In Tokyo, Otonal has launched a podcast and audio ad localization service, to help global brands adapt their English-language content into the Japanese market. Literal translations, the company says, simply don’t work well in Japan, with complex levels of politeness, and grammatical structures that mean call-to-actions are at the end of a sentence.
The Scottish Podcast Awards took place last night. The event was marred by the audience booing the winner of the Best International podcast, The Rest is History. That award, which didn’t require a Scottish connection, was accepted by video. Otherwise, we’re told it was a positive event; the winners haven’t been published, we’ve asked for a list.
In Spain, iVoox has launched a new set of AI tools to help creators. The tools will automatically generate suggestions for episode titles and descriptions, as well as, in future, automating moderation of user comments in the iVoox app.
Meanwhile, Soundcheck, a WNYC podcast from John Schaefer, will now return to the radio airwaves - Saturdays at 8pm ET on WNYC 93.9 FM. The new radio version will revisit the best of the podcast to highlight exclusive live performances and interviews.
From Airwave:American Carnage is a podcast about the history of political violence in the United States, launching with a five-part series on the radical abolitionist John Brown.
The Podnews Weekly Review this week includes a chat with Consumable, a company that has a way to help target audiences who listen to your podcast - even when they’re doing something else. Plus, Dolby wants to make podcasts sound - and look - even better.
A new show has just started from a longtime contributor to NPR’s Planet Money. Gastronomics, which has been signed by Libsyn, will focus on the business of food. In each episode, Alex Mayyasi talks with chefs, economists, and industry insiders to explore how economics shapes the modern menu. The first episode looks at Domino’s pizza tracker - and why it’s responsible for the way the Uber app looks.
Jacob Reed and Me has just finished its first season: with host Jacob Reed finding answers to life’s biggest questions by finding other people called Jacob Reed. He tells us: “In one episode, I learned enough about Economics to write an Economics book and sell it on Amazon. In another, I started a band called the Jake Reed Quartet… with three professional musicians all named Jacob Reed.”
July 4th plans? Small Ship Cruise Talk, the only podcast dedicated exclusively to small-ship cruising, has released a bonus episode on Sail4th 250 — the largest-ever tall ship flotilla celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Hosts Dan and Mikkel Woodruff bring firsthand perspective, having sailed aboard American Eagle, one of two historic Maine Windjammer schooners joining more than 40 tall ships from 32 nations in a once-in-a-generation parade along the Hudson River and into New York Harbor.
Three fangirls walk into a bar and say they wanna start a podcast — yikes, here we go. For everyone who never moved on from Tiva (and still won’t), these ladies always have something to say. In Love it or leak it, Ashley, Anastasia and Rhamer, three friends who will talk about all things Tiva- the chemistry, the history and more, of everyone’s favorite NCIS couple.
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