A new way to get ratings

• A new website, RateThisPodcast, has launched: which claims it’s a simple, device-aware, link to read on your podcast that explains how to rate it. Here’s ratethispodcast·com/podnews as an example: it’s free to claim your link.

• Castro, “the iPhone podcast player for podcast fanatics”, now allows podcasters to pay to promote their podcasts within the app. A week’s promotion with Castro in all categories costs US$249. A similar method exists with Overcast: from August, here’s how that works.

• Here’s how to get your podcast into Majelan, a subscription podcast app from France (which also contains free podcasts). Our request to be added was responded to with a “hey, we read Podnews every day!” which was nice. We’ve updated our list of podcast directories.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Aug 19 2023

• Podcast Generator, an open-source CMS for podcasters first available in 200 6, has released v3.0 on Github, which is a total rewrite of the earlier product.

• If you’re thinking of building your own podcast app, we hear that there’s a fully-featured, well-rated iOS podcast app that’s available for purchase or re-purposing: it’s from a company that’s about to pivot their consumer offer. Hit reply and we’ll confidentially pass the message on.

• Mark Asquith from Rebel Base Media, which runs growth-oriented podcast host Captivate, has been interviewed by SquadCast. Disclosures

Podcast News - with Spreaker Prime

Spreaker Prime: Which Murderer is a show that talks about the methods, motives and background of murderers and their victims, covering two crimes per episode and debating from the victim’s perspective which murderer the hosts would pick to kill them if they HAD to choose. They’re using Spreaker Prime to earn money and cut their hosting costs.

The New York Times profiles Dax Shepherd's Armchair Expert podcast.