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Research from Nielsen about podcast profiles, and Edison Research about smart audio

June 26, 2017

• Patreon publish 7 podcast promotion strategies.
• If SoundCloud is in financial trouble, how do you protect your podcasts on it?
• A Q&A with Wondery’s David Rheinstrom
• Nielsen's Audio Today 2017 report contains details about podcast users in the US. Comedy is the most popular genre for podcasts, the company says.
• A writeup of the RAIN Podcast Business Summit last week in New York NY.
• Edison Research announces a Smart Audio Report webinar for Wednesday. Free.

• How NPR approaches advertising in podcasts, plus a free podcasting event in Canada, and is podcasting ruining radio?
• Interview with Ira Glass on interviews, plus acast, a new TED podcast, and discovery ideas
• Next Radio conference, podcasting to come to Google, and Ira Glass talks
• Successful podcast music, Tom Webster on Apple's analytics, and most successful podcast formats
• A science podcast for kids, video prerolls, and a podcast gets man out of jail
• Behind the world's largest women's podcast network, Lore, Helen Zaltzman, Roman Mars, and Audible
• AudioBoom's boom-time, plus prison podcasts, Podtrac and Primedia
• Current event podcasting, more on Apple's analytics and RSS changes, and Radiodays Europe's podcasting day
• More on Apple's analytics, plus why you should be on 60db and a new golden age of drama
• ... see all our updates