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• Adam Curry has launched a new, open podcast directory for app developers, working with developer Dave Jones. Speaking on a new podcast, Podcasting 2.0, Curry and Jones worry that “Apple is starting to tinker with their directory”, and say that the company is “a very centralised private entity that is controlling pretty much what everybody considers the default yellow pages for podcasting.” His alternative, The Podcast Index, promises that the “core, categorized index will always be available for free, for any use”. You can sign up to be a developer on their developer portal.

  • We support this initiative. As of today, Podnews uses The Podcast Index for our main podcast search.

• iVoox has opened the voting for the third edition of los Premios iVoox de la Audiencia 2020. You can vote for your favourite podcast here - en Español. You’ve until 20 September to vote; here’s more information on Twitter.

• Meanwhile, the virtual ceremony for the Latin Podcast Awards will be on October 10, with Spreaker. See podevents for your local time.

• Spotify is working on a set of new features for their app, including a method to save your favourite podcast episodes. The company is also advertising podcasting in a new campaign running in 23 markets, and a TV commercial running in 16 markets globally.

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• Rachel Corbett has joined Australia’s commercial radio broadcaster NOVA Entertainment as Head of Podcasts and Digital Content. A former radio and television presenter, she runs PodSchool, an online podcasting course, and previously worked at Mamamia as Head of Podcasts.

• Acast Australia has hired six new people: Tom Roach (SCA), Katalina Haddad (NOVA), Isabella Gibson-Giorgio, Michelle Smith, Diana Lee and Teresa Ly. The company ended a relationship with NOVA Entertainment on Monday.

• SCA, Australia’s largest commercial radio company and owner of PodcastOne Australia, has entered a partnership with SpokenLayer which creates automated short-form audio content for smart speakers.

Tips and tricks - with Spotify for Podcasters

• Chartapalooza: Why Every Podcast Chart Is So Different - Steven Goldstein posts a helpful article about podcast data, including the US podcast networks measured by Podtrac and Triton.

  
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• How to make, and sell, branded podcasts - Wonder Media Network’s CMO Shira Atkins (Digiday)

Podcast News - with 70 Million

70 Million is back for Season 3 starting next Monday. Each week, the Peabody-nominated podcast from Lantigua Williams & Co brings localities taking action: from the school-to-prison pipeline, to racialized policing, to the spread of COVID-19 in jails. 70 Million is also an open-source podcast that provides syllabi and resources to the public. The trailer is out now. (ad)

Changes with Annie Macmanus returns for a second series. Radio presenter Annie Mac, now using her full name, is to interview extraordinary people including actor Michael Sheen, American singer-songwriter Beth Ditto, and British author and activist Bernadine Evaristo. Her first guest is novelist Zadie Smith.

Our Mothers Ourselves interviews the children of extraordinary mothers. It’s a new podcast from longtime New York Times reporter Katie Hafner, who started the podcast around Mother’s Day this year while covering the pandemic. It aims to offer something “a little more uplifting in the midst of so much grimness”.

The Yes Theory Podcast has been launched by Entercom’s Cadence13 and Headspace - focusing on the messy process of self-improvement and explore how we can all become our truest selves. Yes Theory has a social media reach of over 9.3 million.

Tomorrow, WNYC and HISTORY release Blindspot: The Road to 9/11, bringing to light the decade-long “shadow struggle” that preceded the attacks. It’s hosted by WNYC reporter Jim O’Grady.