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September 2, 2024:
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Megaphone has overtaken Triton Digital’s Omny Studio as the #4 biggest podcast host, according to total episode share in August measured by Livewire. Spreaker continues to take more episode share at #2; Spotify for Podcasters is still #1, though has lost almost a quarter of its market share this year.
August 26, 2024:
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Omny Studio and Headliner have partnered to get customer podcasts onto the video platform.
August 20, 2024:
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Statistics in your podcast host - We asked a variety of podcast hosts. Ausha, Buzzsprout and Spreaker will correctly list this as Apple Podcasts. Omny Studio lists this separately as an Apple Podcasts website play. Captivate, Podbean, Megaphone, Spotify for Podcasters and RSS
May 2, 2024:
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Spreaker is now the #2 podcast hosting company by new episode releases, according to Livewire. (Since Spreaker now supports podping, Livewire can more reliably see all new episodes released on the platform). Spotify for Podcasters is still the most popular; the rest of the top five are Buzzsprout, Omny Studio and Podbean.
April 16, 2024:
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Long Zheng is to leave Omny Studio and Triton Digital. Based in Melbourne, he was a co-founder of Omny Studio, which was purchased by Triton Digital in 2019.
March 12, 2024:
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The iHeartPodcast Awards took place at SXSW in Austin, TX. Podcast of the Year went to New Heights; iHeart won seven of the thirty awards (including the international winner from iHeartPodcasts Australia); SiriusXM’s Simplecast hosted nine of the winners; iHeart’s Omny Studio hosted eight. We’ve a full list of the winners here, and video of the event.
February 8, 2024:
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Omny Studio has published the company’s annual download benchmarking data. The author is anonymous, but we think, given the clues, it’s Sharon Taylor. There’s a slight decline in total downloads numbers - perhaps as an adjustment after Apple’s iOS 17 updates.
January 2, 2024:
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There were 1.7mn new podcast episodes in December (down 11.1%), says Livewire. Spotify for Podcasters hosted 30.4% of them, a new record for the company. Omny Studio dropped below Spotify’s Megaphone for the first time.
August 9, 2023:
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Podcast Perspectives is a new weekly podcast from The Podglomerate, focused on discussing ways to build the next generation of podcasting. Premiering today, the debut episode explores the state of podcast tech with Sharon Taylor, Triton Digital’s SVP of Podcast Strategy and Product Operations (and formerly CEO of Omny Studio).
August 2, 2023:
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The number of episodes published (on open RSS) by Spotify for Podcasters, formerly Anchor, dipped to a new low last month says Livewire; but it still hosts one out of every five new episodes; and Spotify's Megaphone also posted another record high. The biggest increases were seen by Omny Studio and its owner Triton Digital.
July 3, 2023:
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Spotify for Podcasters, formerly Anchor, saw a big drop in share of new podcast episodes in June, according to Livewire. Omny Studio overtook Libsyn to gain the #4 slot. For tracking services, Podtrac increased its lead over Spotify's various tracking tools.
June 9, 2023:
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Radiodays North America is halfway through in Toronto ON, Canada. Among the speakers today, Fatima Zaidi from Quill and CoHost, Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio and Lina Kim from The Podcast Exchange are some of the panel talking about making money from podcasting; Edison Research's Larry Rosin discusses trends in audio, and our Editor James Cridland speaks about great tools from podcasting.
May 12, 2023:
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In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, we hear from two different companies doing "broadcast to podcast" - Triton's Omny Studio and Spotify's Megaphone. Plus, we get a preview of the Podcast Show 2023 in London.
May 8, 2023:
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The finishing touches are being put on the NZ Podcasting Summit this Saturday in Auckland. Our Editor, James Cridland, is the final keynote speaker; also speaking is Jane Yee from The Spinoff, Tim Watkin from RNZ, and Richard Palmer from Omny Studio. Tickets are still available - we can exclusively reveal that there's a Podnews "podcoaster" in the goodie bag!
March 2, 2023:
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Podcast host Libsyn has slipped to #5 in new podcast episode market share. The company had been #4 since the data started in Sep 2021. It was overtaken by Omny Studio; Anchor increased its market share to 22.3% - the highest since August of last year.
January 19, 2023:
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Audioboom has announced a set of new content partnerships, including The Tim Dillon Show (ex Megaphone), Myths and Legends (ex Omny Studio), The Minds of Madness (ex ART19), The Nateland Podcast (ex Omny Studio) and Celebrity Memoir Book Club (ex Buzzsprout).
January 10, 2023:
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Later today, Apple Podcasts will announce the launch of Delegated Delivery (beta), allowing creators to publish Apple Podcasts Subscriptions content directly from their participating hosting provider dashboard. Blubrry, Libsyn, Triton Digital's Omny Studio and RSS·com are the first to offer the service: Acast, ART19, Buzzsprout and other providers will follow. Creators can still upload subscriber audio directly to Apple Podcasts Connect.
December 12, 2022:
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The winners of the Asian Podcast Awards were announced. Almost all are in English; and they are: Best podcast: 1920, within the YES 933 Radio Drama feed (Mediacorp, in Chinese / Omny Studio) … Best podcast host: Adulting with former children (Zodapop, SYRUP Media / Anchor) … Best narrative storytelling or fiction podcast: Creepy Twisted Asians (ZAG / Castos) … Best science, tech or business podcast: Inside China: Coronavirus Podcast, within the Inside China feed (South China Morning Post / Acast) … Best comedy, entertainment or lifestyle podcast: A Brief Case: true crime in Asia (Indie / Podbean) … Best arts, society or culture podcast: Miss Conduct (IVM Podcasts / Omny Studio)
September 28, 2022:
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How many downloads per episode is "good"? Omny Studio publish their data.
September 19, 2022:
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This could be an attempt to boost "iHeart" numbers on Podtrac. If so, there could be more iHeart traffic to be added: currently unmeasured by Podtrac are Triton Digital and Omny Studio, who are owned by iHeart, and iHeart affiliates, like ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia or Bell Media's iHeart Canada.
July 28, 2022:
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Podcast host Omny Studio has published data about podcast consumption on their platform. The company saw a 12% increase in listens via Spotify, and a 36% increase for Google Podcasts.
June 2, 2022:
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In May, Omny Studio overtook Podbean to become the #5 podcast hosting company, measured by new episodes. Anchor is still #1, with 24.3% of all new episodes - a figure that dropped by over 6%. Amazon Cloudfront is still the most popular podcast CDN (including us!); Cloudflare a distant second.
May 25, 2022:
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One of the biggest podcasts in the world, WTF with Marc Maron has signed with Acast. The thirteen-year-old show claims 55 million listens per year, primarily in North America, and is the 25th most popular show in the US according to Edison Podcast Metrics. It will also use Acast+, the company's paid subscriptions product. It was with SXM Media, and hosted by Omny Studio.
May 19, 2022:
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CuriousCast, Corus Entertainment's podcast network, is to monetise through Megaphone. The network was hosting with Omny Studio.
May 2, 2022:
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More than a quarter of new podcast episodes published in April were on Anchor, according to data from John Spurlock: Spotify's free podcast host was responsible for 25.8% of all new podcast episodes in April, breaking 25% for the first time. The rest of the top five were Buzzsprout, Spreaker, Libsyn, and at #5, Podbean which overtook Omny Studio last month. More ranking detail in The Tech Stuff, below.
April 25, 2022:
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Podbean appears to be seeing a large number of migrations away from the service, according to our sample: a large amount making their way to Anchor. Worthwhile also noting AfterBuzzTV switching from Anchor to Megaphone; and our sample continuing to see iHeart podcasts shifting from Spotify's Megaphone to iHeart's Omny Studio.
April 11, 2022:
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Podcast host Anchor's creator interface is now available in 35 different languages. Of the top five podcast hosts, Omny Studio is in six languages, Spreaker available in four; Buzzsprout and Libsyn only offer English, though YouTube is in 82 different languages. It's unclear whether support is available in all of them. Podcasting is growing faster in non-English languages.
March 24, 2022:
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Triton Digital has announced a new automated ad placement system for podcast hosting company Omny Studio. Ad Marker Rules can specify a minimum number of ad markers, and remind users if they've not added enough.
March 3, 2022:
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In podcast representation deals, The FOX Audio Network has signed a hosting and advertising deal with Megaphone. A number of the company's shows were with Triton Digital's Omny Studio … BuzzFeed Studios has signed with Acast to launch a podcast slate of six shows; BuzzFeed also has shows with Anchor and iHeartRadio … Acast has signed Scott McGillivray, a "prolific expert in real estate" and TV star, for season three of The Real Estate Rebel … and AdLarge has signed Going West, a "top-ranked true-crime podcast".
February 2, 2022:
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A website using Google Fonts has been fined for breaking GDPR privacy rules, since it leaked the visitor's IP address to Google without their permission. Of the top ten podcast hosts websites, Anchor, Buzzsprout, Spreaker, Libsyn, Podbean, Omny Studio and Captivate are all using Google Fonts in this way. This website lets you self-host Google Fonts. Podnews phased out use of Google Fonts for privacy reasons more than two years ago.
December 16, 2021:
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The
podcast:transcript
tag is an open standard, supported by a number of podcasts and offers both static transcripts (in HTML or text) or real-time captions (in the SRT format). It has significant usage already - widely supported by many modern podcast hosts including Captivate, Transistor, Buzzsprout, Omny Studio and others, a number of podcast apps display these transcripts, including the popular Android app Podcast Addict. This open standard enables podcast publishers to produce accurate transcripts for themselves.
December 14, 2021:
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Pacific Content has published the first in a series of blog posts with podcasting predictions for 2022 from a wide variety of industry people. Meanwhile, Omny Studio also share theirs.
November 15, 2021:
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How to improve your podcast downloads was the subject of an Audry chat with Sharon Taylor, of Triton Digital's Omny Studio.
October 21, 2021:
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Now we know what Audacy spent $40m on - the company has bought WideOrbit's digital audio streaming technology, and will rebrand it AmperWave. Audacy's announcement just mentions digital audio streaming (for live radio); but WideOrbit's announcement mentions podcasting, too: the company does some hosting for clients. Audacy currently uses Omny Studio, a company now owned by competitor iHeartRadio.
September 30, 2021:
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Data: Enterprise podcast host Omny Studio has released stats for International Podcast Day. Apple Podcasts got 55% of downloads in August 2021; Spotify got 14% (doubling in downloads year-on-year); and Google Podcasts is #3 with 4.29% (up by almost 150%). Podcasts on smart speakers have increased by a third.
September 17, 2021:
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8 Podcast Marketing Mistakes You Might Be Making - Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio talks about the benefits of a trailer, advertising, and being clear.
August 24, 2021:
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Triton Digital's podcast host Omny Studio has enabled the Podcast Namespace transcript RSS tag for its publishers. It enables visibility of transcripts in many new podcast apps, and could also help contextual advertising.
August 17, 2021:
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Triton Digital has introduced a shared listeners tool within podcast host Omny Studio, allowing podcasters to see how many people are listening to more than one show from a publisher. Here's a deeper dive into the tool.
July 12, 2021:
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Omny Studio has shared a number of feature updates for July.
June 29, 2021:
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Federated Media, a broadcaster in the US, has signed with Triton Digital and Omny Studio.
June 15, 2021:
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Omny Studio posts the best way to create promos for your podcast, after researching how they worked across a number of different shows. "You don’t need to worry about saying specific podcast apps in your promo".
June 14, 2021:
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BlueWire's switch to Megaphone is highlighted in our 'podcast host changes' page this week. Otherwise, Libsyn lost most shows; Omny Studio gained most.
May 19, 2021:
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Queerstories, an award-winning podcast celebrating the culture and creativity of the LGBTQI+ community, is back for season 3 and is now published on Acast. (It was on Omny Studio).
May 11, 2021:
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Enterprise podcast host Omny Studio has added enhanced reporting functionality and additional metadata features.
May 7, 2021:
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Last month, we wrote a piece about AppleCoreMedia, a user agent that most podcast hosts don't correctly attribute, either falsely increasing or decreasing Apple's share. In a good example of collaboration across podcasting, Omny Studio and Spreaker have worked together to produce this code and testing tool which fixes that for app developers, once and for all. It's open source and available for anyone.
April 29, 2021:
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ICYMI, Sounds Profitable recently did a deep-dive with Omny Studio, the enterprise-grade podcast host. It's one in many deep-dives they've done, allowing you to spend proper time with a product to get a feel of how it might work.
April 22, 2021:
Sounds Profitable's deep-dive of Omny Studio for enterprise has just gone live. Sharon Taylor from Triton Digital's Omny Studio talks with Bryan Barletta and takes us through the entire system. Watch here.
March 3, 2021:
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Omny Studio's CEO, Sharon Taylor, has released her predictions for podcasting in 2021. The company, owned by Triton Digital, puts Amazon Music ahead of Google Podcasts for downloads in 2020.
February 18, 2021:
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iHeartMedia is to buy Triton Digital for $230m from EW Scripps. Triton Digital owns podcast host Omny Studio, podcast metrics, analytics services, and dynamic advertising. It's one in a series of podcasting ad-tech acquisitions.
January 26, 2021:
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The
.fm
top-level domain-name is now most popular with podcasters, according to 2020 data from the company, with Castbox, Anchor, Podsights, Megaphone, Omny Studio, Transistor, and Captivate in the top 15 of a chart of DNS server responses.
January 8, 2021:
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How to Promote Your Podcast to Grow Your Audience (Omny Studio)
January 1, 2021:
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BEST COMEDY SHOW: Urgent Care (Earwolf, Omny Studio)
December 17, 2020:
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Triton Digital's Omny Studio is now available in German and Italian - making the platform available in six languages.
December 15, 2020:
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Cisneros Interactive has signed with Triton Digital's Omny Studio to power their podcast network. They're a digital advertising company serving the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets.
December 8, 2020:
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Triton Digital's Omny Studio has been selected by SPLiCE Studios, a Singaporean content-maker; and by Estadão, the third largest newspaper in Brazil.
November 10, 2020:
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Triton Digital's Omny Studio has partnered with Gaana, India's largest music streaming app, to bring Omny Studio podcasts into the Gaana platform. (See below for how well it's working for us.)
November 9, 2020:
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Triton's revenue grew by 14% last quarter, according to EW Scripps's quarterly earnings call. The company also owns Omny Studio.
November 4, 2020:
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Podcasting Essentials this week features Omny Studio's Sharon Taylor, examining the podcasting trends of 2020 and what lies ahead. "She also explains secure distribution and helps us better understand podcast analytics".
October 22, 2020:
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Podcorn, a self-service marketplace connecting podcasters with advertisers for native sponsorships, is announcing new partnership deals with podcast hosts Buzzsprout, Podomatic, RSS, Captivate and Omny Studio. Podcorn claims to have done thousands of campaigns with tens of thousands of podcast creators.
September 17, 2020:
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CNN and iHeartRadio have launched Election 101, a new co-produced podcast that demystifies the American political system. (As a Brit looking in from afar - good luck with that.) It's hosted by CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes, distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network and hosted on Megaphone; last month, a shortform podcast CNN Political Briefing was launched using Omny Studio.
September 10, 2020:
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In Australia, NOVA Entertainment's podcasts - here's Fitzy & Wippa - are now hosted by Omny Studio. The company ended its relationship with Acast last week.
September 3, 2020:
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Podcast host Omny Studio published a privacy policy for listeners in May, joining Acast, Buzzsprout and Captivate, we discover. No other podcast host has clear privacy policies to explain to listeners what happens to their identifying data when they listen. (Here's ours). Writing personally, our Editor called for these in December 2019: if privacy is as important to some podcast hosts as they claim, we look forward to seeing their privacy policy for listeners, too.
July 17, 2020:
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Following on from its launch of secure podcast distribution yesterday, Omny Studio has posted an in-depth blog piece about private, premium and secure podcast feeds.
July 16, 2020:
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Triton Digital's podcast platform Omny Studio has enabled tools for exclusive podcasts with secure podcast feeds and players, it's been announced.
June 18, 2020:
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Analysis: The podcast market appears to be horizontally consolidating. SiriusXM already owns Pandora and ad-tech company AdsWizz: their acquisition of Simplecast adds a capable podcast host and analytics company, and means they have capabilities in all sectors of the business. They join EW Scripps, who own Omny Studio, Triton Digital, Midroll and Stitcher; Spotify, who own Anchor, Gimlet et al; and Acast, who acquired Pippa and set up their own content studio last year. It's not enough, it seems, to be a great hosting company or a content-creator: the podcast companies of the future appears to need a foot in all parts of the business.
June 4, 2020:
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Omny Studio has highlighted best practice for dynamic content in podcasts - what it is and how people are using it.
June 3, 2020:
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Olá! ¡Hola! Bonjour! Wotcha! Omny Studio, the podcast management platform from Triton Digital, is now available for use in French, Spanish and Portuguese, with more languages to follow. Their embedded players also support Arabic and Japanese. ここには何でも書けます!لن يقرأ أحد هذا!
May 27, 2020:
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Omny Studio now offers podcast hosts the ability to offer "analytics-only access" to users.
May 20, 2020:
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Omny Studio has expanded its consumption analytics on its podcast platform
May 12, 2020:
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Triton Digital's Omny Studio has rolled out new user access permissions, allowing individual members of your team 'program access' to specific shows, or 'organization access', allowing access to portions of your entire podcast catalogue.
May 11, 2020:
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Scripps also released quarterly earnings figures. Of their podcast companies, Triton Digital, which also owns Omny Studio, showed a small decrease in revenue (down 1.1% to $10.3m); Stitcher/Midroll saw an increase of 13.4% to $17.1m.
April 9, 2020:
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Omny Studio are working from home; but have posted a slew of platform and feature updates.
March 27, 2020:
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Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - hosted by Omny Studio and produced by Stitcher's Earwolf - got a heavy promotion in Spotify's PR email this week. Curious.
March 26, 2020:
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Podcasting Essentials is back for season 4. In the first episode, Andrew Davies from ABC Audio Studios talks about podcast descriptions - at 71%, it's the main reason listeners choose to listen to new podcasts. (BE Media Production / Omny Studio)
March 25, 2020:
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Alice Cooper's Vintage Vault is a new podcast from the "shock rocker". Cooper has been doing a radio show, "Alice Cooper Nights", over the past sixteen years: this is a compilation of great interviews from that show. (Omny Studio)
March 24, 2020:
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Best practice for podcast trailers have been published by Omny Studio, Triton Digital's podcast hosting company. Their first piece of advice is to, um, make one: and they show plenty of places where trailers are given prominence to new listeners.
March 23, 2020:
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Gavin Esler's The Big Steal was the subject of an interview last week on Podcast Radio with Gene Baxter - the podcast examines Russia’s journey from democracy to kleptocracy, as the Putin regime attempts to erode democracy across the globe. The station has run episode one as an exclusive. Is Putin, in fact, the richest man in the world? (Fresh Air Production / Omny Studio)
March 19, 2020:
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Schools will be closed in the UK from Monday: Stuck at Home is a new podcast from UK broadcaster Fun Kids, and "will be hosted by the station’s presenters Dan, Bex, Conor, Sean and George all from their own houses - as they, too, are stuck at home. The podcast will include three things that kids can do at home each day, interviews from Fun Kids Radio, features around subjects like space, health and the climate as well as news updates from The Week Junior magazine." (Omny Studio)
March 12, 2020:
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A captive audience? Female podcasters are producing shows from a Darwin prison, according to The Guardian, highlighting Birds Eye View, which went live this week. (Omny Studio)
February 4, 2020:
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Omny Studio has built a dynamic ad manager for publishers, called the Omny Campaign Manager, using Triton Digital's ad tech; has added transcription tools (both human and automated); geoblocking tools; enhanced analytics; fully translated web players; and has added a method of delivering ad-free versions of podcasts for subscribers.
January 23, 2020:
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Omny Studio is now integrated with Podchaser - allowing you to add creator and guest credits within the Omny Studio podcast platform.
January 17, 2020:
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The Murder Squad, a true-crime podcast released in March 2019, has helped lead to the arrest of a suspect in a 1980 killing, reports the Rolling Stone. (Exactly Right Media / Omny Studio)
January 16, 2020:
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Novel Gazing is a brand new podcast from a book website, dedicated to news, recommendations, and general goings-on from the world of literary fiction. (Book Riot / Omny Studio)
January 8, 2020:
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Matt Saraceni, formerly of Omny Studio and Telstra, has joined Australian broadcaster SCA as "Innovation Director - Audio on Demand".
January 6, 2020:
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$200: Complete the title of a podcast devoted to a Sarah Michelle Gellar series: Buffering... - A: Buffering the vampire slayer (Omny Studio)
December 12, 2019:
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Omny Studio's embedded players are now available in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Malay and Hebrew.
December 9, 2019:
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Podcast advertising company Midroll is "bullying" podcaster David Pakman to switch his podcast host from Libsyn to Omny Studio, he says in a YouTube video. Pakman is unhappy at leaving Libsyn, and claims Omny Studio "tracks listeners using a tracking pixel". He is, he says, ending his relationship with Midroll as a result. We've approached Midroll for comment, and will carry that tomorrow; however, Sharon Taylor, CEO of Omny Studio, has clarified to Podnews (our bold):
December 6, 2019:
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The Munk Debates, a Canadian debating event, has launched its own podcast. The first season started a few weeks ago, and runs weekly until June 2020, including speakers like Steve Bannon, Stephen Fry, Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens. (Antica Productions / iHeartRadio / Omny Studio)
December 5, 2019:
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Paolo McCarty highlights something we missed at the time: when Stitcher and Earwolf moved from ART19 to Omny Studio, that meant that every part of their business - production, hosting, distribution and monetisation - is now owned by their owner, Scripps.
December 3, 2019:
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Podcast Movement Sessions is back for a new season. Dan Franks tells Podnews: "We've invested heavily into the production this season, to shed light on some of the most important (and sometimes sensitive and controversial) topics in the space, framed by our Society, Culture and Advocacy track at PM19." (Ted Woods / Omny Studio)
November 26, 2019:
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The Weird Tales Radio Show supported Podnews for the last twelve months. Lawyer turned award-winning writer and sometime werewolf-hunter Charles Christian has a weekly feast of folklore, magick and scary tales. We're grateful to them for their support! (Omny Studio)
November 19, 2019:
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Podcast host Omny Studio have added two new end-points for podcasters using their platform: to Deezer and to RADIO·COM. (Our podcast directory page has the details of how to submit to these and others).
November 18, 2019:
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The Freenoter, with Tom Webster (you may know him as that great speaker from Edison Research) and Tamsen Webster (you might know her as a speaker trainer and "idea whisperer"), covers all the angles of how to build a profit from speaking for free. (Omny Studio)
November 11, 2019:
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Triton Digital paid $8.5m for Omny Studio, it was revealed in owner Scripps's earnings call. Triton Digital revenue is down more than 10% but is refocusing on core businesses. Revenue at Stitcher is up by 41.4%, says the iHeart-owned InsideRadio.
October 31, 2019:
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That's Incredible - stories to share with kids is a new podcast from Australia's Mamamia. "We've been getting a lot of emails from parents saying it's doing what it was supposed to do... entertain the kids in the car," say the producers. (Omny Studio)
October 29, 2019:
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Westwood One is to use Megaphone as its host, and will use "Megaphone's hosting, publishing, dynamic ad insertion, campaign management, and analytics tools to deliver targeted ads to its podcast listeners." They previously used Omny Studio.
October 18, 2019:
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The Trainee Sexologist is an original podcast from MediaWorks Radio in New Zealand, following Morgan Penn, a woman who left a sensible career in radio sales to become a sex therapist. Aimed at the female podcast audience, it's sponsored by a local adult store. (Omny Studio)
October 7, 2019:
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A true crime podcast from some actual lawyers? Whatever next. The Case Files, from UK legal company Slater + Gordon, tells the stories of people who have gone through the civil justice system. (4DC / Omny Studio)
October 4, 2019:
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The last voyage of the Pong Su reveals the true story of one of the most audacious drug trafficking efforts in Australia’s history - featuring a North Korean dictator, bags of heroin, drug lords, spooks, sailors, Australian cops and a web of lies. (The Age / Omny Studio)
September 25, 2019:
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People Building Businesses: Omny Studio's Sharon Taylor talks about the story of the podcasting company from 2011 to its successful acquisition by Triton Digital earlier this year in the latest episode.
August 29, 2019:
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Court TV have launched a podcast - The Court TV Podcast says "if you love geeking-out on trials and crime, you’ve landed on the perfect spot." (Omny Studio)
August 9, 2019:
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Retail is your business is a new business podcast from MouthMedia Network, launched after their Fashion is your business podcast made it to 300 episodes. (Omny Studio)
August 2, 2019:
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Top-10 Apple Podcasts podcast Talking Clean with Irene covers how to live a sustainable, natural and toxin-free life - everything from palm oil sustainability to how to store and preserve your vegetables longer. (Wavelength Creative / Nourished Life / Omny Studio)
July 29, 2019:
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It’s now day six without any categories in Apple Podcasts apps while the company reworks them. Omny Studio and Zencast has both announced that they are supporting the new Apple Podcasts categories. Pocket Casts say it intends to support them and suggest publishers adopt them. "Apple’s leadership in the space is still meaningful and the [new] categories do feel like a good step," the CEO Owen Grover told us.
July 9, 2019:
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Tech people in Melbourne VIC, Australia: no need to be so glum about the weather. Crawl out from under the doona and get your umbrella, because Omny Studio is hiring.
July 4, 2019:
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Broadcast and podcast are two worlds converging says Omny Studios' Mitch Secrett, with data from across the world.
June 17, 2019:
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In Melbourne VIC, Australia, People Building Businesses has launched - the press release describes it as "a dual-platform podcast focusing on how companies grow" (it's also released in video form on YouTube). It's from YBF Ventures, a tech and innovation startup hub. (Omny Studio)
June 13, 2019:
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Triton Digital has acquired Omny Studio, an enterprise podcast hosting company, for an undisclosed sum. The Sydney Morning Herald estimate the company's value well into the millions. Founder Ed Hooper posted a bit about the company history.
June 10, 2019:
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Entercom and Cadence13 launch To War And Back today - exploring the lives of three combat veterans and their journeys on the battlefield and on their return home. (Omny Studio)
June 6, 2019:
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State of Digital Publishing covers media technology trends, perspectives, and news for online publishing and media professionals. The latest episode features a discussion on paid newsletters. (Omny Studio)
May 30, 2019:
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Easier: Acast has integrated Headliner directly inside its creator dashboard. Headliner has previously partnered with Pinecast and Omny Studio.
May 22, 2019:
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Omny Studio has rolled out full support for WebSub, so podcasters using the platform will see new episodes appearing instantly in podcast apps that support it, like Google Podcasts or Swoot. Podcast host Megafono also supports the WebSub standard.
May 16, 2019:
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Radiodays Asia has announced a new set of speakers, including Mitch Secrett, Head of Business Development from Omny Studio, an enterprise podcast host; Cath Dwyer, Acting Head of Distribution at the ABC in Australia including the ABC Listen app; and Kou Aizhe, founder and producer of Gushi FM, a Chinese podcast about ordinary peoples' lives. The event is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August.
May 10, 2019:
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Our Editor, James Cridland, is the guest on Podcasting Essentials, discussing current issues in the world of podcasting. (BE Media Production / Omny Studio)
May 3, 2019:
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Talk is Jericho's latest episode features an interview with Jack Perry talking about his late father, Luke Perry, for the first time. (Westwood One/Omny Studio)
April 30, 2019:
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Spotify paid €50m (US$55m) for Parcast, their financial results say. More than 50,000 shows have been submitted through their podcast portal - and there are 250,000 podcasts in their system overall (the differences being Anchor's catalogue, presumably, as well as automated API-driven submissions from partner hosts like Libsyn or Omny Studio). Apple has over 700,000.
April 25, 2019:
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Podcasting Essentials has Steve Pratt from Pacific Content. "To stand out, don't do what everyone else is doing. Quality production and a narrative form of storytelling helps build engagement from the get-go," he says. (BE Media Production / Omny Studio)
April 18, 2019:
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Omny Studio - featured in WIRED magazine this month - have written about their transcription service, and the benefit of it. They also show off their "transcript player".
April 16, 2019:
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Shell, the petro-chemicals company, has released its first podcast. The Energy Podcast speaks about the global energy system. (Omny Studio)
March 27, 2019:
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Podcasting Essentials has Nick Schildberger of BE Media Production and Sharon Taylor, CEO of Omny Studio, discussing the latest statistics for podcasting and audio SEO. (Omny Studio)
March 18, 2019:
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A new series of the entrepreneur podcast Rocketship is focusing on Cleveland OH, USA, where Cleveland’s top business leaders, civic leaders, politicians and lawmakers, people running educational institutions are all dedicated to making Cleveland the Blockchain Capital of the world. (Podglomerate/Omny Studio)
March 12, 2019:
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An interesting idea: dynamic ad insertion without the ads - The Quicky is dynamically inserting the latest news into their podcast, followed by an "evergreen investigation". The podcast is hosted on Omny Studio and the dynamic insertion is done through Triton's Tap for Podcasts ad server.
February 19, 2019:
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Chapter One is a simple but brilliant idea: hear the whole first chapter of new books every episode. (Nearly / Omny Studio)
February 15, 2019:
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The Quicky launches on Monday: a new daily news podcast for Australia, that "will get you up to speed on the top stories, and deep dive on one topic you need to know more about, all in under 10 minutes". (Mamamia / Omny Studio)
January 31, 2019:
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Engineering Reimagined is a leadership podcast from Aurecon, a digital engineering and advisory company. Of interest: the podcast's website, integrated into the company's main site, contains comprehensive contextual information for listeners. (Nearly / Omny Studio)
January 24, 2019:
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Omny Studio, the enterprise podcast host, has partnered with Headliner to offer "one-click access to create best-in-class podcast audiograms", which help share podcasts in social media.
January 16, 2019:
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Whooshkaa, an Australian podcast host, is automatically applying audio normalisation for uploaded podcasts by a subset of users, with the aim of making this optionally available to everyone in a few weeks. "The feedback has been positive," the company says. Aussie competitor Omny Studio has had the feature since March. We ran analysis a year ago of podcast loudness, and have a full LUFS FAQ on the subject.
January 14, 2019:
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The Australian Open tennis started today. The AO Show is a daily show following the biggest storylines and goes behind-the-scenes; James Parkinson is producing (Omny Studio).
December 31, 2018:
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Simplecast is in the process of attaining IAB Certification. They join Voxnest/Spreaker, Megaphone, Libsyn, Omny Studio, and ART19. With Blubrry and NPR having already achieved it, that's over a quarter of a million dollars that the IAB has earnt so far from certification. Cough
December 12, 2018:
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Podtrac has announced support for RAD, and their own RAD beta is open for signup. Other companies who've said they'll support it are Acast, AdsWizz, ART19, Awesound, Blubrry Podcasting, Panoply, Omny Studio, Podtrac, PRX, RadioPublic, Triton Digital, and WideOrbit.
December 4, 2018:
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Becoming a parent can be the greatest and the hardest thing you’ll experience, says the description of Navigating Parenthood, a new podcast from Australian health insurance company HCF, hosted by broadcaster Gretchen Miller. (Hardie Grant Media / Nearly / Omny Studio)
November 29, 2018:
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Enterprise podcast host Omny Studio has announced a partnership with Rubicon Project that enables pre-roll video advertising for podcast plays on the web. Omny Studio clients include many radio broadcasters, who use Omny Studio's web player within their websites.
November 28, 2018:
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The Super Awesome Science Show is a brand new series that was launched yesterday. It's hosted by researcher, educator, and Canadian-bestselling author, Jason Tetro, better known as "The Germ Guy", and explores the answers to today’s burning science questions, from climate change and blockchain, to sleep and artificial intelligence. (CuriousCast / Omny Studio)
November 13, 2018:
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Triton Digital has signed a deal with Singapore's largest broadcaster Mediacorp to monetise their podcasts and streams. Mediacorp will be using Omny Studio's technology for podcasting.
October 29, 2018:
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Omny Studio has launched a transcription tool for podcasters and audio publishers. The system allows publishers to "repurpose interviews and breaking news for written articles, and radio producers will be able to search through an on-air archive for specific topics or keywords".
October 25, 2018:
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The Yak focuses on the bit of Australia that nobody wants to talk about: the children detained on the tiny island of Nauru. It's part of the #kidsoffnauru campaign, calling on the Australian parliament to get every child off Nauru by Universal Children's Day on November 20th. (World Vision / Omny Studio)
September 17, 2018:
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Next Radio, the radio and podcasting conference, is on now in central London. Speakers include Omny Studio, Acast, and a number of independent podcasters. Later in the week we'll link to videos from the event.
September 11, 2018:
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Ten million people have been diagnosed with it - but few people know much about it. When life gives you Parkinson's launches tomorrow; co-hosted by Larry Gifford (above), a thirty-year broadcast veteran who was diagnosed in August 2017. "My goal is to help people with Parkinson’s realize they aren’t alone", Gifford says in a press release. (CuriousCast / Parkinson Canada / Omny Studio)
September 7, 2018:
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Jovem Pan, the largest commercial radio network in Brazil, has selected Triton Digital and Omny Studio for podcast distribution and monetisation.
September 5, 2018:
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How is Google Podcasts doing? And how could it do better? Editor of Podnews, James Cridland, writes an opinion piece with a few ideas for Mountain View; the story also includes data from Libsyn, ART19, Omny Studio and Whooshkaa.
September 3, 2018:
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In Australia, a confronting opinion piece is posted on the ABC's website, from the host of Silent Waves (Nearly Media / Omny Studio)
August 30, 2018:
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Podcast host Simplecast has announced it is to move to IAB v2.0 compliant analytics. Meanwhile, Omny Studio has detailed how they filter and measure analytic metrics; they've incorporated Spotify stats to their analytics platform, and added an automated button for Spotify submission.
August 16, 2018:
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Marco Arment, the developer of iOS podcast app Overcast, has announced forthcoming support of a new "payment" link for podcasts - a big green payment button will appear in the next version of Overcast to clearly link to donation pages. It's a simple tag in your show notes, now explicitly supported by Omny Studio and Fireside, and Anchor have also said they'll support it. We already display it in our podcast pages (here's an example). Here's how to add one.
August 3, 2018:
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Lipp Media, a collaborative partnership for on-demand digital audio by women and members of the LGBT+ community, has launched in Melbourne VIC, Australia. The network launches with three original shows, and represents two existing ones, including Popchops. Shows are hosted with Omny Studio.
July 31, 2018:
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Next Radio, the ideas conference, have announced a new set of speakers including Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio talking about podcast monetisation and Susie Warhurst from Acast discussing branded podcasts. The conference is in central London on Sept 17, and also features Cariad Lloyd (Griefcast), and Suchandrika Chakrabarti (Black Mirror Cracked). (The Editor of Podnews is one of the organisers).
June 20, 2018:
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In The Word from Mouth this week, Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio on how the future of podcasting depends on changing the conversation. Plus, an interview with Joe Shortridge of 222 Paranormal Podcast.
June 19, 2018:
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Omny Studio have added Google Analytics tracking for their embedded player.
June 13, 2018:
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"If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will disrupt you" - Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio on radio's podcast future
May 31, 2018:
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Omny Studio tell us that they are planning to roll out an automated tool that will automatically help migrate any of their customers' HTTP feeds to HTTPS. (They already support it, and it's default for new podcasts). Libsyn support https links (just 'add the s'), but they're also working on automatic migration.
April 9, 2018:
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Podnews is now available on Spotify: enjoy a unique weekly update on Spotify, thanks to Omny Studio. (For the rest of us, you can hear that weekly update as part of The Word From Mouth, a great insider insights podcast from MouthMedia).
March 16, 2018:
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Omny Studio release a loudness normalisation tool which will allow their customers to set the loudness of their podcast to standard values. (As a short reminder: Amazon Alexa wants -14, Google Assistant wants -16, the BBC reckons -18 is right, and our own research shows LUFS values being as loud as -8 and as quiet as -28.) The Omny tool also produces output which is compliant in dbTP and a specified LU loudness range.
March 7, 2018:
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Omny Studio has a new client: Beasley Media Group, the US broadcaster, who has also renewed with Triton Digital.
February 2, 2018:
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UK broadcaster Polly James is celebrating ten years in radio by producing a set of podcasts focussing on the radio industry. The podcast is supported by industry title Radio Today, and will be hosted by Omny Studio.
December 11, 2017:
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Remember Omny Studio claimed they'd worked out how to get podcast analytics out of Apple Podcasts? Here's how they did it. Clever idea of using rate limiting to force the player to get "just enough" data to play, but no more.
November 28, 2017:
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Omny Studio have launched automated podcasting tools for radio stations. In this story is a YouTube video with a look at their backend for producing them. The product's available now to their enterprise customers.
November 23, 2017:
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Melbourne-based podcast network Ear Buds has signed comedy show Welcome to Patchwork for their second series. The podcast was a finalist in NOVA Entertainment's 2017 emerging podcast competition, Podquest. They've also moved to use podcast hosts Omny Studio. It's a fortnightly podcast "where old friends Christian, Dion and Josh dissect their everyday lives", and has a dedicated fan base. Here's the latest episode.
October 12, 2017:
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The Radio Alive conference in Melbourne tomorrow will feature, among many other talks and events, podnews publisher James Cridland talking with Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio and Benjamin Masse from Triton Digital.
September 7, 2017:
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Just before OzPod, Omny Studio announce a partnership with boutique ad agency Placard Media for podcast ad sales.
August 15, 2017:
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In the US, CBS Radio already has more than 350 podcasts, and they've done a deal with Omny Studio for hosting, as part of the company's on-demand strategy. It joins radio companies across the world using Omny Studio.
August 1, 2017:
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Fun Kids, the UK children's radio station, announces that it's the world's biggest podcaster of kids content, with 68 different podcast channels (and over 2,000 episodes). Fun Kids host with Omny Studio.
June 22, 2017:
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Poynter shares ideas of what Apple's new stats could mean for discovery - assuming Apple opens up the data. They're great ideas. Not sure Apple nor many podcast makers want this data to be quite as visible as these ideas would need. (That said, people like Omny Studio or Libsyn could do this.)
June 19, 2017:
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Omny Studio works with Australian broadcaster Macquarie Media to enable podcast pre-roll video ads on the 30% of plays in-browser. "We’re committed to finding new ways to help publishers monetize their content whilst ensuring they remain in control of how and when."
May 31, 2017:
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Good Aussie podcast about podcasts. This episode has Sharon Taylor, CEO of Melbourne-based podcast-host Omny Studios, with some good tips and future-gazing.