Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton is a UK based journalist who has been writing about podcasts since 2014. Her journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Lenny, the New Statesman and the Millions. She is a regular speaker and media commentator on the state of the podcast industry.
Podfront UK: A Local View
For as long as I’ve been observing the UK podcast scene (which is a little over half a decade now), I’ve always gotten the sense that everyone is waiting for the One Big Thing™️: the thing that will kick everything up a gear and make the podcast market here look more like the one in […]
Leave Us a Rating
Checking in on a story that’s been rumbling for a few days now on Reddit and in various podcasting Facebook groups: the sudden appearance of a lot of one-star ratings for certain podcasts in Apple Podcasts. One show, the true crime podcast Obscura, has gone public about the problem, and when I reached out to […]
Notes on the BBC Reshuffle
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Earlier this week, the BBC announced a handful of new appointments that have relevance for the wider digital audio industry, so let’s dig into who’s going where.
The UK Needs Better Data
There isn’t yet an Infinite Dial style report that regularly tracks these things, and those numbers that are already out there are frequently quoted but are offer only a partial, and sometimes contradictory picture.
Director’s Commentaries, but for Podcasts
We love a good director’s commentary track in my house. I still buy DVDs most of the time for the extras, and when it comes to films I really love, I sometimes play them while I’m writing with the commentary track going in the background with the screen dimmed so there’s no picture. There’s something […]
Smart Speaker Stats, 2019
Edison Research, in partnership with NPR, has released the 2019 Smart Audio Report.
Who owns your transcripts?
Just a thought, in relation to a soon-to-be ubiquitous feature.