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• Podchaser has launched the Podchaser Feed, a personalised feed of the latest podcast episodes, guest appearances, ratings & reviews, curated lists, follows, and more - built for more effective podcast discovery . It launched in beta in September. Follow Podnews here.

  
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• A podcast monitoring service has been launched by TVEyes, a company that also monitors television and radio broadcasts for the name of your company, your candidate or your concern. TVEyes is monitoring more than 13,000 of the most popular podcasts, according to the press release.

• Vox Media now has 200 podcasts. The company had only 75 in January. Axios reports that podcasting for the company is “an eight figure business”.

  
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• Podtrac’s top 20 US podcasts for September is up. Stuff You Should Know slips back to #3.

  
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• If you run live podcast shows, how much do you pay your cast? Sean Howard discovers some startling behaviour.

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• What makes a successful (and profitable) podcast? A write-up of a panel from Radio Alive last Friday.

  
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• Podcast host Ausha grabbed some pictures of new podcast research shared at the Paris Podcast Festival.

• Keri Jones, the host of ThisIsAlfred, a local podcast for Shaftesbury in Dorset, UK, had the coolest thing happen.

• Upgraded to Catalina, and now can’t get Audacity to work? Here’s a potential hack.

• PodcastsInColor looks at Apple’s new guests-and-hosts feature, to see who’s included. They’re not, that, impressed.

• In South Australia? Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, is speaking in Adelaide on Wednesday evening. Come and see podcasting trends around the world.

  
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Developers Corner

• You’d not be silly enough to gzip your audio files on your server. But if you do, you’ll discover that some apps (notably, Google Podcasts) won’t let your listeners scrub or skip. Craig Constantine discovers that gzipping audio gives you bad mojo.

  
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• Lots of ![CDATA[[ nonsense in your RSS feed doesn’t look nice. Turns out that in most cases, you really want to just encode special characters by the equivalent of PHP’s htmlspecialchars("your text",ENT_XML1); rather than smothering everything with CDATA. So that’s what we did.

• The open user-agent list for podcast apps now includes a bunch of examples and a whole lot more apps. (Did you know that Apple Podcasts’s user-agent is पॉडकास्ट or Balados depending where your listener is?) The Slack group is over here - if you’re a serious developer and want in, hit reply and ask.

  
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• Our podcast pages now highlight podcasts who are using WebSub to make their new episodes appear faster in listeners’ podcast apps. Find it in the Technical Details section: try ours, any from Captivate, like Captivate Insider, any from Simplecast, like Uncommon, any from Buzzsprout, like AskPat, and plenty more.

Podcasts

Bauer Media, a radio broadcaster in the UK (and present in other countries), has launched a podcast from Dave Berry, the host of Absolute Radio. Dave Berry’s Dadpod celebrates the wonderful, exciting, sometimes scary, but absolute joy of fatherhood. (Sharpstream)

Ignition Point returns for a second season, with twenty guests for practical strategies to help young professionals and aspiring leaders get fired up. Podcasts are deliberately short at around 20 minutes. (Libsyn)

After launching over 45 client’s shows and publishing thousands of episodes, it’s probably time for Lyndal Harris to launch her own podcast. Podcasting Tips & Tricks shares quick, actionable tips and tricks for launching and growing a successful podcast and is aimed at both new and seasoned podcasters. (Whooshkaa)