Time to rename the Apple Podcast Chart?

• Scott Pape, an Australian financial advisor and journalist, has recommended five podcasts in a newspaper article. ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network chief Corey Layton points out that the Australian Apple Podcast Chart is dominated by these picks, adding “in reality, those shows aren’t generating more listens than the ABC’s Conversations (now at #7) and therefore shouldn’t top the ‘charts’. Perhaps it’s time Apple rename the ‘Apple Podcast Chart’ to ‘Apple Podcast Trends’ to better represent how it works.”

• Podcast app and Lightning client Breez has partnered with a Lightning node provider Voltage, to help podcasters earn Bitcoin from their shows. A Voltage node costs $17.99 a month, though.

• Google Podcasts is testing personalised episode recommendations: with a “heart” button in the player to help tune recommendations.

• The Entale podcast app has launched Collections, allowing listeners to save shows, episodes, snippets and related links. You can keep them private or share with others. Here’s a podcasting news collection, though best experienced in the Entale app.

• Casted, a branded podcast platform and producer, has raised $7m in funding.

  
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• A restaurant in Durham NC, USA is to offer a free podcast studio. In Lille, France, B2B podcast company Natif Podcast has opened a studio, too.

• Talkwalker joins a list of companies that listen to podcasts and tell brands what is being said about them.

• Tom Webster looks at the recent Edison Research numbers for podcasting.

• Riverside․fm has announced that their iPhone app is now available in beta. It allows you to use the rather better camera in your phone for your remote interviews.

• We’ve discovered an Amazon Music Podcasters portal has been quietly launched. It seems to be a way to add your podcast to Amazon and Audible, and has some promotional tools.

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SmartPath and Monogram are completely reimagining the online car buying experience on this week’s episode of Toyota Untold

Apple has launched another original podcast to accompany a TV show. The Line is an accompaniment podcast to an upcoming documentary on Apple TV+.

QCODE’s Unwanted podcast has released its series finale - along with the official theme song: from Rick Astley. Unwanted, the song, sounds like this.

Chelsea Clinton has her own podcast now. In Fact is an iHeartRadio production.