Castro adds podcast clip sharing to its app: but does it help podcasting?

Welcome to over 140 new subscribers in the past week, including folk from Swiss Radio and Television, ART19, ESPN, Barstool Sports, Dave Ramsey, RAI, and Radio-Canada.

• Castro, an iOS podcast app, has added support for creating and sharing podcast clips to social media. It joins Overcast in offering this functionality natively within the app.

  • How important is podcast clip sharing? This Twitter search shows 20 different Overcast videos being shared during a period of two days earlier this week. In total, 19 different podcasts were shared to a total, in just two days, of 113,689 Twitter followers. Wow. So - who’ll be first to enable this functionality from Android?

• Podtrac have released their “top 20 podcasts” list for April 2019. The service is US-only, opaque, proprietary and self-selecting; but with that in mind, #3 is Stuff You Should Know; #2 is This American Life; and #1 is The Daily. The Ben Shapiro Show, which was #2 last month, is now at #5.

  
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• Backtracks, a podcast analytics company, has successfully concluded a US$2.1m funding round.

• An updated and current list of more than 300 Asian American podcasts is now available from the group Asian American Podcasters.

• PodX has started in Nashville TN, USA. More than 1,500 people are expected at the event.

• In India, the Economic Times highlights podcasts in the language of Kannada, spoken by over 43m people in the South West of the country. Here’s an example - Cricket Kannadiga, hosted by Anchor.

• I Tried Luminary Podcast’s Premium Service for a Month. Here’s My Review, posts a Medium blogger, Bella K, who subscribed to the service because of Anthems. Spoiler: she doesn’t much care for the recommendations, but apart from that, she quite likes it.

• Vox Media have announced their Spring 2019 slate, including season 4 of Why’d You Push That Button?. Vox Media Podcast Network now represents over 100 active podcasts.

• The launch director of BBC Sounds, Charlotte Lock, is stepping down. It was expected that she would have assumed the role of “Controller Sounds”, a more senior role recently advertised by the Corporation.

• Jack Rhysider highlights fourteen podcasters who “gave up the day job” to successfully focus on the platform full-time. One is making over $2m a year.

• The Australian edition of Media Week profiles Kristofor Lawson, a “podcast pioneer” and producer of Moonshot. The article adds that Lawson Media “is also planning a subscription service with a daily update on the technology sector. The subscription fee will be US$9 monthly.”

Podcasts

SVP & Russillo are reunited as a podcast. Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo are former ESPN Radio co-hosts, and are producing a new, hour-long podcast starting June 3. (ESPN)
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Nice Try is a new seasonal podcast about the perpetual search for the perfect place. The first season, Utopian, looks at the story behind some of the world’s places specifically-designed to be a utopia of their very own. (Curbed / Vox Media / Megaphone)

Deservedly pleased to have appeared as a story in their local paper, Casual OWL Fans is a podcast dedicated to the video game Overwatch (and not, sadly, owls).
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Boring

• Our submissions and disclosures page has been updated with a category of podcast that we can’t currently cover. But we thought it worthwhile letting you know that this page exists anyway.