Podcast Alarm allows you to wake up to something different

• A new podcast app with a difference: Podcast Alarm claims it’s “the only podcast alarm app on iOS”. “With Podcast Alarm you can select whatever kind of podcast you’re into as your morning alarm. Instead of hitting snooze, dozing off again and feeling worse, you can actually listen to something interesting.” It’s $1.99, iOS only. (You could wake up to our podcast maybe.)

• Deezer is coming after Spotify, and has substantially strengthened its podcast offering, partnering with Libsyn, Ausha, Podomatic, Blubrry and Simplecast in addition to Audioboom and Spreaker. Podcasters on those platforms will find automated submission tools; though you can add a podcast to Deezer from any platform. It reports a 250% increase in podcast usage on its platform over the last two years.

  
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• One Voice, One Mic is a new short documentary about podcasting from Ben Gummery, and was released yesterday. It’s available on Amazon Prime Video - USA, UK, global - and coming soon to Vimeo. “It takes an upbeat yet honest look at the rise of podcasting as well as examining the state of the medium; considering whether podcasts are becoming over-saturated and demystifying how the monetisation of podcasts actually works in practice; with a particular focus on the UK podcasting scene.”

• iHeartRadio have announced the return of the iHeart Podcast Awards. They’ll take place on January 17th in Los Angeles CA, USA. The official website says “this year’s nominees and your opportunity to vote are coming soon” - we look forward to the “podcast industry news short form” category.

• Yesterday, we linked to Spotify’s advertising on Twitter and Facebook. Today, here’s Luminary, advertising in Taboola across many different websites. (via Oliver W)

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• Bridge Ratings have posted “an overview of the types of podcast publishers”. Which are you?

• I’m Micaela Heck, Lifehacker Podcast Producer, and This Is How I Work - includes a ProTools view of The Upgrade, and a desperately lonely-looking cubicle.

• Finally, we return to The Daily Star, a British newspaper that steals stories from podcasts. This time, White Wine Question Time, a podcast by Yahoo! UK, interviewed Eamonn Holmes in an episode from July 25th. It took Alex Brown, a journalist from the newspaper, over a month to steal the story, entirely uncredited, which appeared on page 17 and online on September 5th. Any more?

Podcasts

Fiction podcast Six Cold Feet returns for its second season with a party on October 10 in its home town of Brisbane QLD, Australia. Part of an upcoming episode will be recorded at the event. (Podbean)

The NPR Politics podcast is now a daily podcast, released every weekday afternoon. It’s the biggest politics podcast in the world, according to Podtrac.

Anything But Footy Flash Briefing is available on Alexa as well as via podcast: it’s a daily round-up of two minutes from the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, from John Cushing and Michael Weadock. (Spreaker)