Podcasting discussed in Prague

• In Prague, Radiodays Europe started yesterday with a number of summits. In the data summit, the team from Podimo presented a new podcast discovery algorithm built for the Podimo app, which uses term extraction (photo); a separate podcast summit included tips on pitching your podcast from the BBC’s Leanne Alie. DW Akademie also ran a workshop to help podcasters streamline their creation process. Our Editor also spoke; the conference continues today and tomorrow.

• Slate is the latest publisher to partner with YouTube to bring its podcasts to the platform. The Slate channel on YouTube includes archives of shows including Slow Burn, and new shows updated daily or weekly. Podcasts are available globally within YouTube, and will also be available in the US only on the YouTube Music app shortly.

• Almost 60% of Spanish internet users listen to podcasts. Prodigioso Volcán has published their fourth set of data about podcast listening in the country. The data also suggests that Spotify has seen more than a 6% drop in audience. As a podcast platform, YouTube has grown ten times.

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• Nearly 400 companies are part of the Spanish-language audio ecosystem. Dosdoce has produced a full Spanish Audio Industry Ecosystem Map showing how they all fit together.

• RedCircle has a new logo and a new website. It focuses on the combination of hosting and the company’s RAP advertising system.

• Because Mozilla’s new podcast, ThunderCast, publishes its listening data in public, we can see what podcast apps its listeners are using in its OP3 page. The partially open-source Pocket Casts is #1 with 27% of all downloads; the wholly open-source AntennaPod is second, with 22%.

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• ellipsis Podcasts has launched “ellipsis Personalized Podcasts™, powered by OpenAI and the Latest Text-to-Speech Technology”.

• NPR Launches New Podcast Exploring Lives Of Employees They Just Laid Off - too soon, The Onion, too soon.

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• Are you in every single podcast directory? Chances are you might not be: we’ve a full list of places to be.

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• Podcast history: from Oct 13, 2003 - the rediscovered source code for Adam Curry’s iPod AppleScript that was the first tool that would automagically update your iPod with any new mp3's that are downloaded to your “Radio UserLand” enclosures folder (and so, made one of the very first podcast clients when coupled with Dave Winer’s Radio Userland).

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• Dave Jones is asking for which new tags should be in phase 6 of the new podcast namespace.

• Blubrry has removed email addresses from RSS feeds by default (and the latest version of PowerPress also does so). It joins a growing number of podcast hosting companies who have removed email addresses from feeds for privacy.

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• How do the podcast recommendation algorithms work? Writing in Spanish, Lourdes Moreno Cazalla looks into the algorithms used by Spotify and Apple.

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Podcast News - with Left Over

From the BBC World Service, The Lazarus Heist returns today for a new season, looking at the theft of billions of dollars from around the globe. Investigators say that North Korea is responsible; that country claims it’s just propaganda from the US, but someone, somewhere is walking away with a lot of money. The first episode drops today, looking at an ATM fraud from a bank in India.

The latest episode of the Bandrew Says Podcast discusses the new YouTube podcasting features, why he believes YouTube is getting into podcasting and speculation on what this means for pocasting.

Broadsheet Sydney: Around Town is a new, ten-minute, three-times-a-week podcast produced by LiSTNR and Broadsheet Media. The podcasts will feature a rotating cast of Broadsheet editors to provide their finger-on-the-pulse expertise and reveal to listeners the real secrets of their city.

Broadsheet Melbourne: Around Town is similar to the above but for a city with an inflated view of how nice its coffee is.

Doha Debates has released its first Arabic-language podcast for international audiences. Lana tackles questions for young Arabs in culture today, like beauty standards, cancel culture, mental health and more.

A scripted vampire thriller from Echoverse, The Lesser Dead, is launched today on Wondery+. The supernatural audio series stars Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting and The Riches), Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys, Palo Alto), Danny Huston (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Saul Rubinek (Hunters, Warehouse 13). It’s an adaptation of Christopher Buehlman’s book; it’s released on open RSS at the end of May.

Does time really run in slow motion when you’re in a car accident? Can we create new senses for humans? What does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet? A new science podcast, Inner Cosmos, is launched today by iHeartPodcasts. It’s hosted by David Eagleman, a famed neuroscientist and best-selling author.