Anchor clarifies terms of service

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• The CEO of podcasting company Anchor, Michael Mignano, writes that No, Anchor doesn’t own your podcast, highlighting the company’s new, clarified terms of service. Much of the original terms date from Anchor’s first outing as an audio social network; they’ve been clarified and “what it means” sections have been added.

• Podtrac, a podcast measurement company, have published October 2018's podcast publisher numbers. The numbers are ranked in terms of US monthly audience. iHeartRadio’s acquisition of HowStuffWorks have propelled them up to #2: the company now claims 147m global downloads.

  
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  • Until this month, a disclaimer that iHeartRadio’s figures “do not include shows being distributed on the iHeartRadio player on iHeart·com and affiliated sites” has been part of this release. These shows were excluded from the Podtrac listings after we reported back in January that they were being miscounted. We note that iHeartRadio’s 850+ websites are still preloading their podcast audio; but our technical analysis shows that this behaviour is not being measured by Podtrac.

• Doing a presentation about podcasting any time soon? Here, have eighteen quotes about podcasting for it. Oh, and here’s one more, about the ideal length of a podcast.

  
  Aug 7 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Amira Valliani wonders whether a Netflix for podcasting (a paid-for subscription model, rather than ads for ZipRecruiter) would work in the US; and compares the market in the country to China.

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• There are lots of podcast festivals in the US these days: but they aren’t always very easy to put on, says Liam Niemeyer.

• There’s a new podcast studio in Sonoma Valley High School, in California, USA.

Tips and tricks

• Buzzsprout writes how to promote your podcast on social media, telling us:

  90% of podcasts receive 90% of their lifetime downloads within 96 hours of posting

• Tae Haar talks about how to deal with bad reviews:

  I felt absolutely sick to my stomach. It made me wonder if I should even be podcasting in the first place.

• Sonics Podcasts write what every podcast website should include:

  What would a new listener — or someone who’s learning about your podcast for the first time — take away from their first exposure to its website?

• The Australian ABC covers the subtle art of sound design for podcasting.

  “I’m writing music I hope no-one pays too much attention to”

Podcast

• American comic book writer Stan Lee passed away earlier this week; but he’d been fighting battles of his own at the end of his life, with charges of fraud, elder abuse, theft, and plenty more as his family fought for who would control his business - and his money. Scandal - Stan Lee’s World covers the ugly inside story. (reVolver Podcasts / ART19)

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