Podnews
Your daily briefing for podcast and on-demand
Website: podnews.net
Owns
Latest news
- Nov 14: The event happened in Spotify’s Los Angeles studios, in front of around 150 creators including Stephen Bartlett, Meghan Trainor, Jay Shetty, Emma Chamberlain and Don Lemon. Halsey played an acoustic set and there were a number of sessions. In one of them, when asked what his favourite thing about podcasting was, Geoff Chow, Head of Podcast Studios at The Ringer, said that it was that podcasts are open. (Admittedly, after saying that his favourite thing about podcasting was Bill Simmons.)
- Nov 11: Exclusive: Podpage has added a listener survey tool for anyone using its podcast website service. It uses standard questions inspired by Tom Webster’s The Audience is Listening, and you can add your own questions should you require.
- Nov 8: Routes is a new podcast that launched yesterday in the UK, for train company LNER. Hosted by Clara Amfo, the way the podcast is being marketed is just the ticket for the railways - on large billboards on the way to railway stations and inside them, plus seat-back QR codes on board; it’s playable on the LNER app, and is even being promoted to travellers on railway station tannoy announcements. See it, say it, sorted: it’s produced by Leeds-based Distorted.
- Nov 1: The UK’s Daily Mail is expanding its podcasts into the United States. Head of Podcasts for owner DMG, Jamie East, tells the Podnews Weekly Review that podcasts like The Trial of Diddy are showing that expansion into the US will work well. “We’ve got the facilities to do it, we’ve got the people, we’ve got the willing and the desire.” And, he says, there are wider opportunities, too. “If you’ve got someone based in Melbourne or Sydney, and New York and London, there’s not an hour where where you can’t have a team working away.” The full interview is in the Podnews Weekly Review this week.
- Oct 30:
Exclusive: Spain’s Hoy en EL PAÍS has been claiming impressively high download figures; yet today, Podnews can reveal that many of the downloads were never heard. The 14MB podcast was observed automatically downloading, without user intervention, in a browser using an iPhone user-agent - just by visiting the elpais
.com homepage.: thus artificially growing the download numbers from every mobile visitor to the website. El País got over 118mn visits in September, according to similar web, making it the largest Spanish newspaper online. It’s owned by Prisa. The podcast is apparently the 12th biggest show, by downloads, on Triton’s Latin America Podcast Ranker, and 45th in Podtrac’s estimated Spanish podcast ranker - the show, hosted by Triton Digital, also appears to contain a spot for programmatic advertising.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter