Late night hosts launch podcast fundraising for striking staff

• Five US late-night hosts are producing a limited series podcast to raise money for their out-of-work staff during the WGA strike. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver are making Strike Force Five, a limited series (“at least twelve episodes”), with Spotify.

• Podimo is celebrating a year in Finland. The premium podcast and audiobook subscription service has so far enabled more than 30 podcasters to turn professional.

• Podcast host Libsyn has launched LibsynEDU, aimed at fostering excellence in podcasting and nurturing the next generation of podcasting talent. The company is also announcing the creation of the Libsyn Fellowship for a student enrolled in NYU’s Podcasting and Audio Reportage master’s concentration.

• Editing tool Podcastle has launched what it calls the first real-time collaborative podcasting platform. Teams of producers and editors can now work on the same project simultaneously.

• Podcast app Snipd has launched Premium, which adds AI episode summaries and transcripts. The app has been rewritten to also work with private RSS feeds.

• An APM podcast is going on tour. Marketplace’s Million Bazillion kids show is, this September, set to visit middle schools across the US to help more than 50,000 students with financial knowledge and empowerment.

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• Can you use commercial music in your podcasts? A quick clip of AC/DC as an intro? We’ve got the bad news.

Podcast News - with Airwave

Part of the Airwave podcast network: Dr. Jessica Steier, a public-health expert, and Dr. Andrea Love, an immunology expert, are the hosts of Unbiased Science, a podcast devoted to objective, critical appraisal of available evidence on health-related topics relevant to listeners’ daily lives.

eff won with DRS has announced exclusive video episodes on Spotify. The show is a Formula 1 podcast hosted by Dax Shephard. The show is available everywhere; but the video remains exclusive to the Spotify platform.

Your Mama’s Kitchen is now available wherever you get your podcasts. The new podcast from Higher Ground, which launched earlier this month on Audible, is now available everywhere with a partnership with Acast. The show is hosted by Michele Norris, and is a podcast about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are.

Almost Pro: USC Football is new from The Tommy Group and YEA Networks, and will deliver a behind the scenes look into the world of NCAA college football with a focus on the USC Trojans and their journey toward their goal of the College Football Playoff National Championship.

Vlad & Niki Podcast Adventures, Presented By Flintstones Vitamins is new from Audacy and the global kids superstars. The preschool series has more than 96 million subscribers on their English-language channel and 330 million subscribers worldwide

From The Society for Endocrinology, Hormones: The Inside Story is back for a third series. The show will bust myths around common hormonal conditions, including diabetes and thyroid disfunction, and taking a closer look at the latest technology to manage them - as well as some of the surprising ways that hormones impact all our lives. It’s produced by science podcast specialists First Create The Media.

The Briefing Room returns for a new season today, with award-winning true crime podcast co-hosts and veteran detectives Dan and Dave diving deep into the unique perspective of law enforcement on cases, protocols, and mental health.

Podcast promotion in the wild

The good folks at LiSTNR are doing trade marketing by promoting themselves as individuals, and the shows they love listening to. “Personalisation is part of LiSTNR’s DNA”, says the release. Oddly, all the individuals love Hamish and Andy, the company’s #1 podcast; but we do as well, so that’s all OK.

Correction: Yesterday, we said The Trial of Lucy Letby hadn’t made it to #1, as the Daily Mail had claimed it had. In fact, we were misled by Spotify’s Chartable, which lists the podcast twice. The “other” podcast had, in fact, hit #1 as the Mail had claimed.