Acast: 'we're number three'

What does your company do? And why do people need it? Sounds Profitable, with Chartable, is aiming to make a podcast for every company in the Podscape - the podcast industry in podcast form. (You should subscribe).

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• Podcast Movement begins today, in Nashville TN, USA. We can expect many different product launches, and keynotes from Edison Research’s Tom Webster and the founders of Fireside Chat.

  • Are you there? We can’t be - but we’d love photographs. Send some to editor@podnews.net and we’ll publish some of the best.
  • “Hey, (Google/Siri/Alexa) - play the latest news from Podnews podcasting news” works in your hotel room.

• Acast suggests it’s the #3 podcast network in the US in a blog from COO Oskar Serrander. The company has paid $110m to creators so far, he says. He signs off by saying “Hooo-aahhhh-ting”, which… wait, that’s a quote from us.

• Cloud recording studio Squadcast announced v4.5 at Podcast Movement. The new release includes Dolby․io noise cancellation, one-click audio mastering, and Zapier integrations, as well as a number of additional features.

• Google Podcasts is emailing every podcaster with last month’s play statistics. If you’ve not got your email, claim your podcast at Google Podcasts Manager. (A reminder that since Google Podcasts doesn’t normally auto-download, so your figures will be lower than platforms like Apple or Overcast which do).

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• More podcasts on the radio: this time in the United Arab Emirates. Amaeya Media has partnered with Talk 100.3: weekdays at 11am, listeners will hear episodes from the Amaeya Media Network.

• The Audry podcast community website has partnered with production company Benztown to offer tutorials and a special-priced audio production starter kit.

  
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• Podcast host RSS Podcasting has added a custom embedded player; and full support for chapters and soundbites using the Podcast Namespace. Here’s a peek

• Quake Media, a subscription podcast company launched in October with $2.5m of seed funding, has raised an additional $3.5m. The company sells its podcasts for $2.99/month using its own app.

  
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• WBUR is to present at the IAB’s Podcast Upfront in September. The IAB will also release its first-ever Audio Landscape report on September 9, with insights into consumption trends and ad spend patterns.

• Podcast host Transistor has hired Jason Pearl as Senior Software Developer. Justin Jackson tells Podnews that brings the team up to 4 full-time people. “We believe that a small team can produce incredible software”, he tells us.

• Podcasters in the Midwest: the Flyover Podcast Festival is virtual and free this year.

Correction: yesterday, we described Tom Brady and Larry Fitzgerald as “former NFL players”. We’re told by outraged sportsball fans that these footballists are still playing the sport, and should more correctly be described as “NFL players”. We regret the error, which was caused by ignorance.

Tips and tricks

• Did you know that you can help your listeners get live captions for your podcast?

• Five ways to create a compelling call to action in your podcast episodes, from Podcast Movement’s Jared Easley

Podcast News - with Podcast Fellows at Stony Brook University-Southampton

Longform has joined the Vox Media Podcast Network. It’s a long-running interview podcast co-hosted by Max Linsky, Aaron Lammer, and Evan Ratliff.

Good Grief is new from Lemonada Media, a six-part, sixty-minute binge features true stories of loss and how relationships change, even after death.

The Smart Business Revolution podcast had our Editor, James Cridland, in a recent episode (July 16). James shares his experience working for Virgin Radio and the BBC, explains how he got started in podcasting, and offers advice to new podcasters on building a great podcast.

Lanched today, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, from the author of the book of the same name, Ramit Sethi, features conversations with real couples from behind closed doors, sharing their challenges with money. The podcast is produced by Crate Media.