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ABC News to launch new daily podcast Start Here

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  • In the US, ABC News is planning to launch a competing daily podcast to The Daily and Up First, Variety reports. It’s called Start Here, and it will be released on March 28th. The ABC already produce a number of podcasts.

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    AdsWizz is to be purchased by internet broadcaster Pandora for US$145m. AdsWizz, which supplies ad insertion to a number of content partners, will continue to operate independently.

  • Our podcast subscribe pages are a great way of linking to a podcast from social media. Today, we’ve made it easier to link to them - just type in your podcast name and go. Pages link directly to popular podcast apps for iOS and Android, and include a play module of the latest episode; you can remove the Podnews header, too.

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  • What’s stopping brands from using podcast advertising? AdExchanger writes an article highlighting three technical reasons that are problematic. Most are intrinsic parts of the medium’s lack of centralisation.

  • Some data, from March 2017, about podcasting and audio books in France. At that stage, 39% of the country had listened to a podcast. OpinionWay, the company who conducted the research, has a (french-language) podcast, also called OpinionWay.

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  • Podtrac has published the top 20 podcasts for February 2018. The top 3 is unchanged from January.


    Jul 31 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Norm Pattiz, the Founder of Podcast One, writes a long advertorial highlighting radio drama’s new home on podcasts. Meanwhile, PodcastOne has severed ties with wrestler Vince Russo after remarks he made about a wrestling journalist’s girlfriend. Pattiz is reported to have called the wrestler and offered him a way back onto the network.

  • Megaphone

    The 9 best podcast networks, according to We Edit Podcasts, include PodcastOne, Megaphone, and seven others.

  • A good example of niche podcasting fulfilling a need: we learnt about Berlin Briefing earlier this week. It’s a round-up of local news for people who live in Berlin, aimed at English speakers who don’t speak German.

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