Shot Caller: a new drink culture podcast

Shot Caller is the first original podcast from Lantigua Williams & Co, and bills itself as “the intersection of liquor culture and pop culture”, promising “the inside track on the top-shelf lifestyle”.

Podcast host BluBrry teases a forthcoming feature of ad injection for pro customers.

A service called Micro.blog, a cross between Twitter and an RSS reader, adds an iOS podcasting app called Wavelength for “microcasts”. (On this service? Us too.)

Cadence13 and The Players’ Tribune have launched a documentary series on David Ortiz, the Boston Red Sox designated hitter. David Ortiz: The Big Papi Story is launched on Monday; there’s a trailer available now. Notable: Verizon Fios is a major sponsor.

Google’s research division has created a thing that allows a user to select the face of the person in a video they want to hear - and the software will then cut out all other noise.

A mental and sexual health therapist, Erika Miley, sent us a nice email saying hello as a new subscriber. Her podcast covers relationships, science and fun.

Lots of rants on an audio engineering reddit about podcasting sound quality. “I can’t enjoy the content of a podcast when it sounds like it’s recorded by holding an iPhone up to a laptop speaker that’s playing a Skype call from a submarine.”

Listicle corner: 5 Aussie-made podcasts you should know about; 10 of the best podcasts that will make you smarter about (US) politics; 7 Android apps for recording your own podcasts anywhere.

• Not in the list, but if helpful - when on the road, podnews uses Auphonic’s app on a Google Pixel XL phone. The app records, and includes rudimentary editing; Auphonic then processes the audio and uploads it direct to Amazon S3 for us. It sounds like this, instead of the sound of the home studio.

Ad agency Zenith Media Spain posts an article about podcasting, particularly branded podcasts in Spain. En español.

Thomas Jenewein, a SAP employee, writes a list of his favourite German-language podcasts. Auf deutsch.

An enjoyable part of Radiodays Europe is the Radio Hack Day. Sarah Toporoff writes about her shareable audio hack - called Divvy.

Grant Cardone writes about his “massive podcast error”, and what not to do with your podcasting strategy.

LibSyn’s The Feed ep 177 was out last week. From the stats section: 1,432 is the sensibly-adjusted average episode download figure for downloads. 6.9% of all downloads have 5,000 downloads or more. Spotify is up again: 5.75% of all downloads. Tip: the show notes let you skip in this 90-minute podcast.