Techmeme Ride Home launches, an afternoon-drive tech news podcast

Techmeme, a news aggregation website, has launched a podcast - it’s called Techmeme Ride Home, and breaks every weekday at 5pm Eastern.

Omny Studio has a new client: Beasley Media Group, the US broadcaster, who has also renewed with Triton Digital.

Geoff Lloyd (Adrift, Reasons to be Cheerful) has a new podcast: Hometown Glory, where he meets comedians and gets them to show him round their home town (using Google Streetview). It’s hosted with Omny Studio.

The latest edition of Fest und Flauschig, a German-language podcast exclusive to Spotify, is now excitedly sponsored by eBay. We were tipped off by a Spotify Premium customer, who spends €9.99 a month to get “Keine Werbung” - no advertising. Nobody mention the Buergerliches Gesetzbuch!

A long piece from Technode discusses the podcasting landscape. “The podcast industry is chaotically fragmented. It is in desperate need of centralization, and the efficiencies and monetization that can come from that.”

WIRED has an article subtitled “How publishers are racing to own the money-printing machine that is the daily news podcast”.

We missed that CastBox released v7.0 of their Android podcast app late last year. Lots of tweaks and changes for a fast-growing podcast app. (Today, we’ve been added to their lineup, too).

Erik Jones loves Radiolab, and has written a nice post explaining why.