Cadence13's 'movies for the ear'

• Cadence13 has launched a new podcasting studio with a difference. C13Features will produce long-form single-episode podcasts, dubbed as “movies for the ears”.

  • Cadence13 and Tenderfoot TV have also announced a new slate of podcasts including a new season of To Live And Die In LA.

• Exclusive: The Listen app has launched VIP memberships, and says it’s the first platform to integrate memberships, community and a podcast player. Founder and CEO Paul Michaelenko blogs about the challenges podcasters have; you can claim your podcast on the platform now.

• Triton Digital has released its latest US Podcast Report. The top 5 podcast networks, unchanged in order, saw a 6% rise in downloads. WarnerMedia made its debut at #8, with 3.7m weekly downloads; the data includes participating publishers only (and doesn’t include iHeart nor ESPN).

• ESPN have released a press release saying their podcasts are increasing in popularity. Blubrry’s analytics, according to the release, are 44.2m downloads; Podtrac says ESPN achieved 45.3m downloads for the same time period. Both companies are IAB Certified.

  
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• Google and PRX have launched a new round of the Google Podcasts Creator Program, including equipment, training, and a fund of up to $12,000. You’ve the month of July to apply.

• After opening memberships on Monday, the first members of The Podcast Academy are being told they’ve been accepted (including our Editor). Rob Greenlee says that the organisation is working on a faster, more streamlined registration process, after some people report being deluged with requests to write letters of recommendation.

• On Monday, Podnews asked “do we have a spam problem?”, noting that marketers are scraping podcast RSS feeds. Podmail·fm is a new service developed in response - fast work from developer Cohan Robinson. We’re aware of at least one other service being actively developed.

• Podcast ad company True Native Media are in “hyper-growth”, they say, and have hired Laurel Earhart (Entravision Digital) to be VP of National Sponsorships, Kegan Munguia (PodcastOne) as National Account Manager, and promoted Gretchen George as VP of Podcast Operations and Campaign Management.

• We’d like to thank our biggest fans at 54.84.210.245 for repeatedly downloading all 300 episodes of the Podnews podcast over 5,000 times in the last seven hours, and in total, 364,969 times in the last 90 days, downloading 625GB of data and costing us $53. We’ve got a blocklist, and we’re not afraid to use it. (So has our stats system, disappointingly, which is ignoring these downloads).

Tips and tricks - with Podcorn

• Five Rude Tips For Starting Your Podcast from Alexander Sorondo highlights that you’ll be terrible at first, you shouldn’t pay for studio time, and you should know what you’re going to say.
• Dan Misener looks into podcast neighbourhoods, helping you find shows with common audiences.
• Growing Your Podcast Audience: How Long Does it Take? (The Podcast Host)

Podcast News - with The Jordan Harbinger Show

On The Jordan Harbinger Show Slavery is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. Tim Ballard is a former Homeland Security agent who reluctantly got involved in chasing down global child trafficking. Learn how much money it makes

D is for Desire, according to HuffPost anyway, who release their new 'irreverently informative’ relationship podcast today. The first episode is the story of Dr Goldstein, who is an 'elite’ plastic surgeon dedicated to… no, not those. That. Back there.

Team Coco’s Literally! with Rob Lowe debuted yesterday, with guest Chris Pratt and a brief cameo from Katherine Schwarzenegger. “Rob and Chris discover they both have a surprising connection to Barbra Streisand”, we’re told.

Facebook star Jaime Primak Sullivan has launched Tell Me What To Do, working with Lemonada Media. “Jaime’s willingness to be open and vulnerable coupled with her signature brand of hilarious, unfiltered advice-giving comes at a time when people need guidance more than ever”, we’re told in a press release.