Trump and Kim highlights podcast flexibility; and Radiodays Europe Podcast Day
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Americans woke up to two episodes of Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News yesterday: the regular edition, posted at 5.30am ET, and a full interview with Donald Trump, posted at 6.15am ET.
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The Apple Watch will play podcasts in the next version of WatchOS, which comes out soon; it will deal with downloading but not streaming, according to developers working on it.
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Expect to see more of these stories in future: two radio personalities switching from broadcast to podcast. In this case it’s Dunc & Holder from Sports 1280 in New Orleans LA, USA.
Aug 3 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
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Radiodays Europe’s Podcast Day was yesterday in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, now in its second year, was well-attended. Here are quotes from virtually every session…
- “On-demand is changing expectations…allowing listeners to discover content they are interested in…we need to get better at discovery” - the BBC’s Ben Chapman
- Griefcast is successful because it has “authentic sense of authorship” - Cariad Lloyd, the winner of the British Podcast Awards
- “Every podcast starts with zero listeners” - Panoply’s Andy Bowers on monetisation
- “If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will disrupt you” - Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio on radio’s podcast future
- “Podcasts are no longer a side hustle” - Head of the Australian ABC Audio Studios, Kellie Riordan, on the commissioning process
- “Capturing authentic moments with journalists re-builds trust in journalists and the media” - Charlotte Meyer-Hamme from German newspaper Der Spiegel on their podcast journey
- Young people want “content which shapes you as a person” - BBC research on podcasts for younger audiences
- “Listeners like to listen to podcasts in a habitual way” - Gustav Lützöft, Head of Radio, DR, Denmark, on DR’s podcast strategy
- “Can the public broadcaster team up with a punk activist and nobody get hurt?” - Kaitlin Prest, talking about her new CBC podcast, The Shadows
- “Everyone who sends an email gets a reply…especially when it’s 12 to 13 year olds who send me a ghost story” - Jack Werner from Creepypodden, on his listener-created podcast
- “There is a podcast for every listener and every advertiser” - Joe Copeman, Director of Sales, Acast
- “Telling stories is the core idea of radio” - Ina Tenz, Chief Content & Brand Officer, Antenna Bayern, on their new true crime podcast
- “The growing consumption of on demand audio requires better and reliable data” - Benjamin Masse, Triton Digital on the state of podcast measurement
- Just like Spotify, Deezer is in the podcast space, and the lack of awareness is as much of an opportunity as it is a challenge - Ben Fawkes from Deezer on growing podcasts in Germany
- “If you simply replicate what others are already doing, then you won’t make any headway” - Joel Ronez, Binge Audio, on his French podcast network
- “There is no box office for podcasting” - Joakim Johansson, from Swedish Radio on Sweden’s countrywide podcast statistics
- The opportunities for podcasting in the advertising market are huge - Joeri Nortier from BNR Nieuwsradio in the Netherlands on their podcast experiences
- Smart speakers have been important and useful for Fun Kids Radio - Matt Deegan from Fun Kids on their multiplatform strategy
- “It takes years to craft a beautiful piece of audio” - Acast and Wisebuddah on their podcast talent competition
- “There are a thousand ways to use sound in a podcast” - Sound Designer Signe Mansdotter
- “39% of French people now listen to podcasts” Louie Média, France, on podcasting’s future in the country
- “If you are having fun, your guest is having fun, your listeners are also having fun” - Cecilie Nielsen, Radio and TV Presenter, DR Denmark, on podcasts for TV shows
- “Focusing on people opens history to a listener who may not be interested in the story from the beginning” - Cecilia Düringer, History teacher and the narrator of P3 History
- “Podcasting isn’t the same as radio” - Maarten Vancoillie and Dorothee Dauwe, Qmusic, Belgium
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Have true crime podcasts had their day? Jay Walkerden from NOVA Entertainment in Australia did an interview about the future of their podcast division. “True Crime has been such a big genre for podcasting and the story telling has been powerful, but there has to come a time where that will dissipate.”
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A new podcast from Spreaker launches shortly: The Live Drop focuses on spies, spy catchers, analysts, diplomats and occasionally the actors who portray them. It’s hosted by Mark Valley (Boston Legal, Human Target).
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Pacific Content’s Dan Misener talks about evergreen content: whether you make podcasts that will still be fresh in a year or so.
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Podcast app Breaker highlights how their machine-learning algorithm works to recommend you new podcasts.
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Branded podcasts are increasingly popular in Germany - this article in a German website gives a good overview of the market.
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“I started a successful podcast with just $250 and you can too”, says Austin Carroll, host of Fastpass to the past, a theme park history podcast.
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The BBC is making a podcast specifically for Indian audiences.
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Anchor highlight how to market podcasts. Interesting: “Using the word “podcast” or your show’s title in the description could prevent it from being promoted on third party distribution platforms.”
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