Podtrac splits their 'top podcast charts' into two

• Podtrac released their top podcasts for November 2017 late on Christmas Day: and has split the chart into “snackable” and normal-length podcasts. This split may have been after fierce criticism, which we reported on Nov 20.

  • The new top 15 “snackable” podcasts list has lots of content from iHeartMedia as well as short newscasts from NPR, Fox News and APM.
  
  Jul 28 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • The top 20 podcasts has the New York Times’s Daily at #2, just short of This American Life. (Both these lists are US-only).

• Dick Orkin, the radio creative and voice actor, died on Sunday. He was 84. As this podcast describes, Orkin was known for storytelling to tell a company’s story, and for writing Chickenman on US radio in the 1960s. In 1995, This American Life carried the first new Chickenman episode since 1969.

• An Indian software engineer describes how podcasting has changed his life for the better. He listens to ten hours a week - most podcasts at between 1.7 and 2 times speed, incidentally, and also skips silences.

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