Brexitcast filmed for TV

• Brexitcast, a popular podcast from the BBC, is now being shown on the TV (while still coming from a podcast studio). Here’s a short clip.

• The permanent nature of podcasting may not always be welcome: apparently racist comments made by a new cast member of Saturday Night Live, an American TV show, have been unearthed from the Matt and Shane Secret Podcast last year.

• AdWeek (in the US) have launched their AdWeek Podcast of the Year Awards. Entries are open now.

  
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• FastCompany feature Elysium Watch: The Podcast, apparently the world’s most esoteric podcast

  
  Aug 16 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Pandora has released a desktop app for users of Windows. It doesn’t let you stream podcasts though.

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• Spotify has bought SoundBetter, a music production marketplace. It will be integrated with Spotify for Artists, the company’s equivalent of Spotify for Podcasters, but for, er, music artists.

• US music industry magazine Billboard writes a piece about music licensing for podcasts. As you’d expect, it’s more detailed than many, indicating that a “freelance music-clearance agent” is able to clear tracks; and pointing out that “every hour a consumer spends listening to a serialized story could be one less he or she spends hearing music on a streaming service.”

• Of note: the dutch version of iTunes (on desktop) has a Podcasts In English page. Research in the country seems to suggest that most young people have no language barrier to English content.

• Fireside have released a new web player, with a bunch of new features including speed controls and a waveform visualisation. Meanwhile, Transistor have also rolled-out their own new web player.

• Spreaker Studio is now fully compatible with Chromebooks, the best-selling laptops on Amazon, and the most-bought for education. Spreaker Studio requires a Chromebook with Android support (which is most, but not all of them).

  
  Aug 16 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • If your Chromebook doesn’t have Android support, their blog recommends switching channel to the unstable developer release: as long-time ChromeOS users: don’t do that. It’s more likely that you don’t have Android support at all anyway, and the dev channel is a shortcut to a world of pain.

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Podcast Revenue

• Wonder how Glow·fm works? It’s a method of charging people for a podcast subscription. Transistor’s Justin Jackson plays with it on YouTube.
• Podcasts on YouTube could open up a new revenue source for Google, says Market Realist.

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Spreaker Prime: Fireside Mystery Theatre is an original audio drama performed and recorded live once a month at The Slipper Room in NYC. Each episode includes a full cast, a live and improvised score, and musical acts that complement their anthology of stories. They’re using Spreaker Prime to host for free and make more money.

Weird Work, a podcast about people who do strange things for a living, has taken a break from interviewing international pizza consultants and obituary writers to interview Ma’ayan Plaut, the podcast librarian from RadioPublic. (Hubspot / Libsyn)

Over 300,000 people in the US may have Lyme disease, a hard-to-diagnose illness spread by ticks. Living with Lyme, from someone with the illness, focuses on the disease with education and advocacy. (Libsyn)