Night-time is podcast time in India

• YouGov has published data about podcast consumption in India. The data, conducted with Spotify, highlights that night-time is the most popular time for podcast listening, and that 62% have listened to a podcast at least once.

• Australia has a new #1 podcast, according to the November Australian Podcast Ranker at least: Audioboom’s Casefile, represented by the #1 network, ARN’s iHeartPodcastNetwork Australia. Overall monthly downloads dropped by 6.5%. An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only, and still doesn’t include the country’s largest podcaster, the ABC.

• The UK’s Podcast Radio is to launch its own original podcasts. They launched three new shows yesterday.

• The New York Times has warned that digital advertising is likely to be down -5% in Q4 2020, and overall ad revenue down by -20%. The newspaper company has a large podcasting division.

  
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• YouTube says it will remove any content that falsely alleges fraud in the 2020 US Presidential Election - yes, even your podcast.

• Is it time for a new type of podcast ad? Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta is interviewed by Ranieri & Co.

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Tips and tricks - with Podpage

• Here’s how to promote your podcast’s availability on Amazon Music, including buttons and things, if you’d not seen it.

• How to turn a video into a podcast (RSS podcast)

Podcast News - with Fable & Folly

Fable and Folly presents Greater Boston, an award winning fiction podcast that’s even stranger than the real place, featuring intersecting storylines involving a subway line that becomes a city.

May 9, 1980 - five young men try to rob a Southern California bank. From LAist and SCPR, the soon-to-be-released Norco '80 focuses on why it changed policing forever.

Podland - presented by Sam Sethi and Podnews’s’ Editor James Cridland - dives into the podcast:location tag, and interviews Sam Liang, the CEO of Otter.AI, about live notes.

Walk The Pod is a new Spotify show-with-music thing, with comedian Rachel Wheeley taking her podcast for a walk because she doesn’t have a dog. It’s a great example of a simple, intimate format, with listener messages too.