Breaker gets a redesign for simplicity and discoverability

• Social podcast app Breaker launches a redesign on iOS today, called Breaker 1.0. The new app (previous versions of Breaker made it to 0.9.21) features a simplified navigation, episode discovery, and a way of using it without an account.

• Giide launched at CES - an augmented audio experience “like a podcast, walking tour, and workshop, all rolled into one”.

  
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• Is Spotify or Apple #1? They both are, explains our Editor. Depends what you’re measuring.

• The BBC’s Director General, Tony Hall, is to retire in the summer. The front-runner is apparently James Purnell, currently responsible for BBC Radio and BBC Sounds.

• In an email to customers, podcast host Transistor says that it now hosts 4,481 podcasts. They’ve just announced a method of sharing links to private podcasts, too.

• Podcast·co, a podcast host, has launched a Zapier integration in beta, to help with automation, and has announced it’s pulling the OPAWG list of user-agents every week, to ensure the latest player information is always in their analytics.

• Podcast maker Alitu has added a royalty-free music library, including variations, bumpers and stings, to their app.

• Canvas8 have released ExpertOutlook 2020, a look into the future with over forty experts. Podnews’s Editor explains the cultural and social trends impacting the future of media.

Tips and tricks - with Acast Open

• 7 lessons in getting people to listen to your podcast, from Alyssa Satara, highlights a number of useful tips including “nobody wants to hear your banter”.

• Here’s how to create beautiful podcast art, from an actual graphic designer.

Podcast News

Twitter’s careers department has launched a podcast. Called #Building Characters, each episode features University Recruiters at Twitter, uncovering the secret to launching your career in tech. (Pod People / Simplecast)

Twitter’s other podcast, Character Count, looks at brands doing clever, surprising and effective things with their Twitter Ads campaign. (Pod People / Simplecast)

Dan Franks from Podcast Movement is this week’s guest in The New Media Show with Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee.