Anchor's tools make it easy to copy podcasts

• Exclusive: Anchor’s tools make it easy to copy someone else’s podcast without them ever knowing, Podnews has discovered. You don’t even need to confirm your own email address to produce a new, pirate podcast feed, hosted by Anchor, that you can publish in other places, with your own show description. We take you through their six easy steps to pirate a podcast, and discuss how it ought to work.

• Podfront Virtual 2020 takes place later today, as podcast networks unveil their new content. We’ll have coverage tomorrow.

• Seeing a drop of about 3% of downloads? A reminder that, as of October 1st, Apple Watch downloads from Apple Podcasts are no longer included in IABv2 stats. Here’s more from Sounds Profitable, our ad-tech newsletter.

  
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• Fireside has added yearly billing. Customers who pay for a year in advance get a free month.

• iHeartRadio’s Black Effect Podcast Network has hired TV veteran Dollie S Bishop.

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• Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco has signed a deal to produce exclusive podcasts for Audible.

• MakeUseOf reviews the Maonocaster AU-AM100 all-in-one podcast production studio.

• Apple are still looking for Podcasts Managers for Russia, France and Germany. The roles were advertised in late August, but haven’t, yet, been filled.

  
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• Congratulations to Blubrry CEO Todd Cochrane, for whom yesterday was the 16th anniversary of becoming a podcaster. “It all started in Waco, Texas in a Hampton Inn hotel room. Sounds like the start of a scary movie,” he says. Cochrane wrote Podcasting: Do-It-Yourself Guide in early 2005, before podcasts had even made it to the Apple iPod. (There’s currently one still available at Amazon - or Todd has six in a cupboard, according to a recent podcast).

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• How to get universal links to your podcast for everyone links to many different services that will give you a perfect link for sharing on social media
• How long should a podcast be? contains a bunch of data about the ideal length for your podcast.

Podcast News - with cabana

From cabana: Join journalist Nathan Thornburgh for drinks with exceptional people from around the world. The Trip is a travel show that combines local perspectives, deep storytelling, and honest conversations that only happen when friends share a bottle.

Adult Swim has acquired the popular This Is Branchburg, and launched a second season. It’s a weekly scripted podcast about the bizarre residents of Branchburg, a fictionalized version of the real Branchburg, New Jersey.

The Vinyl Cafe gets a positive review in Podcast Review - a compilation of a well-loved radio broadcast focusing on storytelling from across Canada.

Sports broadcaster Grant Napear has returned on a podcast. If You Don’t Like That is new from the Sacramento-based talk show host, from Hear Me Now Studio.

The Hopeful is a father’s story, told by his daughter, of an escape from Iran during the revolution, life-risking flight to Europe and thrilling escape to Canada as a refugee. It’s part legend, part adventure and a powerful example of the stories every immigrant and refugee brings with them to their new country. It’s new from Rogers Media’s Frequency Podcast Network.

Verizon Media in Australia and New Zealand has produced Build Brand You, “a timely and practical guide to help listeners adapt and flourish at home and in the workplace”. The podcasts are an adaptation of the company’s masterclasses.