BRIAN'S ALIVE! - and he's going to release a new bedtime stories podcast

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• Best known for playing Prince Vultan in the Flash Gordon movie, actor Brian Blessed is to do his first podcast. A bedtime stories podcast, it’ll be released early next month, with UK broadcaster Union Jack Radio.

• Triton Digital has released their latest US Podcast Ranker. The top 10 networks, and top 5 podcasts, are unchanged; total downloads were up 1.1%. The ranker only measures participating publishers.

• Bryan Barletta posts a super-interesting and very technical piece about reporting ad impressions on podcasts - particularly, what’s actually possible, and how useful an IP address actually is.

• SyncFloor, which offers music licensing for projects including podcasts, has partnered with JioSaavn’s Artist Originals.

• AJ Feliciano has been named Head of The Roost, Rooster Teeth’s podcast network. (Congratulations, AJ!)

• If you help podcasters publish their shows, or work in support for a podcast host, you may have wondered “Where is Google Podcasts getting this podcast feed from?!” We wrote a Google Podcasts RSS Helper today, designed to answer that question. At last!

Tips and tricks - with Spotify for Podcasters

• Top five tips for novice podcast editors (Tanner Campbell)

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• How Evo Terra makes Podcast Pontifications

Podcast News

The Parkinson’s Podcast from the Michael J Fox Foundation has been relaunched as a monthly show presented by broadcaster Larry Gifford. Larry also presents When Life Gives You Parkinson’s, a personal journey into the condition he was diagnosed with three years ago this week.

'Oxford Road Presents:' has launched a new series: The Divided States of Media. Launching in partnership with The National Institute for Civil Discourse, it’s focused on the current state of media against a backdrop of an increasingly polarized populace.

The Podnews podcast is now available on Gaana. Here’s every podcast directory we’re in, and how to submit yours, too.