Women in Podcasting Awards deadline draws near

• The deadline for the Women in Podcasting Awards is fast-approaching; you’ve until Jul 31 to submit your entries. The awards are run by the Women in Podcasting Network, to honor the creativity and dedication of women podcasters. Podnews is a media partner.

• Adobe Podcast Studio (Beta) is now available for everyone to try. The tool, like Descript and Eddy, lets you record, edit and enhance audio right in your browser. It was in limited beta in March.

• Captivate is doing a live unveiling of Captivate 2.5, the company’s new dashboard and some new features, on a live stream at 4pm UK time (11am ET). Captivate’s Mark Asquith, co-founder and Managing Director, Garry Aylott, Head of Design, and Danny Brown, Head of Podcaster Experience will all be speaking.

• Is there a podcast app yet for the Apple Vision Pro, (apart from Apple Podcasts, of course)? Radioplayer, a radio app, has launched a Vision Pro app in the UK, France, Germany and Canada.

• In the UK, the new Labour government has committed to the BBC licence fee. This is the main funding source of the BBC’s output; the commitment may make it harder for the BBC to justify its plan for advertising inside its podcasts in the UK.

• Acast has partnered with the Pionaire Network. Acast will be responsible for ad sales, including the top ranking and award-winning comedy podcast The Bert Show.

• PodcastOne has announced a multi-year deal with comedian and actor Chris Kattan, for Idiotically Speaking with Chris Kattan, a podcast launching on Jul 24.

• SoundStack and Barometer have partnered to provide SoundStack customers with curated collections of targeted shows for purchase.

• The SPECai spec spot creation product for radio now supports voice-clones. The service from Enco, which uses Benztown music, makes commercials right in front of clients.

• AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) has announced its New Voices Class of 2024. Sixteen emerging audio makers have been matched with a mentor, and will receive a stipend and support.

• School bells in more than 120 NY classrooms are now 60-second podcasts. The “mini pods” are helping fund classrooms, and are driving millions of impressions per month.

People News

• At Libsyn Ads, CRO Dave Hanley and CIO Trevr Smithlin are leaving the company, three years after the acquisition of AdvertiseCast by Libsyn in 2021. “As significant shareholders & friends of the company, they remain strong supporters of the business,” says CEO John W Gibbons. “We’ve crossed a lot of ground together over the last 3 years, transforming Libsyn from a Hosting platform into a full-suite, monetization and hosting service company generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for podcasters. It’s been a blast, wildly successful, and game-changing in so many ways.”

  • Rick Selah is now CRO of Libsyn Ads. He said: “AdvertiseCast Founders Trevr Smithlin and Dave Hanley created a magnificent Ferrari; all that’s left is for our team to learn to drive it to maximum speed and efficiency to market.”

• Alejandra Santamaria has been named CEO of LAist and Southern California Public Radio.

Tips and tricks - with Memberful

• How do people find podcasts? Headliner shares its listenership study, and gives six tips for podcast optimisation.

• Platform Podcasting suggest 23 Ways To Monetise Your Podcast. Memberful is a good membership management tool, we’d also mention. (cough)

Podcast News - with New Podcast Trailers - the podcast

Fan of the Hulu show The Bear? The Eat Your Content podcast is doing a four-part series reviewing each episode. The regular host, Rich Herrera, is joined for this series by Scott Johnson, host of What Was That Like. Does this restaurant-themed drama have a cult-like following? Yes, chef.

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For is to be translated into a number of different languages by Podster. The show, from Sony Music, will reach new audiences across Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands.

Where The Trail Ends to find the truth about a missing friend and an explanation for the evidence of UFOs they left behind. After‬‭ years‬‭ spent‬‭ interviewing‬ experts‬‭ and‬‭ eyewitnesses,‬‭ and‬‭ traveling‬‭ the‬‭ country‬‭ following‬‭ in‬‭ the‬‭ footsteps‬‭ of‬‭ his‬‭ missing‬ friend’s‬‭ UFO‬‭ recordings,‬‭ he’s‬‭ finally‬‭ coming‬‭ forward‬‭ to‬‭ share‬‭ his‬‭ journey,‬‭ as‬‭ well‬‭ as‬‭ some‬‭ of‬‭ the‬ evidence and information he’s gathered along the way.‬ It’s new today.

Ameliarate Through Wine pairs exciting wine to conversations featuring renowned international guests based on their palate, personality and personal stories - and the podcast has been selected to appear on the inflight entertainment system of British Airways. The second season launched in late June.

Charlotte Dawson’s Naughty Corner is new today, for outrageous tales of parenting fails - Charlotte is a reality TV star with over 1.9mn social media followers, and her podcast will be co-hosted by Janine Marsh. It’s from Audio Always.

The Stonesinger Chronicles, a narrative fantasy show returns with another season this week. Six souls are trapped in in the depths of the treacherous land called The Web. They have nothing in common except their flight from a madman, their distrust of one another, and their desire to survive. They all must work together… and all must sacrifice to The Carnage of Dreams.

Exile returns for a new season today. The podcast tells the untold stories of Jewish lives under fascism and those who escaped it - in the form of letters, diaries, and interviews from the vast archive at the Leo Baeck Institute. Hosted by Mandy Patinkin, it’s made by Antica Productions.