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Apple has confirmed a download bug has been fixed in iOS 14.7. This meant downloads from Apple Podcasts were down 20% in June and much of July. Since Apple accounts for almost half of all podcast downloads, it had a big effect on the industry - one analyst criticised Spotify, causing its stock to drop by $2.5bn: because of lower Podtrac figures caused by Apple’s bug.
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Daniel Ek doesn’t believe Spotify has any editorial responsibility over what’s said in the Joe Rogan podcast, according to an interview. The show is a Spotify exclusive; Spotify paid the podcaster $100m for his show.
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Facebook has been showing off more of its plans for podcasting and audio. Ashley Carman tweets videos of Clips, a new podcast discovery service, and apparently automated captioning is coming. The service is unavailable to most podcasters, and entirely absent for the 97% of the world’s population who don’t live in the US.
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German podcast Cui Bono: WTF happened to Ken Jebsen? is to become a TV show: Florida Film is producing a six-part documentary based on the podcast, which traces the path of a public radio broadcaster turned conspiracy theorist. (Thanks, Steffen!)
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Audio-Technica has released a new low-cost dynamic microphone, the AT2040.
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Paula Szuchman has been named Director of Audio at the New York Times.
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WAMU, the public radio station in Washington DC, is hiring an Executive Producer, Podcasts.
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Last Friday, we disclosed that FeedBurner (still) powers 56,000 podcasts: a number we sourced from the PodcastIndex database. In The New Media Show, Todd Cochrane commented: “I’m not surprised. The question is, are they active?” Here’s the answer: of the 56,000 Feedburner shows in the Podcast Index, 9,115 (16%) were updated in the last 90 days - including The Adam Carrolla Show, Tom Merritt’s Daily Tech News Show, TED Talks Daily, The Moth, and shows from the Irish Times and Monocle 24, just to name a few.
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Looking for a reason to send out a press release? The 3 Takeaways podcast has “reached the top 2.5% of global podcasts”, according to a release yesterday. The data is from ListenNotes, and based on a proprietary Listen Score, - worked out by activities on the ListenNotes website, media mentions and reviews. Podnews is a “top 1.5%”: it’s likely you’ll be at least top 5%.
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Steps to create your own podcast tribe - James Marriott has a five-step plan for full-on cheerleaders for your show.
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