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How to

How to add your podcast to every podcast directory
We have a daily podcast. Here's where to find it - and all the directory links to add your podcast, too

How to spring-clean your show to eliminate podfade
Time to spring-clean not just your house, but the way you think of your podcast too

How to rebrand your podcast
Thinking about rebranding your podcast? This article, by Jason Cercone, will help you do it right.

How Podnews records podcasts on the move
Our Editor records a daily podcast in all kinds of places. This is what he uses

How to earn Bitcoin, or streaming sats, from your podcast
Got a podcast? You can earn Bitcoin from it, right now.

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News in depth

Libsyn temporarily stops some 301 redirects
The company is making it harder for customers to move away: but a fix is on the way

From Getting Booked to Getting Results: Rethinking How You Approach Podcast Guesting
Getting onto a podcast isn't the goal, says Lyndsay Phillips - it's just the start of your strategy

What is a podcast?
What is the definition of the word 'podcast'? Are YouTube shows podcasts? Is a video podcast a podcast? How about Audible Exclusives? It's a simple question: but it doesn't, quite, have a simple answer.

Apple Podcasts HLS streams: how they work
What are the tech details of how Apple Podcasts new HLS video works? Here's what we know so far.

Video in Apple Podcasts - all the details
How does it work? Is it open? Who pays for it? All the answers

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Reviews

Review: Make Noise, a creator's guide to podcasting and great audio storytelling, by Eric Nuzum
A podcasting book that doesn't focus on the technology. Music to my ears.

Review: The Spotify Play, by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
A review of 'The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance', by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud

Review: Hindenburg PRO v2 - with transcription editing
I test drive the new version of the audio editor I've used for the last five years

Review: the iRig Stream Mic Pro
A good sound, a strange connector, and a feature some might find useful

Review: Nomono Sound Capsule
We test this in-the-field recording kit. Is it for you? And if not - then who is it for?

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History

Google Listen - Google's pioneering Android podcast app
The first podcast app from Google was, perhaps, the most ambitious. We look at the history of Google Listen - and what v2 might have looked like.

The history of the word 'Podcast'
Who invented the word? And who was responsible for getting it used by the community? A full history, with audio, looking at the words used for on-demand audio via RSS.

The Story of the First Podcast Feed
When was the first podcast feed produced - and what is the history of the first podcast?

The Last Yard - the blog post that started it all
The original blog post from Adam Curry that gave birth to podcasting

Was Robin Williams the first podcaster?
Was the actor and comedian Robin Williams an early podcaster - even before the name was invented?

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Market Focus

Podcasting offers novel ways of media reporting in South Africa
Johannesburg-based podcast production studio Volume got creative, using WhatsApp to shed light on how media startups in South Africa were reporting on the toughest parts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The podcast market in Latvia
The country where YouTube rules; where podcasters work together, and around 20% listen every month

The State of Podcasting in Latin America
By 2027, there will be more podcast listeners in Latin America than any other region in the world.

The Podcast Ecosystem in Türkiye - growth and consolidation
How big is the Turkish podcast industry? And how quickly is it growing?

Brazil: the digital giant the podcast industry keeps underestimating
Brazil is not a sideshow. It’s a stage of its own.

Resources

Is the Australian APRA mini-licence a way for podcasters to licence music?
This Aussie music licence says it covers podcasting. So does that mean you can use music in your podcasts?

Podcast recommendation newsletters
Looking for some new podcasts to listen to? Here are some of our favourite recommendation newsletters.

Github repositories for podcast app and website developers
From badges to user agents, there are a lot of regularly updated community Github repos out there.

Our podcast sample
We mention our podcast sample quite a bit here. What is it? And why isn't it a perfect sample?

Podcasting events in your calendar
How to add our calendar to your phone's calendar (or your desktop, too)

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Market Focus

Vietnam: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Vietnamese podcasting market, its history, and what shows will work there

Indonesia: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Indonesian podcasting market, and what shows will work there

Korea: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Korean podcasting market, and what shows will work there

Japan: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Japanese podcasting market, and what shows will work there

Understanding podcasts in East and South East Asia
A focus at East and South East Asia - what podcast listeners are consuming, and what content works in a part of the world with twice the population of the US and a fast-growing podcast market.

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Resources

Podcast host migrations - who's moving where
Which podcast has moved where? Who is the podcast host most podcasters are moving to? We have all the data, continuously updated.

Podcast app user-agents
We wondered what user agents were being used by which apps. Here is details of the resources that exist to help with that.

Additional RSS namespaces
RSS namespaces extending podcasting

A list of all podcast hosts
Looking for a podcast host? Here are all of the podcast hosts we see in our podcast pages.

Podcast availability indicator
Wondering how complete the Spotify, Stitcher, Luminary and Google Podcasts catalogue is? We run the figures on some recent podcasts. (This page is constantly updated).

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