#RobotSharon steals the show at Podcast Movement
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Being unable to travel from Melbourne VIC, Australia, didn’t stop Triton Digital’s Sharon Taylor from attending Podcast Movement (seen above with Edison Research’s Tom Webster). Based at Triton Digital’s stand, #RobotSharon has been dancing and making friends with many conference-goers. It’s unclear how it works with a glass of wine.
- Sharon Taylor was the co-host of Podland last week.
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At Podcast Movement, Futuri Media launched AdMatic, a tool to “organise and monetise the world’s podcasts”. “Two million podcasts all have the same problem: poor metadata sorting that leads to mismatched recommendations for listeners and ineffective advertising for businesses”, says CEO Daniel Anstandig. It also includes automatic detection of copyright music in podcasts.
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At Podcast Movement, the sponsor of the Spanish track, RSS Podcasting signed a co-production relationship with Grupo Fórmula, a Spanish-language talk radio network in the US and Mexico. (The company’s also posted a recap of day 1 of Podcast Movement).
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At Podcast Movement, Audioburst launched Finder, which they call the first embeddable search widget for podcasts. They launched an identical product in June.
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James O. Boggs has left Apple Podcasts: his last day was mid-July. The Head of Editorial at Apple Podcasts, he had worked for Apple since before podcasting - April 2004.
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Holy Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snood, Batman! HBO Max is to add exclusive audio to its app. Batman: The Audio Adventures will be released in Q3; they’ve also announced other forthcoming shows.
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Cumulus Media saw record digital revenue, including from podcasting, in Q2/21, according to their financial report; though podcasting didn’t make any other appearance in their earnings call.
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The Marconi Radio Awards are be presented by the NAB at the Radio Show in Las Vegas in October. The “Best Radio Podcast Of The Year” category finalists are We Need To Talk (WGTS), Pregnancy Pearls (Audacy), Garage Logic (Hubbard Radio), Purple Daily (KSTP-AM, Hubbard Radio), and Outkick the Coverage (Fox Sports Radio, Premiere Radio Networks)
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The latest celebrity-interview podcast host is Lucille Ball - 240 episodes of Let’s Talk to Lucy will be broadcast on SiriusXM and then made available as podcasts. Interviews include Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand and Mary Taylor-Moore.
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Inside Radio has unveiled The Most Powerful People In Podcasting 2021: #1 is Conal Byrne, the CEO of iHeart’s Digital Audio Group. Inside Radio is owned by iHeartMedia, a fact you won’t find disclosed on either company’s website.
Tips and tricks
- The makers of the Low Tide podcast are interviewed about their work at Podcastpage. “Listen to shows that are completely different from yours and draw inspiration from them”, they recommend.
- If you add
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=1256040890">in the<head>section of your website, it adds a little link to your podcast on Apple Podcasts on iPhones and iPods. The ID is your podcast’s ID, the number at the end of your Apple Podcasts URL. (They’re Smart App Banners).
Podcast News - with Podcast Fellows at Stony Brook University-Southampton
Companies mentioned above:
Apple
Apple Podcasts
Cumulus Media
Inside Radio
Podcast Movement
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