Are your podcast downloads 5% too high?

• Some podcast download numbers might be incorrect: and could be 5% too large, according to The New Media Show. If you use Apple Podcasts and own an Apple Watch, your watch automatically downloads duplicate copies of shows you’re subscribed to when it’s charging - which could be as much as 5% of a podcast’s total downloads. According to the podcast, Libsyn already marks these additional downloads as duplicates, but many podcast hosts may not be doing so. In October 2018, Voxnest published that 9.4% of all downloads were to an Apple Watch.

  • Monday in Podnews: the podcast app that’s eight times bigger than you think

• Podcast network Lemonada Media has announced that it has raised US$1.38m in a seed funding round. It currently has 700,000 listens across its network per month.

• She Podcasts LIVE, which was planned for October in Arizona, has been postponed to next year.

• The Podcast Academy is planning two webinars as an introduction to the organisation. There’ll be two on June 18th: one at 12pm ET, and one at 12pm PT. You can sign up free here.

  
  Aug 24 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Podbinge is a website that lets you “listen to your favorite podcasts from start to finish.”

• For MacOS users, Blackhole is a free, modern alternative to Soundflower, allowing you to pass audio to different applications on your system. Soundflower was last updated more than a year ago.

• Podbible is a free printed magazine available in the UK, and visible online everywhere, focusing on podcasts. The new edition, out now, features Stephen Fry, who released his first podcast in 2008.

  
  Aug 24 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

Podcast News - with The Jordan Harbinger Show

On The Jordan Harbinger Show Conspiracy theories: want to gently tell that family member where he’s going wrong? Joining Jordan Harbinger is Mick West, who’s written a new book How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect. Listen now

This is not a Drake podcast is new from the CBC in Canada, breaking down seminal moments in Toronto rapper Drake’s career to explore the bigger stories of history and evolution of hip-hop, R&B, gender dynamics, and Black culture. It launches on Monday.

Chachi loves everybody is a podcast from Dave 'Chachi’ Denes of Benztown, a radio imaging company. New episodes include Ken Benson, who’s an excellent Portland-based radio programmer who consults across the world and bought us a coffee once, and Jeff Smulyan, the founder and CEO of media company Emmis Communications who once told us he was a “big fan of our work”. We’ve never met Chachi though.