More languages for your analytics

• Open podcast analytics service OP3 is now available in German and in UK English, as well as Spanish, French and Dutch. The privacy-respecting podcast analytics tool is free to get started, and works on most podcast hosts.

• Podcastle has launched “text mode” for simpler audio editing.

• The German Podcast Awards has announced its nominees. The winners will be announced on Jul 4.

• A science show with two versions - one for adults, one for kids - is being launched by Podster.

• Podcast Radio has signed a deal with LRN, making it easier to deliver programming directly to the company’s affiliate stations.

• Plink, a podcast link service, is now selling podcast ads on the top of its free link pages, says founder Scott Mathson. The monthly price is $199.

• “One thing I find incredible is the collaboration across the industry.” - Pary Bell, CEO of TPX, The Podcast Exchange, speaks to our sister publication The Podcast Business Journal today.

• “Pacing on actuals is a disaster. It always has been and it always will be.” Flightpath’s Sean Howard posts a blog that helps understand the issues with planning ad campaigns that way.

Paid content

How many ads… are too many? Can you ruin a podcast with ads, or play the same ad too often? Those questions and many more are the focus of the next study from Sounds Profitable: Ad Nauseam: Frequency, Repetition, and Consumer Perceptions of Podcast Advertising, and you can be the first to see the answers in a free webinar on Wednesday, June 12th, at 3PM Eastern.

Join Sounds Profitable Partner Tom Webster as he reveals how listeners feel about ad quantity, variety, and even where they expect to hear ads in a podcast. Your audience is likely more tolerant of advertising than you think…but we all have our limits! Find out what they are by registering for Ad Nauseam: Frequency, Repetition, and Consumer Perceptions of Podcast Advertising today!

Tips and tricks - with Memberful

• Danny Brown shares 3 Things I’d Do Differently If I Started Podcasting Today - including “I would have learnt how to edit”.

• A weekend project - installing a transcript generator on your own Mac?

Podcast News

In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, we hear from Laura of Descript about the company’s new “season 6” release; and the background behind our “11am” scoop that wasn’t (but still probably will be)

Pack One Bag is new from Gilded Audio this week. Documentary filmmaker David Modigliani is the creator and host, and the show follows his journey to uncover the epic true story of his Italian family – joined by love and split apart by war. The show is launched with Lemonada Media.

Over the past year, Fiona Hamilton, chief reporter of The Times, David Collins, northern editor of The Sunday Times and Stephen Drill, News Corp Australia reporter, have tirelessly worked to uncover the truth behind the global cocaine industry where profits are counted in millions and losses measured in murders. The Times, The Sunday Times, and News Corp Australia’s True Crime Australia launches an international investigation podcast, Cocaine Inc., on Sunday, in a new collaboration.

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time returns for a new season this week. Created and produced by The Met in collaboration with Magnificent Noise, each episode centers on an individual material found in art across cultures and reveals its meaning through intimate and emotional stories told by makers, writers, and scholars. The first episode is about stone - and how it breaks.