Should you charge guests to appear on your podcast?

Super Joe Pardo writes a blog post explaining why he now charges his guests to come onto his podcast. His podcast is The Business Podcast: if you travel a lot, you’ve probably spotted similar programs where guests are charged to appear.

iOS11 is now in use on 65% of all iOS devices. (As a reminder: Apple’s podcast stats only works on this version of iOS, and only for listeners to the Apple Podcasts app.)

Another course in podcast production, this time at Trinity University in San Antonio TX, USA. Meanwhile, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, they’ve launched a podcast about LGBTQ media and culture.

The New Zealand Herald discovers podcasting, interviewing one of the founders of the Boomsday Prepping podcast (a “Survival Guide for Baby Boomers”).

HBO launch a new podcast called Where do you Exist?, an accompaniment to their TV series Here and Now.

Hollywood is obsessed with podcasts, says The Guardian, highlighting a number of the recent deals to turn podcasts into movies or TV shows. “Television is more democratic and less risk-averse than it’s ever been, and podcasts are presently a hotbed of the sort of gripping, anthologized storytelling that … would seem readily adaptable to the screen”.

The ABC launch a new comedy podcast, Positions Vacant, asking celebrities embarrassing questions.

In case you missed it: my 25 minute keynote at OzPod 2017, with lots of data from Australian and global companies about podcasting. And a few jokes, mostly about beer. I’m available to speak at your event, too.