Joss Stone launches 'A Cuppa Happy'

Our cover story looks at Joss Stone’s new podcast, in our Podcast News section below.

• Podcast host RedCircle has launched a new, automated ad platform that makes it easy to buy host-read ads on thousands of podcasts. “We’ve simplified the buying experience in what has traditionally been a very fractured market, helping brands buy on one podcast, a hundred, or more,” says CEO Michael Kadin.

• Congratulations to the Podfest Global Summit, who claims that they “just hit the number that sets the Guinness World Record for Largest Virtual Podcasting Event in a Week”.

  • Fun Friday Fact: The Guinness World Record for the largest glass of orange juice was set by podcasting’s Rob Greenlee in June 1998. It measured 2,313 litres. Here’s a TV report featuring a youthful Rob and a quite laborious setup for a joke.

• Podtrac have released their top 20 US podcasts for July 2020. Surprisingly, Serial has risen from below the top 50 up to #11: because of the publicity surrounding the NYT purchase of Serial Productions, maybe? The ranker only measures participating publishers.

  
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• SemaBox is a new podcast studio setup in Nairobi that lets anyone record a podcast. Come in, record, and within 24 hours they’ll send you a finished version to share it with the world, according to an interview with Paula Rogo.

• Timber Media interviews Misha Euceph, the producer of the Michelle Obama Podcast.

• Giphy is now integrated into Headliner, to allow you to add stickers and GIFs to any social video you make of your podcast.

• Libsyn has an investor call today at 11am Eastern, following release of their Q2 financial results.

• More fun from Amazon’s terms and conditions for podcasters, section 7.11.7: “Ads for incontinence products … must be frequency-capped at 3 times per 24 hours (3x24)”. “How could a podcast, with baked-in advertising, keep track of the number of impressions per listener?” asks Mike from Sips, Suds, & Smokes who adds “that’s a pretty shitty deal” - we see what he did there.

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Happiness. What is it - how to we find it, and how do we keep it once we have? Singer and songwriter Joss Stone has launched her own podcast, A Cuppa Happy, which launched on Monday featuring an interview with illusionist Derren Brown.

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