
A deep-dive into podcasting in Vietnam
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Long read: In our latest look at podcasting in the East, we visit Vietnam - a country where audiobooks are surprisingly popular, and where the roads aren’t ideal for podcast listening. Guang Jin YEO also looks at the history of podcasting in the country. It’s another fascinating read.
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14,000 podcasters have had their Anchor usernames, emails and passwords posted on a Russian-language black-hat hacking website. (Change those passwords!)
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Data: In Finland, a study says that podcast listening takes time away from traditional media like radio and television. The data from Norstat is released today by Podimo, which claims a 40% growth in subscribers since the beginning of the year.
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Disco Free by Headliner is being launched today on Product Hunt. It’s a free AI-driven podcast discovery tool for podcasters who also have a blog or website.
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“We believe in podcasters and content creators who want to distribute their content broadly across all third-party platforms.” Nilay Patel interviewed SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz for Decoder - there’s a transcript here.
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Do fancy live streaming with OBS, but want to make your audio that bit better? Waves plugins now work with OBS, according to the company.
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The Australian Podcast Awards, powered by iHeart, return this year with 30 categories. Submissions are now open.
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Alby is partnering with Podcast Guru to offer “value 4 value” payments to podcasters in the popular, polished podcast app.
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A podcast network run by Ivey Media is to close, according to an email to contacts. The faith-based network had eight shows, and achieved more than 10 million downloads in the last twelve months.
Moves and hires
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Lillian Xu is joining Vox Media as the Executive Director of the audio business. She joins from New York Public Radio. We’re also told she plays pickleball, which we fondly imagined was a game played with actual pickles, probably in a bar at the end of a long night. It turns out not to be.
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N’Jeri Eaton has been hired by Wondery as head of co-productions for limited series. She had worked at Apple Podcasts and most recently was Head of Podcasts at Netflix.
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Podcast data for Jun 7
- #1 in Apple Podcasts: US: Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News (Rachel Maddow, MSNBC) NZ: Scamanda (Lionsgate Sound)
- #1 in Spotify: US: The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) NZ: Hannah's Story (9Podcasts)
- Over the last week, 215,864 podcasts published at least one new episode. See more podcast data at the Podcast Business Journal.
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