TED launches TED Audio Collective for podcasts

• TED has launched the TED Audio Collective, a mixture of TED original and member podcasts. TED podcasts are downloaded 1.65m times per day and, the company says, TED Talks Daily was the second most popular show globally on Spotify in 2020.

• Buzzsprout was the subject of a DDoS attack over the weekend. The company reports that the attacker “attempted to extort Buzzsprout by promising to end the attack if we pay them money”; the company refused. Personal information was not compromised; the attack appeared to stop RSS feeds working for a while.

• Audible appears to be listing third-party podcasts in the US. Amazon’s page listing offers both Audible and Amazon Music options. (Oddly, the ASIN number is different for each).

• Podcast platform Podimo has secured another €11.2m funding round (US $15.3m). The premium podcast app is currently live in Denmark, Germany and Spanish speaking markets, and has 600 exclusive shows.

• Metronome has added an 'episode recommender’ feature to its podcast landing pages.

• The Podfest Global Summit's pre-event week starts today. Our Editor is speaking on Friday about the opportunities from global podcasting. Code 'podnews’ should get you an entry level pass, worth $49, free.

• Francisco Izuzquiza is experimenting with dynamic audio insertion, for a podcast with a random time machine. (Is he the first to do this in the Spanish language?)

  
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  • A weekly, 60", Podnews podcasting news podcast is also available for integration into your show, if you’d like it. Hear it in Sounds Profitable.

• Spark Media, a Texas-based christian publisher, announced their advisory board.

• Marc Maron’s WTF interviewed film director David Fincher: but apparently, the comedian and podcaster says, Fincher won’t let Maron release it.

• Gimlet’s Reply All has won a trademark dispute with software company Reply All Corp.

  • According to the USPTO, Mark Cuban’s Fireside was granted a registered trademark and a service mark, #90524003, on Feb 10 (in classes 9, 41 and 42). Dan Benjamin’s Fireside was given a service mark (only), #90520687, on Feb 9 (in classes 38, 41 and 42).
  
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• Going: Co-founder Adam Davidson is leaving Three Uncanny Four, citing “a different view of how to best move forward”. Aaron Johnson has left JAR Audio, where he was CTO and Partner.

  
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Tips and tricks - with PODGO

• What podcast gear does Marc Maron use?

• With 67,500 upvotes, and 1,200 comments, this episode of Darknet Diaries has got some traction on Reddit. Jack Rhysider shares his stats for the episode.

  
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The Tech Stuff - with the Podcast Index

• We’ve added podStation to our podcast pages (for users of desktop Chrome). It’s a Chrome extension podcast player.
• Podlove Podcast Publisher, a Wordpress extension for podcasts, now supports the podcast:funding tag.
• The Open Podcast Analytics Working Group has a new website. It is working on “a standard anyone can implement, along with a self-certification system that puts trusted metrics in the hands of every podcaster”.

Podcast News - with CBC Podcasts

From CBC Podcasts: Other People’s Problems - Be a fly on the wall in real-life therapy sessions. You may discover other people’s problems are a lot like your own.

Asrar El Nafs (أسرار النفس), a celebrity mental health show for the Arab World, is to return for a new season with EMPWR and Podeo.

Cake Block is a sketch comedy podcast using a cast spanning two continents and three time zones.

Not Another Parenting Podcast is new from NOVA Entertainment, who say the show is a safe place for any parent who gets to the end of the week and thinks: “How did I keep my children alive?”

Because I Said So! is a new podcast too, and also from Australia; focusing on the experiences of people of colour navigating the trials and tribulations of growing up in the Western world.