NYT's The Daily to also go on radio

• The New York Times and American Public Media have announced they they will bring “a radio edition” of The Daily to APM’s nearly 20m listeners on the radio. The podcast currently reaches 4.5m unique listeners online. Recode also cover the story.

• Padraig from Castro writes about the podto:// URL scheme that we linked to yesterday.

• Is it fair for amateur podcasters to compete against commercial rivals in the Australian Podcast Awards? Chris Ashmore thinks so and goes as far to suggest independents have an advantage.

• Canada: Jean-Marie Heimrath, Jeff Ulster and Bob Kane launch The Podcast Exchange, a Canadian company joining brands with podcasts.

• In HotPod 151, Nick Quah looks into Vox Media’s afternoon podcast Today, Explained, which we covered yesterday; and talks to Fusion Media Group (owners of The Onion) about their plans in podcasting.

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• Advice: Abrupt Audio writes How To Make Money From Your Podcast. (It’s an excuse to spruik their own podcast, PodTips.) Also, information from India on how to become a better podcast host - knowing what you’re talking about is one suggestion.

• Pacific Content posts about why best-selling authors make amazing podcast hosts; Dan Heath is one, and he’s also (surprise!), a podcast host of Choiceology, exploring the lessons of economics.

• Some interesting technical detail from Simplecast about how they host podcasts and RSS. Of interest: they’re stopping producing dynamic RSS feeds, and are writing them manually.

• The City of Sydney tweets about their new podcast, talking about our animal neighbours. It’s called Tails of Sydney, naturally. It’s hosted by Whooshkaa.

• Criticism for a man making a podcast: Rear Admiral Garry Hall is making a podcast while also being on the US’s National Security Council. Podcast side-hustles are not, seemingly, a thing in US politics.

• The Betoota Advocate, a satirical web publication, is also launching its own podcast with acast. They talk to a radio industry website.

  
  Jul 30 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Steven Goldstein asks how you promote your podcast, and gives some examples of them being featured and cross-promoted in other media.

  
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