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• Baby Shark do do de doo de doo… Baby Shark do do de doo de doo… Baby Shark do do de doo de doo… Baby Shark has launched exclusive shows on Apple Podcasts. Owners Pinkfong have launched a set of shows in English and Korean; it’s the latest in exclusive premium content on Apple’s platform, de doo de doo.

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  • Elsewhere in kids podcasts, APM’s kids and family shows are now available on the Yoto player, a screen-free player for kids.
  • Expect results of a kids podcast survey with consumption details and ad effectiveness, from Kids Listen in a few hours.

• First look: vanity URLs are the best way to get attribution for advertising in your podcast, right? Not according to new research published this morning from Bambee and Oxford Road. “It’s time to toss vanity URLs onto the bonfire”, says Oxford Road CEO Dan Granger, preferring a “How Did You Hear About Us” method, which asks listeners, rather than them having to remember a URL. The data suggests it’s more than 7 times more successful capturing podcast attribution this way. Expect more details later today at Oxford Road’s website.

• Podcast app Podcast Guru appears to now support live episodes in its new beta release.

• Philadelphia PA, USA, isn’t just home to Libsyn - it’s the home to a new podcast booth that could be Philadelphia’s most visible podcasting studio. Find it at the Bower Cafe on 1213 Walnut Street.

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• You can now work up a sweat listening to Joe Rogan: Spotify has integrated playback in the Strava app.

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  • Meanwhile, Spotify’s Megaphone had a playback fault overnight. It’s all fixed now.Spotify 🇸🇪 Megaphone 🇺🇸 

• NiemanLab report “why news outlets are putting their podcasts on YouTube”, focusing on ESPN, Slate and NPR. Slate appear to be using Headliner, according to the article.

• The Quill Podcast Awards have officially opened for nominations. The digital awards are a yearly initiative that Quill runs to “celebrate the achievements of podcasters and podcast companies” (and, yes, you can nominate yourself, too!)

• We mentioned the Hacker News Recap yesterday - a fully-AI produced podcast from the latest Hacker News stories. It looks like we’re out of a job too , with a podcast made from our newsletter. We prefer our real podcast though!

• Transistor has added a new podcast website theme called “Cardboard”. It looks like this.

Tips and tricks

• Transistor shares how to add your show to YouTube’s podcast section.

Podcast News

Podcast Bestie, the Podcast interviews Devin Andrade from Tink Media about podcast marketing and how to grow any show.

iHeart and School of Humans are celebrating Earth Month with the launch of Bad Seeds today - focusing on the black market of… plants. Model, Sustainability Activist and Plant Influencer Summer Rayne Oakes tells us why rare plants are at the center of a rapidly growing -- and lucrative -- world of crime.

Have A Nice Future is a new podcast launched today by WIRED magazine. The weekly show will feature conversations with the top technologists, thinkers, and creators who are shaping the future. It’s hosted by global editorial director Gideon Lichfield and senior writer Lauren Goode, who will ask… Is this the future we want? And if not, where do we go from here?

Now listen carefully, 007. From History Hit, Patented: History of Inventions this month is focusing on Bond - James Bond. It’s the 70th anniversary of the franchise, and for the next month, the podcast is looking at the inventions and gadgets made for the Bond films. Do try to bring them back in one piece.

Long Shadow is back for a new season, after winning a Signal Award. This time, the show examines the decades-long rise of the far right, and connects the dots between various acts of extremist activity. It’s from Long Lead and Campside.

Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast is back for a new season with a brand new collection of cultural mysteries that will send you down the rabbit hole. The first show promises “just one more thing” exploring the story behind a bizarre anecdote from Columbo star Peter Falk who claimed that he was asked by the Romanian ambassador and the U.S. State Department to record a message to quell an uprising from the Romanian people who were convinced their communist government was refusing to air addition episodes of Columbo.