Nomono launch its ‘sound capsule’ microphone system

• The Nomono Sound Capsule was launched yesterday and is now shipping. The device includes four wireless lavalier mics and a spatial audio microphone array, and includes a cloud editor and enhancer. It’s priced at $2,490 with an additional, optional, monthly subscription to the cloud editor.

  • Podnews has one for review; we’ll bring you a full look at the device next week.

• Data: There’s no “big hit” out there for podcasting - podcast listening is highly fragmented, suggests new data from the Pew Research Center. Asking more than 1,500 podcast listeners (who’ve listened over the past year), only six podcasts were mentioned by more than 1% of respondents. Joe Rogan was #1 with 5% (about 78 people); Crime Junkie was #3 with 1% (about 15).

• Spotify believes that podcast advertising could be easier and more efficient for ad buyers. In an interview to be published later today for the Podcast Business Journal, Nina Harvey says the Spotify Audience Network is “able to bring to an advertiser a single buying point to supply an efficient way to access audiences at scale.” You can subscribe to the Podcast Business Journal here.

• Triton Digital’s US Podcast Ranker for March is out. SiriusXM is still #1 network; NPR News Now is still #1 podcast. It measures participating publishers only.

• Curio, a narrative journalism platform, has launched a new exclusive four-part series Planet for Tomorrow, hosted by Gemma Styles.

• Adalyst is to represent Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew.

• Auddia, an audio AI platform, has secured additional bridge funding. One of their products, faidr, allows you to remove ads from US broadcast radio.

Podcast News

It’s Earth Day tomorrow, and The Decarbonization Race is for environmentally conscious investors, companies, and sustainability leaders who want to look beyond the bare minimum of sustainability impact to truly make a difference in their effort to decarbonize the world. The show is in its second season with interviews and Energy Minute mini-sodes digging into important concepts around the sourcing of clean energy, carbon accounting, and a range of other topics.

Call Me Disabled is new from Acast - the third and final podcast from the UK Acast Amplifier programme. Hosted by Poppy Greenfield, it’s a call to celebrate and consider disabled lives.

Podfluencer Society with Angie Griffith is new this week, with four (four!) new episodes. It aims to share insights from top industry leaders across podcasting, the creator economy, the entertainment business, and more, with topics including launching, marketing, monetizing, mindset, and beyond. It’s a rebranded show; and one of the first interviews is with Allie Reeves on when and how to rebrand.

The We Society from the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences returns for a new season today. The host is journalist and political economist Will Hutton; it tackles the big questions through a social science lens. The first episode look at the migrant crisis, with Heaven Crawley, Professor of International Migration.

Lamar Johnson convicted of murder despite no motive or physical evidence connecting him to the crime. He’s the first guest on a new season of Wrongful Conviction from Lava for Good. Guest hosts include Earlonne Woods, Gilbert King and Susan Simpson; the show is focused on individual cases of wrongful incarceration.