Al Jazeera launches a podcast network, plus premium podcast pricing pretty popular

• Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar) launches Jetty, a new podcast network. NiemanLab reports that it plans to “groom some new voices and bring more perspectives to the table and embrace diversity in all sorts of ways”. (As a matter of interest, Al Jazeera streams on YouTube in 1080p).

• Wonder how to monetise your podcast? So has Cameron Reilly, writing a piece in Medium about Podcast Pricing Bands - premium subscriptions appear to work. “40% of our revenue came from people choosing the higher payment options”.

• Event: The craft of storytelling in podcasts, Melbourne VIC, Australia, November 14th. Speaker: Anna Priestland (Researcher and writer, Casefile podcast).

• Podcasts from independent bookstores, covered by the American Booksellers Association. “While podcasts are a lot of fun, they are also a lot of work and time”. (For more booksellers, here’s a 9-minute talk about Penguin’s podcast at the Next Radio conference).

• The growth of a podcast network: Courtney Carthy from Nearly Media in Melbourne VIC, Australia, shares his experiences.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Jul 27 2023

• A new business to “create great audio, and help others use podcasts to make connections”: Earshot Strategies, based in London, UK. Founder Richard Miron writes about its launch.

• Insider Louisville covers Podchaser, the 'IMDb of podcasting’. Founder Bradley Davis, “who still has a day job in sales”, reports a flurry of support; and is looking for investment.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Jul 27 2023

• Noted: Nevertheless, a podcast celebrating women transforming teaching and learning through technology.

• In Wrexham in the UK, the Daily Post covers a farmer making a podcast, Rock & Roll Farming. “The podcast, which features a different farmer or industry representative each week, now gets more than 1,000 downloads per episode.”

• Recording a podcast with multiple USB microphones. It can be done, according to this reddit thread. “This is a horrible, unstable and frustrating road to travel down,” cautions one redditor. Another adds that it “is not a good idea”.

  
  Jul 27 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• In Reno NV, USA, the University of Nevada’s Innevation Center (and yes, we’ve spelt that correctly), opens a podcasting studio. $17/hour, or between $100-$150 a month to be a member.

• How podcast show notes display in different apps has been updated to correct our coverage of CastBox, show Podbean without a bug, and adds Castro (spoiler: 5/5).

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