Netflix hires first Head of Podcasts

• Netflix has hired its first Head of Podcasts, N’Jeri Eaton. She had been Head of Content, Apple Podcasts for a year; and prior to that spent four years at NPR.

  
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• Does Google occasionally think it knows the address of your podcast RSS feed better than you do? You can now tell Google your preferred RSS feed.

• Kajabi, a service to help sell online courses or memberships, has added a podcast hosting service. The tool allows public or private podcasts: you can charge for them here, too.

• Encuestapod has published its Spanish-language podcast research. The data, from 3,063 participants, showed an increase of people listening on computers and smart-speakers, perhaps a result of the pandemic’s at-home instructions.

• Lemonada Media has launched BEING Studios, an “audio reality” podcast unit. Reality television expert Kasey Barrett (The Real World, Kardashians, Born This Way) has been named Executive Producer.

• Welder, a remote recording tool much like Riverside or Squadcast, has launched a free podcast transcript tool.

• The Paris Podcast Festival will take place in October, but their podcast competition is now open for entries until July 21. There are a number of categories for people who live in France, and one category if you’re outside France but still make a show in French. Bonne chance!

  
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• The NATPE ContentCast, a free event about the Business of Podcasting Content, has revealed its full schedule. Our Editor is moderating a panel at 2.50pm ET.

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• We’ve updated our loudness and LUFS article to link to the new loudness․info website, and taken the opportunity to clarify why loudness is important.

Podcast News

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Inspired Money hit episode 200, with new episode art, social media re-branding, and an interview with international motivational speaker Chad E. Foster. We reported it hitting episode 100 in July 2019.

Drilled bills itself as “a true crime podcast about climate change”, and returns for its sixth season today investigating the rise of the natural gas industry.

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