Say No To Speed
The “speed-listening” trend has been facing some backlash recently.
A Curious Apple Podcast Bug
The episode listings for some podcasts disappeared on the platform this morning. A mystery for the ages!
Google partners with PRX on… diversity?
The “Google Podcasts creator program” hopes to help “remove barriers to podcasting, increase the diversity of voices in the industry, and to make sure content is available for all audiences.”
Podcast Advertising Perspective, circa October 4, 2018
How should you think about the spread of podcast advertising?
Dispatches from the Third Coast
The Third Coast Festival’s operations in Chicago this weekend is rocked by a hotel strike happening in the city.
Gimlet’s Fall Slate
Did you know it’s been slightly over four years since Alex Blumberg launched the Startup podcast and founded Gimlet Media, which went on to pitch itself as the “HBO of Audio” and serve, more or less, as a crucial poster-company for the podcast industry? Four years; that’s the length of a presidential term, both an […]
Number of the Week: 8 million
That’s the aggregate number of downloads that Wondery’s six-episode Dr. Death has tallied since launching on September 4. The podcast’s downloads were verified by Podtrac, and it should be noted that the number includes downloads experienced by the trailer, which came out to around 440k. If you take that chunk out, we’re talking about a […]
The Telegraph’s Audio Strategy
The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s major national broadsheet newspapers, is making a fresh push into audio content. I’ve been keeping an eye on things over there for quite some time now, ever since I heard that podcast critic Pete Naughton had signed on earlier this year to be the publication’s full-time senior audio producer. […]
The Sundance Institute gets into podcasts, via the BBC
The Sundance Institute, the non-profit founded by Robert Redford in the early 1980s to discover and develop the talent of independent artists in the American film industry, has made its first foray into podcasting, courtesy of a nifty collaboration with the BBC World Service. The five-part audio series, called Neighbourhood, was commissioned by the BBC, […]
This Week in Bezos
(1) This story starts from elsewhere: Digiday had an interesting piece last week on Bloomberg’s podcast and text-to-audio products. Two things to note: “The company said that audience downloads for its some 25 podcast have increased 35 percent year over year, but was unwilling to give exact numbers” and its text-to-audio offerings are now apparently […]