Netflix launches a podcast for The Crown

• The Royal Family are in the news again - but Netflix’s latest move into podcasting comes with The Crown, launched today to accompany season 3 of the show. Presented by Edith Bowman, the twice-weekly podcast delves deeper into the stories, with insights from those involved with the show. Earlier this month, the streaming giant launched a podcast accompaniment to Daybreak. (Netflix / Somethin’Else / Simplecast)

• There were over 11,100,000 new podcast episodes in 2018. Listen Notes have developed a new “stats” page, looking into their database of podcasts (which appears to include all in Apple Podcasts). 21% of podcasts are hosted at Anchor, and a further 11% at Soundcloud, the results show. (Some great data for any pitching documents!)

• What’s up with European podcasting? Mateusz Sójka looks at data and trends for many countries in Europe. A useful look into each country’s adoption of podcasting.

• “There are so many trash podcasts, and so many people who need to sleep; why not bring them together?” Science supports your habit of falling asleep to stupid podcasts says Vice.

• Podtrac have released their top 20 US podcasts ranker. The Daily is still #1; NPR have eight shows in the top 20. The ranker is opt-in and not complete.

  
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• Richard Davies reckons there are five beautiful things about podcasting, including: “Unlike broadcasting, everyone starts at the beginning of a podcast episode.”

• Writing in a Facebook group, Libsyn’s Rob Walch reminds us what happens when you mark an episode as explicit:

  “If you have one single episode (out of the 301 max episodes Apple will index) flagged as explicit - your show is explicit and no longer will be in the Indian Apple store or about 18 other countries that combined represent more than 20% of the world’s population. If you have one episode where you were going to mark it explicit - it is better to see if you can edit the episode such that it is not explicit.”

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The Axe & Crown is back for a second season from Eli McIlveen and Sean Howard. This season of The Axe & Crown sees the cast, especially Stan and Betula, embarking on new ventures, some legal, some not. (Fable and Folly Productions / Libsyn)

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