Multitrack Audio Fellowship expands

• Exclusive: A major UK initiative for diversity in the audio industry, the Multitrack Audio Fellowship has announced it is to return this year, with a number of new host companies. Fellows will be paid a Living Wage, gain hands-on experience in a demanding production environment; have the chance to learn from peers in the radio and podcasting industries; and be given the opportunity to compete for several professional commissions. Open to those at a disadvantage because of race, disability or socioeconomic background, you can apply now; fellowships will be offered in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.

  
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  • New host production companies for the Multitrack Audio Fellowship include Vespucci, Bespoken, Novel and Story Glass who join returning host companies Reduced Listening, Loftus, Whistledown, We Are Grape, Audio Always and Absolutely.

• Fountain is giving away free money for podcast listeners. The Lightning-enabled podcast app is giving every new user 1,000 sats in their account - for them to share with podcasts they enjoy listening to. (We’d recommend Podnews, or perhaps Podland). (Here’s where to enable your podcast for Lightning payments).

• Kate Tellers, a senior director and co-author at The Moth, is this week’s curator for the EarBuds Podcast Collective. Stories Of Indelible Women contains five podcast episodes to listen to. You should be subscribing to EarBuds, we’d suggest.

  
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• Business Unusual has won a gold in the Corporate Content Awards. The show is produced by Listen, for Vodafone Business.

• WA Today focuses on local podcasts to listen to in Perth WA, Australia.

• Morning Brew investigates: What’s the perfect length and placement for a podcast ad? It also recently examined BlueWire’s interest in TikTokers to host podcasts.

  
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• Time focuses on nine podcasts that were turned into TV shows.

• RØDE’s new headphones get a review from Stuff in the UK. TLDR: “Perfect”, “knocked it out of the park”, “excellent build quality”.

Thank you to Audacy for helping Podcorn, Pineapple Street Studios and Cadence13 return as Gold supporters. We’re grateful for your support.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• Seen in Kansas City MI, USA, this fetching banner was promoting Podcasting 2.0 on Sunday.

• Podbean appears to be seeing a large number of migrations away from the service, according to our sample: a large amount making their way to Anchor. Worthwhile also noting AfterBuzzTV switching from Anchor to Megaphone; and our sample continuing to see iHeart podcasts shifting from Spotify’s Megaphone to iHeart’s Omny Studio.

• As mentioned above, Fountain is giving every new user 1,000 sats to spend on their favourite podcast. Worth repeating!

• In case you missed it: on Friday, we did some technical sniffing around Spotify’s new proprietary video podcasts. They’re visible in Spotify only.

Tips and tricks - with SoundStack

• Award-winning audio producer Matthew Brown gives six tips to interview guests on your podcast. One of his suggestions: shut up.

• Lauren Passell highlights the exciting world of feed swaps.

Podcast News - with Acast

From Acast: Think you might be in a cult? Want to know the signs? Join Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames to talk about things that are… A Little Bit Culty. Or in their case: a whole bunch of culty.

Audio comedy adventure game podcast Adventure in Atacama launches today from Studio Ochenta: available in English and in Spanish (called Azafata en Atacama). The show allows listeners to interact with the story by choosing their own path after each episode - and is claimed to be the first to create an interactive audio experience in multiple language versions. The show also features Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese and a language invented especially for the podcast, Babelle.

Calm History offers the chance to get educated while you get sedated. A solo indie release, we’re promised calmly narrated history to distract and relax your overactive mind. Can someone really get relaxed while listening to the story of the sinking of the Titanic? Find out in the second episode; it launched last week.