
Women in Podcasting Awards winners
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The winners of the Women in Podcasting Awards were announced. Over 15,000 listeners participated in the voting process; and there were almost 400 nominees. Our analysis shows that Buzzsprout has the most amount of winning entries.
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Google’s NotebookLM has added a way to customise the tool’s “deep-dives”.
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Podcast app Metacast is dropping its price for premium - down from $4.99/month to $1.99/month. The premium service offers transcript search, playlists and bookmarks.
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“I, who was once a medium-sized fish in a very small pond, am now barely a bacteriophage in an ocean. And that, dear reader, is pretty great.” One of the first podcasters, Matthew Wayne Selznick has written reflections after 20 years of being a podcaster (his current podcast is Sonitotum).
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“I had the best experience at Spotify. Truly. “ Alex Cooper talks to The Hollywood Reporter.
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“Podcasts offer candidates an “affable, jovial hang.” And they reach voters.” Is 2024 the Podcast Election? asks The Week.
The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com
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Crafty: a musician is earning revenue (and notoriety) after calling some of his tracks after smart-speaker phrases. His most popular tracks: “My Liked Songs”, “Beatles Greatest Hits”, and “True Crime Podcast”.
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Weird: we used Wondercraft AI to translate a recent Podnews Daily podcast into Swedish (because that’s where we are today). Perhaps because it contains an English pre-roll, maybe because the RSS says it’s in English, or perhaps because our devices are in English, the automatically-generated Apple Podcasts transcript is… entirely translated into English. Have we stumbled on a new feature from Apple Podcasts?
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Podnews keeps an eye on shows moving from one podcast host to another, and it’s worth a peek every so often. Spotify for Podcasters gains a lot of shows, but has a high churn rate, losing around half the number of the shows it gains. In the last thirty days, Simplecast, Captivate and Acast are the other winners; Soundcloud, Omny Studio, Libsyn and Buzzsprout are the losers.
Tips and tricks - with Memberful
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NPR’s Emily Kwong had a number of hints and tips in her Podcast Day Asia session in early September - including “fixing a plane while flying it”. We’d advise against doing that literally.
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What does an international podcast launch look like? Podcast Discovery reminds us that there’s more to podcasting than Apple and Spotify - and than the US.
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Podcast data for Oct 21
#1 in Apple Podcasts Kill List (Wondery | Novel)
歴史を面白く学ぶコテンラジオ (COTEN RADIO) (COTEN inc.)
#1 in Spotify The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
安住紳一郎の日曜天国 (TBS RADIO)
Over the last week, 197,450 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 0.5%). source