Claims about RAD's privacy: are people right to be concerned?

• Is Marco Arment correct to claim that NPR’s RAD podcast analytics is “a privacy violation and a GDPR liability”? In a special article, we looked into podcast apps, privacy and GDPR. In short: no. There’s nothing to suggest that RAD is more of a privacy violation and GDPR liability than using a podcast app already is.

• Libsyn have confirmed that they aim to achieve IAB Certification. They’d join Blubrry and NPR, who were the first to get the accolade earlier this week.

• Pacific Content publish 13 predictions for podcasting in 2019, interviewing some of the best and brightest in the podcast industry.

• Jack Rhysider has looked into the top-earning podcasts on Patreon, including how much they earn. He gives some advice based on what he’s found.

• Australian audio festival Audiocraft has produced a Podchaser playlist of great Australian podcasts. And here’s another playlist - podcasts about podcasting.

  
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• Podcast app Breaker has produced a list of the top podcast episodes of 2018, “ranked by the number of likes by Breaker users”. How I Built This appears six times.

• The President and CEO of New York Public Radio, Laura Walker, is to leave the company in June.

• Our podcast pages now include links to Podknife, Player FM and Listen Notes.

Podcasts

Nearly have launched Murder Archives. Series one about the 1929 death of Norma Rhys McLeod in an inner suburb of Melbourne VIC, Australia.

What’s better than a business growth podcast? One with a hippo on it. The Wild Business Growth Podcast interviews guests who are turning wild ideas into wild growth - startup founders, product inventors, and social media influencers.

The Crypto Chick is a new podcast presented by journalist Rachel Wolfson. The press release says it will focus on the impact cryptocurrency and blockchain technology will have on the world.

Queen of S-Mountain might share its naming convention with S-Town, but follows all-women Southern rock band Thelma and the Sleaze as they navigate the life of touring musicians and explore, as front-woman LG puts it, “what it’s like to be an underdog, to be a queer, to be a rock 'n’ roller, to be a trailblazer, to be uncompromising, and love … you know what I mean?”