The Podcast Show to return

• The Podcast Show in London has announced its return, on May 24-25 in Islington. The organisers have announced new features and events for the two days, including a preview night.

• Seeing loads of downloads from a mysterious app called Dalvik? You’re not alone; they’re all coming from Samsung Android phones, and we understand that the downloads are related to Samsung Free, the company’s podcast app.

  • The RSS user-agent that these downloads are from is feedparser/6.0.8 , which is used by Samsung Free (but which is used by others, too). Here’s best practice for RSS crawlers and user agents.

• UK rugby star Sam Warburton has signed with Crowd Network’s sports division, Crowd Sports.

• The nominees for the New Zealand Podcast Awards were announced. RNZ got 23 nominations across 25 categories. NZME achieved 19.

• The winners from the Audio Production Awards were announced. Our friends at Pod Bible went to the event.

• New today - weekly podcast stats from the Podcast Index, to help us all spot trends in production. Find them in the new “Podcast Data” section below (which would make a fine sponsorship for someone)

• Coverage of the Spotify exclusive show Toni & Ryan has got into the Daily Mail, in the form of curiously concocted crockery controversy.

Podcast News - with CBC Podcasts

From CBC Podcasts #3 is: Someone Knows Something was recently named one of the best true crime podcasts of all time by Rolling Stone. In its most recent season, The Abortion Wars, host David Ridgen digs into the murder of a New York doctor killed for performing abortions.

In Podnews Weekly Review this week, Sam Sethi and Podnews’s Editor James Cridland discuss the week’s podcasting news, and reveal that one bit of a previous show was actually recorded using a synthetic voice.

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