Entale, an interactive podcast app, comes out of beta

• Entale, an iOS podcast app, is out of beta. The app “adds pictures, maps, links, quotes and chapters to your favourite shows for a rich, interactive experience.” It launches with a special version of M&S-sponsored I’m Absolutely Fine by The Midult, which Entale are also hosting.

• Chartable, which shows chart history for your podcasts, is now showing charts across all countries (we’re killing it in Sweden!) For a sneak preview, search for your podcast at Podnews and press the button for chart data.

• Westwood One posts on MediaVillage saying Podcasting Delivers a Highly Engaged, Youthful, Diverse Audience. The article highlights US market data points.

• The Sydney Morning Herald covers OzPod 2018, October 17 in Melbourne VIC, Australia. Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, is one of the first speakers of the day.

• Libsyn has a new status page for its customers, showing whether there are any outages on the service.

• Blubrry post about the advantages of great podcast show notes. Last year, we reviewed how they display in many different apps - we should have another go.

• Atlanta GA, USA has a new podcasting studio and community hub called FRQNCY, reports the excellently-titled Hypepotamus website.

• Evo Terra is on The Word From Mouth this week, talking about how podcasting can grow and prosper.

• El Espectador reports that mentions of “podcast” on Twitter have exceeded 24 million so far this year: already 40% more than the whole of 2017.

• Apple Podcasts was updated, slightly, in iOS 12. Lifehacker report how to find chapters and customise skip times.

• We note that Spotify podcast analytics data has begun to populate in their podcasters dashboard. (Did we mention that our daily podcast is now on Spotify?)

  
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Podcasts

Threedom, “the show where Paul F Tompkins, Lauren Lapkus, and Scott Aukerman abandon their normal podcast formats to trade funny stories and crack each other up”, launches today. (Earwolf, ART19)

The Slowdown is an upcoming weekday five-minute podcast, encouraging listeners to make a daily space for poetry in an increasingly busy and chaotic world. (APM/Library of Congress/Poetry Foundation)

Listicles

• 11 podcasts featuring grounded perspectives on politics and social change (RadioPublic)
• The best podcasts of 2018 so far (Vulture)

Our podcast pages now include beta links to Spotify in most cases. We’re using an undocumented selector in Spotify’s Web API; and we think we can improve its accuracy with a little more work.