Podhome, a new v2.0 podcast host, launches

• Podhome, a new podcast hosting platform, has launched. The service offers transcripts and AI suggestions; support for Value4Value and other new “Podcasting 2.0” features like the ability to host music shows; and also offers team members, embedded players and podcast websites. The founder and lead developer is Barry Luijbregts, who gives us the code Podnews (it’s case sensitive) for two months free.

• Podcast host RSS.com has sold the streaming rights to Se Dice y No Pasa Nada with Chumel Torres, the company’s first fully-owned Spanish language podcast, to TVOAI and Grupo Formula. It has been in production for 2 seasons, and was filmed for video. Se Dice y No Pasa Nada is also available on YouTube.

• In Denmark, GoLittle Creative won Prix Audio 2023's “Pioneer of the Year” award for an audio-based children’s entertainment platform aboard DFDS ships.

• Mac-based audio tool Audio Hijack has added a transcription module, which works in 57 different languages. It uses OpenAI’s Whisper, and comes with no additional costs. We tried it out.

• Popular podcast app Pocket Casts appears to have added a new payment tier. Pocket Casts Plus is US$39.99; while Pocket Casts Patron is US$99.99, offering “early access to features” and more cloud storage.

• On social media, the podvibes.co Mastodon instance is to close. A specific instance for audio drama makers, you’ve three months to switch elsewhere (with Mastodon you can take followers with you, though not old posts).

• 9to5Google reports that Apple almost completed Apple Watch support with Android phones; but cancelled the work when it was “nearly complete”, to protect iPhone’s sales. Why a mention in Podnews? Because, while Apple Music and Apple TV are available for Android, Apple Podcasts isn’t, and this might be the reason.

People News

• Apple Podcasts’ PR person, Zach Kahn, is being promoted to PR for Apple Vision Pro. He was the first PR person for Apple Podcasts, joining from Vox Media in Jan 2020. We understand Apple Podcasts will gain a new PR representative next month.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS․com

• The Pocket Casts web player now supports chapters using Podlove and the new podcast namespace, as well as episode art.

  • The web player is also the subject of this speculative design work by Paul Novak.

• In September, we researched use of the AUDIO tag in email. RSS.com has become the first podcast host to use it, in its confirmation emails.

Podcast News - with Airwave

From Airwave: History Uncovered looks at all things weird and bizarre in the natural world and the world past. Most recently, the show looked at the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Was it due to a failure in one of the suspension chains? Or was it a strange winged humanoid creature called The Mothman?

One Minute Podcast Tips helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week, regardless of your level of expertise: improving your recording, editing, publishing, sharing, growing, networking, and more - and today publishes its 50th episode.

In today’s episode of The Ramsey Show, Dave Ramsey announces that he will offer 10,000 military veterans free classes at the 'Financial Peace University’, a personal finance class. THe news is to coincide with Veteran’s Day in the US this week.

28 Dates Later is a new, weekly dating experiment podcast, launching today from iHeart and Novel. The series will follow Grace Campbell on 28 dates in two months with people who are the “complete opposite” of her usual type. Episodes will feature audio from actual dates and post-date debriefs with Campbell’s friends, Roz and Dan.

Gareth Williams was a child prodigy - and a codebreaker for the British, working with GCHQ and MI6. But, in summer 2010, he was found dead - his naked body inside a bag, in his bath, in his apartment. No fingerprints were found; and 13 years on, it’s still a mystery what happened. From BBC Wales, Death of a Codebreaker looks into the story; it’s new today.

Crime Waves: Cold Truth launches today from QCODE and Faceplant, in association with No Smiling. It tells the story of Dr. Eugene Mallove, who believed that a new form of world-changing free energy — cold fusion — was just around the corner. But before Dr. Mallove could usher in that future, he was found dead in the driveway of his childhood home. Everyone had their own ideas of who killed him, and investigators were looking in all the wrong places.

As Argentina goes to the polls for the second round of the country’s presidential election, EL PAÍS Audio and Anfibia Podcast launches Sin control. El universo de Javier Milei - looking at the man who got 30% of the votes in the first round. He has made five clones of his dead dog - with whom he still communicates using a mystic, takes policy advice from each of the dogs, believes he is on a mission from God, and plans to blow up the economy.