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• AdsWizz has added automated ad-buying capabilities on its programmatic platform, including the opportunity to buy host-read ad campaigns. The company notes that these have historically been difficult to do at scale.
• Google Podcasts for Web appears to now have a little subscribe button on podcast pages like this one; and has added, in the menu, a link to your subscriptions.
• Google Podcasts on iOS gets a good review in BetaNews.

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• While you can't go to live podcast shows any more, Melbourne-based Stupid Old Studios Presents is selling tickets to live podcast streams instead. Ticket sales, we're told, are strong - with 800 sold within 24 hours. Supporting comedians and the creative arts, a section of the community that have been significantly harmed by the coronavirus, seems like a good thing right now.
• Scott Elchison says that the coronavirus will "prove to be not a disruption, but a temporary interruption"; while Shawn Cole from Pacific Content discusses how to set up a decent-sounding podcast studio at home. (Blankets, people.)
• The NYT focuses on daily podcasts - "an emerging category of intimate news programs offers a comforting voice", they add.
• Podnews's podcast is now on JioSaavn, the leading music and podcast app in India.

• Start Here from ABC News celebrates its second anniversary this weekend. This week, the podcast was produced entirely out of the office, with host Brad Mielke recording in his makeshift ‘studio’ – a coat closet in his Brooklyn apartment – and the show’s producers and editors working from their home offices.
• The Headliner Podcast has returned, with seven podcasters discussing how the coronavirus has affected them.
• Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - hosted by Omny Studio and produced by Stitcher's Earwolf - got a heavy promotion in Spotify's PR email this week. Curious.

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• As we reported yesterday, Google Podcasts is now available on iOS, with a new iPhone app available now. The redesign is now also visible on Android, and includes full automatic downloads and new episode notifications. The announcement also promises "support for subscriptions on Google Podcasts for Web", and many outlets have reported this as having launched - we don't see any subscriptions visible as yet, though.
  • Why would you want to use Google Podcasts on Apple? If you've Google devices in your home, "OK, Google, Resume My Podcast" will continue where you've left off, as one example. It'll also enable you to keep listening to shows at work on Google Podcasts for Web (when that gets the update). Unlike the Apple app, it includes a silence-remover, and more control over speed-listening.
  • Google Podcasts is not the same as Google Play Music Podcasts, which is still there, 647 days since Google Podcasts's launch. Just like Google search, you don't submit your podcast to Google Podcasts: it finds you. That said, there are some things you can do to help get listed faster when you launch a new show. Google Podcasts also supports WebSub, so new episodes appear instantly in the app.
• From a developer's point of view, the Google Podcasts iOS app looks identical to the Android app, but isn't. In particular:
  • Disappointingly it doesn't display full <content-encoded> HTML show-notes: using the <description> field instead, and stripping out any HTML (following the standard).
  • It's likely that many podcast hosts could incorrectly credit downloads from Google's new iPhone app to Apple Podcasts. Unlike the "GSA/" user-agent of the Android app, the iOS app has a user-agent of Podcasts: almost identical to the Apple Podcasts app user-agent of Podcasts/(version-number). Our updated user-agents list for podcast apps now lists this new user-agent.
  • The iOS app also gives no option to "view the RSS feed", which is a useful debugging tool within the Android app. Our FAQ will help you here. (We've also found a bug - with an AirDrop logo hovering over the top-left corner of the screen while you use Settings).
• In the official announcement, the image of Google Podcasts appears to show Alexandre Saddi's subscriptions: he's a Staff Designer at Google. A Brazilian, he's worked for Google in New York since 2014. However, the images show three 'latest episodes' - a Jan 28 2020 episode of Stuff You Should Know, a Dec 14 2018 re-run episode of How I Built This, and an Aug 3 2009 episode from Stuff You Missed In History Class. In another screen, a Feb 12 2020 episode of 99% Invisible is described as being released '21 hours ago', while released 'yesterday' was a Dec 24 2019 episode of Dolly Parton's America. In short, these are mockups, not screengrabs, if you were wondering; we suspect Alexandre's podcast subscriptions are rather different.

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• Last weekend, Acast saw a 7% increase in listens globally. The company say that many different categories saw a good increase; although sport and recreation was down by 2%.
• Meanwhile Nielsen claims that consumers forced indoors spend more time on media: publishing case studies into Hurricane Harvey, Snowpocalypse 2016, and coronavirus-related viewing in Korea and Italy.
• Edison Research are planning an additional webinar, Inside The Infinite Dial, on Apr 3. Expect to hear "the entire content strategy behind the project, what we have learned over the last two decades, and how to translate that success to your content practices."
• AdLarge Media has signed an ad representation deal with RNS, a local news provider for US radio stations. AdLarge Media also sells podcasts including Crime Junkie, and operates Cabana.
• The Ramsey Network will produce a live stream today at 8pm ET, promising answers to questions on money, career and life during this time of uncertainty. "A Message of Hope" will also be carried on a number of radio stations.
• In Queensland promises binge-worthy podcasts to make self-isolation easier, highlighting that Brisbane is a major centre of Australian podcast production. Recommendations of podcasts are given by many, including our Editor.
• We've removed our 'podcast events' section for the moment. It seemed to remind us of a time without this stupid virus.

• The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show calls itself a "lunatic cross between a surreal sketch show and a bizarre parody of a magazine programme", and returns for a new series five years after the last one. This week: the problem of aardvarks, items of furniture sing songs from Oliver and Frank Sinatra saws Big Ben in half. (Recommended) (Soundcloud)
• Podcasting Essentials is back for season 4. In the first episode, Andrew Davies from ABC Audio Studios talks about podcast descriptions - at 71%, it's the main reason listeners choose to listen to new podcasts. (BE Media Production / Omny Studio)
• SBS Easy French is designed by the Alliance Française de Melbourne and SBS to help you learn a new language while you're stuck inside. Each episode contains a weekly news bulletin, read by Christophe Mallet at "a manageable pace". There's also a newsletter which contains full transcriptions. Écoute le!
• Funny People Talking appears to have Donald Trump as a guest, talking about COVID-19. Later today: Dr Phil. Tomorrow, um, Dr Evil. A special series with impressionist John Di Domenico. (MouthMedia / Omny Studio)
• Lantigua Williams & Co.’s 70 Million has become part of The Democracy Group, "a network of podcasts united around the goal of helping listeners understand what’s broken in our democracy, and how people are working together to fix it." (Simplecast)

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• Anchor's iOS and Android app has been updated with new remote recording features, dubbed Record with Friends 2.0. It's aimed to make it easier to record guests or multi-hosted podcasts.
• A report in 9to5Google claims that Google is to release a Google Podcasts app for iPhone. It's based on a piece in Engadget, which has been removed, 9to5Google notes, because of "a broken embargo". The app will be here, according to the story: at publication time, that's a 404 error.
  • We have the full, embargoed, release. We're reporting solely on the public information from the 9to5Google piece here, since others are too: but once we can, we'll give you the official information from Google.
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• Deezer has redesigned its podcast experience.
• Magellan has looked at which podcast advertisers are spending more, and less, because of the coronavirus. Travel advertising is down 73%, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Meanwhile, Triton Digital says that news/talk radio's share of streaming has grown by 14%.
• The Global Player, run by the UK's largest radio broadcaster, has added a set of third-party podcasts "for children and stressed out parents". The UK has temporarily suspended school for all except essential workers.
• Radiodays Europe's Podcast Day has been postponed. An annual conference, now based in London, is now slated to take place on October 26th. Podnews's Editor, James Cridland, will be one of the speakers (assuming the world has stopped falling in by then).
• The New York Times has purchased Audm, a service that transforms longform articles into audio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• The Independent Podcast Virtual Conference 2020 has published its programme. It's on March 28-29th.
• Ira Glass seemingly recorded this week's This American Life in his closet, having taken the time to get dressed in a suit, but having forgotten to wear shoes or socks. U okay, hun?

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• Alice Cooper's Vintage Vault is a new podcast from the "shock rocker". Cooper has been doing a radio show, "Alice Cooper Nights", over the past sixteen years: this is a compilation of great interviews from that show. (Omny Studio)
• Fast Fiction is a short story fiction podcast, recorded in Brisbane, Australia. The latest episode, White Noise, features a story from a new writer, Steve Haynes. (Whooshkaa)
• Survivor's Guide to Coronavirus is a brand new podcast from Australian comedian Nazeem Hussain, asking fellow comedians and personalities like Luke McGregor, Julia Morris, Karl Chandler, Collingwood’s Dane Swan, Scott Pape (The Barefoot Investor), Urzila Carlsson, Joel Creasey and even Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp, how to survive this stupid virus. (ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia / Megaphone)
• Gangster Capitalism returns for a new season today, focusing on the NRA - tracing key moments and following its money trail. (C13Originals / Cadence13 / Megaphone)
• The Art of Sleep, from cosmetic brand Rituals, has been released, exploring the world of sleep and everything that is connected to it. Interestingly, it's been released in five different languages: English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish, to make it accessible for the most important European markets. (Airborne Audio / Acast)
• A recent edition of Evo Terra's Podcast Pontifications (episode 281) seems to suggest that podcast listening won't ever return to normal after this stupid virus.

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• Google Podcasts is getting a redesign. "The new Google Podcasts" is rolling out to a handful of users, prior to a wider release. It includes auto-downloading, and moves Google's recommendations to a new "Discover" tab. You can also queue podcast episodes for playback. The app has already been downloaded more than 10 million times.
• Exclusive: Podtrac, the largest podcast analytics company in the US, has released weekly podcast data showing podcast download and audience growth including the effect of the coronavirus. The data will be published later on the Podtrac website, and updated weekly.
• Exclusive: Voxnest has shared a report early with Podnews, focusing on the impact of the coronavirus in Italy, Spain and the US. (Spreaker, Voxnest's podcast hosting platform, is the #1 podcast host in Italy). As we highlighted yesterday, Voxnest see some categories in significant growth.

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• Podio has shared a report on Podcast Consumption Behaviour in the Middle East and North Africa.
• The Podcast Host suggests that Podcasting for remote teams is a really effective way to connect, engage and motivate your staff, even at a distance. A long article, it covers why and how, and suggests that Slack might be an interesting first step into seeing if it's right for your team members.
• Best practice for podcast trailers have been published by Omny Studio, Triton Digital's podcast hosting company. Their first piece of advice is to, um, make one: and they show plenty of places where trailers are given prominence to new listeners.
• Hubhopper, which we've reported multiple times are copying and republishing RSS feeds without permission, said to us on February 24th that "Any and all duplicate feeds that were unintentionally exposed have been removed". As of today, they're still republishing feeds from certain podcasts. We've contacted their team, again, to ask what they're doing.
• Apple's App Store is to expand to support another twenty countries in 2020. That typically means new specific podcast locales, too.
• BBC Sounds, the corporation's podcast app, has launched an app for connected TVs. The BBC's Dan Taylor-Watt is quoted as saying "More so now than ever, we want our services to be available on whatever devices people want to access them on".
  • It's a year since the BBC blocked its podcasts from Google Podcasts, ensuring the corporation's podcasts, which now include important health-related information from the UK's public service broadcaster, are not available.
• Podcast Network Solutions, which produces 2,197 podcasts every month for others, is launching their own show: and you could be part of it. The Unexpected Joy Podcast will focus on the unexpected moments of joy we have, that would not have happened before this global crisis. Want to share a story about joy? Pop over here.

• CNN en Español has released a Spanish-language podcast, Coronavirus: Realidad vs. ficción con Dr. Elmer Huerta. It follows the success of CNN's English-language equivalent. (Omny Studio)
• ABC Australia, the public service broadcaster, is now listing selected podcasts on Spotify. Their Coronacast podcast is now also on Spotify. (Our systems can't match them up, yet, since they use different publisher names - but we'll work on that). The BBC, however, is still witholding its Coronavirus Newscast podcast from Google Podcasts.
• Pandemic Check In is a podcast to help us all cope, trade tips, and check in with one another. Featuring mental health professionals from Brooklyn Minds, it describes itself as an old-fashioned call-in show. (Western Sound / Anchor)
• The Suga was launched yesterday. It describes itself as "a brown mama’s guide to the sweet life with hosts Tika Sumpter and Thai Randolph", and is part of their new lifestyle brand Sugaberry. (Stitcher / Omny Studio)
• The Hilarious World of Depression, a show about clinical depression with laughs, returns for season four part 2. Earlier, the host, John, posted a note from his home office. (APM)
• Telescope is a new podcast focused on the personal stories of people all around the world dealing with the [profound and wide-raging effects of COVID-19 and social distancing in their day-to-day lives(https://podnews.net/press-release/telescope-isolation). (Neon Hum Media / Megaphone)
• Creative Elements describes itself as "How I Built This for the creative class", and argues that it’s never been a better time to earn a living with your creativity. The show launches today, with high-profile guests talking about the nitty gritty of building their creative career. (The Podglomerate / Megaphone)
• Jarika Johnson writes saying "As an African-American woman I have travelled to over 20 countries, and I began the podcast Blackpacking to discover other people of color's stories of travel".(Buzzsprout)

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• How is the coronavirus affecting podcast downloads? If you're seeing a slight drop in your downloads, you're not alone, it seems - we've lots of detail from podcasters today, as well as an understanding of whether the internet can cope with all this home working. (The comments are open here, too)
• Could we be replaced with computers? The BBC is working on artificial announcers with authentic regional accents. You can hear some of its early work, and take part in the study, on the BBC's R&D website.
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• Richard Fidler, host of Conversations, which we believe is the most popular podcast in Australia, has posted his home studio setup, complete with cardboard box. Meanwhile, 'podjock' Gene "Bean" Baxter shares his soundproofing booth for Podcast Radio in the UK: less carboard, more curtains.
• Spotify has published a set of Podcast APIs, allowing developers to build alternate front-ends and recommendation services for Spotify's podcasts, as well as "episode resume points", so you can help listeners come back to a podcast at the position they left. The APIs were first requested by developers in May 2017; and an undocumented API has been used since October 2018.
• Developers: The open list of podcast useragents on Github now has The Economist's podcast app, Podimo's user-agent details, and RadioPublic's new user-agent. Visible here, it's used in production by a number of podcast hosts.
• We’ve made it easier to grab “listen link” code for your podcast’s website - HTML code you can copy and paste, which opens the right podcast app on someone’s phone or tablet. (And a way to get the proper Apple/Google/Spotify buttons). Here's an example for Reply All - just search for your podcast.

• Cavalry Audio and Cloud 10 launch Made Women, a Sopranos re-watch podcast. It's the first release from the newly-announced Cavalry Audio, and is hosted by actor and Sopranos star, Drea De Matteo and her close friend, entrepreneur and New Jersey native Chris Kushner. (Simplecast)
• Viral: Coronavirus focuses on the actions of Congress and the Federal Reserve and explores how their decisions will impact the possibility of a recession. The show will tackle the questions that everyday Americans are all wondering: What is the government doing? Why are they doing it? Most importantly, will it work? (Three Uncanny Four / Sony Music Entertainment / Megaphone)
• Gavin Esler's The Big Steal was the subject of an interview last week on Podcast Radio with Gene Baxter - the podcast examines Russia’s journey from democracy to kleptocracy, as the Putin regime attempts to erode democracy across the globe. The station has run episode one as an exclusive. Is Putin, in fact, the richest man in the world? (Fresh Air Production / Omny Studio)

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• 37% of US adults - over 104m people - now listen every month to podcasts, according to the newly-released Infinite Dial 2020 survey from Edison Research and Triton Digital. The figure has grown markedly from 32% a year ago. The data also shows podcasting continuing to head toward gender parity, and increased use of smart speakers. In other news, the research says that almost a third of all Americans no longer own an AM/FM radio.
• Podcasting in the Dominican Republic in 2019 is analysed by Robert Sasuke. The Caribbean nation has seen a more than 400% growth in podcasting, mostly driven by Anchor (who host two-thirds of all podcasts there). 40% of podcasts from the country are inactive, though this is better than the global figure of 57%.
• PRX's Privacy Symposium took place late last month in a rather different-feeling New York NY, USA. While much of the privacy symposium was held in private, video of the first four sessions has been released. "We need inspiration, we need experiments, we actually need to fail a little bit more and not crucify those failures, but really learn from them. We need to create standards", said PRX's CEO Kerri Hoffman.
  • Opinion: We'd hope that The Podcast Academy is the industry's place to create those standards - if podcast hosts and app developers are represented in that organisation, and if it isn't just made up of representatives from the US, a country that has a lamentable record in privacy protection.

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• The Apple Podcasts iOS app has been updated with specific Coronavirus information in the US, reports AppleInsider. Visible in the screenshots are promotion for CNN's Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction, NPR's Coronavirus Daily, and the BBC's Coronavirus Daily Update. Other new sections include "Cultivating Calm" and "Boredom Busters". (No change is visible in Australia).
• YouTube is warning that more videos than normal may be removed from the service: content moderation on YouTube, and many other platforms, is now being done by algorithms rather than human beings. This may impact podcasters, many of whom use the service for posting video versions of their show.
• In The Startup, a Medium publication, Fab Giovanetti writes that monetising your podcast doesn't have to be hard, giving three ways to do so.
• The award ceremony for the Webby Awards has been cancelled.
• How are your downloads doing? We're seeing a small drop of about 10%. Do let us know how it is for you - we'd like to give an overview on Monday. Do hit reply and let us know - you're welcome to stay anonymous.

• The Women is focusing on women on the front lines of the coronavirus. This week, Dr Antoinette Ward, leading testing for COVID-19 at a major hospital in Atlanta GA, on why she sings Stevie Wonder to her patients and the strain to her family. (iHeartRadio)
• Economy and tech podcast Make Me Smart is adding a short daily show. It'll be posted at 5pm PST in addition to the normal weekly show. (Marketplace)
• Tech podcast Mobycast has focused on how they make the podcast, as some tips and tricks for new podcasters.
• Staying In with Emily & Kumail is a podcast for charity about making the best of living life under quarantine. Oscar-nominated film The Big Sick was based on Emily Gordon's chronic illness that forces her to stay indoors for long periods of time. (Hyperobject Industries / Three Uncanny Four Productions / Megaphone)
• CNN's The Boss Files with Poppy Harlow is to bring listeners conversations with CEOs, executives and founders who are navigating the coronavirus crisis in real-time. The first interviewee is Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook, who says the company is finding and removing false information about the virus from the platform, and that they are continuing to pay employees and contractors to ease their financial stresses during this period of uncertainty. (knit)
• For something different, Dog Save The People has uplifting stories of how dogs have impacted their lives for the better. This week's guest is Simon Doonan, an author and TV reality judge. (Squarespace)
• More of a cat person? Cat People focuses on cats: but big ones. Fascinating fact: there are more captive tigers in the US than there are left in the wild. Wow. This podcast, launched earlier this week, focuses on people that keep lions, tigers and other dangerous cats. Here, kitty. (Libsyn)

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• Schools will be closed in the UK from Monday: Stuck at Home is a new podcast from UK broadcaster Fun Kids, and "will be hosted by the station’s presenters Dan, Bex, Conor, Sean and George all from their own houses - as they, too, are stuck at home. The podcast will include three things that kids can do at home each day, interviews from Fun Kids Radio, features around subjects like space, health and the climate as well as news updates from The Week Junior magazine." (Omny Studio)
• Pineapple Street Studios have also announced a project called Stuck at Home, encouraging kids to make their own podcast. "As part of this experiment, kids are encouraged to create their own Stuck at Home podcast featuring the content of their choice".
• Kids Listen, an advocacy organization for kids' podcasts, has produced the Kids Listen Activity Podcast, a different podcast each time with an episode and an activity based on that episode. (Libsyn)
• Satire, thankfully, continues. News Fighters, an Australian news comedy clips podcast, is to double its output to weekly; Harry Shearer's Le Show is continuing as normal, he says; The Last Post will be produced by Alice Fraser from mandatory self-isolation in Australia when she arrives back tomorrow; A Rational Fear will be weekly via Google Hangouts; and longrunning Podnews favourite The Bugle will be "bugling through this", they've said on Facebook.

• Multilingual podcast company Studio Ochenta has launched a global call for story pitches. The company will bring together eighty five-minute stories, which will be translated into multiple languages for the world to hear. It's a paid opportunity: specifically to allow producers quarantined across the world to tell their stories.
• In an up-beat interview, Jen Sargent, Chief Operating Officer of Wondery, sees a tremendous opportunity for podcasting over the next few years.
• Podcast Movement is five months away; and currently is still planned to happen at the end of August. Happily, the event is scheduled to be in Dallas TX this year, which is where Podcast Movement's main headquarters is based, so they know what it's like. The company has also posted details of a "contingency registration", and ways that it offers to remain part of the podcasting community.

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• Whooshkaa is offering free private podcasting accounts to schools worldwide. We covered fellow Australian company RØDE's offer of a free RØDECaster Pro kit to any NSW school a few days ago. Veritone is also giving free access to its applications. UK-based podcast host Podiant is offering a free 30-minute consultation to help you get started.
• Bouncecast is a Finnish audio editor app that includes level normalisation, de-essing and noise reduction.
• Steven Goldstein posts What Podcasters Can Do During A Pandemic. "The longer we are forced to practice “Social Distancing,” the more likely connection Is what people will crave," he says.
• The BBC has released a statement of how it plans to keep the UK "informed, educated and entertained" during the coronavirus outbreak, including plans to rerun old comedies and broadcast new cultural programming. (We'd note that this public service broadcaster, paid-for by the UK public, is still witholding programmes from Google Podcasts users).
• Having to record at home rather than in a "real" studio? Acast have produced a useful set of tips for home recording.
• Radiodays Europe, a large radio and podcasting conference, has been re-scheduled for 13-15 December 2020. It'll still be in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Event ticketing company Eventbrite is holding all ticket money from events, and not allowing event creators to withdraw any money to pay their own cancellation fees, we learn. This is impacting some podcast events scheduled for as far ahead as October. Opinion: Not cool.
• East Coast Studios post about a successful resolution of a problem with one of their podcasts - Unable To Play. Something went wrong. Try Again Later. tl;dr: don't go uploading variable bitrate podcasts, y'all.
• The CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, has just sold about $15.4m of shares in his company, which offers video conferencing and is used by podcasters.

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• Former WNYC Studios VP and Commissioning Editor for the BBC, Tony Phillips has joined London-based audio production company Broccoli Content as their new Chief Creative Officer. He'll help scale the company, including developing international partnerships.
• Axios, the three year-old start-up media company, has inked a deal with Pushkin to produce a new daily podcast. A brief announcement says: "Axios will capitalize on its newsroom, its Smart Brevity style - the punchy approach that has made them a leading morning read for their email subscribers for content - and its ad sales team to drive revenue. This partnership will leverage Pushkin’s audio smarts and network to create a must-hear daily tentpole news podcast." It's due to launch in summer. They're hiring for a host, senior producer, associate producer and exec producer.
• Podfavs is a new website built to help discovery, calling itself "the Rotten Tomatoes of podcasting". Podcasts are assigned a 'temperature' using a proprietary algorithm. Podnews is at 77.5°.

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• Remote recording software Zencastr is removing its 8-hour limit for free users until July.
• French podcast hosting company Ausha have raised €1.2m (US$1.3m). They plan to expand across Europe. The company has twenty employees.
• Crate Media have posted a remote podcast recording checklist to keep your quality high.
• Sounder have spoken to a lot of successful podcasters, and have published 11 creative ways to successfully promote your podcast. Or ten, if you discount the first one - "Go to networking events"...
• Further to our piece the other day about advertising a podcast, a service called Audry might be helpful, with over 300 shows who are open to cross-collaborating. "We see the need for a trusted environment for these partnerships to take place, that works independently of which hosting provider you work with to host your content," says CEO & Founder, Eugenio Warglien.
• The UK radio station Podcast Radio is now broadcasting information about the coronavirus.
• Finally, if you're in self-isolation, there's one thing you absolutely mustn't do, according to this satire site. Too late!

• The Tumble Science Podcast for Kids is focusing on something kids are finding a bit worrying right now - the coronavirus. Kids asked questions, and they got a great expert to answer them, in language kids can understand. No, really - if your kids prefer Spanish, they thought of that, too, and went to a Spanish doctor too. Recommended. (PRX / La Coctelera Music)
• The Immaculate Deception is the first podcast produced by UK production company Somethin' Else in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. It's a disturbing true crime story about Dutch fertility doctor Jan Karbaat, who appears to have fathered at least sixty children. (Acast)
• The Los Angeles Times has launched Asian Enough, a new podcast about being Asian American, hosted by Jen Yamato and Frank Shyong. (ART19)
• Wondery's latest is Even the Rich, tell stories about some of the greatest family dynasties in history from the Murdochs to the Royals. (ART19)

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• Apple have republished a job opening for Product Manager, Apple Podcasts, Personalization which is a role to "build and execute a roadmap for Apple Podcasts personalization", open in Cupertino CA. (Jobs are free to post at Podjobs).
• Chartable had two short outages yesterday, thanks to tech provider Heroku (details), which impacted podcasts using their analytics prefix for a total of around twenty minutes. They plan to harden their systems, and move away from Heroku altogether to Amazon's API Gateway.
• Podcross is a service to cross-promote your show on other podcasts, and a way to promote your show on the world's largest podcasts - they contacted us after our story yesterday about promoting a podcast using cross-promotion, and since we technically need a minimum of three stories for this section, we're delighted they reminded us of their service. If, er, you have stories for us, we're at editor@podnews.net

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• Actually, technically, we need four stories, it turns out, otherwise things break. So, below, we link to an article from Rob Dietz about eight things he learnt when making his podcast. That's in our podcast news section, which is next.

I’m certain consumption will go down because people aren’t commuting nor hitting the gym. This will be like summer vacation but worse. Maybe some political shows or kids shows will increase. Hard to say. I worry about advertiser money drying up or campaigns being postponed. We are already seeing a lot of this. - Jordan Harbinger, The Jordan Harbinger Show

• Audio editor Reaper is offering a temporary license, valid until the end of June 2020, to help those working from home.
• Hindenburg Journalist Pro have also offered three-month temporary licences for B2B customers (you've got an email from them). However, for podcasters everywhere, they often advertise this link for a 90-day free trial, and a mystery "special discount". This isn't related to the coronavirus, and isn't an affiliate link - we use their product and like it though.
• Podbean is offering free audio live streaming as well as a discount on podcast hosting for non-profits and educational establishments.
• The New Yorker covers podcasts to listen to while you're social distancing, favouring Coronavirus 411.
• Sean Howard from Fable and Folly Productions has left a little message for us all to watch.
• Nick Quah posts details of how US podcast companies are faring.
• JAR Audio reckons that every brand and authority should be producing a podcast to help and reassure their citizens and customers. "As a citizen in Vancouver, BC, personally I need to need to hear Justin Trudeau’s voice right now and that of my Mayor Kennedy Stewart."
• Apple is not allowing anything about the coronavirus into its app store, excepting from governments, medical or educational institutions, or health-focused NGOs. This doesn't affect podcasts (though we'd encourage you to report anything that's wrong). Meanwhile, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube have released a joint statement.
• Canadian Music Week has been postponed to Sep 8-13.

• Crazy Town, an unexpectedly cheery podcast about the climate emergency and human unsustainability, launched its second season last week. Rob Dietz writes eight things he learnt while making it. "Not all recordings are worthwhile, even some of the funny ones. It can be a great joy collaborating with creative colleagues. At times we made ourselves laugh to the point of abdominal pain, but some of the material that caused such outbreaks failed to make the cut because it didn’t strengthen the message of the episode." (Buzzsprout)
• Podcast Junkies has interviewed our Editor, James Cridland, on what podcasting can learn from radio. It's a wide-ranging interview with lots of our Editor's back story. (Harry Duran / Simplecast)
• How's your heart? "moved up our launch date by a week because we felt this is a time when we all need some laughs in our lives," they tell us. It's a "hilarious, vulnerable, and unapologetic" podcast about dating, sex, queerdom, "all those feelings", and more. (Libsyn)
• America Dissected: Coronavirus launches today - it's the second season of America Dissected, and is hosted by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and former city health commissioner. (Crooked Media / Megaphone)

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• "This is the single largest download day in the history of our podcast." In the latest part of his exclusive series for Podnews about advertising a podcast, Sean Howard of Fable and Folly Productions writes about promo ad-swaps, episode drops and crossovers, and discovers something that works really well.
• Cavalry Media has launched a podcast division. The company, run by Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger, has released an initial slate including a companion podcast to The Sopranos and a survival podcast hosted by a former Navy SEAL.
• Podtrac publishes its ranker for February. The top 8 is unchanged from January.

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• On Friday we reported on new charts from Backtracks. On closer look, we'd note that the lists are virtually identical to the Apple Podcasts US charts, which do not measure how popular a podcast is. However, the company tells Podnews: "Backtracks Charts uses a variety of scoring mechanisms using direct data via partnerships with multiple listening platform partners, additional sources of direct data, and indirect signals to derive a proprietary podcast score which Backtracks calls a PodScore. Backtracks has significant ecosystem-wide data that the company will release over time." To our assertion that they're identical to Apple, Founder/CEO Jonathan Gill disagrees: "The charts are not identical, but we are modifying the algorithm as it is closely tracking to one partner".
• Triton Digital is reporting that online audio shares to Public Radio and News/Talk stations have grown this last week, says Westwood One, who also wonders what happens to radio figures if everyone works from home? Not much, they say - the figures are deliberately made to smooth out highs and lows, as a average over a number of months. 90.8% of people who work from home are reached by AM/FM radio says the company, which is owned by Cumulus Media, a company that operates 428 radio stations. See below for Tom Webster's take for podcasting.
• Want to automatically remove "ums" and other filler words from your podcast? A service called CleanCast is testing such a product.
• Podcast host Captivate has launched a one-click sponsor kit, which produces "a beautiful PDF" containing download numbers and podcast information. (Podnews's Editor is on Captivate's Advisory Board)
• The Podcast Host takes a look at podcast categories and why they're important.
• "Artists are making television for the ears" is how ABC Australia is describing the renaissance of audio fiction: focusing on many different titles.

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"I’ve seen people assume that podcast consumption will go up as we have all of this time at home. I wouldn’t make that assumption. COVID-19 represents a giant disruption in people’s patterns, and those patterns include how podcasts fit into their typical day, which for now doesn’t exist. If you used to listen to podcasts on your commute, well, many of us aren’t commuting. And while we now have all of this time at home, which Infinite Dial and Share of Ear both tell us is the top location for podcast consumption, many of us (myself included) now unexpectedly have kids at home, which doesn’t exactly leave much time for podcasts. As we’ve seen with other significant world events and disasters, media patterns disrupt in unpredictable ways, like a snow globe being shaken up. I’m not saying all podcasts will go down, but some will. Love NBA podcasts? There aren’t any games. Politics junkie? Primaries are canceled. Some people run to bad news in times like this, while others who normally regularly consume news will studiously avoid it. I think you keep doing your show, but don’t expect the same results. And all of this holds true for radio, too." -- Tom Webster, SVP, Edison Research, who releases The Infinite Dial on Mar 19

• Podcast hosts should not be forced to remove inaccurate or false information about the coronavirus, says entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark in an article for Podnews today. "We haven't seen anything yet," says Buzzsprout's Alban Brooke, "but if somebody uses Buzzsprout to promote fake 'cures' that would be a violation of our TOS and we'd 100% remove it."
• In common with many US shows, topical news quiz Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me was recorded in an empty Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta GA, USA. "It'll be unusual for us to make our little jokes without anyone laughing, but on the other hand... no it won't," said host Peter Sagal.
• RØDE is donating podcasting kits to schools in their home state of NSW, Australia, "to enable teachers to quickly record lessons as podcasts to distribute to students in the event that schools are closed".
• The Outlier Podcast Festival, in Columbus OH, USA, has been cancelled.

• Unstructured is two years old, and its host, Eric Hunley, posted its 200th episode on the anniversary. On March 11th, it posted an interview with Blubrry's Todd Cochrane. (Podbean)
• The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles, a comedy fiction podcast that follows a wannabe actress in Hollywood, debuts its musical episode today - with five original songs performed by the series's stars. The show promises a variety of styles including blues, jazz, and rap. (Simplecast)
• Sickboy is an independent Canadian comedy podcast that breaks down the stigma surrounding illness and death - with 75,000 listeners each week. You'll never guess what virus they're talking about this week (OK, perhaps you will). (Libsyn)
• Let Creativity Flow examines how technology is affecting the evolution of music collaboration. It launched last week, and in part considers whether robots are taking over and if AI can really simulate or even replace human creativity. (Osiris Media / Acast)

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• Spotify is now apparently bigger than Pandora in the US for music streaming. This has knock-on effects for podcast consumption on both platforms.
• Comscore and iHeartMedia have renewed their digital measurement contract.
• If you'd like another chart with Joe Rogan at the top, Backtracks have released a top podcast chart. We've asked for details on how it's compiled - but it has our podcast at #138 of the Daily News charts.

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• E.B. Moss posts a review of the On Air Fest and the RAIN Podcast Business Summit, describing your Editor, who hosted the RAIN event, as "James Corden-esque-styled". (Is this a good thing?)

• Dan Misener examines the numbers of podcasts about the coronavirus, and notes the value of relevance.
• Edison Research has cancelled its in-person unveiling of their Infinite Dial 2020 research, for COVID-19 reasons. You can sign up for the live webinar - Mar 19, 1pm Eastern; and they promise an extended Q&A session.
• To help schools move to online classes and aid the spread of reliable information, Buzzsprout is providing free pro accounts for those working to combat COVID-19 for the duration of the pandemic - including schools, government entities and NGOs, non-profits or first-responders combatting the coronavirus.
• Resonate Recordings, Slate, Google and other organisations are working from home. Resonate Recordings have also posted their list of podcasts on the subject, while Slate looks at what happens when the schools close, as they already have in many countries.
• Radio France's France Culture radio station has launched Radiographies du coronavirus, a compilation podcast of off-air segments from the radio station about the coronavirus.
• The Podcast Movement Las Vegas meetup on Apr 21 has been cancelled (since the NAB Show is too). Podcade 20, in Maryland, has also been cancelled.
• If you're wondering, here is the AP's styleguide for the coronavirus. Use "the" when writing about the coronavirus, which isn't capitalised; however COVID-19 is in all-caps. (Hat-tip: Splice Slugs)
• I'm curious. Are any podcast hosts acting responsibly in terms of removing podcasters who are promoting fake 'cures' for the coronavirus? Is there any evidence of anyone (podcast hosts or directories) enforcing the spread of reliable information by removing nonsense? editor@podnews.net

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• Episode images - what gets used where? Blubrry's Mike Dell has done an excellent job of testing as many different podcast apps for episode artwork as possible. The results would tend to suggest that episode images aren't used much; but where they are used, RSS <item> images are used by the majority of apps, with one exception - Overcast. (We use an RSS image only for our podcast)
• Rachel Corbett, Mamamia's Head of Podcasts, has resigned. Bridget Northeast has replaced her at the women's publisher: she previously worked with the ABC and SCA, and has been working at Mamamia for the last year. Corbett is "moving on to new adventures"; she also runs online course PodSchool.
• Meltwater, a "media inteliigence provider", has added podcast monitoring into its product suite. Meltwater customers can now monitor mentions of their brand or keywords on over 25,000 podcasts: they say they're adding 3,000 new podcasts a day.

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• Podfest Cairo took place last Saturday in Egypt - billed as Egypt's first podcasting conference, it included a number of different speakers including NPR.
• Publishers Daily posts Jonathan Gill, Backtracks CEO, on why the podcast advertising market has not yet reached its full potential. In short: measurement.
• Spotify is a "frenemy" to podcasters, said News Corp Australia’s head of audio Del Fordham at a conference last week. Triton Digital's Sharon Taylor also acknowledged that publishers are in a "weird position", given Spotify is both a successful platform and a content producer.
• Storyboard, a private podcast host for business, has launched Storyboard Groups, a way of making different shows for different teams and job functions within an organisation.
• On Twitter, podcast producer Tom Green plots the growth of Coronavirus podcasts.
• The Podcast Host highlights how to engage podcast listeners.

• EPIDEMIC is a weekly podcast on the coronavirus. This week, a doctor infected with Ebola and a nurse who worked in an AIDS ward; next week, the history of anti-Chinese xenophobia. (Just Human Productions / Backtracks)
• A captive audience? Female podcasters are producing shows from a Darwin prison, according to The Guardian, highlighting Birds Eye View, which went live this week. (Omny Studio)
• Google is podcasting. Apps, Games and Insights is a new podcast for developers and software companies. It went live on March 4th. (Libsyn)
• You get a car! You get a car! Everybody gets a car! The Oprah Winfrey Show is back - as a podcast of archive material, hand-picked by Oprah. (Omny Studio)

• Thanks to our personal supporters like Mike Rapin, we did some additional work on our podcast pages today to properly check Google Podcasts for the multiple RSS feeds that Libsyn produces. If you find Podnews helpful to you, we're on Patreon. And thank you, Mike!

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• Podcast producer HiStudios has rebranded to Notorious, and is now independent of Himalaya Media, the CEO Peter Vincer has announced.
• Libsyn has added Headliner integration, to help podcasters share pieces of their shows on social media. They've introduced a new, simpler method of setting permanent 301 redirects, which the company no longer charges for.
• Talking about promoting your podcast on social media, Wavve have posted details of how to promote your podcast on TikTok, which apparently has over a billion users, and works best for podcasters targeting listeners under the age of 30.

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• The Westwood One blog looks at Edison Research's Share of Ear report from Q3 2019, to conclude that: podcast listeners are super fans of audio; podcast listeners’ #1 content audio source is podcasts.
• Google Play Music Podcasts - a separate thing from Google Podcasts - is apparently no longer accepting submissions, according to Libsyn. Libsyn have removed their separate destination for the service. This might mean we might need to remove this website soon, too. Here's hoping.
• Following a recent live podcast recording event in co Clare, Ireland, last month, an attendee has been found to have the Covid-19 virus. Up to ten people have been advised to self-isolate as a result.
• Social podcasting app Breaker has launched on Android, with a way of adding comments and reactions, Google signin, and a new look.
• "Ad rates for podcasts are more like online video than radio," said iHeartRadio CEO Bob Pittman at Deutsche Bank’s 28th Annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference. He also noted that the company promotes its podcasts through unsold ad inventory on its radio stations.
• A Spotify executive claims that podcasting needs to get metrics and measurement right "within the next year". The exec, Spotify AUNZ head of automation Liam Hickey, was speaking at a conference in Sydney.
• The Who & How Club, a "podcast, blog and movement", wrote about their experiences presenting at Podcamp Toronto.
• Podcast monetisation platform Sounder has raised $1.8m, the company has announced.
• Podcasts are a Vital Part of Experiential Marketing, says JAR Audio, adding that "a branded podcast can become a consumer’s favourite new podcast among thousands of competitors" - something you probably can't say about poster ad campaigns or street teams.
• Reworld Media, a French media group and magazine publisher, plans to release fifteen new podcasts this year. Linda Fall from PodFrance looks round the company and talks to them about their strategy. (en Français)
• Joshua Dudley went to OnAir Fest and reports from the event in Brooklyn NY, USA last week. Day one included Michael Barbaro and Theo Balcomb from The Daily.
• The London Evening Standard claims that podcasting is good for your mental health.
• Hotpod's Nick Quah is to produce a podcast: "to build something that's able to effectively communicate this whole podcast thing — what makes this ecosystem so interesting to talk about and so distinct to experience — to you and everyone else". He's working with LAist Studios.
• Your favourite podcast might be making over $100,000 a month claims SFGate, linking to a list of Patreon revenue earners. Since your favourite podcast is ours, we can confirm we're not.
• The popular She Podcasts Live conference will be held this year in Scottsdale AZ, USA; tickets have just gone on sale.

• How to be superhuman is the first UK podcast from soft drink manufacturer and media house Red Bull. The podcast, focusing on superhuman feats, aims to showcase the amazing spirit of all of humanity. (Spreaker)
• How the heck are we gonna get along is a new podcast, recorded weekly in front of a live studio audience, from Clay Aiken. "This series genuinely tries to bridge the gap between the extremes of American politics", says Conal Byrne from iHeartRadio, which has partnered with Politicon to produce the show. (Megaphone)
• Pivot has launched its own YouTube channel, with an in-video version of the podcast. We're told that the hosts "see the channel as another way of engaging with the show’s devoted fanbase". (Vox Media)
• Music and true crime podcast Disgraceland returns for a new season. Season 5 starts with a two-part episode on Guns'n'Roses.. (iHeartMedia/Megaphone)
• Women belong in the house is back for a new season. This time, host Jenny Kaplan is talking to women serving in the House of Representatives. It's part of Wonder Media Network's celebration of Women's History Month. (Simplecast)
• Beyond the Pond, a podcast about the Vermont band Phish, interviews baseball pitcher Sean Doolittle in their new episode. He "discusses how listening to artists like Phish throughout last season helped him regain his composure and rebound triumphantly in the Fall Classic." (Acast)
• TAKEN claims that Canada is facing a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The show investigates these stories from across the country, and links together clues that might one day bring these cases to justice. (Squarespace)
• Ordineroli Speaking is a new signing for the iHeartPodcast Network Australia: hosted by Neroli Meadows, an Australian TV presenter and sports journalist. The press release also notes that "ARN’s iHeartPodcasts Network will also incorporate enhanced campaign measurement metrics and data, so that brands can track and measure effectiveness". (Megaphone)

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• Acast tells Podnews that there are now more than 650 podcast episodes hosted on its platform alone about Coronavirus. Those episodes have been downloaded more than 16 million times. We link to some new titles in our podcast news section below.
• In America, ABC News plans a new daily podcast, "COVID-19, what you need to know" which launches today. (We don't, yet, see it in Apple Podcasts).
• The radio and podcasting event Radiodays Europe has been postponed because of the virus. Over 1,500 people were due to visit Lisbon, Portugal.

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• Podcasters can now reply to reviews on Podchaser. You can now say "thank you" for reviews, or even help with more information. Try leaving a review here
• Triton Digital have released new rankers for the four weeks ending Feb 16: their new LATAM ranker; and their Australian Podcast Ranker, which was delayed after a typo. The Aussie ranker has a new #1: Stuff You Should Know from iHeartRadio, which is sold in Australia by ARN. From The Newsroom is the highest Aussie podcast in the list, debuting at #2 even though it launched a week into the data period.
• iHeartMedia and Seneca Women have launched a new network of women-focused podcasts. It's sponsored by Procter and Gamble.
• The International Science Council have launched ISC Presents: Women in Science, a set of 15-minute episodes hoping to inspire the next generation of female scientists; the episodes are produced by Studio Ochenta.

• The Coronavirus Daily Briefing is a new podcast from Ride Home Media, focusing on the reason we're all fist-bumping these days. "We feel that daily news podcasts are uniquely suited for breaking news events like this one, providing much needed utility and curation of what can feel like a deluge of things to follow," says CEO Brian McCullough. (Ride Home Media / ART19)
• The Coronavirus Podcast is a new podcast from BBC News, focusing on the covid-19 outbreak. Like other BBC podcasts, this public health message has been blocked from Google Podcasts. (BBC)
• Coronacast is available from the ABC in Australia. (Like other ABC podcasts, it is disappointingly unavailable via Spotify; and isn't, yet, in Google Podcasts either) (ABC Australia)
• Personology is a new history podcast, which "aims to identify what propelled individuals into greatness and, in turn, how those acts changed all of our lives" (iHeartRadio)

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• Spotify's Gimlet has a new Head of Content: Lydia Polgreen, who steps down from Editor in Chief of HuffPost. She'll be responsible for overseeing the entire slate including strategic planning and setting a creative vision for the studio; she'll report to Alex Blumberg.
• Chartable has added its own top 200 charts, based on numbers from its own opt-in measurement of audience size. Anyone can join, free.
  • We've added the Chartable charts to our podcast pages. Here's one podcast that's in the top 40 for technology podcasts, as one example (and you should subscribe to it!)
• Podcast Radio in London, a curated radio station playing nothing but podcasts, has a "special mention" featured slot every week. Last week, station boss Gerry Edwards tells us, they focused on Military Wives: The Official Film Podcast; and possibly as a result, that podcast went to #1 of the Apple Film and TV podcast ranking in the country (even beating the new Sopranos podcast).

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• The Apple Podcasts chart in Ireland for 'arts' looks curious, with a number of (old) shows called "Great Detectives of Old Time Radio" appearing clumped together in the charts. The podcasts all contain public domain content (partially video). The podcast's author, Adam Graham (who's in Boise ID, USA), tells us he's done nothing special.
  • Ireland has only 4.8m people and 44% use iPhone: it's not inconceivable that it takes just one new subscription to get into the lower-half of an unpopular category like Arts. (Here's the patent for the Apple Podcast Charts, and more on podcast stats).
• After Tech Guerrero asked, our podcast subscribe pages now include direct links to iVoox, the large Spanish-language podcast service. We'll also let you know if you're not there. Search for your podcast, or take a peek at This American Life. (And here's more about international podcasting).
• For International Womens Day yesterday, Acast published a video on IGTV, "celebrating female voices in podcasting and finding out how podcasting empowers their voice". ⁣

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• Over one million podcasts will stop being playable in Chrome browsers later this year, calculates Dan Misener. If you're not using HTTPS to serve your audio (perhaps you're using a Wordpress plugin) then you're at risk, he says. (You're probably okay - but our podcast pages have a check just in case. Search for yours here).
• The winners of the Publisher Podcast Awards were announced last night in London. The winner of the Publisher Podcast Of The Year was Crazy/Genius from The Atlantic. The special award was given to Christopher Phin, Head of Podcasts, at DC Thomson.
• The ARIAS, the Audio and Radio Industry Awards, were also announced in London. Best independent podcast went to Radiotopia's Passenger List. The Bellingcat Podcast won two awards - bronze for Best Factual Series and silver for best independent podcast. Other podcasts were also rewarded in various categories.

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• A third of Australians (6.6m) listen to audiobooks, according to new research from audiobook company Audible. Of those already listening to audiobooks, the research claims that 90% agree it allows them to multitask or to be more efficient, says the company, which charges AUD $16.45 - (USD10.99) for monthly membership. Aussies most often wish they had read Game of Thrones, the research goes on to say, which luckily is included in an Audible membership rather than paying $31.50 for the first book. etc.

• It's kind of a big deal: The Ron Burgundy Podcast is back for a third season. The press release bravely uses the word "shenanigans"; and also promotes a live taping of the show in San Diego on Mar 17. (iHeartRadio)
• Inside NWI is a new business podcast from UK-based business development and marketing agency NWI, exploring how a business development agency works. (Soundcloud)
• Broken: Jeffrey Epstein returns for a second season, including a new host, investigative and political journalist Tara Palmeri. (Three Uncanny Four Productions, Hyperobject Industries, Miami Herald, Megaphone)
• Fitish is a new podcast from the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show co-host, J-Si Chavez, and contributor, Jenna Owens. (YEA Networks / Megaphone)

• Adam Mosseri is not the founder of Instagram, as we erroneously said yesterday. He is the current CEO and a long-time executive at Facebook. He took over Instagram after its co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger left in 2018. (Thank you, Timi Siytangco from Singapore for letting us know).

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• More Americans know what a podcast is than ever. In a keynote at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit yesterday, Edison Research SVP Tom Webster announced that, in the upcoming Infinite Dial 2020, 75% of US population 12+ say they are familiar with podcasting - a figure up from 70% last year. That's the equivalent of 212 million people. The new data is released on Mar 19 in a free webinar.
• Podcast Radio, the UK all-podcast station, has announced a content partnership with Radio New Zealand. The deal means RNZ podcasts will be heard on the station.
• Announced at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit, ABC Audio podcasts are to be represented by ESPN Audio for ad sales. The move is to grow podcasts across the Walt Disney Company, which owns both brands.

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• Poland's audio market is featured in an article for the country's culture·pl, which goes into detail about what a słuchowisko is.
• Podfund have invested in two new companies: Revery Media, a premium scripted fiction audio company, and Dot Dot Dot, a podcast company founded by journalist Laurie Segall and media executive Derek Dodge.
• Music industry body IFPI has obtained an injunction against Followerschmiede, a website in Germany that allows musicians to purchase "plays". Services like these are being used, so IFPI claim, to undermine the accuracy of charts, and increase royalty payments to music creators. (Podcasting has similar evidence of those who manipulate charts and operate clickfarms to add fake plays.)
• Matt Giovanisci is working on an experiment, kicked off by a tweet of a story from Podnews. The Money-Making Podcast Experiment is designed to answer: will a niche podcast in a category with low competition gain listeners, sell more products, and increase revenue?
• Be cautious of adding any old redirect or prepend service. Leo Laporte tried testing a new service which ad-blockers saw as an ad-tracker, according to a tweet, meaning that it didn't download. Leo was trying Barometric's click tracker, Adentifi, which is used for measuring clicks on web properties. It's on EasyList, an ad blocking list that can be used by Pi-hole and other router-based ad-blocking services.

• PM Mood is a new podcast hosted by Danielle Moodie-Mills, a TV political commentator. The podcast "will offer a weekly one-on-one sit down with leading activists, celebrities, academics, and artists who are successfully shifting cultural norms, and utilizing their platforms to maximize social impact." (Acast)
• Science Vs has a new episode about covid-19, the virus more commonly known as Coronavirus. They've also added a song to remind you to wash your hands, the most effective way of protecting yourself. (Megaphone)
• No songs, but a special edition of Start Here from ABC News will post on Saturday Mar 7, focusing on covid-19.
• There are already a number of dedicated podcasts about the virus. CNN's Coronavirus: Fact or Fiction features CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta; but there are plenty others, from lesser-known media brands.
• Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders has now had more than 4.3m downloads. They released a new part yesterday. (knit)
• Teach me something new is a new podcast from iHeartMedia and Brit+Co, with "some particularly interesting and successful guests" including Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, and Instagram founder Adam Mosseri.
• The Dating Game Killer, a new true-crime podcast from Wondery, premieres tomorrow.

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• The new Australian Podcast Ranker will be released in the next few hours with some new titles for the first time. Podcasts from Stitcher and the iHeartPodcast Network will be included in the Aussie ranker - these international podcasts can all carry Australian geo-targeted advertising. The new podcast ranker is out at 9.30am Sydney time tomorrow; that's 5.30pm NY time today.
• Podcast host Simplecast has announced its Moveable Audio Engine. It allows dynamic ad and content insertion, and even allows you to target and welcome first-time listeners. It's rolling out to enterprise customers now; and to more customers later.
• Chartable has added a new tool, Incremental Lift, to their suite of products. Incremental Lift allows advertisers to know which ad works (and which doesn't), and to optimise their ad-buys more precisely.

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• Winners for The Scripps Howard Awards were announced. The 'radio/podcast' award went to The Public’s Radio (Rhode Island) for “A 911 Emergency”, a set of radio reports.
• Eric Nuzum, who is a panelist in today's RAIN Podcast Business Summit, writes about his concern at "buzzword bingo" at conferences, and has produced a podcast buzzword bingo game card.
• Serial is now "in exclusive talks " with the New York Times, Ben Smith lets slip in a Medium piece.

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• What's needed to help podcasting hit $2bn in podcast revenue? The results of a survey (including from Podnews readers) from Westwood One points to a need for better attribution and data; a more robust idea of a 'test buy', and a monthly reach of 44%. (That current figure is 32%; but new data is out later this month.)
• BBC Studios has invested into podcast app Pocket Casts. NPR, WNYC Studios and WBEZ Chicago have also added new investment: terms weren't disclosed. BBC Studios is the commercial arm of the BBC, which, almost a year ago, blocked its podcasts from Google Podcasts.
• It's a busy week in podcasting: the RAIN Podcast Business Summit is on Wednesday morning in New York NY; the HotPod Summit on Thursday in Brooklyn NY (we tried for tickets, dear reader, but weren't successful); and, until Sunday, PodFest in Orlando FL and onair fest in Brooklyn NY.

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• What is the music copyright business actually worth? In Billboard, economist Will Page says the global value of music copyright passed $30bn in 2018 - the highest it's ever been, and 9.3% up on 2017. Labels get 61% of that; publishing 39%. We'd add that unlocking revenue from podcasting would benefit the industry further.
• Joshua Dudley profiles Sarah Rhea Warner, "whose level of giving back in her field seems to be approaching sainthood".
• Blue Wire, a new sports podcast company, has raised $1.2m in a seed round. The company will relocate to New York City as part of the plan.
• In Australia, Steve Ahern notes improvement to flash briefings from ABC Australia on his smart speaker; and we're delighted to note that Podnews is also on his news briefing setup.
• Radiodays Asia, a radio and podcast event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has announced its first speakers, which include Edison Research's Tom Webster, radio and podcast consultant Valerie Geller, and Mae Mariyam Thomas from the Maed In India podcast.
• Podchaser has a new advisor. Abbie Sheppard works at personalised video company Cameo as Head of International Business. Reviews have also been integrated into MyPodcastReviews and also into Podrover.

• Cover story: At 101, is Ida Schuster the oldest podcaster in the world? The actor is hosting Old School, with her life story of growing up in a Jewish immigrant family in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, and a journey through her childhood, the war years, and her long career on stage and screen. (The Big Light / Acast)
• And is the oldest podcast in the world in Spanish? The team at En Caso de que el Mundo Se Desintegre thinks it's the longest-running Spanish-language podcast, being first published in February 1999 (with audio files on the web via Internet Explorer Channels) and 2003 (via RSS). Do you know different?
• Correction: Yesterday, we mentioned that the "Obsessed with..." podcast series was growing. In fact, the new podcast we mention, a new companion podcast to a Netflix TV show, is unconnected to previous "Obsessed with..." podcasts, which are companion podcasts to BBC TV shows. Sorry.

Our note that there are now more than 900,000 podcasts in Apple's directory brought some comment from readers.

"Podcast Creator / Listener" says: Directories make it look as if the top 200 podcasts are the only podcasts worthy of listening-to: when in fact, if your show is in the top 9,000 you're still in the top ONE PERCENT of all podcasts, right?! Why would they not expand the ranking lists?? It's common sense really.

Cody Gough says: The "here's how many shows are on Apple Podcasts" stat is always widely reported on by your publication and several other outlets. But I wonder, what is the point? I ask specifically because of the moment I realized the stat doesn't really mean anything: my wife (a college professor) had her students produce a couple of podcast episodes on Anchor as an assignment in their Spanish class. So assuming they published it or Anchor submitted it to Apple Podcasts, that means that at least 20 or so of those 900,000 podcast are literally student assignments that just ended up on the directory. And that's the thing: people post audio for a myriad of reasons. Who knows how many of those 900k pods are literally some corporate marketing person uploading 2 minutes of audio with the file labeled “test,” or a proof of concept that the CMO made them post just to see how podcast feeds work? I searched for "test" and found a "podcast" that is 3 seconds of audio, uploaded once, in 2017. Yet under Daniel J Lewis' definition, this is “a podcast.” To me, saying that every piece of audio on Apple Podcasts is a "podcast" is like saying that every PowerPoint presentation is a sales deck, or inferring that Hollywood is being pitched more scripts because more people are using Microsoft Word. I wonder if it might be worth noting the lack of qualitative information this stat actually contains. Lewis is certainly doing a clever job of getting some free press out of what is a virtually meaningless statistic, but I wonder what value it really provides.

(In terms of their value: we think a headline number helps podcasters talk up the industry, and you can guess that we'll probably highlight when the number gets to above a million. However, yes, the stat is relatively meaningless by itself - and, given there are more than a million self-published books published each year in the US alone, there's plenty of space to grow.)

Our Editor is hosting the RAIN Podcast Business Summit tomorrow morning, Wednesday Mar 4. So, from 6pm on Wednesday night, we'll be inside the Beer Authority, on 300 W 40th St, and will swap you a cheap laptop sticker for a pint of foaming beer. (We've not booked a space, so find out what James looks like on the RAIN website).

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• Bad news: the US$100 Audio-Technica ATR-2100 microphone, much beloved of podcasters, has been discontinued. Good news: that's because it's been replaced by the ATR-2100x. The main difference is a nice modern USB-C connection. And a slightly different switch.
• Spotify is rolling out a new look on iOS.
• Deaf and hard-of-hearing people are helping to fix the podcast accessibility problem, reports Joshua Dudley in Forbes.

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• Pocket Casts had "remove the intro" for many years; it's just added another setting, in beta, to "remove the outtro" as well.
• A free event in Manchester, England, on Mar 10 - Podcasting for Business: An Introduction, with Kate Cocker, a presenter coach and founder of Pods Up North.
• The UK financial newspaper City AM asks has the City undervalued the podcasting craze? arguing that Audioboom, which is seeking a buyer, is undervalued.
• Do you use Amazon Cloudfront to serve your RSS feeds? Want to save 80% of your bandwidth bill? AWS Cloudfront is brilliant, and automatically uses gzip to save you (and your listeners) bandwidth. Their documentation promises it will automatically compress application/xml+rss for us. Except: it doesn't compress the correct content-type, which is application/rss+xml. If you're a corporate AWS customer, please talk to support and ask them to correct this: the podcast community would love you (as will your CFO).

• The Podcast Academy's Hernan Lopez was the guest of The New Media Show over the weekend, and was grilled by Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee.
• "It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that." Talking Sopranos is a new podcast from two actors on the show, launching next month that focuses on the show, episode by episode. (Simplecast)
• Here's a tweet you'll like: Songbirding, a birdsong podcast, which returns for a new season today. It was recorded last summer in southern Ontario, Canada. (Pinecast)
• The Obsessed with podcast series is growing: Obsessed with: Abducted in Plain Sight features more stories from the Netflix show. It promises four episodes delivered as a box set; and is released today. (Audioboom)
• Small Town Dicks is back for season six. The podcast has had over 12m downloads so far, and kicks off with The Grudge, featuring the podcast’s own Detective Dan recounting the case of a house burglary unraveled into a darker crime. It's hosted by voice artist Yeardley Smith. (Audioboom)

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