Podcasts can help overthrow governments

Asia Radio Today report on “the creepy podcast that helped overthrow a government”. The podcast is called 나는 꼼수다 and as you might surmise from the title, it’s Korean. It’s quite a story, including a live podcast with half a million people in the audience.

The British Podcast Awards happened over the weekend. Here’s a list of the winners. Of note: 13 of their 15 winners made it to the Apple Podcast Charts the day after the awards.

Jacobs Media release their Tech Survey 2018 - a survey of radio superfans across North America. Caution, therefore, with the data (since it isn’t reflective of the public as a whole), but slide 22 is good: top three reasons why (radio superfans) don’t listen to podcasts: 64% say “I’m just not interested”; 23% say “I don’t have time”; 21% say “I don’t know how to do it”. Perhaps we are too keen to fix the 21%, without really attracting the 64%?

RadioPublic launch “stations” in their iOS app - a hand-selected service designed to surface more new podcasts for people. Android users? Nah, not yet.

Radiotopia just wrapped up its East Coast tour. Here’s a writeup.

Dubious data wrapped up as a bit of fun - the most popular podcast by US state, where “most popular” means “most searched for on Google”.

Podcast host Pippa was contacted by another company offering to sell them a slot in the Apple Podcast Charts over the weekend. They live tweeted it. A reminder that our story only covered one such company.

Event: Wednesday, London: Smersh Pod. Possibly with the best ever writeup in excellent newsletter B3ta:

• SMERSH POD LIVE EVENT - Unless you’ve been living under a rock you might have noticed podcasts are now a big deal, it’s basically a way of the internet filling your brain when you’re not looking at a screen in a cunning ruse to make you buy mattresses and meal boxes. One of the best pods is Smersh Pod and they’re doing their first live Smersh next Wednesday, including a screening of some terrible old film to laugh at. We’re going and so should you.

Bustle publish “10 DIY podcasting tips” from Angela Ledgerwood, host of Lit Up.

In the golden age of television, can narrative podcasts compete? asks The Guardian. …