The power of local podcasting

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• 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.

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• 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.

  
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• 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.”

Tips and tricks

• Marketing Tactics We Can Learn From Sports Podcasts - Jack Rhysider suggests that Twitter might be the best method of promoting your podcast that you have.

• How often should you release new podcast episodes? (RSS Podcasting)

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