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The podcast hosted by Lily Allen and Mikita Oliver, Miss Me?,
performed its first live show yesterday at London's Hackney
Empire.
And like tonight's show, it was a sellout.
On stage, they announced that their Q&A shows will soon be
available on YouTube as well as in podcast form.
The show is produced by Persephonica for the BBC.
Podtrac has published its rankers for February.
The Daily is number one participating podcast in the US, overtaking
NPR News Now.
There are plenty of podcasting sessions and events at South by
Southwest next week.
We'll link to a Google sheet of them all today, including the iHeart
Podcast Awards, which will be held next Monday.
The company's announced a slew of award presenters.
It's also streaming live.
Evolutions in Chicago at the end of this month has announced Dan
Granger from Oxford Road.
as a keynote session, as well as a reprise of Jay Nachlis and
Steve Goldstein's session about the state of video podcasting.
You can use the code PODNEWS to save on selected passes.
CBS News has announced that 48 Hours Post Mortem, a part of the
48 Hours podcast, will be launched in video form.
Podcast hosting company RSS.com has added Apple Podcast Reviews
to its dashboard from around the world.
Normally, you only get to see reviews from your own country in
the Apple Podcasts app.
I'm an advisor.
YouTube's Tim Katz was interviewed by Nick Quah for Vulture.
The interview includes a different definition of podcast from
Katz, and then the same response we got from YouTube as a follow-up.
Katz points to the all-audio consumption that happens in the
YouTube music app.
The Power of Branded Podcasts is a webinar from Sounds Profitable
next week.
It's on Wednesday, March the 12th at 2pm Eastern.
The subject of Serial, Adnan Syed, will not have to face
additional jail time, a judge has ruled.
Blue Wire has re-signed Cam Newton's Iconic Saga for ad
representation and monetization.
And InboxHiive is a service that sends personalized chapter
breakdowns and highlights of your favorite podcasts right to
your email.
There's also a free beta for podcasters, which creates
transcripts and social media content for your show.
It seems to be a reboot of an earlier product, which turns your
favorite podcasts into insightful newsletters.
And in podcast news...
"We really made this whole thing about first-party data,
understanding what people are doing.
You can really see what's working.""
The Podnews Weekly Review this week talks with the co-inventor
of podcasting, Adam Curry,
and his business partner and developer, Dave Jones, on a new
podcast platform called Godcaster,
where faith-based radio and podcasting collide.
If every sentence tells a story, every word leaves a trace.
Writing Wrongs from the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
explores why language analysis plays a crucial role
in solving crimes and improving the delivery of justice.
It's hosted by Professor Tim Grant and Dr. Nicci McLeod.
The first episode looks at Timothy Evans, who was wrongly
convicted and executed for murder almost 75 years ago,
with forensic linguistics showing that his confession was likely
written by the police.
The first episode of this is Gavin Newsom, dropped earlier this
week.
SFGate reports that his first guest was a right-leaning
interviewer, Charlie Kirk,
and that Newsom came across as unprepared and malleable,
commenting that the show was humiliating
and that it was a surprise how embarrassingly Newsom performed.
Other opinions are probably available.
We link, for example, to one from the Sacramento Bee.
Let me read a little bit of that for you.
California needs Newsom to be a leader, not another mediocre
white man with a podcast.
Obviously, that wasn't quite what we meant when we said that
other opinions are available.
And Two Good Sports is back for a new season.
It's a sports show that isn't just two blokes, or even better,
one unfunny bloke.
Two of Australia's top female journalists, Georgie Tunney and
Abby Gelmey,
will be joined by a set of sporting guests covering the AFL, AFLW,
Formula One, NRL, Netball, and more.
It's from ARN's iHeart Australia.
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