iHeartRadio launches a third all-podcast station

• iHeartRadio have launched a third all-podcast radio station. Listeners in Erie PA will find the iHeartRadio Podcast Channel on WLTM, 95.9 FM. It joins Allentown-Bethlehem PA’s WSAN 1470 AM, and Albuquerque NM, KABQ 1350 AM. It’s the first podcast station to make it to FM in the US, reports iHeartRadio-owned Inside Radio.

• Gaana, an Indian music streaming service, is planning a portfolio of 3,000 podcasts by March 2020. They hope for 10 crore (100,000,000) monthly listens. Meanwhile, Scroll reports on a surge in the popularity of podcasts in India. A 2011 census showed that 10% of people in India - 125m - speak English, making it the second-largest English-speaking country in the world.

• In France, Majelan, a subscription podcast platform, has raised another €6m (US$6.7m) in funding.

  
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• Richard Davies writes how indie podcasters can survive the tsunami of bigness in 2020. There are, he says, “fresh opportunities for new, young, diverse voices.”

• An interesting piece in Medium from UX designer Jordan Buckhalt, on designing a podcast app. (We can’t see whether the final app was launched, though.)

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• “Podcast hobbyists will experience 2020 as the year of reckoning. While some will be happy to produce an episode whenever they can find the time, others will leave full-time jobs and risk it all in podcasting,” says Juleyka Lantigua-Williams in Niemen Lab.

  • Meanwhile, Karthik Vijayakumar makes his podcast industry predictions for 2020.

• An online event, Jan 24-26: The Mass Media Podcast Summit

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