Captivate turns on monetisation options

• Growth-oriented podcast host Captivate has turned on Captivate Monetization, a full suite of tools to help its podcasters earn revenue from advertising. It comprises Captivate Marketplace, for direct sales between your podcast and advertisers (here is more info for advertisers); Programmatic Advertising, an existing Memberships and tips tool, and a new Campaign Management feature for AMIE, which is the company’s dynamic content insertion engine. There will be a free webinar on Monday to learn more.

• Yesterday, we mentioned a podcast which has got $200,000 in crowdfunding, and cheekily suggested that fiction podcasts could also do with some of that. It turns out that they did: Julian Simpson’s The Lovecraft Investigations - a former BBC podcast - successfully crowdfunded $503,194 for a new independent season earlier this month.

• iHeart has launched the iHeart Soccer Podcast Network, as the knockout rounds of the FIFA World Cup begin. There are more than twenty podcasts in English and Spanish. The company is the official radio partner for FOX’s coverage of the tournament in the US.

• Crime House, the true crime brand from PAVE Studios, is working with Supporting Cast to power premium subscriptions. Crime House+ is also available on Apple Podcasts; PAVE Studios founder Max Cutler notes that this new partnership allows a more sustainable, direct relationship with the network’s audience.

• The winners of the Timbre Awards were announced. Podcast of the Year (and the award for Best Content) went to PathBreakers. The mission-driven podcast awards focused on “outstanding podcasts produced by associations, organizations, and agencies that bring clarity to topics in public policy, public administration, or association management, while establishing meaningful connections with audiences”.

  • Earlier this month, the Tribeca Festival announced its competition winners. There were a number of podcasts recognized as part of the awards.
  • Goalhanger revealed the creators in the inaugural cohort for its new initiative, The Accelerator.

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People News

• iHeartMedia’s radio business has kicked off a new round of layoffs. As ever, we don’t know how many are impacted, but there are reports of people leaving the company after 23, 33 and even 41 years..

Tips and tricks

• Podfade (where you give up a podcast) is a thing: and there are ways to avoid it. Earlier this year, Jason Cercone shared ways to eliminate podfade by spring-cleaning your show.

Podcast News - with Airwave

From Airwave: the American Revolution Podcast explores the events of the American Revolution, from beginning to end. Recent episodes looked Baton Rouge, Paulus Hook and Fort Laurens.

Think Fast Talk Smart has reached its 300th episode with a special Ask Matt Anything episode featuring listener questions from around the world. In the episode, Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer Matt Abrahams introduces the PREP framework and answers questions on word recall, public speaking nerves, storytelling, AI’s impact on communication, difficult feedback, and gestures.

Oxford Road’s Media Roundtable features Steven Goldstein this week, in the company’s latest effort to argue that downloads are the past. The AMP group’s paper is due in mid July.

The Morse Report with Matt Morse has been signed by Helios Media. The right-leaning show claims over 800,000 YouTube subscribers.

In Bollywood Through American Eyes, you’ll join Amy, an American girl discovering Bollywood one film at a time. Through thoughtful conversations about Shah Rukh Khan, iconic romances, unforgettable characters, and life lessons hidden in Indian cinema, experience Bollywood from a fresh perspective that blends curiosity, emotion, and film analysis.