iHeart Radio's take on podcasting, plus data from NPR, PRX's tips, and TASCAM's microphones

October 27, 2017

• Six tips from PRX's Kerri Hoffman on podcasting. "Why would other people want to listen to an episode? And more importantly, who are those people?"

• An interview with the SVP of Podcasting at iHeart Radio, Chris Peterson, on the future of radio podcasting.

• 35 of the most popular podcasts in iTunes are hosted by women. "We don’t have to be relegated to fitting ourselves into the roles that a group of male decision makers deems to be appropriate, sellable or allowable," according to Laura Walker from New York Public Radio.

• Yesterday, we had a special code for complimentary tickets for the RAIN Summit Europe. November 7th in central London. Good networking opportunity?

• A Wordpress theme especially for podcasts, called Dixie. See a demo here.

• Data: 82m downloads for NPR podcasts in a month; a monthly audience of 15.5m unique users.

• New microphones from TASCAM, specifically for podcasting.

• Thank you: my thanks to Kurt Edwards, Matt Wade, Joshua Liston, Matthieu Beauval and Steven Goldstein who have supported podnews this month though its Patreon page. You could be next!