ShePodcasts LIVE to stream live with Podbean Live

• The sold-out ShePodcasts LIVE event will be streaming live via Podbean, it’s been announced. The full schedule for the live stream has been posted on the Podbean website.

  
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  • The ShePodcasts LIVE livestreaming is made possible by Podbean Live, a new podcast livestream platform: it’s free to all Podbean users, and also free to anyone else who wishes to request access.
  
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• Podchaser now has three million podcast credits in its database, the “IMDB of podcasting” has posted in a tweet. Podnews shows selected data in our podcast pages - anyone can add credits like hosts, producers and musicians to podcasts.

  • By contrast, we’ve had no more details on how to be part of Apple’s “hosts and guests” feature, which launched a few days ago. It appears a closed and proprietary Apple service for selected podcasts.

• Podcast analytics is turning into a political story in Memphis TN, USA, where the City of Memphis has spent $75,000 to a company called Kudzukian to produce Neighborhood Connect and Best in Blue. “According to a year-in-review presentation, Kudzukian claims “Best in Blue” has 22,000 listens monthly, but the contract states the average reach is only 6,000.” says a story from Fox13, claiming that the high cost isn’t justified. (“Listens” is not the same as “reach”, otherwise known as “unique users”).

  
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• Branded podcast producer Fresh Air Production has a new Head of Content. Michaela Hallam joins the company from the BBC, where she was Creative Head of Audio at BBC Creative, the corporation’s in-house agency.

• Indian podcast host Hubhopper has just launched a personal podcast website tool.

• The main stage lineup for the second Vancouver Podcast Festival has been revealed.

• Magellan looks back at Black Friday or Cyber Monday podcast advertising stats from last year in the US, from 68 different advertisers. Meanwhile, CivicScience report that 22% of podcast listeners made a purchase because of a podcast ad.

• A new app, PodTalk, lets your listeners add timestamped comments (text or voice) as they listen to your podcast. Others can then listen to those comments as they listen to the show. It’s iOS only for now; the app’s author says Android depends on getting enough traction.

  
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• The Bello Collective has written a piece analysing the UK podcasting scene. “British podcasters have yet to master the intimate, long-form, narrative style which really put podcasts on the map,” the piece says - arguably a difference in style between US and UK public broadcasters.

• Sports PodCon is a new event coming to Orlando FL, USA, in March 2020. It’s a collaboration with PodFest and run by Gameday Media; there is currently a call for speakers.

• Book: podcast·co’s James Mulvaney wrote a book on how to launch a podcast. It is, the company says, a #1 best-seller (in the audio editing category).

  
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• Our Editor, James Cridland, has written a short explainer on how to turn your podcast into a YouTube video on a Mac, using the command-line. Probably one if you’re suffering from insomnia.

  
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Your help - are you aware of any podcast apps or platforms that put adverts before other peoples’ podcasts? We’ve some evidence of one US podcast app doing it: we’d like to hear about more for a story. editor@podnews.net will find us.

Podcasts

Camp Monsters focuses on stories of impossibly scary creatures across the wildest corners of North America. (“Camp” like campfire not like RuPaul’s Drag Race, although the enormous frog sounds fabulous). The trailer’s in our podcast today. (REI Co-op / Simplecast)

The Contrarian Investor Podcast, from Nathaniel E. Baker, is a weekly podcast featuring an interview with a personality from the investing world. A press release highlight’s Baker’s experience at Bloomberg News. (Libsyn)