Podcast Day 24 speakers announced

• Podcast Day 24, the 24-hour podcast conference in Sydney, London and New York, has put tickets on sale and announced its first speakers, including Marc Fennell, Eric Nuzum and John Russo. The event is on Oct 4.

• Exclusive: The Signal Awards, the newly established award for the podcast industry, has announced Deondric Royster will serve as its Managing Director. The awards are open for entry on the Signal Awards website.

• Blubrry has launched 'podcast media kits’ that update daily with information that you choose. The kits are of use to media buyers (rather than us), and Blubrry’s implementation is automatically updated, which the company believes is a first for the industry. Here’s an example.

• Libsyn Studio, the company’s free podcast maker tool, is running a brief user survey to help shape the future of the product. Watch your email if you’ve used the service in the past.

• The Publisher Podcast Summit claims it’s “first conference dedicated to publisher podcasts”. The conference will be held in London on Oct 5, following a successful third year of the Publisher Podcast Awards in April.

• Apple is promoting French creative talent across its services this July, in a feature called Vives Voix. There’s also a podcast that helps put a spotlight on diversity and creativity in France. The podcast “is available free on Apple Podcasts”, but appears to be unavailable on RSS.

• Anchor podcast fraud appears to be on the rise again, with a number of high profile podcasts discovering that there’s a copy of their show on Anchor. Here’s a link with details on how to report them.

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Podcast ads in the wild

Nick Panama sends us Amazon Music’s Become, produced by SALT, which offers a daily dose of relaxation and mindfulness. It’s in Times Square, where clearly Amazon Music has a recurring contract.

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