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An innovative new show from Message Heard, COPA90 and iHeart
Podcasts launches later this week.
San Diego FC, Behind the Flow.
It starts as a documentary-style sports podcast, looking behind
the scenes at the newest team in Major League Soccer.
But the show will then transition into a sports talk show
covering the rest of the team's first ever season.
A new virtual summit has been announced for health podcasting.
The Health Podcast Summit will take place on October 1st to 2nd,
with a number of industry leaders as speakers.
The summit coincides with Health Literacy Month, and it's free
to register.
Audio monetization company Audion has released a study showing
that adding audio ads in video increases brand recall.
Video's often consumed without actively viewing the image, and
therefore the audio message in ads can reach both video and
audio users.
The British Podcast Awards 2025's Listener's Choice Award is now
open for public voting.
Last year's winner was Help, I Sexted My Boss, from Audio Always.
Saudi podcast host Thmania has gained IAB Podcast Measurement
Guidelines compliance to version 2.2.
It's the first time the company, based in Riyadh, has achieved
certification.
CNN Audio is changing its name to CNN Podcasts.
The fact is, these are podcasts, says the head of CNN Podcasts,
Steve Lichtig.
It's what the industry and the general public, more importantly,
calls them.
It's part of a expansion push for the company.
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In people news, Andy Rogers, formerly Senior Director, Business
Development and Partnerships at Libsyn,
is now a free agent, he tells us, and is available for work.
He'd been at Libsyn for four and a half years.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And the PodNews Daily podcast uses both Websub and Podping
to announce that we have a new episode available as soon as we
publish.
So as a fun timing experiment, how quickly did those new
episodes get onto podcast apps?
Well, we've got all the details in our newsletter today,
but you need to know that it took Pocket Casts less than 90
seconds
from us publishing the show on Open RSS to send us a
notification.
Apple Podcasts was consistently later, anything from 10 to 18
minutes late.
And our RSS stats show that Apple grabs our RSS feeds more than
three times more than Pocket Casts.
Now, this isn't a fair test for a number of reasons.
We're a daily podcast, so we're polled more often than a weekly
one.
Notifications aren't a reliable indicator for when a new show is
playable in the app, and so on.
But, if it's of interest, Apple Podcasts doesn't use Websub or
Podping,
to the best of our knowledge, while Pocket Casts uses both.
Did OP3 go down at the end of last week during the big Google
outage
that appeared to knock almost everything off the internet?
John Spurlock would like us to know that no, it didn't.
We suspect he's a lucky man.
Podcasters using Eleventy to produce their static websites might
like Podcaster, an Eleventy plugin,
which produces RSS feeds so you can host your own show too.
And there's a source tag in the original RSS 2.0 specification.
Who knew? Well, we didn't.
But as of now, the new Podcasts podcast feed uses it
because it's ideal to link back to the original feed that the
trailer came from.
And in podcast news, new in the Play On Podcasts feed today is
Run Boy Run,
a new audio drama from a Nigerian playwright which tells the
story of a married couple
grappling with the lingering trauma of surviving the Nigerian
civil war.
And it's 50 years since Jaws, and Radiolab has a treat for us
with a five-part audio event
starting today called Swimming with Shadows.
This Radiolab Week of Sharks dives deep beneath the surface to
ask who are sharks really,
and do they warrant the level of terror so many have of them?
Expect a globe-spanning journey to Australia, South Africa, Malta,
and Madison, Wisconsin.
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