iHeartRadio still No.1 in Australia
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January’s Australian Podcast Ranker is out. Stuff You Should Know, represented in Australia by ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia, continues as #1 podcast; Life Uncut, above, is #3. Diamantina Media (represented by ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia) is a new publisher at #9. Downloads for the top ten publishers increased by 5.5% month-on-month.
- An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only. The country’s largest podcaster, the ABC, is still absent.
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Amazon Music has signed an exclusive podcast. COLD, which was a Wondery show, is to stream season 2 exclusively on Amazon Music next month. COLD is currently in the top 100 in 40 countries; but podcasts from Amazon Music are currently available in just six of them, leaving many fans frozen out.
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Podz is a new app (iOS only) that gives you automatically generated clips of podcasts to help you discover new ones. Described as a newsfeed, Katie Couric and Paris Hilton are apparently investors. CEO Doug Imbruce told Techcrunch: “The experience of discovering and consuming podcasts is ancient. It literally feels like browsing the web in 1997.”
- You can add your podcast here.
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Spotify is in the mood for some lovin’. The platform “saw an increase of 49% of global listeners streaming love-themed podcasts compared to this time last year”. They’ve worked with Tinder to make a playlist.
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Libsyn5, the fifth version of Libsyn’s publishing interface, is now available in beta. It offers new features and enhancements to existing ones.
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Podcast link-sharing platform pod․link has been acquired by Podsights. The deal also includes its founder, Nathan Gathright. The product is now free to podcasters.
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Sounder has added a new premium user management system, allowing podcast teams to collaborate on their podcasts.
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In Austria, the Ö3 Podcast Award, which it claims is the first award for podcasts in Austria, has taken place. From 30,000 nominations, the first prize went to Erklär mir die Welt (“Explain the world to me”). Run and judged by state broadcaster Ö3, no Ö3 podcasts were eligible.
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Also in Austria, a set of regional news podcasts have been built with a tool called Sonarbird - which integrates national and local news with bespoke advertising (and from AdsWizz).
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Entercom has signed the Locked On Podcast Network for adsales and distribution. The network was bought by TEGNA earlier this year. Entercom will also co-produce some new shows with their own on-air personalities.
Binaural '3D Sound’ Podcasts
iHeart’s announcement about their innovative new binaural “3D Audio” came as welcome validation to many binaural podcast producers.
- Ocean Matters was released by Fresh Air Productions earlier this year in binaural, focusing on the state of the oceans. The same producers who made this also made Dom Joly’s Big American Vacation for Audible back in 2016.
- Amazing War Stories was released in binaural in October last year; covered by ProSound and professional audio blog Fast and Wide.
- Almost Tangible are selling a number of binaural productions as audiobooks, and won a number of awards in 2019's New York Festival.
- In late 2019, Zima Podcasting Network “looked to reinvent the podcasting industry” with binaural productions throughout 2020: that reinvention appears not to have happened, though.
- In 2018, The Undersiders was both binaural and bilingual, released by French podcast company Engle.
- 2018 also saw Calais 2037, a binaural podcast with an all-star cast.
Aug 31 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
Tips and tricks
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Advice for managing your podcast workflow (RSS Podcasting)
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Make Your Good Podcast Great With Syndicated Content (Evo Terra)
Podcast News - with CBC Podcasts
Companies mentioned above:
Amazon
Amazon Music
ART19
Audible
Engle
Locked On
Neon Hum
Sounder
Spotify
Wondery
