Inside an iTunes podcast feature, and SoundCloud could have only a few hours left

Getting your podcast featured in iTunes is not your big break - a long post detailing not only the iTunes feature, but also the effect of the iTunes 'chart’, and the effect of getting listed in Spotify. If you read one thing today, this is it.

SoundCloud might not have very long to live: possibly less than six hours. There’s a deadline of the end of today, Friday, for investors to agree with the latest rescue plan. If it’s rejected, that’s it: they lose the deal, and the company can’t continue, says this piece.

Australia: the Cast Away Australian Podcast Awards are back for another year - there’s a mailing list to join.

Also for Australians: the ABC needs you to help its survey on podcast listening - for its OzPod 2017 event in September.

Bill O’Reilly, sacked from Fox News, has been recording a podcast for the last few months. Perhaps he’s got bored with it: he’s now trying video.