Early podcast history in the UK

• What do you know about the history of podcasting in the UK? We’ve probably missed a lot: but this look at UK podcasting’s early history is a start, at least. Please get in touch with things that have been missed.

• iOS 15 is out today at 10.00am in Cupertino CA (so, 6pm London; 7pm Berlin; 3am tomorrow in Sydney). Personalised recommendations are new to Apple Podcasts in this version (“The best podcasts, personalised for you, grouped by topics you care about.”). You can also share the podcast you’re playing in Apple Podcasts using Siri (“Hey, Siri, send this to Dave”) - podcasts that friends have shared with you in Messages will appear in Apple Podcasts in a “Shared With You” section of “Listen Now”.

• Fresh Air Production, a podcast company in London, has now grown to 20 people according to an interview with co-founder Neil Cowling.

• Cuban podcasts are booming, says the New York Times.

• An HR website promotes podcasts as a useful tool for internal communications in business.

• ReplyAll’s Alex Goldman appears to have deleted his Twitter account.

• Australia! You’ve now got until 12 midday Tuesday to get your entries in for the Australian Podcast Awards. You’re not too late. (Nearly).

Tips and tricks - with Muck Rack's State of Podcasting Survey

• Has your show been copied? Here’s how to report a pirated podcast.

• Buzzsprout suggests how to name your podcast. They suggest not to use the word 'podcast’.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS․com

• Podcast app Fountain now sets a correct useragent when downloading audio. It’ll look similar to this: Fountain/0.2.6 [iOS/Android] https://www.fountain.fm and correctly identifies whether a user is on iOS or Android. (The OPAWG Github is updated).

• An update for Podcast Guru is out now on Android and soon on iOS: it now supports the person, location, season, episode and license tags.

  
  Sep 7 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• PodLP, a KaiOS podcast app, is now available on the latest version of KaiOS. KaiOS 3.0 is now available in the US, and supports a number of pdocasting namespace tags, including the alternateEnclosure.

Podcast News

In the latest edition of Podcasting 2.0, Adam and Dave talk with Haas McCook about the energy usage of Bitcoin, and whether we should be worried.

Reid Hoffman from Masters of Scale has written a new book, promoted by a Forbes writer as “a new format for a broader audience”. Genuine question: we’d love to know who reaches the broadest audience - a book, or a podcast? (Hit reply and tell us).