Podcasts - do we have a spam problem?

• Does podcasting have a spam problem? Podcast RSS feeds are increasingly being scraped for email addresses. Today, Podnews looks at whether this is legal, and whether it’s a legitimate way for marketers to promote their services.

• The Podcast Academy has started accepting memberships. Membership is US$50 before the end of September; the membership requirements are on The Podcast Academy website.

  
  Aug 25 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• A new podcast app, Poddog, has launched in Japan. For iOS and Android, it allows listeners to add tags to their favourite podcasts, to help others discover them. There’s a submission form, in Japanese, on the site; it’s operated by Nippon Broadcasting System, which owns JOLF, a radio station in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

• The 2020 Latin Podcast Awards is being sponsored by Libsyn and also by Podbean, a set of press releases have announced.

• Brittany Luse, host and EP of The Nod, points out in a Twitter thread that even though the show is their idea, they don’t own “not one single percent of The Nod podcast or brand: Spotify does!”

• Edison Research did an “ask me anything about digital audio” last week. Here’s the video recording of it.

• Podcast Town is a new community for podcasters, launched by Elzie Flenard, the host of the Enterprise NOW! podcast.

• After we linked to Reza Shirazian’s sample search engine for Joe Rogan, Pete Birsinger notes that Podscribe offers a search tool through automated transcripts for many different podcasts. Here’s a search through Podnews’s audio for “Rogan” as an example.

Tips and tricks - with Podcorn

• Common Podcasting Mistakes to Avoid If You Want to Grow Your Show’s Audience (Aaron Dowd)
• How to promote your podcast (Ostap Zabolotnyy) - “social media (organic and paid) have shown the best results”
• Why Podcasts Are Built on Compounding Returns (Jeremy Enns) - aka “don’t give up too early”
• Don’t use the word “analytics” in your podcast title. Not unless you want lots of emails pointing this sort of thing out. (Thanks to you all).

Podcast News - with The Jordan Harbinger Show

On The Jordan Harbinger Show Your significant other has picked up some bad habits while self-quarantining during the pandemic; how can you fix your relationship without nagging? Listen now

Pushkin Industries and Axios launch their new daily news podcast today. Axios Today, hosted by Niala Boodhoo, promises a ten-minute news podcast made using a system they call “Smart Brevity”.

The Plop is a pilot of a new sketch comedy podcast for kids from Kelly&Kelly. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to produce the show which will create fifty paid gigs for Canadian comedians.

Reach - a space podcast for kids launched last week, featuring entertaining segments, fun at-home experiments, and interviews as a family friendly exploration of our galaxy (and beyond!)

As restaurants look to reopening fully, Holy Guacamole, a podcast for restaurant people, is focusing on examples and stories of restaurants that are making changes to keep going and growing.

Coinciding with Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, This is me focuses on intimate stories from everyday Australians as they share their life changing moments. Siobhain McGirl hosts the podcast: the first episode is her story, when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer at just 40 years old.