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- Aug 25: The “Golden Mike Awards” for broadcast radio and TV news have opened the awards program to independent podcast producers from around the US. One of the most prestigious and difficult to win awards, you’ve from Sep 1 to Oct 3 to enter.
- Aug 22: Growth-oriented podcast host Captivate has announced a significant set of new product launches later this year. Products include a saleable feed drop platform; Captivate Ads, an ad marketplace that scales with your podcast (including access to the DAX marketplace); and Captivate Studio, its own remote recording tool, able to record up to seven participants which is integrated into Captivate’s existing guest booking and interview management toolset.
- Aug 21: As podcasts grapple with what visuals means to our audio-first experience, it’s the turn of books. “As part of Spotify’s broader ambition to reimagine audiobooks as a multisensory format, we’ve expanded our Follow-Along feature, which is an immersive experience that syncs time-stamped illustrations, graphics, and media with audio narration. Think of it as bringing the visual richness of a physical book into the digital age.” Or, think of it as the chapter art that is supported in some podcast apps. Anyway, the psychological thriller Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger, is one of the first fiction titles with the product. He calls it a “new frontier in audiobooks”.
- Aug 20: Podcast listeners are listening longer, according to new data shared at Podcast Movement yesterday. Weekly listeners consume 6.3 hours of podcasts a week on average, according to the latest data from The Podcast Landscape - 5% higher than the previous year. The full data will be released in a free webinar on Thursday Sep 4 at 2pm Eastern.
- Aug 19: Wondercraft today launches “Wonda”, which it calls “the first AI agent built for content creation – enabling users to create, edit, and refine professional audio and video by simple conversation.”
Data credits: Podnews newsletter