new podcast from Mushroom Group, the Australian music and entertainment group. The first season focuses on rock'n'soul group The Teskey Brothers. (180 grams is the weight of a collector’s edition vinyl record. Ask your dad.)
• Essentialism, the pursuit of "less, but better", is now a podcast. The first four episodes are available now, with a number of high-profile guests including Arianna Huffington, Tim Ferriss and the Gettings Things Done author David Allen to come.
• Conservative Curious is a new podcast "exploring a more intellectually-constructive brand of cultural commentary ... interviewing guests with unique perspectives, inviting heterodoxy and bending toward a contemporary-classical aesthetic", according to a press release.

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• Does podcasting have a spam problem? Podcast RSS feeds are increasingly being scraped for email addresses. Today, Podnews looks at whether this is legal, and whether it's a legitimate way for marketers to promote their services.
• The Podcast Academy has started accepting memberships. Membership is US$50 before the end of September; the membership requirements are on The Podcast Academy website.
• A new podcast app, Poddog, has launched in Japan. For iOS and Android, it allows listeners to add tags to their favourite podcasts, to help others discover them. There's a submission form, in Japanese, on the site; it's operated by Nippon Broadcasting System, which owns JOLF, a radio station in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

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• The 2020 Latin Podcast Awards is being sponsored by Libsyn and also by Podbean, a set of press releases have announced.
• Brittany Luse, host and EP of The Nod, points out in a Twitter thread that even though the show is their idea, they don't own "not one single percent of The Nod podcast or brand: Spotify does!"
• Edison Research did an "ask me anything about digital audio" last week. Here's the video recording of it.
• Podcast Town is a new community for podcasters, launched by Elzie Flenard, the host of the Enterprise NOW! podcast.
• After we linked to Reza Shirazian's sample search engine for Joe Rogan, Pete Birsinger notes that Podscribe offers a search tool through automated transcripts for many different podcasts. Here's a search through Podnews's audio for "Rogan" as an example.

• Common Podcasting Mistakes to Avoid If You Want to Grow Your Show’s Audience (Aaron Dowd)
• How to promote your podcast (Ostap Zabolotnyy) - "social media (organic and paid) have shown the best results"
• Why Podcasts Are Built on Compounding Returns (Jeremy Enns) - aka "don't give up too early"
• Don't use the word "analytics" in your podcast title. Not unless you want lots of emails pointing this sort of thing out. (Thanks to you all).

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Your significant other has picked up some bad habits while self-quarantining during the pandemic; how can you fix your relationship without nagging? Listen now
• Pushkin Industries and Axios launch their new daily news podcast today. Axios Today, hosted by Niala Boodhoo, promises a ten-minute news podcast made using a system they call "Smart Brevity".
• The Plop is a pilot of a new sketch comedy podcast for kids from Kelly&Kelly. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to produce the show which will create fifty paid gigs for Canadian comedians.
• Reach - a space podcast for kids launched last week, featuring entertaining segments, fun at-home experiments, and interviews as a family friendly exploration of our galaxy (and beyond!)
• As restaurants look to reopening fully, Holy Guacamole, a podcast for restaurant people, is focusing on examples and stories of restaurants that are making changes to keep going and growing.
• Coinciding with Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, This is me focuses on intimate stories from everyday Australians as they share their life changing moments. Siobhain McGirl hosts the podcast: the first episode is her story, when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer at just 40 years old.

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• Pandora has announced new podcast analytics for creators. It measures Pandora plays: your podcast's audience demographics and location, as well as "thumbs" (whether shows have been given a thumbs-up or thumbs-down). You can sign up here.
• The Apple Podcasts app is to get personalised recommendations, according to a leak. Also apparently coming: "the option for podcast creators to offer bonus content" and "new user profiles may allow you to follow friends and see what podcasts they’re listening to," a feature similar to Breaker or Swoot.
• Twitter has added mini-podcast-like audio posts to its iOS app. Android users will have to wait. The company follows Audioboom, which had this idea more than ten years ago - here's a "boo" from our Editor from 2010.

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• Holy podcast exclusives, Batman! Spotify has signed an exclusive deal with Warner Bros/DC for an original slate of podcasts including Superman and Wonder Woman.
  • Spotify has also launched its first original podcast for Australia and New Zealand. Search Engine S*x "dives deep to answer some of the most searched relationship questions" about special mummy-and-daddy hugs.
  • And the company's launched a podcast in Japan, too, featuring Japanese internet star kemio. Here's more about kemio no mimisouji club, in English.
• Boston's WBUR is to lay off 29 people, will cease production of Only a Game and Kind World, and the New York Times will wholly take over their co-pro Modern Love. Meanwhile, Chicago's WBEZ is laying off 12 people.
• Podcast Clout is another entrant into the crowded scene for PR consultants of "finding podcasts for your client to be a guest on".
• Another set of podcasting data is on the way: Edison Research is unveiling the Latino Podcast Listener Report on June 30 (which covers US listeners only). Register here for the webinar in English or en español.
• Castro has had an update: the podcast app now does shortcuts and can be entirely controlled through Siri.
• Podcast engineers and editors: The Podcast Audiolympics takes place July 15 to August 5. It's a competition to win $2,100+ in prizes, and is promised to be "a fun audio competition including audio games using EQ, compression, mixing, and more!"
• Developer Reza Shirazian has built a service that tracks a podcast, transcribes its episodes, and indexes it for search. They've done a sample search engine for Joe Rogan.

Nothing to do with podcasts, but our Editor tried, and paid-for, new email service HEY.com. "It's good, but it's not right," he says, in a personal blog.

• Rules are good, but knowing when to break them is even better, according to Pacific Content's Jonas Woost.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Bill Nye, a lifelong champion of science, who's determined to teach you something today that you didn't know yesterday: whether it's from a television screen, the pages of a book, or next to you at a dinner party. Listen now
• Idol Memories is a new podcast launching next week, hosted by American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe, with contestants, producers and production team members talking about their favorite memories on and off-camera.
• Recode Media had Hernan Lopez as a guest earlier this week. He talks about the effects of the pandemic, and the issues of running a business while awaiting trial.
• World on Fire is a new podcast from CBC Edmonton. It looks at "what it takes to find hope in the midst of fear and destruction caused by wildfires".
• Cadence13's Origins returns for a new season in July, looking at the movie Almost Famous.
• Silence is not an option is a new podcast from CNN, dives deep into the reality of being Black and Brown in America. It's hosted by Don Lemon, who writes about it here.

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• SiriusXM has acquired podcast host Simplecast. Simplecast says nothing changes for their current customers. No terms were given.
  • Analysis: The podcast market appears to be horizontally consolidating. SiriusXM already owns Pandora and ad-tech company AdsWizz: their acquisition of Simplecast adds a capable podcast host and analytics company, and means they have capabilities in all sectors of the business. They join EW Scripps, who own Omny Studio, Triton Digital, Midroll and Stitcher; Spotify, who own Anchor, Gimlet et al; and Acast, who acquired Pippa and set up their own content studio last year. It's not enough, it seems, to be a great hosting company or a content-creator: the podcast companies of the future appears to need a foot in all parts of the business.
• Kim Kardashian West has signed an exclusive deal with Spotify, report the WSJ ($). The Verge reports she'll do a show with Parcast on criminal justice reform; no terms were given.
• Rob Greenlee has been confirmed as Chairperson of The Podcast Academy, in a press release. Writing for Podnews, Rob Greenlee says that becoming Chairperson was "not something that I asked for, or even lobbied for". He focuses on the benefits of being involved, and highlights two free webinars today to learn more.

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• The IAB reports that 52% of ad-buyers plan to spend more on podcast ads during the second-half of 2020. Only 14% plan to increase their spend on radio ads.
• Podcast production studio Audio Up has announced a number of signings to their executive team, including David Hurwitz (NBC), Krista Liney (History Channel), and actor and musician Dennis Quaid.
• APM and Minnesota Public Radio are to lay off 28 staff members. John Moe's podcast Hilarious World of Depression is also a casualty of the cuts. The company lost 14 staff members last month, and has made a number of additional cost-savings.
• Audioboom has announced a set of new shows, including real-life stories behind movies; a new weekly crime show, and a look at America in the run-up to the 2020 Presidential election.
• GetVokl is a new platform that "combines the potential of live-video technology with the story telling and community building power of podcasters", according to its CEO.
• The other day, we linked to a piece in Variety saying one-of-five people would be happy to pay for podcasting: but inadvertently linked to a paid article (which we don't pay for, for the record, so who knows how we can see it). Anyway: here's the same data from YouGov.
• Podcast Movement is planning a virtual meetup on June 25.

• Ways to improve your interview podcast and ask better questions (James Griffin, Discover Pods)
• Reasons Most Podcasts Fail But Yours Doesn’t Have To (Brandon B R)

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist, who thinks personality tests like Myers Briggs is inaccurate and potentially dangerous - and how to work on the future you. Listen now
• Telescope is exploring the Black Lives Matter movement in a special run of new episodes this week. The current episode features the relationship between social media, the pandemic, and the anti-racist protests.
• Kids these days is a new podcast from Michigan Radio, by teens, for teens: offering an insider's perspective on what it's like to be a teenager today.

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• News provider Reuters has unveiled two new audio services: Reuters Audio, a rights-cleared real-time and archive audio clips service with almost half a million audio clips now available for use in podcasts; and Reuters Ready Audio, a curated package of news stories voiced by Reuters journalists. Both are available by subscription at Reuters Connect - and individual clips may be available for purchase later, the company tells Podnews. You can hear some examples of the audio clips in our podcast today.
• The Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford have released their Digital News Report. It says that 31% access a podcast monthly (across twenty countries), up from 29% a year ago. The research also shows that Spotify is more popular (by total audience) than Apple Podcasts in many countries, including the US, Australia, and not entirely unsurprisingly, Sweden - Spotify's home country.
• iTunes U, the educational service from Apple, is to close by the end of the year. Content producers are being recommended to use Apple Podcasts, where appropriate.

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• RADIO·COM says it's the fastest-growing digital audio platform in the US. In comparison to May 2019, it's grown by 6m users.
• ART19 has announced an inventory management and forecasting platform.
• Parisian podcast publisher Engle, which makes shows in French and English, has partnered with Megaphone for distribution and monetisation.
• Is this going to be a record month for new podcasts? MyPodcastReviews was claiming 75,686 new podcasts in Apple Podcasts at the end of June 15. Last month we got 96,000 new shows; but we're mathematically on track to beat 150,000...

• During the coronavirus pandemic, podcasting's "share of ear" - the amount of listening to podcasting vs everything else - jumped by 26%, according to Edison Research. They also noted that the share of at-home listening for all audio increased by 44%.
• Lindsay Graham from podcast maker Airship tells us that he saw record downloads in May. American Scandal saw a 71% increase in listenership in May over April.

• Hall of Famer, School of PodCasting and Libsyn support guru Dave Jackson has a new book out soon - Profit from your Podcast: Proven Strategies to Turn Listeners into a Livelihood. It's released on Jul 27.
• Should you launch your podcast with multiple episodes? (Rachel Corbett thinks not)

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist, who thinks personality tests like Myers Briggs is inaccurate and potentially dangerous - and how to work on the future you. Listen now
• Servant of Pod with Nick Quah launches today, from the editor of US weekly podcast newsletter, HotPod. It's a "weekly deep dive into the evolving world of podcasts".
• Oxford Road Presents: Media's New Deal interviews Nick Quah (see above). Quah talks about his concerns of power and capitalisation in the podcast space, and ad space trends. We also learn he listens to all podcasts at 1.2x.
• In Podcasting Essentials, Ralph van Dijk of Eardrum, an audio creative agency, talks about the creative use of sound, and how it can influence the emotion of your listener.
• A correction from yesterday - Stadio, incorporated into Ringer FC's feed, will be exclusive to Spotify, from July 6.
• Google Podcasts' "subscribe" links occasionally change, if the system finds a better RSS feed to use - and that can break your existing links. The Urbanista 2.0 podcast's website, over here - a mental health podcast in Portuguese, focusing on a more meaningful life - has a brilliantly clever and simple idea for linking to Google Podcasts... link to a search instead. Allow us to steal that (we messed something up with our feed the other day, so our normal link doesn't currently work).
• The Creative Cuppa chats with people working in the creative industries. This week's episode has Podnews's Editor, James Cridland about how he got started in the radio world in 1989.

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• Almost 1 in 5 US podcast listeners (17%) have paid or donated money to listen to a podcast - and almost 1 in 5 (19%) say that they plan to in the next twelve months, says a piece of research for Variety. 19% of podcast listeners is, if you use Edison Research's Infinite Dial numbers, equivalent to at least 19.7m people willing to pay for podcasts.
• An addition to our story about TuneIn's generic useragents yesterday, which unveiled that the podcast app is eight times larger than your stats are telling you - it could be costing podcasters money, too. We hear from one company that: "Ad systems will often only deliver ads to user agents on their allow-list - that means publishers may not make as much money if people are listening on an app with a generic user agent from a library such as “Lavf/57.25.100” or “okhttp/3.14.6"
• The President of Singapore, Halimah Yacob, has demanded an apology for misogynistic comments made by a Spotify show called OKLETSGO. After initially defending the language used as just echoing comments made in the Malay community, all three hosts have since posted a statement saying they are 'truly sorry'.

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• The latest Australian Podcast Report has been released by Triton Digital. ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia is the #1 publisher, with 8.4m downloads in May. Audioboom and West Australian Newspapers are new publishers in the report. The ABC, the country's largest podcaster, was promised to be joining "in a few months" back in October, but is still absent. They did not respond to our request for comment. The ranker only measures participating publishers.
  • Podtrac has also released their US Podcast Ranker. Call Her Daddy moved up eleven places after the return of the show. It, too, only measures participating publishers.
• Aussie podcasters should also note that The Wheeler Centre's mentorship scheme Signal Boost is still open for applications, and is now open until late Monday, June 22.
• CNN interviews Spotify's Chief Content and Advertising Business Officer Dawn Ostroff; while The Drum interviews Rak Patel, Spotify's Head of Sales for UK/EMEA. Both focus on podcasts, talking about changing habits in lockdown.
• Hilary Ross, VP of Podcast Media for Veritone One, is interviewed in MarTechSeries. "There are immense opportunities for endorsements and host-read ad reads in the podcasting space."
• "If we survived the last 3 months, there isn’t much else the future has in store that would worry me," says Wondery's Hernan Lopez in a wide-ranging article about the podcasting business by Howard Homonoff in Forbes.
• Edison Research is hosting an AMA for digital audio on Thursday lunchtime, NY time: answering your questions about smart speakers, podcasts, streaming, online radio listening, and more. Here's where to sign up.
• Pocket Casts has released a new version of its popular podcast app for iOS, including standalone Apple Watch playback, a new theme, and "we even replaced Google's Chromecast dialog with our own because we, like you, got sick of them not being able to dark theme their way out of a wet paper bag." Ouch.
• GBoard, the keyboard app produced by Google, now includes podcast titles in its autocomplete bar.

• Sean Howard has written part II of Podcast Marketing That Works, focusing on 'getting to know our audience', using surveys and social media.
• ThePodcastHost has some tips for optimising your website for growth.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show One of your fellow medical students is openly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. Do you have a duty to report this terrible person in hopes it prevents him from ever becoming a doctor with marginalized patients whose lives may depend on him? Listen now
• Evergreen Podcasts has launched the Medal of Honor Podcast. Made in partnership with The National Medal of Honor Museum, this shortform podcast tells the story of service members who have received the highest military honor in the US.
• The Stadio Podcast has been acquired by The Ringer, Spotify's sports podcast network, and will be within the Ringer FC feed. It won't be an exclusive to Spotify.

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• If you check your podcast stats, you'll see that TuneIn - if it appears at all - is pretty small as a podcast app. However, today Podnews research can share that, because TuneIn's many apps don't correctly tell podcast hosting companies what they are, TuneIn could be eight times larger than the figures show. (Not listed there? Find TuneIn in our list of podcast directories).
• Ximalaya FM ("shee ma lai ya"), the most popular Chinese free podcast hosting company, have unveiled significant restrictions to podcasts taking advertising. Ximalaya FM now requires podcasters to inform them of details of every advertising deal, and the company will now take an unspecified commission on all deals worth more than US$4,250.
  • Ximalaya FM, doesn't use RSS and operates closer to a YouTube model. It also operates a separate product for overseas markets, called Himalaya, which is unaffected.
• The first awards show to celebrate black podcasters has been revealed. The Black Podcasting Awards has announced entry details including twenty categories. The winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony on September 27.

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• Podcasting's bigger than ever. ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia says that podcast listening is 22% larger than even before the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The company has published detailed stats for categories, and has also announced commercial partnerships with Audioboom and Kast Media.
• Podcast Radio, the all-podcast radio station in the UK, is now broadcasting in Glasgow, Scotland. The station's also available on DAB+ in Manchester, London and Surrey; and on the Radioplayer app.
• Google and Microsoft engineers have agreed to remove the phrases "blacklist/whitelist" from their code, replacing it with "blocklist/allowlist". We think this seems a good idea for our industry, too.
• Sonnet is a new, "easy to use, simple" podcast app for Android. One of the developers writes about his motivation to make something simpler. (Of possible interest: it's the first podcast app in a long time that doesn't have Podnews in it. We're not sure why, or where their directory is sourced from.)
• AudioWow appears to be a pocket-sized microphone and call-recorder which can be connected via Bluetooth or USB-C to your mobile phone as a portable podcast recorder.
• Developers: want a ton of podcast review data for analysis? Here's a million podcast reviews as an SQLite file.

• In his weekly newsletter, Tom Webster asks How can podcasts create 'events'? - suggesting that we make them special, scarce and involving.\
• Adonde Media give tips on a DIY home-recording kit involving a smartphone and a roll of toilet paper. (THIS is why toilet paper has been so scarce!)
• How to Create a Bingeable Hybrid Podcast (Matt Hooper, Tracy Hazzard)

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show One of your fellow medical students is openly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. Do you have a duty to report this terrible person in hopes it prevents him from ever becoming a doctor with marginalized patients whose lives may depend on him? Listen now
• Unholier than thou is a new podcast from Crooked Media that went live on Friday, which tackles the difficult, and often conflicting, journey of exploring religion and spirituality in the modern era.
• Arianna Huffington is the first guest on The Combustion Chronicles, a new podcast that launches next week from the founder of the Man on Fire movement.

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• Transcripts of episodes are a good thing. They increase audience participation, help people find your show, and help people retain information: and, as one company tells us, transcripts significantly increase traffic from Google. However, some podcast directories are posting automated transcripts online: which isn't always welcomed by some podcasters. In a long-form piece of reporting today, Podnews looks at transcripts, why some podcasters want a bit more control of them, and asks who'll help fix all this. You'll find it linked in our episode notes and our newsletter - which is where our transcript is.
• The RØDECaster Pro has released firmware 2.1 which offers a set of new features. They've added a master bus compressor, broadcast-style level metering (in dBFS, not PPM nor short-term LUFS), and multitrack recording can now be achieved "post-fader". The companion app has also been improved, including direct uploads to podcast platforms and firmware updating straight from the app itself.
• Inside Podcasting has published an interview with an anonymous insider from Luminary. "The industry is really hard on Luminary. The conversations can be snarky. I don't think that's fair. I think Luminary's potential success would be a big win for the industry. I can't help but think about Netflix here: they started as a DVD mailing company and stumbled into streaming. Luminary started as a premium podcast company... but what other kinds of business are they potentially going to stumble into?"

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• Pocket Casts has confirmed a report in Podnews on Jun 5 that they've been removed from the Apple App Store in China. The company tweets that they were removed "by Apple, at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China. We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship. As such we won't be censoring podcast content at their request. We understand this means that it’s unlikely that our iOS App will be available in China, but feel it’s a necessary step to take for any company that values the open distribution model that makes podcasting special." Apple Podcasts continues to be available but only carries selected podcasts in the country.
• Issue 4 of Le POD, a free podcasting magazine in French, is under preparation. 5,000 copies are given away in Paris and it's also available online. Expect des portraits, interviews, enquêtes et des sélections de podcasts sur 52 pages dans un guide format poche avec une ligne éditoriale branchée et décalée - and if you're keen to promote your podcast or podcasting company, you should contact them.
• Zencastr, a remote podcasting recording tool, has unveiled HD video in a private beta. You can join the queue to test it out by visiting the website. The company also has a new logo.
• Audiomass looks like a good browser-based audio editor. The code is open-source, is just 65KB, and contains a lot of audio effects like compression and reverb. It isn't, sadly, multitrack: but that's under development, according to the author, Pantelis Kalogiros.
• TuneIn have added CNN and Bloomberg to their TuneIn Premium Commercial-Free News Lineup. The company points to a 47% increase in news listening year-over-year.
• Spreaker has added JioSaavn to their one-click distribution platform. JioSaavn is the largest audio streaming platform in South Asia.
• ESPN is to use Megaphone for podcast hosting and dynamic content insertion from July. They currently appear to self-host.
• Acast has announced Aclass: Queer Voices a free workshop for queer podcasters. It's on Wed Jun 17, 6.00-7.30pm ET. RSVP over here
• Android Police, a news website focusing on the Android OS, carries an impassioned opinion piece from David Ruddock that Spotify is holding my favorite podcast hostage with its terrible app. He's a fan of The Last Podcast On The Left, which is now an exclusive show to Spotify; he posts a lengthy critique of the app's UX.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show Conspiracy theories: want to gently tell that family member where he's going wrong? Joining Jordan Harbinger is Mick West, who's written a new book How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect. Listen now
• Have You Heard George's Podcast has become the first podcast outside of the US to win a Peabody Award. The podcast was an independent production for its first season, and was bought by the BBC for season 2. Congratulations, too, to the many other winners of the Peabody Awards.
• Waiting on Reparations is new from iHeartRadio: it explores the intersection of public policy and hip-hop music, what hip-hop culture can tell us about our political reality and how this genre has shaped our political future. The first edition, available now, focused on the murder of George Floyd by an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department and how Floyd’s death has highlighted systemic racism and oppression in the US.
• Citizen Chef is also new from iHeartRadio. It covers where and who our food comes from as well as the politics, decisions, policies and people that shape our food systems.
• The Practical Futurist Podcast interviews our Editor, James Cridland, in its latest episode - James discusses the future of podcasting, Apple and Spotify, and how podcasting is growing.

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• If 50% of podcast listeners paid for ad-free shows, creators would make nearly 6x more than they are with ads: that's according to Pete Curley and Garret Heaton (above), the founders of Podhero which officially launches today. Instead of advertising, which the company claims is unpredictable and only good for larger podcasts, if listeners put $5.99 into Podhero every month, it gets divided and shared with the shows they support (including us).
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• Blubrry has made its Professional Podcast Hosting product available via AWS Marketplace. This allows companies with a billing relationship with Amazon Web Services to easily add Blubrry podcast hosting. CEO Todd Cochrane tells Podnews that the company has plans for further integration to help developers.
• Spotify, the only major podcast host that doesn't support HTML or formatting in show notes, have written an article about how important show notes are.

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• Music licensing service SyncFloor has launched a website called SongsForPodcasters, promising easy licensing of independent music for podcast productions. Pricing starts at $25.
• Jam Street Media, an LA-based production and consulting firm, has launched a podcast network. It was founded by Matty Staudt, former vice president of podcast programming at iHeartRadio and director of content at Stitcher.
• FOX News has added their podcasts to SiriusXM's Pandora, they have announced. SiriusXM is also broadcasting the FOX News Rundown on one of its satellite radio channels.
• All Ears, a clippings service for spoken content, has raised US $760,000 in funding. The company claims it's operating close to break-even, and allows companies to monitor what's being said about them on TV, radio, podcasts and YouTube. One of their new customers is Walmart, a large US retailer.
• Baron Davis, a former NBA star, has invested in sports podcast network Blue Wire. He'll also launch a new podcast on the platform, and become a brand ambassador for the company.
• Does a 12 year-old Buick make a decent mobile podcast studio?
• International TV channel TRT World covered how podcasts are doing during the pandemic by interviewing our editor. Best question: "Tell us about Podnews". Don't mind if I do...
• US television advertising fell 27% in April.

• Memberful, who are sponsoring our podcast this month, have published a sponsored post covering ten types of podcast content to create for your members.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show: Mark Cuban: Shark Tank investor in over 200 companies, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. What jobs are safe in these uncertain times? And the advice he's giving CEOs and founders. Listen now
• Rob Maurer's Tesla Daily has joined TheStreet. The podcast is also available on YouTube, and claims more than a million monthly downloads. Maven bought TheStreet, a finance news provider, for $16.5m a year ago.
• The Dan Bongino Show updates every weekday, but at an hour long, it's a bit long for a smart speaker. Westwood One and Oxford Road are producing a short-form report, The Bongino Brief, which is available through smart speakers - and not via podcast apps. It's the first "personality-driven flash briefing" from the company.
• Good Yarns is one of two new podcasts from Podshape, a new podcasting company in Brisbane, Australia.
• The Voicebot Podcast talks with the BBC's Head of Voice, Andy Webb, about the corporation's new voice assistant "Beeb".

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• 37% of Canadians listen to podcasts every month, according to new data from Edison Research's Infinite Dial Canada 2020. That puts monthly Canadian podcast consumption on par with the US. Weekly listening is even higher than its southern neighbour, at 24%: the highest figure recorded by the international surveys so far.
• Triton Digital has released their US Podcast Report through May 10. NPR News Now is (still) #1; NPR have 9 shows in the top 15. The highest new entry was from Audioboom, who joined the report this release: Morbid is new at #29. The service only measures participating publishers.
• Podtrac has also released their US publisher report for May. iHeartRadio, absent from the Triton Digital report, is at #1; NPR is at #2. Their service, too, only measures participating publishers.

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• Podcast apps Castro and Pocket Casts have both been pulled from Apple's App Store in China. Apple Podcasts remains available, but only offers a selection of podcasts to comply with Chinese government content rules. This time last year, they removed a number of shows for, um, some reason.
• 97.2% of active podcasts make no money, according to a new service which has launched today. Podhero is a simple way to support podcast creators: your monthly $5.99 subscription is shared between the podcasts you support. The podcast app is available on iOS and Android, and was formerly known as Swoot; you can support Podnews on the service.
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• NPR has announced the winners of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. The lower grades winner covers the harassment and racism felt by chinese students in New York City as the coronavirus hit; the higher grades winner focuses on how global warming disproportionately affects black communities.
• The annual Podcast Awards are open for registration. Podnews is a supporter for the third year. You have until the end of June to register: it'll cost $25.
• The Wheeler Centre in Australia have launched a mentorship and development programme for aspiring podcasters and audio storytellers, called Signal Boost. Applications are now open, and close on Wednesday 17 June - audio producers receive tailored mentorship, practical support, essential equipment and professional development.
• Meanwhile, Spotify has announced the return of Sound Up, their program for underrepresented voices in podcasting. This year it's open to people in more countries than ever - the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Brazil, Sweden and Australia. The US applications are open now; others soon.
• Zoom, which almost everyone uses for video conferencing these days,released their first-quarter's figures: revenue has increased to $328m from $122m a year ago.
• Medium has launched their own newsletter service to build relationships with your audience. It's called, um, Newsletters.
• The BBC has launched a voice assistant of its own, called "Beeb". It has a voice from Merseyside by the sounds of it, and lets you listen to BBC podcasts among other things. It'll only be available on Windows for now. (You can hear a bit on our podcast).
• Sonos and Targetspot have expanded their relationship: Sonos stations have been expanded to France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand.
• Podcast host Podiant has announced integration with Headliner to help share podcast clips visually on social media.
• Aha! UK broadcaster Alan Partridge (a character played by Steve Coogan) is to podcast from his shed. From The Oasthouse will be available from September, but there's a free episode on Audible for the next seven days. "All national treasures have a podcast," says Coogan, adding "it’s time for the UK to hear what a real award-winning podcast is like".

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show: Jordan is joined by Gabriel Mizrahi for Feedback Friday, answering your questions. Is the graduating class of 2020 finding it really hard to plan their life course? And what happens if your mentor becomes your crush? Listen now
• Bill Simmons has apologised for comments made in The Bill Simmons Podcast, according to a report in the NY Daily News. "I’m 50 years old, I still barely know what I’m doing, I’m still gonna make mistakes," he said. An apparent commitment to diverse hiring was criticised by the Ringer's staff union on Monday.

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• An estimated 8% of all Canadians listened to Joe Rogan in the past month: that's an audience the size of Vancouver. But will they follow him to Spotify? New data from The Canadian Podcast Listener suggests that not all will - 18% say they will listen or watch less often, and 23% will stop altogether. His viewers on YouTube are even less likely to carry on, with 50% saying they'll watch less often or stop. Spotify users, however, say they'll listen more. The full data is at The Canadian Podcast Listener website.
  • The study also suggests that Spotify is now more popular than Apple Podcasts for Canadian podcast listeners aged under 35.
• Apple is making an original podcast - and this time, it really is an original podcast from their Beats 1 radio station, not a thinly-veiled promo for their TV service. The Zane Lowe Interview Series features - well, according to the RSS feed, just one episode, an interview with Billie Eilish; but according to the Apple Podcasts listing, it features seven episodes, including Kanye West, Lady Gaga and others. What's going on there?
• Acast have announced a Supporter feature for their podcasters in some countries. The product lets you receive one-off payments from your listeners: Acast charge 12%. The product works as a landing page on the Acast website, and uses a promo that you record. We found that UK podcast The Dream Factory is using it; Acast is using the donate button standard, which is supported by some podcast players.

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• In India, if you include the radio plays it gets, the biggest podcast is PM Narendra Modi's Mann Ki Baat. However, he's reportedly about to face competition with a new podcast from Rahul Gandhi, a former President of the Indian National Congress and member of the Nehru–Gandhi family.
• Later today, at 1pm Toronto time, you can enjoy the unveiling of The Infinite Dial 2020 Canada in a free webinar - which will include podcast consumption figures for the country.
• Olá! ¡Hola! Bonjour! Wotcha! Omny Studio, the podcast management platform from Triton Digital, is now available for use in French, Spanish and Portuguese, with more languages to follow. Their embedded players also support Arabic and Japanese. ここには何でも書けます！لن يقرأ أحد هذا!
• There's a new AP Stylebook now available, containing updates about climate change and sexual misconduct, as well as a new chapter on digital security for journalists. Hat tip: Splice's Frames newsletter. (Podnews tries to use The Guardian's style guide, which is available online).
• AdsWizz has hired Anne Frisbie (inMobi Exchange) to be their SVP of Global Supply, working with podcasters and partners.

• Should a podcast have a tagline? (Podcast Branding)
• Sharing podcasts to YouTube with FFMPEG is a neat piece of tech writing to help you use the free FFMPEG encoding tool.

• On The Jordan Harbinger Show: Clinical psychologist Justin Ramsdell, on why stressed brains don't make great decisions, being wary of "intellectual trespassers" who make wild claims about areas outside their expertise, and how to avoid being hoodwinked by pseudoscience charlatans. Listen now
• The other day, we mentioned that Chris Skinner (who wrote an editorial in the first Podcast User Magazine in 2006) worked for Wise Buddah. This was news to him, and to his current employer Somethin'Else. Listen to The Last Post, which is one of his - a daily satirical show from Alice Fraser.
• Slow Burn returns for a fourth season: this time with a subject that runs straight to the current political moment - the rise of white supremacist and KKK leader David Duke. The season is hosted by Josh Levin, long-time Slow Burn editor and native Louisianian.

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