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November 26, 2024:
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Two-thirds of podcast listeners say it’s easy to find new shows that they’re interested in. 50% discover them from their preferred podcast app; a good description is the #1 reason they hit play. All data from The Podcast Host’s new Podcast Discovery Survey, which was published today. 166 people took the survey.
November 12, 2024:
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Podcast Discovery shares Five Ways You Can Create a Successful Branded Podcast
October 21, 2024:
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What does an international podcast launch look like? Podcast Discovery reminds us that there’s more to podcasting than Apple and Spotify - and than the US.
September 25, 2024:
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Headliner is now being used by Newsweek for podcast discovery, listing relevant podcast episodes next to articles it publishes.
September 13, 2024:
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The Media Club with Matt Deegan is the new name for The Media Podcast, the weekly show about UK media. The show, one of the UK's longest-running podcasts, has been given a new look, new website and a new episode today. It's produced by Rethink Audio and the rebrand was managed by Podcast Discovery.
September 3, 2024:
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Podcast Discovery pens a guide to writing good podcast descriptions.
August 9, 2024:
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The Podnews Weekly Review this week contains Oskar Serrander on Wondercraft's new ad service; Josh Divney on Podcast Discovery's Virtual Studio, and Mathew Passy on the new Podcast Beacons. We also discuss X Corp and GARM.
August 8, 2024:
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Podcast marketing agency Podcast Discovery has launched the Virtual Studio - a full, bespoke 3D modelled virtual studio, and a camera/lighting kit for each contributor. The company says that clips that are shot professionally are more than twice as likely to go viral than clips shot on a webcam.
August 7, 2024:
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Amazon Music has launched a new AI-powered feature for podcast discovery. Topics, available in the US only, are based on automatically extracting things spoken about in podcasts from transcripts, “alongside human review”. It appears to only work across top podcasts for now.
July 30, 2024:
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Why Your Podcast Needs an Organic and Paid Marketing Strategy, says Podcast Discovery. The company is, of course, a paid podcast marketing company; but the advice isn’t (just!) selling their wares.
June 19, 2024:
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Want to find a true crime podcast episode featuring a death on a subway train in the US? Or one in the wilderness where the murder weapon was a USB cord? Pods 4 Us is a new podcast discovery app with detailed filtering options for true crime and book podcasts. More categories are on the way, we’re told.
June 4, 2024:
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Are your host-read ads legal? In the US they have the FTC, in the UK they have the CAP, and they both require the same thing: clear disclosure. Here’s Podcast Discovery’s advice on how to follow the CAP rules.
May 31, 2024:
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Another daily newsletter? About podcasts? Podcast Discovery's Podcast Rex has launched Election Daily, a daily newsletter showing how all the UK's news and political podcasts are covering the election each day.
May 28, 2024:
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Podcast Discovery went to The Podcast Show, sniffing out details on the best way to market a podcast.
April 25, 2024:
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Ad and Episode swaps are one of the best ways to help grow your podcast, suggests Podcast Discovery.
April 11, 2024:
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In five ideas to give your podcast feed a spring clean, Podcast Discovery suggests updating the brand and visuals, re-recording some standard elements and refreshing your descriptions.
April 10, 2024:
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Does your podcast need video trailers? Podcast Discovery suggests that yes, it does.
April 2, 2024:
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A way to recommend other shows you might like, “podrolls” can enhance podcast discovery even if many podcasts don’t use it yet, according to our Editor, who has coded more support for it within Podnews’s website.
March 29, 2024:
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Top tips to supercharge your podcast discovery on social media (Spotify for Podcasters)
March 19, 2024:
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A new podcast discovery tool for advertisers, Busylike, has been launched. It allows brands to discover over 2,000 shows to collaborate and advertise with.
December 11, 2023:
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Podcast discovery website GreatPods has shared the most-viewed reviews from the last year. Among the top 10 are Strike Force Five, Archetypes and Diary of a CEO.
December 1, 2023:
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PodEngine is a new podcast discovery platform in beta. It transcribes every new episode, analyses each one for your interests, and emails you timestamped clips once a week. The company is currently scaling up its infrastructure.
October 30, 2023:
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Hark Daily is celebrating its 500th edition today. It's a show that shares the most interesting conversations, stories and ideas from podcasts, and is available within the Hark podcast discovery app.
October 12, 2023:
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A "podcast discovery network" called PodDisco has launched, with the podcast True Crime US Discovery (in a number of languages), which consists of concise episode edits of shows like Crime Junkie, CBS News's 48 Hours, and Dateline NBC. The company tells Podnews that it has not asked creators for permission for their shows to be edited in this way, because: "we believe this can be beneficial for original creators, as it can drive traffic to their content."
August 28, 2023:
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Feed the Queue has been refreshed and relaunched by Tink Media, and calls itself the ultimate podcast discovery podcast. It will feed your queue with an assortment of fantastic podcasts you would likely not have heard of. Join the team from Tink Media and creators from across the industry to learn about shows you’ll love. The press release uses the word "char-queue-terie", but we'll gloss over that and pretend it didn't happen.
July 21, 2023:
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In the US, Oprah Winfrey has been guest-hosting The Starbucks Daily in the Starbucks app for the last five weeks. The show features a genius podcast moment, and helps promote podcasts to the 30mn people who use the app every month. It's made with podcast discovery app Hark, and you can hear her appearances (and other shows) on this Harklist.
July 20, 2023:
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Sounder and PodRoll have announced a strategic partnership to enhance podcast discovery and recommendations.
June 7, 2023:
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Disco Free by Headliner is being launched today on Product Hunt. It's a free AI-driven podcast discovery tool for podcasters who also have a blog or website.
March 27, 2023:
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In Prague, Radiodays Europe started yesterday with a number of summits. In the data summit, the team from Podimo presented a new podcast discovery algorithm built for the Podimo app, which uses term extraction (photo); a separate podcast summit included tips on pitching your podcast from the BBC's Leanne Alie. DW Akademie also ran a workshop to help podcasters streamline their creation process. Our Editor also spoke; the conference continues today and tomorrow.
December 27, 2022:
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Hark Audio, a podcast discovery app, is publishing its editors' Top Moments of 2022. We're promised, among other things, a chicken who plays tic-tac-toe.
October 21, 2022:
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Podsights Advisor, a podcast discovery tool to help advertisers find shows, is now free for all Podsights users.
September 20, 2022:
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Ivy, a podcast discovery platform, becomes the latest to support transcripts, soundbites and location data from the new podcast namespace.
September 14, 2022:
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Podcast discovery tool Goodpods has launched a website. The website includes charts, user reviews and supports episode images: here's Podnews in Goodpods; we'll add links from our podcast pages from today.
June 13, 2022:
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New podcast app Fathom, designed for better podcast discovery, has been launched on iOS and in-browser. We're listed. Jason Calacanis is one of the seed investors. It promises you can "ask any question and hear answers from your favorite podcasters and their guests."
March 29, 2022:
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PodHound, a podcast discovery service, has had a redesign.
March 17, 2022:
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iHeartRadio has launched PodGuides, a podcast discovery platform with podcasts about specific places. It reminds our Editor of maps·fm, for which he is an advisor - a similar platform with many more podcasts available.
December 27, 2021:
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Voxalyze has published their Podcast Discovery & Consumption report. The company surveyed listeners across four countries (the US, UK, France and Germany) to see if there are any local differences. Podcast listeners use 1.9 platforms on average, and Amazon Music is surprisingly high in their results. Google Podcasts reaches up to 15% of all users, but only 4% in the UK (possibly because the BBC blocks their podcasts from it).
August 17, 2021:
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Podcast discovery and listening app Moonbeam now offers ratings and reviews powered by Podchaser. It's the latest company to use Podchaser's data.
July 30, 2021:
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Facebook has been showing off more of its plans for podcasting and audio. Ashley Carman tweets videos of Clips, a new podcast discovery service, and apparently automated captioning is coming. The service is unavailable to most podcasters, and entirely absent for the 97% of the world's population who don't live in the US.
July 27, 2021:
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Audacy has launched Podsauce, a podcast discovery show. The show (in both audio and video) will "give viewers and listeners the inside scoop on new podcasts from the genre’s top talent and discover hidden gems they might otherwise have missed out on." There will also be a minute-long version on the radio.
July 19, 2021:
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Rephonic has launched a podcast discovery tool. Give it three podcasts you love, and it'll find you some great shows, powered by Apple Podcasts data.
June 18, 2021:
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Spotify has bought Podz, a podcast discovery platform launched in February. Podz generates clips that lets users preview key moments from podcast episodes; its website and app have already disappeared.
June 9, 2021:
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Entale's Wil Harris has stepped down as CEO: co-founder Hannah Blake is now CEO, and Claire Roberts is to become Chief Product Officer. Harris will continue to be on the Board. The company has also announced a beta version of a new podcast discovery tool, and was shortlisted in the CogX Awards.
May 18, 2021:
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First look: Sounder has acquired Podnods, an AI-based podcast discovery and analytics engine. The co-founder and CEO of Podnods, Mercan Topkara, will become Sounder’s new CTO.
April 19, 2021:
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Facebook is coming. The social media giant is to get into audio and podcasts, according to Recode. Announcements are due today; it describes "a podcast discovery product that will be connected with Spotify", as well as an audio-only version of 'Rooms', a separate Clubhouse-like product, and a way for Facebook users to add voice messages to the newsfeed.
March 9, 2021:
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White-label voice assistants will win the battle for podcast discovery, says Techcrunch: "the voice assistant that can … search, sample and discover content through shareable bite-sized pieces will win". The paywalled piece is presented as editorial, but it's written by Amir Hirsh from Audioburst - who, coincidentally, operates a white-label voice assistant that can search content through shareable bite-sized pieces.
March 5, 2021:
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To discover great new podcasts, says Arielle Nissenblatt, sign up to a curated podcast discovery newsletter. She runs the Earbuds Podcast Collective, a weekly podcast discovery newsletter, and we'd recommend it.
February 8, 2021:
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Nathan Baschez, formerly at Gimlet, writes a "post-mortem for social podcast discovery".
August 24, 2020:
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Podhound describes itself as "AI-powered podcast discovery". We're in it, and you can add your podcast, if it isn't already there.
August 17, 2020:
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Kshitij Aranke writes an in-depth look at Spotify's user experience - How Spotify revolutionized podcast discovery - comparing it to Apple Podcasts.
May 4, 2020:
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Auby is "a young startup with big ambitions on a mission to change podcast discovery". Currently they've some positions open for interns and "podcast enthusiasts".
March 30, 2020:
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The most popular way of choosing a podcast is the show description, according to The Podcast Host who have published the results of their survey, Podcast Discovery in 2020. They discover that most people just use the search in their podcast app to find new stuff to listen to.
January 6, 2020:
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Podcast discovery website Podchaser has added a recommendation feature. You can recommend podcasts, episodes or creators to your friends on the service or via email - and we like their example of a creator to follow.
December 10, 2019:
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Google Assistant has added a new podcast discovery feature - listening to podcasts by topic. "OK, Google, find a podcast about podcasting news" is particularly good. It returns a list on displays, and plays podcasts on phones. This is an enhancement of a feature first launched in early August on the Google search engine.
November 19, 2019:
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Breaking: Spotify has (just) launched Your Daily Podcasts, an algorithmically-driven podcast discovery playlist that promises "an easy way to discover new shows while also keeping up with old favorites". If you’ve listened to at least four podcasts in the past 90 days, you’ll find the playlist in the “Your Top Podcasts” shelf on Home or in the “Made For You” hub on browse. It's available for free and premium users within the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
October 21, 2019:
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Podchaser has launched the Podchaser Feed, a personalised feed of the latest podcast episodes, guest appearances, ratings & reviews, curated lists, follows, and more - built for more effective podcast discovery . It launched in beta in September. Follow Podnews here.
October 3, 2019:
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In a talk that was praised as 'refreshingly frank', CEO of Pocket Casts Owen Grover spoke at OzPod 2019, an Australian podcast conference, earlier today. In a wide-ranging Q&A with ABC Audio Studios boss Kellie Riordan, Grover predicted a continuing decrease in Apple's influence, and said that Pocket Casts is planning for a future where there is no market leader in podcast discovery. "Spotify are helping non-podcast listeners to discover content: but we're fooling ourselves if we believe they'll indefinitely do this for the love of the medium," he said, highlighting the benefits of RSS. "We just got over what Facebook did to journalism - we don't want that to happen with podcasting." Asked whether Pocket Casts will share individual audience listener data in future: "No," he said, adding "We won't do that. Is that clear enough? No."
January 14, 2019:
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Hunter Walk, a partner in a VC company, writes about podcast discovery. Podcast discovery is a problem, he writes, but attempts to fix it "are at best features, not products or companies."
November 21, 2018:
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Piqd, a "solution to the podcast discovery problem", has launched, with more than 60 curators from 21 different countries, according to the press release
October 17, 2018:
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PodFinder is a new podcast discovery service, in early test.
September 6, 2018:
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Suly is a (French) app designed for podcast discovery. Google Translate tells me it's an "application that will allow you to discover new podcasts with a disconcerting ease!"
July 24, 2018:
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DiscoverPods published a survey last year about the state of the industry. Headlines included: 71% of respondents consider podcast discovery as a major issue facing podcasts today; 66% of respondents rank marketing and building an audience among their top challenges. Podcasters and podcast fans can help this year's survey by filling in the Podcast Trends Report survey.
November 3, 2017:
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Attempting to solve the podcast discovery problem, Podly - "podcast with friends" (iOS).
October 4, 2017:
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Bello Collective writes a piece entitled "Apple isn’t going to fix podcast discovery, so where can you go instead?". Contains a link to podnews. This is a good thing. Also contains many other discovery tools.
August 31, 2017:
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Spreaker debuts a new homepage, built for podcast discovery.
August 29, 2017:
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Podchaser moves to open beta. Designed as a podcast discovery tool, using the power of the crowd.
August 16, 2017:
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Podcast discovery service Stabl offered a set of recommendations, sorted in time order: the theory was that if you had 30 minutes spare, it would find you some great content. They've dropped the time element after research, will no longer update their iOS app, and will focus on more recommendations.