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The world's first reality podcast show: The Brights

The world's first reality podcast show: The Brights

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  • The Brights launches today - claimed to be the world’s first reality show podcast, following Lydia Bright, a UK television star (The Only Way Is Essex), and her family. The podcast is scheduled to be launched with a guest appearance on Good Morning Britain, a UK breakfast TV show. (Sound Directions / Insanity Group / Acast)

  • BitPlatter has published some insight into podcast mentions of auto brands, based on speech recognition of over 1.2m podcasts published recently. Surprisingly, Tesla is not #1.

  • Want to know which podcasts are being mentioned on Reddit? Wonder no longer - a website called Podflix is now compiling them (thread).


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  • Amanda McLoughlin discusses The One Shot Rule - best practice when you really want your audience to do something:

If you name three different things listeners should be doing in your show intro, the person cooking dinner while they listen will be left with a vague sense of needing to do something related to supporting the show. But if you use your One Shot Rule to ask everyone to check out the photos of your new studio on your Patreon page, that same listener will be much more likely to navigate there after finishing the dishes — and, hopefully, pledge their support.

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