WerkIt launches a podcasting pay survey, and new podcasts from Tenderfoot TV

• If you’re based in the US, and you currently make a podcast or support podcast production, WerkIt would like you to take this survey and help them get a view of the industry.

• Tenderfoot TV, the company behind Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished, have announced with Cadence13 a partnership to produce six new and original podcast series this year, including some new true crime titles.

• HotPod 193 is out, including a look at how The Ringer works (“is it a model for podcasting success?”) and also a look at “a pickle jar of listener malcontent” - the BBC Sounds app.

• SoundCloud may have lost a co-founder this week (Jan 28), but Music Business Worldwide reports that its 2017 accounts (just filed in the UK) say that its revenue grew by 80% and topped US$100m. SoundCloud “also surpassed its full year 2018 growth plan”.

• MakeUseOf has published its 8 best podcast apps for Android listicle. Pocket Casts is their #1; Google Podcasts is missing.

• Job: Executive Producer, WSJ Gimlet Podcast, in New York NY, USA.

Podcasts

The latest episode of Chartable Radio has, as a guest, the Editor of Podnews, James Cridland. If you fancy thirty minutes of an “aloof British accent”, knock yourself out. (Tech note: recorded using CleanFeed). (Libsyn)

Launching today, Let’s Get Civical is “made up of equal parts civics class and comedy show”. The podcast description promises: “This stuff is confusing and we’ve made it our mission to break it down so we all understand what the FDR is going on. It’s like being in American Government class with your BFFs! But no exams. We promise!” (More Banana Productions / Libsyn)

The Strategerist is a podcast from the George W Bush Institute (hence the Saturday Night Live joke). Hosted by Andrew Kaufmann, guests include Carly Fiorina, Fox News Harris Faulkner, conservationist James Farmer, and the first Afghan female pilot since the fall of the Taliban Niloofar Rahmani. (Libsyn)

S#xual health podcast The S#x Wrap, which answers listener questions each week – typically questions that people are too afraid to ask at home, too embarrassed to ask at school, too hard to ask their partners, or too concerned with corporate email servers to write its name properly. The hosts are public health specialists: Spring is an associate professor at CUNY school of public health; Andrew is currently an assistant professor of public health at the University of Miami. One for your “top ten Valentine’s Day podcasts” listicles? (Podglomerate / Megaphone)