Teacher's Pet reaches new milestone, and talks and learnings from Podcast Movement #PM18

Teacher’s Pet, a podcast heavily promoted by The Australian, has now achieved 4 million downloads.

• The #2 global podcast platform Spotify published their financial results. The company has 83m premium subscribers, and 180m monthly active users - up 40% and 30% year on year. The company has 3,969 employees.

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

• Talkshoe unveiled a new version during Podcast Movement (alongside lunch with a very tasty mac and cheese). It now includes auto transcripts, among a host of new features.

• A feature on the New York Times’s Michael Barbaro in Vanity Fair, making The Daily sound like an accidental success.

• Dan Misener from Pacific Content took advantage of the Podcast Movement crowd to ask questions about audience acquisition - specifically, how podcasters got more audience.

• Wil Williams posted a ton of useful threads during Podcast Movement. Here are her threads in full (compiled by Erin M Speckley):

  • The Five W’s of Podcasting?
  • Building an Empire with Your Podcast
  • The Future is Fiction
  • Diversifying the Audioscape
  • Legal Issues for Podcasters
  • Merch!
  • DIY Sponsorships
  • Sounding Great on Audio
  • The Interviewing Process
  • Live Events for Podcasters
  • Podcast Networks
  • An Evening with Terry Gross

• Podcast host Libsyn have published video of all of their talks at Podcast Movement.

  • Rob Walch canters through marketing advice and podcast stats: Google Podcasts is already a top ten podcast app, he says (yay) with 0.5% of all podcast downloads (oh).
  • The State of Podcasting with Rob Walch and others on a panel
  • Elsie Escobar talks about broadening the diversity of podcast listeners, and with radio executives talking podcast strategies
  • Dave Jackson on your podcast intro

• More coverage of Podcast Movement: RadioINK asks why was radio out in force at Podcast Movement, and claims that podcasters [were] suspicious of broadcasters. The Philadelphia Inquirer posts an article about the conference with a Netflix headline. Podcast consultant Richard Davies posts the fabulous thing about Podcast Movement, while radio and podcast owner Westwood One posts about the four pillars of podcast advertising. Buffer has published their slides for How Buffer Drove 500,000+ Downloads In One Year With a Podcast Side Project. Radio World posted about local podcasts. Podcast Movement have also posted their own sizzle reel - Podnews has avoided being caught on camera, but if you like people pulling faces or dodgy dance moves, you’re in for a treat.

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

• 'Remember why you’re podcasting' is good advice from Reddit.

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

• Social podcast sharing service Headliner have added 30 new fonts to their product.

• Personalised audio ad company AMillionAds have raised $2.3m in funding, and plan to formally launch in the US shortly.

• Listicles: Patreon post 19 rewards for podcasters to offer their fans. 13 significant numbers from Podcast Movement (Steven Goldstein). 7 secrets for a successful podcast (Marco Bernard).