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• Sports fans in the US spend more than two hours longer with audio content every day, according to a preview of the Sports Audio Report from Edison Research, SiriusXM Media and GroupM.
• Ariel Shapiro’s final Hot Pod was published. In an editorial, she paints a picture of a new industry landscape - where investments have dried up and every project needs to be profitable to survive; and suggests she “got to the party too late”.
• Triton Digital’s March podcast ranker is out for the US.

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• Podcast hosting company Captivate has rolled-out support for chapters, including image and URL support, in its embedded player.
• An impending UK election probably means podcast advertising revenue will be adversely affected, according to Adelicious CEO, Andrew Goldsmith. The UK government was one of the first advertisers on podcasts in the country, but rules around election spending are complex.
• Flightpath, software that helps predict advertising availability for podcast networks, spotted last year’s change in Apple Podcasts early and helped publishers correct the quotes they were making, according to CEO Sean Howard. He’s interviewed today in our sister publication, the Podcast Business Journal.
• The subject of Bone Valley, Leo Schofield, has been valley-podcast-subject-granted-182922905.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-04-19">granted parole, and will leave prison on April 30.
• AdResults Media published a Podcast Advertising Whitepaper showing the effectiveness of the medium for advertising.
• Gordon Firemark is planning a free webinar next week: “Podcast Growth & Profit: Mastering the Fundamentals; Avoiding Common Mistakes.”

Tips and tricks

• Niall Mackay posts his top five tools for editing workflow.
• Hate your own voice? We Edit Podcasts has tips for finding vocal confidence as a podcaster.

Podcast News

• The Adam Carolla Show is fifteen years old. As a celebration, fifteen of Carolla’s most memorable episodes featuring stars such as Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Alec Baldwin, Michael Mann, Francis Ford Coppola, Albert Brooks, Jimmy Kimmel, Mike Tyson and Christian Bale will be featured in a special The Adam Carolla Show podcast collection available in Tesla cars.
• Spotify launched 1619: The Podcast Edition - the result of a Spotify-funded NextGen podcast course with Howard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. The student-produced podcast makes compelling connections to the ways that slavery still impacts their lives and ours. A listening party was held earlier this week.
• The Podnews Weekly Review talks with Jeremy King from the M&M Awards, Sean Howard from Flightpath, and Sam Sethi discusses how ActivityPub might work in joining up the disparate world of podcast apps, in a section he may be surprised to learn hasn't been edited out.

Podcast promotion in the wild

(The “let’s clear some of the backlog” edition)

• Dining with Dills: “I saw the attached yard sign in Pasadena, California the other day,” says reader Michael.

• Monumental is a podcast about big monuments across America, from PRX. Where better to advertise it than on billboards close to the monuments in each episode? (Note that the podcast is called “Monumental”, but on the billboards is called “Monumental Podcast”, so you know what it is, just as we recommend.)

• Behold! A bus! In Dublin, Ireland! It’s for Unapologetic and it’s put there by Acast. (The ad, not the bus. The bus was probably there already.)

• Kiwi kids show Suzy and friends get the double-billboard treatment in Auckland, New Zealand.

• The obligatory picture of a billboard in Times Square comes from Podnews reader Stephanie, for Impact Theory. “Not the Amazon billboard,” she adds. Indeed.

Finally for now, The Cold Slice, another podcast that correctly adds the word “podcast” when it isn’t in a podcast app, bought a billboard to promote their show. Their Reddit post says that they spent $300 and got 80 listeners (“some of whom stuck it out and still listen”). Dylan was told by someone in the subreddit to send us a picture.

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• A brand new microphone, the Lewitt Audio Ray, has been launched... with a laser. The microphone has what it calls “autofocus” for sound, tuning the voice depending on how close, or far away, the person is from the microphone. It’s a new and novel idea; our review says it could be an excellent guest microphone, or for use on camera.
• Rephonic has started rolling out details of Spotify follower numbers for every podcast in its directory. The data appeared in some users’ apps a few weeks ago.
• Seems that the HotPod “hiatus” will be longer than first thought: all subscribers to the newsletter have had their paid subscriptions refunded. (If that refund is burning a hole in your pocket and you’d like to support us...)

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• How many podcasts make it to 5 or more episodes? Only half of them, says data from the Podcast Index.
• Libsyn Ads has announced a partnership to represent the Toronto Star’s podcasts for ad sales.
• Hit true crime show One Minute Remaining is to be made available to Spanish speakers. The Acast show is using Wondercraft to introduce the show to Spanish speakers globally. Uno Minuto Restante is now available in all major podcast apps.
• AdsWizz has successfully recertified for v2.1 of the IAB Podcast Measurement program. Podtrac and Simplecast also recertified in March. On the IAB TechLab website, there are still a number of companies only certified to v2.0, who haven’t recertified in more than three years: Anchor (now Spotify), Buzzsprout, Captivate, Chartable, Libsyn, Megaphone and Podbean.

Focus

In 100 Latina Birthdays, from Peabody-nominated LWC Studios, reporters investigate the health and lifetime outcomes of Latinas in the United States from birth to age 100. Season 1 chronicles Latinas’ health during pregnancy, childhood, adolescence, and up until age 20. Listen here, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Moves and Hires

• Lotten Skeppstedt has been hired as Director of Platform Services at Swedish podcast platform Podspace.

Tips and tricks

• What do you do with your audio files after you’ve produced an episode? Here’s how to store your podcast files - at least, the decisions you should make, and the way we do things. We’d love your feedback.
• Descript shares The best prompt for AI brainstorming, according to a study

Podcast News

• Ahead of this year's BAFTA Television Awards in the UK, the Countdown To The BAFTAs podcast returns again today - hosted by Alex Zane and made by Rethink Audio, the show will feature "informed and entertaining behind-the-scenes chat about the making of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows from the past 12 months".
• The Podcast Gurus podcast this week has our Editor, James Cridland, as a guest. The show is also available in video form. Developing sustainable content creation and distribution practices, James says, is essential to prevent burnout and maintain quality.

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• Parcast founder Max Cutler has announced the launch of a new media company, Pave Studios. “Positioned across video, audio, books and entertainment”, the release appears careful not to use the word “podcast” (though the video does).
  • Spotify bought Parcast in 2019 for more than $100mn; Cutler left Spotify in Feb 2023, the Parcast brand was combined into Spotify Studios last year.
• Audio-Report.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-04-17">UK media regulator Ofcom has released data on audio listening in the UK. The raw data is also available in full, and Adam Bowie has looked more closely into the data. He discovers that podcast listening is not growing overall in the country; but there has been a marked growth in younger listeners. Spotify, BBC Sounds and YouTube appear high in the list for podcast apps.
• In the US, the IAB has released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Total internet ad revenue grew 7.3% in 2023. Internet audio, including podcasts, grew 18.9% to $7.2bn. We’ll learn the podcast revenue numbers on May 9.

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• The New York Festivals Radio Awards announced the winners for 2024. We’ve linked here to the podcast winners; there are 23 Gold winners. Bloodlines, from CBC and BBC, won a Grand award; the BBC was awarded Broadcaster of the Year.
• The Australian Podcast Ranker for March was released. Hamish & Andy return to #1 for monthly listeners; the show’s first weekly episode this year was posted on Feb 28. (Notably, the show has moved away from titles like “Hamish & Andy 2023 Ep 240”, and instead is using more attention-grabbing titles like “2024 Ep 247 - The Amazing Hat Prank”). The ABC’s Conversations is #1 by total downloads.
  • One of the two big Australian commercial podcast publishers, ARN, is bidding to buy the other, its competitor SCA. “If the proposal goes ahead, we expect ARN would close its iHeart app and shift to LiSTNR as a single audio streaming platform,” says an analyst from Morgan Stanley.
• Audiobooks are a hit for Spotify - 25% of Spotify Premium users (in US,UK,AU) have “engaged” with audiobooks, the company tells us. In the US, new audiobook listeners are spending 2.5 hours longer in the app in the 14 days since starting a book; and cross-promoting a RuPaul book from an appearance by RuPaul on Call Her Daddy led to a 34% increase in consumption.
  • The company also points out it’s resulted in more revenue for publishers: “Without Spotify, royalties for independent authors would have increased to 23% from Q1 of '23 to Q1 of '24, but with Spotify's addition of Audiobooks in Premium, independent authors have seen a 95% jump in their royalties.”
• People in Quebec call podcasts “balados”, according to the latest edition of Pod The North. In France, however, they’re all about “le podcast”.

Tips and tricks

• The Drum report on 5 of the best branded podcasts of all time and why they work. Shows from Trader Joe’s and Gucci make it in.
• What new podcast features are creators using? Our sister publication the Podcast Business Journal now has updated numbers from Podcast Index. Over 30,000 podcasts have “super-chapters”, the more detailed chapter format that Pocket Casts has just rolled out support for.

Podcast News

• It's even worse than it appears. Podnews has restored one of the original podcasts, Morning Coffee Notes from Dave Winer; and now you can listen on your modern podcast app. The show is a snapshot of tech history - Dave talks to Robert Scoble after MacWorld 2008, interviews Chris Brogan about posting 100 "tweets", records the first podcast to be broadcast on KYOU, tries the Motorola Droid out for the first time: and sings.
• Status: Untraced is new from Tenderfoot TV today - investigating the mysterious disappearance of adventurer and tech entrepreneur, Justin Alexander Shetler. The Parvati Valley is sometime referred to as “the valley of death,” infamous for a string of mysterious disappearances. Host Liam Luxon aims to find out what happened to Justin - is he still alive? Was he murdered? Was there an accident?
• What Could Go Right? returns for a new season today. Produced by the Progress Network, the show dissects the central issues of our era – ranging from climate change to political divisiveness – and offers a weekly dose of optimistic ideas from smart people.

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• The Podcast Standards Project has announced that more than 2.5mn podcast episodes now feature creator-supplied transcripts using the open standard. Those Podcasting 2.0 transcripts are visible in apps like Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Fountain and Podcast Guru as well as many others.
  • Doing your own transcripts in the RSS feed means you can add speaker names to your transcripts and correct mis-spellings.
• Inspired by Ashley Carman’s recent article in Bloomberg, The Podglomerate has produced a list of almost the top 1,000 shows from Spotify. The company says it’s great for research, pitching and general navel-gazing.
• Spotify for Podcasters has added team management to its list of features, allowing you to invite other members of your team to manage your podcast.

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• Expect some internet ad revenue numbers from the IAB later today.
• Android Police share five things we will miss about Google Podcasts now that it’s dead. (The app is alive and well in every country outside the US until June 24).
• A podcast app for those who love the terminal window, TaleCast is a free download using Rust.
• EarBuds shares five episodes of Podcasts About AI in Politics & Democracy. They’re the choice of Mila Atmos, producer and series host of Future Hindsight ... Emily Rudder from Wonder Media Network shares her podcast playlist with Pocket Casts.

Moves and Hires

• Long Zheng is to leave Omny Studio and Triton Digital. Based in Melbourne, he was a co-founder of Omny Studio, which was purchased by Triton Digital in 2019.
• Kevin Sachs has been appointed VP, Marketplace Development at Katz Digital. He had been at Spotify for over seven years.

Tips and tricks

• After making 400 guest appearances on podcasts, Mark Herschberg knows a thing or two about podcasts. For hosts and guests, he’s written Podcast Alchemy, a ten-part series of articles exploring best practices as well as a look at the emerging business models and uses of podcasting.
• Castos has 20 Strategies To Monetize Your Show

Podcast News

• The long-running interview show hosted by Anna Sale, Death, Sex & Money, is back, with a new home. Formerly with WNYC Studios, the show launches with Slate today, with a conversation with a sociopath. We learn that a life without shame could feel beautifully liberating.
• Somehow Related with Dave O’Neil & Glenn Robbins is marking its 300th episode today with a move to 9Podcasts. Hosted by legendary Aussie comedians, Glenn Robbins and Dave O’Neil, Somehow Related is the show that proves even the most seemingly random subjects are in fact related – somehow.
• FC Bullard is new from Crowd Network - hosted by Jimmy Bullard, a former Premier League football player, with John Fendley. "Jimmy and Fenners" were hosts of Soccer AM, a long-running TV sports show, until it ended last year.
• As the UK heads to local council elections on May 2, The Trouble With Politics is a new independent podcast from broadcaster and journalist Marverine Cole - after a new survey suggests that a mere 9% of the British public say they trust politicians to tell the truth.
• It’s A Lot with Abbie Chatfield returns for season six today, celebrating with new artwork by Hungarian artist Kamilla Varga. "The previous art was traced on an old iPad at 4am when I decided to start the podcast and I never really thought to change it," she said. The show includes discussions including mental health, body positivity and the social discourse around feminism, misogyny, and politics.

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• Podcast monetisation company Audioboom released its Q1/24 financial results. The figures show an 11% year-on-year growth in revenue, continued EBITDA profit, and eCPM (revenue per thousand listens) of a record $52.17.
  • Things have changed - five years ago, the company’s eCPM was $23.77.
• Production tool Alitu now includes “magic filters” to automatically remove ums, ahs, filler words and long silences. The company says its the result of customer feedback.
• Equipment manufacturer RØDE has launched a number of new products at NAB 2024, which is taking place in Las Vegas currently. The Interview Pro microphone is a handheld wireless microphone with on-board recording; the company also announced an iPhone filming mount and magnetic microphone holder for iPhone.

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• Jordan Harbinger has jumped (back) into LinkedIn, and has been posting gems like how he advertises his podcast, the benefit of preparation, and much more.
• Radio and podcast company Audacy has partnered with synthetic voice company ElevenLabs to “augment its existing programming and production workflows”.
• In the UK, UniPodFest has been announced, at Birmingham City University. The event is on Jun 5; guests include George the Poet and “Trojan Horse Affair” host Hamza Syed.
• Does anyone pay for podcast apps? How many subscribers has podcast app Pocket Casts got? The answer, they tell us: over 50,000.
• Fiction podcasts are fundamentally incompatible with most podcast-listening apps, writes Evo Terra, highlighting the app functions that fiction podcasts need to work well. “We need our apps to work as well for fiction podcasts as they do “normal” podcasts,” he writes.
  • Meanwhile, Wil Williams suggests that nonfiction podcasts can learn from “the black sheep of podcasting” - they write that crossover episodes and promo swaps work very well, along with a wish for all to succeed.
• Swift-New-Heights-Coachella-Travis-Kelce.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-04-15">A pop star wore a green hat. Meanwhile, a sports player danced to a song.
• Further reading: “If you love podcasts, dump Spotify”, writes Alex Sujong Laughlin in Defector ...

Tips and tricks

• Grow your podcast: 14 lessons from successful podcasters (Podwritten)
• Got a lot of useful, evergreen episodes for your podcast? Get the most out of your content: make a blog post of some of the best, summarising the points, and linking to each episode. For an idea of how that might work... see above, because that’s what Podwritten did. Seemed to work!

The Tech Stuff

• Podcasting 2.0 has a logo of its very own, which you’ll see beginning to be used across many different places including Podnews podcast pages. The clear, modern logo includes elements of an ear, the RSS icon, symbols typically used for podcasting and transmission, and is built from the characters “2.0”.
• Andrew Grumet continues to work on his “wherever” audio player, which can now find RSS urls for itself.
• Pocket Casts 7.61 (on Android and iOS) now supports “super-chapters” from Podcasting 2.0 and Podlove.

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• Right Answers Mostly has signed with AdLarge. The show, co-created and hosted by Tess Bellomo and Claire Donald, is the podcast on what you didn’t learn about in history class but wanted to, with an unfiltered deep dive into the stories absent from your school textbooks.
• A special episode of Self Care Club drops today - the 500th episode. Guest host Anna Mathur will be interviewing the weekly hosts Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman on the self-care practices and products that they recommend, after trailing more than 300 different ones throughout the show’s history, together with their best (and worst) bits, funniest and favourite moments on the show. The show is with Adelicious.
• The Weekly Money Clip is brand new from CrossCheck Media and CenterClip, and aims to provide a comprehensive and diverse exploration of money-related topics, combining expert insights with individual experiences. It's with the Evergreen Podcast Network.

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