The Podcast Show 2022 in London: speaker details

• In London, The Podcast Show 2022 has unveiled their final programme, less than a week before the event. Podnews Editor James Cridland will be speaking on the future of podcasting, and moderating a panel on podcast subscriptions. You can use code PODNEWS to save 20% on day tickets; the day events are at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

• Voiceworks Sport, a sports audio business in the UK, has said it has seen a 288% increase in revenue.

• Lalal.ai is an AI-driven tool that enables you to split vocals from instruments, remove the bass line or the piano from a track, and more.

• CuriousCast, Corus Entertainment’s podcast network, is to monetise through Megaphone. The network was hosting with Omny Studio.

• Triton Digital has released the NZ Podcast Ranker for April 2022. iHeartRadio is #1 for podcasts in the country, operated by NZME, but the ranker doesn’t measure public broadcaster RNZ.

We’re in the UK, preparing for The Podcast Show 2022 - and in London from Saturday afternoon. Drop us a note if you’d like to catch up, Great Britain!

Moves and hires

• Megan Killion has been appointed VP of Sales and Marketing for StreamGuys. She’d been working at CacheFly.
• Jenny Rahm has been appointed Managing Director for Acast Nordics. She was previously CCO at Life of Svea, a female-targeted advertising company.

Tips and tricks - with SoundStack

• SEO for podcasting is a thing - and in this article from last year, we discovered what podcast apps index, and how to make your show appear in search

• Making your episode notes work well in all the podcast apps is a good plan. After checking all the major players, we’ve got recommendations.

Podcast News - with Lemonada Media

From Lemonada Media: Jaime Primak Sullivan wants to tawk, not talk. The star behind the Cawfee Tawk Facebook series is back for a new season of her hit Lemonada show. In Let’s Tawk with Jaime Primak Sullivan, Jaime will share her unfiltered thinking on parenting, marriage, work, relationships, and the constant evolution of culture and its role in shaping our everyday lives.

Audio Always has produced It’s… Wagatha Christie for BBC Radio 5 Live, following the most famous court case in the world apart from the one with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Hosted by comedian and Tik Tok star, Abi Clarke, the podcast has followed the story of how Rooney and Vardy ended up in court and then covered every development from the court room.

Earshot has launched the second series of The Success and Ideas Podcast, which examines what constitutes success and how it’s been achieved by particular individuals. Hosted by Richard Miron, guests this series include the inventor of Reggae Reggae sauce, a woman who started her own fashion label in her 50’s for women of a similar age, and a man who went from the battlefield in Afghanistan to the boardroom in selling his own inventions.