British Podcast Awards: nominations announced

• The British Podcast Awards have announced their nominations, and the Awards Night tickets are also now available. You (yes, you!) can also vote for your favourite British podcast - ours might sound British, but it’s recorded in Australia, so please feel free to vote for your second favourite instead.

  
  Aug 1 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Edison Research have announced that The Podcast Consumer 2018, with Triton Digital, will be presented on Thursday April 19th - here’s where to sign up.

• Adlarge’s Cabana has signed The Nerdy Show Network, a podcast network dedicated to nerd culture and entertainment, for exclusive ad representation.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Aug 1 2023

• The Outside Podcast has launched two special series: first, a profile of remarkable women from adventure, sports and conservation; second, interviews with leaders who are fighting to make the outdoors a more inclusive playground. The podcast is run by Outside, “America’s leading active lifestyle brand”.

• NPR Training posts How to hook your podcast audience. “A typical podcast episode loses 20-35 percent of the listening audience in the first five minutes. A mediocre episode with a good introduction will almost always perform better than a great episode with a poor intro.”

• News of a Denver podcasting coworking space: partially founded to make podcasters feel less isolated and more supported.

• Alan Cross covers Edison Research’s Infinite Dial 2018 data for Canada, which is the first such data for the country. He describes it as “fascinating”.

Talking of Canada, I’ll be in Vancouver BC on April 30 and May 1 (and a bit of May 2). For the late afternoon/early evening of May 1st, would it be fun to try and get together some podcasters for some beer and a chat? I’m james@crid.land