Turnstile, a new sports podcast network, launches

Turnstile is a new sport podcast network, launched today by Placard Media. The network will be releasing a number of shows over the next two months with a large focus on daily shows and shows that release multiple times per week. The first show is Football in Five, a four minute podcast covering what the Americans call soccer. It has a launch partner in the live football scores app FotMob.

• AdvertisingWeek Europe covered The Power of Audio, a number of sessions about podcasting. One session included Steve Ackerman from production company Somethin’Else, and the producer of The Bugle, Chris Skinner.

  
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• In New York, RAIN’s Podcast Business Summit managed to survive a “blizzarding storm” and enjoyed a packed schedule of over 320 attendees and 22 speakers. RAIN covered the event with a full writeup, and RadioPublic’s Ma’ayan Plaut did a fun job with a set of sketchnotes.

• America’s National Parks Podcast is a lushly-produced piece of audio from America’s “greatest treasures”. The latest episode is a piece of historical writing from Yellowstone, illustrated with music and sounds from the National Park Service’s archives.

• RadioPublic launched Paid Listens in early February; they’ve now added to the program by also adding the Loyal Listener Bonus. Once a new listener has heard three episodes of your eligible podcast within the RadioPublic app, you get $1. More details at their website.

• Spotify, the second-biggest destination for podcasts, is testing its own voice assistant and wanting to launch its own smart speaker, The Guardian reports.

  • We’d like our podcast subscribe pages to link to Spotify, too; but their API doesn’t surface podcasts. We’ve a lot of subscribers at Spotify: anyone want to forward this over to someone who can help?

• The BBC and Norwegian broadcaster NRK are working together on a Scandic true crime podcast. Death in Ice Valley had a premiere last week in the BBC Radio Theatre, and is the first such collaboration for podcasts. The podcast launches in April.

• Speaking of the BBC, commentator Bill Rogers wonders how the BBC has found the money for podcasting when it’s had to cut heavily elsewhere.

• Philips is using podcasting as a way to highlight their employees. The Spark “was developed as a recruitment tool to change the way in which talent is attracted to the company. This is a unique example of how new technology is shaking up the recruitment process, making it more engaging and personal,” says an email.

• A Forbes blogger says that podcasting is growing, but that sustained growth seems unlikely. Bill Resenblatt cites a fragmented content industry, and a lack of stats.

• Blubrry asks “is radio missing the mark in podcasting?”. They’re exhibiting at this year’s NAB Show.

• If you’re looking for tips on how to start a podcast, Resource Magazine makes it easy: “stop reading tips and get started”. The magazine then gives seven, um, tips on how to get started. “Research from Buffer shows that the ideal timing is a weekly show released on Tuesdays”.