Audiocraft announces 2018 festival program

Audiocraft, a podcast conference in Sydney NSW, Australia, has launched their 2018 Festival program, as well as an Original Content Development Retreat.

The Australian ABC has launched a new podcast, Fierce Girls, promising “the inspiring tales of some of Australia’s most extraordinary women”.

Dan Misener from Pacific Content has an obsession with the Apple Top 200 Podcasts, using actual data to discover the trends for individual categories. A fascinating read. “Timing matters”, he concludes.

In London, The Guardian is looking for an Executive Producer, Audio. “The successful candidate will run a small team, devising a workflow that fits into a busy newsroom and delivering a podcast to schedule.” The newspaper’s Head of Audio asks if Podnews charges for job ads. Perhaps leaving this under the 'classifieds section’ will help… ;)

Podcast Review covers the On Air Fest in Williamsburg NY, USA last weekend.

In Melbourne VIC, Australia, Dave Zwolenski is speaking tomorrow night at the Melbourne Podcasters meetup. The subject: Standing out in the (crowded) comedy podcast category.

An interesting opinion piece in AdWeek: Advertisers Were Slow to Embrace the Web, and They’re Doing It Again With Podcasts - it’s written by Ross Adams from Acast, but even given his obvious bias, it’s a good piece, arguing “now is the optimal time to invest in podcast advertising”.

The finalists and winners of the Australian Podcast Awards will be archived in the National Film & Sound Archive, it was announced today; a nice idea that other podcast awards might do well to consider in their own country.

Motherboard has the disturbing news that an artificial intelligence program is making an infinite podcast. It’ll be unique for every listener, and should be launched in 2019.