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The podcast industry in France has called for official
government recognition for podcasting.
If we want podcasting to remain a diverse, creator-driven medium,
it must be recognised as a cultural industry in its own right,
the organisation said in a statement following its AGM.
It follows AudioUK asking for the same in the UK and podcasters
asking for similar recognition in Canada.
Mission Media AI has been launched, a new content distribution
and media sales company founded by David Krulwich.
Steve Smith, formerly of SiriusXM, will work on publisher
relationships.
George Mani will be head of business development.
CoHost has added new features to its tracking links tool,
making it faster to deploy tracking links for new shows promoted
on multiple platforms.
Qling is a new iOS podcast app that, quote, aims to find novel,
inspiring and also new content tailored for each user.
We link to that today.
The Sonic Dash, a competition from Silver Sound, is a
competition with a difference.
Podcast creators are given just 48 hours to make a two-minute
sound story from scratch.
The winner from last week was UK-based Skadis Symphony, run by
Oliver Morris and Jude Hodgson-Hannah.
Inspired by 1970s Italian horror cinema, Oliver and Jude turned
Britain's most beloved beverage, tea, into a twisted and darkly
funny faux trailer.
You can hear it in the Sonic Dash podcast feed.
And thank you, we think, to Ryan Pownall, a Canadian social media
influencer, who, after launching a podcast on Buzzsprout and
getting his adult-themed podcast listed on all the platforms,
promptly hired an AI-powered anti-piracy service called Ceartas
DMCA, which sent a takedown notice about us to Google because we
had automatically listed his grubby podcast.
We've appealed the copyright strike with Google since this is
literally how open podcasts are supposed to work.
And thank you properly to Stephanie Fuccio for becoming our
latest personal supporter.
Personal supporters like Stephanie, who owns podcast optimisation
company Coffeelike Media, help us lower our reliance on
advertising and pays for pod news for everyone.
Never in the same place twice, Steph appears to be in Copenhagen,
in Denmark, as we write this.
In People News, Neil Carruth has been made General Manager of
Silver Tribe Media, the digital media management and production
company.
Carruth moves from Freakonomics Radio and NPR.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And a working prototype has been put live by the Podcast
Standards Project for a demo of a podcast hosted with HLS Video
and discovered that it already works in Fountain and Truefans.
The benefits with HLS streaming are that it might be
significantly cheaper for podcast hosting companies and better
for users.
It's included in the same RSS feed as the audio feed, so is
backwards compatible with existing players.
In the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week, Adam and Dave are
joined by Rockie Thomas of Soundstack to talk lit, chat and
working wood.
And there's a new version of transcription tool, Whisper CPP,
available.
It adds something called VAD, that's Voice Activity Detection,
and that can significantly speed up the process of transcription.
And in podcast news, Jurassic World Rebirth is coming to theatres
soon, which means there's no better time to explore the real
science behind dinosaurs.
I Know Dino, the big dinosaur podcast, is for everyone who's
ever wondered what dinosaurs were really like.
The latest episode is all about Allosaurus, an iconic Jurassic
predator known for living fast and dying young, millions of
years before T-Rex.
And hey there, history lovers, history for hot girls, deep dives
into the history of people, events, items and ideas
traditionally considered feminine.
And on today's episode, Natalie and Michelle explore the rise in
popularity of the romanticity genre.
From stories of swords to, well, stories of other swords, they
unpack what is so captivating about this genre as well as its
critiques.
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