Samsung Free launches podcasts in Europe

• Podcasts in Samsung Free’s Listen Tab have launched in Europe. The podcast app is available exclusively to Samsung Galaxy owners, in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, France and Italy. You can add your podcast here.

  
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  • Podcasts are now on your Samsung Smart TV, too, with a new app from Deezer which has added podcasts for the first time.

• New technology from a company called Sonnant could give old podcasts new life - a new product, Archival Retrieval, automatically checks trending topics to find relevant podcasts from your archives to promote, and even clips the audio for you.

• The Campfire Studios crime podcast Abuse of Power has been acquired by Audible. The podcast was with Acast. A new season, exclusive to Audible, will premiere on Nov 25.

• Chartable has launched SmartFeeds, a new tool that mirrors your RSS feed and makes it easier to switch podcast hosts and enable Chartable analytics.

• Acast has partnered with the Belgian Podcast Awards (winners will be announced this Thursday), and separately has launched a new ad campaign. The company’s Programmatic Director Paul Biermann has written a piece in Germany about how podcast advertising could grow even faster in the country .

• A German podcast ranker is coming - agma, a media analytics company, announced that beta tests have been successful, and more than 100 podcasts from participating publishers will start to be measured from Dec 1 - enabling, the company says, comparable data among all podcasts for the first time. We can’t find any methodology documents yet on their websites.

• Writing on Medium, our Editor writes about the unwritten contract between podcast publishers and apps; while Matt Deegan writes about making your audio business acquirable, looking into more detail into Spotify CFO Paul Vogel’s announcements.

Moves and hires - with Pod People

• Brian Kibby has been appointed as Chairman of Libsyn. He’s been on Libsyn’s Board since October 2019. Libsyn also announced that Denis Yevstifeyev will step down as a Board Member at the end of the year.

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• Jeremy Weiner has been hired as Group Business Director, East Coast for Acast in the US. He’s been poached from Spotify and Megaphone, and will head up the regional sales team.

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Tips and tricks

• Want to speed up your podcast editing? Here’s how to edit a podcast faster - using the 'three clicks’ method.

Podcast News - with Blue Wire

In Blue Wire's limited series WR1 presented by WynnBet, legendary NFL wide receiver Cris Carter interviews legends of the WR position as well as the next generation of superstars to understand what makes this position so unique, as so many personalities and stories come from outside of the hash marks. Guests include Julian Edelman, Adam Thielen, Mike Evans, Calvin Johnson, and many more.

Is true crime really rotting our brains? It’s the view of Emma Bergquist, who wrote the article for Gawker; in You’re Wrong About, she’s interviewed by another true crime fan, Sarah Marshall. There might be an element of truth in it…

The first fictional crime series out of Malaysia - and first produced in English - Dirty Datuk was produced remotely over a period of four months. Written by author Terence Toh and directed by award winning director Abi Manyu, the show features a cast of well-known theatre actors; they’re fundraising development for a second season using an NFT. It’s produced by ZAG Podcasts.

The newest episode of Days Like These, published in the next few hours, focuses on Iranian woman Jaleh Misaghi who was forced into oppression in the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, and managed to escape the country. It’s produced by the award-winning producer Pariya Taherzadeh, who herself escaped Iran with her mother when she was eight months old. - read more

The Last Days of Maradona is the first-ever Spotify launch in 6 markets simultaneously, each with their own host who will work with the investigative team to tell the story of Diego Maradona in their own words. Hosts and markets include: French professional football coach and former player Thierry Henry (France & UK), Argentinian journalist Matías Martín (Argentina), former Argentina football player Jorge Valdano (Spain & Latin America), Brazilian journalist Juca Kfuori (Brazil), and Italian actor Salvatore Esposito (Italy).

Professor Michaela Benson, a sociologist with expertise in migration, citizenship and identity, has launched a new podcast, Who do we think we are? - a look at British citizenship, identity and belonging. Especially with Brexit, who is really a citizen and who is a migrant?

As many folks in the US plan a long road trip for Thanksgiving, Looney Tunes Presents - Bugs & Daffy’s Thanksgiving Road Trip might salvage some sanity on the streets. The first podcast to feature the Looney Tunes characters, it’s a four-episode podcast produced by Story Pirates.