Deezer adds a dedicated podcast hub to their app

• Music app Deezer has added a dedicated 'shows’ tab in their app for podcasts and other content including radio. It’s now live in their iOS app.

• NPR has announced a new, Saturday, edition of their daily news program Up First. It starts this weekend, delivered by 8am.

• JetBlue, a US airline, has signed a deal with Spotify for podcasts in their in-flight entertainment system. As the airline’s exclusive podcast partner, the agreement will bring podcasts from Anchor, Gimlet, Parcast and Spotify Studios to seatback screens.

• John Rosso from Triton Digital, who are technical partners for the Australian Podcast Ranker, announced at the ASI Conference in Prague that The Netherlands will launch a similar podcast ranker in early 2020.

  • Russo also said that Triton Digital will voluntarily resubmit certification to the IAB every two years. “Just like we do on the streaming side, we have an audit team that works with the publishers, who work with the hosting companies and the CDNs and annually audit them to make sure that the quality is kept very high. You may not know this but IAB certification is a one-time only deal. As soon as you get certified, you never have to do anything. But: Triton Digital will volunteer to be recertified every two years.”

• A new podcast network has been launched by 30-year-old CurtCo Media, based in Malibu in California.

• Podcast host Transistor has a new website (built using Statamic and Tailwind CSS). They’ve also announced that they’re now supporting 1% for the planet, giving 1% of sales to environmental nonprofits around the world.

• ART19 also has a new website, and a slightly tweaked logo. See it below, in our “gold supporters” section: we’re grateful to the company for going for gold this week. (You can be like them).

• BBC Sounds has 2.7m weekly active users in the UK, the BBC’s Alison Winter announced at the ASI Conference in Prague yesterday.

• Podspace is a new podcast host. Based in Sweden, they are also the only “independent” host in Sweden that’s certified by the Association of Swedish Advertisers which uses IAB 2.0 as the technical foundation for their national podcast ranker (so their stats are also IAB 2 compliant). The company also has support for ad campaigns using dynamic ad insertion.

• An arm and a leg, a podcast about the true cost of health care in the US, is a finalist for the True Crime category of the Discover Pods awards. As Dan Weissman, the host, says, there are no police, investigators or prosecutors in the story about the US healthcare system, but quite a significant body count…

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30 for 30 Podcasts from ESPN is back for a new season from November 12th. The season kicks off with a story about two of the most famous women in sports, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird. (ESPN Radio)

What shall we do about…? features a prominent Australian celebrity to try to improve or even solve some of the world’s less pressing issues. Nothing too trivial will be left unturned, they say. (Whooshkaa)

Rightnowish is an podcast from KQED, talking with artists, creators and culture keepers from across the Bay Area. The podcast, hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw, is released every Friday. (KQED)

But where are you really from? is a new podcast from the BBC Asian Network. It’s a question that all Asian people have been asked - in this podcast it’s a jumping off point into the hilarious history of top notch comedy guests. 'Proper’ Asians Eshaan Akbar and Nim Odedra plus self-described coconut Sunil Patel discover just how 'Desi’ their guest is with a series of scenarios and challenges. (BBC)