The best podcasts from Australia revealed

• In a live ceremony over the internet, the Australian Podcast Awards announced their winners for 2020. The podcast of the year was Birds Eye View, made by women incarcerated in Darwin; the listeners’ choice was Life Uncut with Britt and Laura.

• Radioplayer, a radio app, has announced it will launch in three new countries: France, Sweden and the Netherlands. The app also contains a range of podcasts in many territories.

• The NYT writes about a dispute between the unions and management at The Ringer.

• Blubrry’s Mike Dell highlights his 8 favourite podcasts. A brave man, he’s relegated his boss’s show to a section called “a few more”.

  
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• Podurama is a free, multiplatform podcast app, which syncs between different devices. We’re on it. It appears to use the Apple Podcasts API.

• Jack Rhysider wants Spotify to stop buying podcasts. In an opinion piece, the creator of Darknet Diaries - which is available on Spotify - claims that Spotify’s use of 'adversarial interoperability’ means “audiences don’t benefit from Spotify buying exclusive rights to shows”.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS․com

• Who supports what in the Podcast Index? This is a list showing the podcast hosts and players and what they support - so far.

• “BrianofLondon” writes about how the podcast:value tag works using Bitcoin. If words like “a combination of a podcast player, a Lightning Wallet and mini node” mean something to you, it’ll help, a little.

• The Podcast Index has launched a new API end-point, search/episodes/byterm. As yet undocumented, it will allow searching of individual episodes for words.

Tips and tricks

• 10 Tips for Turning Your Podcast Episode into a Blog Post (Podreacher)

  
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• 4 Insights from #1 Rated Branded Podcasts - the top branded podcasts only spend an average of 11 seconds of their episode talking about their brand, says San Francisco-based podcast maker Captivate.

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Spotify has launched [X] on [Y], a new “show with music” containing one current musical artist going through the catalog of one of their favourite musicians.

The Crown is back for a new season - both on Netflix and on podcasts. The podcast follows the show, episode by episode.