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March 19, 2024:
    A new podcast discovery tool for advertisers, Busylike, has been launched. It allows brands to discover over 2,000 shows to collaborate and advertise with.
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October 12, 2023:
    A "podcast discovery network" called PodDisco has launched, with the podcast True Crime US Discovery (in a number of languages), which consists of concise episode edits of shows like Crime Junkie, CBS News's 48 Hours, and Dateline NBC. The company tells Podnews that it has not asked creators for permission for their shows to be edited in this way, because: "we believe this can be beneficial for original creators, as it can drive traffic to their content."
August 28, 2023:
    Feed the Queue has been refreshed and relaunched by Tink Media, and calls itself the ultimate podcast discovery podcast. It will feed your queue with an assortment of fantastic podcasts you would likely not have heard of. Join the team from Tink Media and creators from across the industry to learn about shows you’ll love. The press release uses the word "char-queue-terie", but we'll gloss over that and pretend it didn't happen.
July 21, 2023:
    In the US, Oprah Winfrey has been guest-hosting The Starbucks Daily in the Starbucks app for the last five weeks. The show features a genius podcast moment, and helps promote podcasts to the 30mn people who use the app every month. It's made with podcast discovery app Hark, and you can hear her appearances (and other shows) on this Harklist.
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December 27, 2021:
    Voxalyze has published their Podcast Discovery & Consumption report. The company surveyed listeners across four countries (the US, UK, France and Germany) to see if there are any local differences. Podcast listeners use 1.9 platforms on average, and Amazon Music is surprisingly high in their results. Google Podcasts reaches up to 15% of all users, but only 4% in the UK (possibly because the BBC blocks their podcasts from it).
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July 27, 2021:
    Audacy has launched Podsauce, a podcast discovery show. The show (in both audio and video) will "give viewers and listeners the inside scoop on new podcasts from the genre’s top talent and discover hidden gems they might otherwise have missed out on." There will also be a minute-long version on the radio.
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March 9, 2021:
    White-label voice assistants will win the battle for podcast discovery, says Techcrunch: "the voice assistant that can … search, sample and discover content through shareable bite-sized pieces will win". The paywalled piece is presented as editorial, but it's written by Amir Hirsh from Audioburst - who, coincidentally, operates a white-label voice assistant that can search content through shareable bite-sized pieces.
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May 4, 2020:
    Auby is "a young startup with big ambitions on a mission to change podcast discovery". Currently they've some positions open for interns and "podcast enthusiasts".
March 30, 2020:
    The most popular way of choosing a podcast is the show description, according to The Podcast Host who have published the results of their survey, Podcast Discovery in 2020. They discover that most people just use the search in their podcast app to find new stuff to listen to.
January 6, 2020:
    Podcast discovery website Podchaser has added a recommendation feature. You can recommend podcasts, episodes or creators to your friends on the service or via email - and we like their example of a creator to follow.
December 10, 2019:
    Google Assistant has added a new podcast discovery feature - listening to podcasts by topic. "OK, Google, find a podcast about podcasting news" is particularly good. It returns a list on displays, and plays podcasts on phones. This is an enhancement of a feature first launched in early August on the Google search engine.
November 19, 2019:
    Breaking: Spotify has (just) launched Your Daily Podcasts, an algorithmically-driven podcast discovery playlist that promises "an easy way to discover new shows while also keeping up with old favorites". If you’ve listened to at least four podcasts in the past 90 days, you’ll find the playlist in the “Your Top Podcasts” shelf on Home or in the “Made For You” hub on browse. It's available for free and premium users within the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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    In a talk that was praised as 'refreshingly frank', CEO of Pocket Casts Owen Grover spoke at OzPod 2019, an Australian podcast conference, earlier today. In a wide-ranging Q&A with ABC Audio Studios boss Kellie Riordan, Grover predicted a continuing decrease in Apple's influence, and said that Pocket Casts is planning for a future where there is no market leader in podcast discovery. "Spotify are helping non-podcast listeners to discover content: but we're fooling ourselves if we believe they'll indefinitely do this for the love of the medium," he said, highlighting the benefits of RSS. "We just got over what Facebook did to journalism - we don't want that to happen with podcasting." Asked whether Pocket Casts will share individual audience listener data in future: "No," he said, adding "We won't do that. Is that clear enough? No."
January 14, 2019:
    Hunter Walk, a partner in a VC company, writes about podcast discovery. Podcast discovery is a problem, he writes, but attempts to fix it "are at best features, not products or companies."
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September 6, 2018:
    Suly is a (French) app designed for podcast discovery. Google Translate tells me it's an "application that will allow you to discover new podcasts with a disconcerting ease!"
July 24, 2018:
    DiscoverPods published a survey last year about the state of the industry. Headlines included: 71% of respondents consider podcast discovery as a major issue facing podcasts today; 66% of respondents rank marketing and building an audience among their top challenges. Podcasters and podcast fans can help this year's survey by filling in the Podcast Trends Report survey.
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August 16, 2017:
    Podcast discovery service Stabl offered a set of recommendations, sorted in time order: the theory was that if you had 30 minutes spare, it would find you some great content. They've dropped the time element after research, will no longer update their iOS app, and will focus on more recommendations.

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