The power of local podcasting
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We’re grateful to you for reading. If you celebrate it today, Happy Thanksgiving.
Can a local, daily podcast give your community something to be thankful for? The power of podcasting is excellently told in this video from Shaftesbury in Dorset, England. In a presentation made for a radio conference, Keri Jones tells a great story of a hyper-local podcast, The Alfred Daily.
A prolonged failure at Amazon AWS caused issues for some podcast hosts as well as many other services: Anchor had to remove its website altogether, while RSS Podcasting also had some issues, as did WNYC. Podcasts, however, remained available throughout; and all services appear now to be up and running.
DevCasts is a new podcast app, which we spotted in our user-agents work. DevCasts is a podcast app specifically designed for developers.
In India, Pratilipi, India’s largest Indian storytelling platform, and IVM Podcasts, one of the oldest companies in Indian podcasting, have announced a partnership to “create a sustainable and scalable model for podcasting” in the country.
In Bulgaria, the podcast scene “may have a way to go, but it’s gaining momentum fast and already has the potential to transform a dire media landscape”, says Svetoslav Todorov in Balkan Insight.
Dan Misener looks into reviews on Apple Podcasts. Wednesday might be the best day to ask for them, he suggests; and people take longer to say when they don’t like your podcast than when they do.
AdLarge Media has added AccuWeather podcasts to its cabana podcast network.
Spotify is producing “60-second podcast mini-series” about the US Postal Service, which will run across the Spotify platform on an assortment of Spotify-owned podcasts.
Podtrac is to make improvements to their podcast reporting dashboard next week. The company, which offers free podcast consumption data, has mailed details to their current users.
Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta gets interviewed by Inside Podcasting about the Spotify Megaphone purchase. “Streaming Ad Insertion (SAI) monetizes a show as an app, while Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) monetizes a show as a podcast.”
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