'Your Daily Drive' comes to Spotify in Germany

• Spotify’s “Your Daily Drive” feature, which gives commuters a mix of their favourite music and news podcasts, has launched in Germany. Podcasts from Handelsblatt, Spiegel, Zeit, Süddeutscher Zeitung, and Deutschlandfunk are all included.

• It’s emerged that one of the casualties of Luminary’s controversial launch was their Chief Strategy Officer, Joe Purzycki, who stepped down two months after the company launched. His role was replaced by Jeff Saunders, who is also Chief Product Officer.

  
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• Perplexingly, the BBC has announced that the BBC iPlayer, their TV catchup service, is being revamped to include… podcasts. BBC Radio has not been in iPlayer for over twelve months in the UK.

• Amy Woods, founder of Content 10x, is launching her first book, Content 10x: More Content, Less Time, Maximum Results, on October 23. The book is about how to reach more people online by repurposing content and there’s a lot of focus on podcasts. You can pre-order now and get extra stuff.

• Podcast host Fireside has now integrated Headliner into its service, allowing customers to simply produce social videos for their podcasts.

• Podcast ads? Or branded podcasts? JAR Audio, who make branded podcasts, argue for the latter.

• Want to find our what makes our Editor excited about podcasting? This mini-documentary from Podcast Movement might be the thing you want. Includes a cameo appearance from Evo Terra, and a surprising amount of shaking hands.

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Podcasts

Borrowed Future is a new podcast from the Ramsey Network, highlighting what they call a massive student loan crisis in America. “This podcast series explores the lies we believe about college” - it’s already a top 20 podcast in the US. (Libsyn)

Out Of Work is a new show, aimed at helping real people with real problems they face in today’s job market. (Podbean)

Amaeya FM, the UAE’s largest podcast network, has unveiled its fall slate of podcast shows. The first of those, KarāmaSūtra, launched yesterday. (Podiant)

Crime Beat, a Canadian true crime podcast, has returned for its second season. It launched yesterday with two brand new episodes about one of Canada’s most haunting triple murder cases. (Curiouscast)