Podcast analytics in the spotlight
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AdWeek reports on the IAB Certification news we reported on in a special newsletter yesterday. Here’s how Blubrry reported it to its own users.
- Columbia Journalism Review reports on NPR’s RAD podcast consumption analytics specification, claiming that it raises privacy issues.
> > Tomorrow in Podnews: what privacy issues does RAD really raise? And is it really a GDPR issue? We talk to the experts.
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NPR’s RAD Tag Editor, promised last week, is now live. The Hindenburg editor also allows you to set RAD tags.
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CastPlus is closing its podcast sales business. Uriel Zecharia, the company’s CEO and co-founder, tells Podnews that the company is closing since it did not reach profitability.
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Podcasting is media’s slow food movement, says RadioPublic’s Jake Shapiro in a prediction piece for 2019.
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Communicorp UK, a radio broadcaster, has launched its own internal employee podcast. “Communicast is available to all of Communicorp UK’s 160 employees, who are based around the country, and will contain in-house created material to inspire staff”.
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Those personal supporters who want to support us without using Patreon can now use our own tool.
Stats and data
- Podtrac have released their “top (US) podcasts of November 2018”. Serial has slipped to #2; The Daily returns to #1 (where it was in August).
Aug 8 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
Podcasts
- WTOP, a radio station in Washington DC, USA, has released a successful podcast, Going Under, about the rapidly disappearing community on Tangier Island VA. Reporter Michelle Basch has been interviewed on the production process for industry website Radio INK.
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