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Silver Sound announced the results of the third biannual Sonic
Dash,
an audio storytelling competition held every six months.
Entrants must craft a completely original piece within two days
of being emailed the theme,
which this time around was, you've got to be kidding me.
Oliver Morris and Jude Hodgson Hann took home the top prize with
their piece Scapegoat,
which you can hear in the Sonic Dash podcast feed.
Substack, which announced a partnership with Spotify in April
last year,
is now promoting that Spotify integration on the Substack
dashboard.
The service also has integrations with Apple Podcasts, YouTube
Music,
YouTube Podcasts, Pocket Casts and Overcast,
but this is the first time that our podnews reader who spotted
this has seen them actively promote it.
Boss Jock, a podcast recorder on iOS, has released a newly rewritten
version
that adds enhancements to the soundboard, keyboard control and
sharing capabilities.
We'll link to where you can find it today.
New York-based production company Shared Manifest Entertainment
has relaunched as a creative home for artists,
focusing on fiction podcasts, theatre and film.
The company produced Tales from the Aether in 2020 and 2021 and
plans to produce a third season.
Mediocrity is getting crushed.
That's Amplify Media's Steve Goldstein, giving us seven key
takeaways from CES.
And the AudioGen 3x3 newsletter published a look back at 2024
and a look forward to 2025
from nine people in the Spanish podcast industry from six
countries.
It's essential, says Argentina's Natalia Carcavallo,
to find new distribution methods to expand the audiences of our
productions
and thus be able to resist the tyranny of algorithms and the
impositions of the big players.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff and Helipad 0.2.1 is
out for Umbrel nodes.
It includes a podcast filter so you can see boosts and streaming
payments to specific shows.
You can upgrade Helipad in your Umbrel app store.
If you've discovered a new podcast app and wondered what the
user agent is,
well, there's no need to wrestle with that man-in-the-middle
proxy.
We've written up how to use OP3 and our own podcast to see the
user agent and other details live.
And if you use an electronic calendar, well, us too, which is
why our events calendar is now available
as a WebCal subscription so you can see at a glance if you're
missing any podcast events.
And in podcast news, as a Christian prayer podcast hits number
one in Apple Podcasts once more,
Salem Media Group has added your nightly prayer to Life Audio's
lineup.
Also, the first episode of Virtually Parkinson has been
published,
where the AI replica of Sir Michael Parkinson interviews the
global music sensation,
it says here, Jason Derulo.
The AI replica listens to the answers Derulo gives and teases
more information out of him.
It's an interesting listen.
And for more on the process, we interviewed the people behind it
in the Podnews Weekly Review.
We've a link to that episode as well in our show notes and our
newsletter at podnews.net.
Also new today, The Wellness Scoop, new from Adelicious Today.
Mantra with Gemma Sbeg is new today from Pave Studios Open Mind.
Have I pronounced that right?
I don't know.
That Sinking Feeling is a new podcast today from Elizabeth Reinecki
and Tony Kaplan,
telling two intertwined stories.
Elizabeth's journey as a mother to a son diagnosed with ADHD
and the history of her father's career in ship salvage.
It's a six-part podcast releasing weekly.
And the Funny Comics Fan Club is back for a second season,
looking through old British comics.
The first season was named as Podcast of the Week by the Radio
Times
and was one of its top ten recommended shows.
The new season starts with an in-depth look at Cheeky Weekly
from 1978.
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