Start Here reaches 100; and is New and Noteworthy really Old and Broken?

• The 100th episode of Start Here from ABC News posts this morning. It’s been to more than a dozen countries, and has interviewed a wide range of newsmakers including former FBI Director James Comey (above).

• Veritone One have acquired Performance Bridge Media, “a leading and long-standing podcast agency”. The headline claims that, with this acquisition, Veritone One will expand their market share to over 25% of all US-based podcast ad revenue.

• Followup - in November 2017, we reported that much of New & Noteworthy was broken within many iTunes country categories. At the time, we noted that the Business category in Australia consisted of podcasts added in Q1 2016, and hadn’t been updated since then. Nine months later… nothing appears to have changed. Every single podcast in the category appears to have started two and a half years ago; of the twenty podcasts in this category, eight haven’t posted a new episode in the last six months. (Meanwhile, Apple Podcasts Connect is still reportedly unusable for many podcasters).

• Job: Sky, the UK broadcaster, are looking for a podcast producer.

• Crossover Media Group Sales have signed five new podcasts to represent for ad sales and assist with production. The company has offices in New York City and Los Angeles.

• Details of a free online podcasting course called Listen up! How to Launch and Grow a Hit Podcast from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. It starts Aug 20, and describes itself as “an intro-level class, but taught by experts”.

  
  Aug 4 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Westwood One have launched Run like a Girl, a political podcast following the fortunes of different female candidates from across the US.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Aug 4 2023

• Inforum covers JJ Meets World, described as a “local comedic podcast [that] entertains through 'art of conversation’”.

• Happy birthday, podcasting. Episode one of The Daily Source Code, the first to be delivered as an RSS feed enclosure, was released 14 years ago yesterday.

• A former Irish rugby star has launched a new podcast app. Limor says it “allows the user to record, edit, share and listen to audio content and traditional podcasts instantly from smart devices”.

• Pocket Casts’s new web apps are reviewed by Daniel Aleksandersen: “…aren’t as great as I’d hoped but better than feared”. (A surprising amount of podcasts are listened-to on a laptop).

• Another view from Podcast Movement 18, from Rob Hochschild. (I shamelessly put a Podnews business card in his hand in the Starbucks queue.)

• Listicles: 7 Podcasts That Will Give You An Instant Hit Of Motivation, 4 Lessons From 4 Years of Podcasting, Audio editing apps for iPhone and iPad

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