AdsWizz launches survey

• AdsWizz needs your help: they’re running a podcast trends survey for insights around podcast listening, creation, and advertising. Please spare a few minutes to take part, by doing the survey that fits you best; we’ll cover the results.

  • Publishers
  • Advertisers
  • Individual podcasters

• Megaphone now supports premium feeds in beta, using Supporting Cast.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Aug 30 2023

• What does your podcast artwork look like in podcast apps? OnlyPod has a nice tool to show you.

• How does funding for audio drama work? The results of a survey of 111 audio drama creators.

• The Hot Docs Podcast Festival is looking for Canadian podcast creators to get clips of their shows played during the events. Here’s where to apply.

• Spotify will kill other podcast players, reckons Ricky Yean. He’s built a thing called Palcast to help, perhaps - which lets you compare your podcast listening (on Spotify) with a friend.

• Podtrac published their top 20 US podcasts for November. No change in the top 4 (Up First at 3, NPR News Now at 2, and The Daily at 1), this incomplete ranker measures participating publishers only.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Aug 30 2023

The Tech Stuff - with the Podcast Index

• The tentative closing date for Phase 2 tag submissions in the “podcast” namespace is January 31st, 2021. This currently includes person, location, named seasons, social media links and more.
• The 'location’ tag is particularly complex, and this is the current proposal. The author, who you may recognise, would love your feedback.
• Five hosting platforms are now supporting at least one element of the “podcast” namespace, with 2 more committed to supporting Phase 1 tags soon. Buzzsprout and Fireside currently support all Phase 1 tags.
• The “person” tag is nearing consensus with help from Podchaser to provide links and verification. It will provide a way for apps and aggregators to track and display hosts, co-hosts, guests and other people associated with podcasts and podcast episodes.
• Podnews gave our feedback for the IAB v2.1 podcast measurement guidelines document today.

Tips and tricks

• In his personal newsletter, Tom Webster writes on the perils of running an online survey.

• How do podcasts make money in 2021? - Wenbin Fang writes from the future.

Podcast News - with Fable & Folly

Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a fiction podcast about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice. Ad sales by Fable and Folly

teikirisi is a podcast from two Cubans who live in the US. The current episode tells the story of how one of the hosts got out of Cuba, with twists, turns, getting lost at sea, and six months in Guanatanamo.

In the last five years, homelessness has doubled in the US. 99% Invisible has launched a new series, According to Need. Katie Mingle spent two years trying to understand the systems that exist to address homelessness in the US.

Ken Johnson, a radio programmer, has launched Mean Ole Lion Media. Its first podcast is Umi Says, hosted by the mom of rapper Mos Def, now known as Yasiin Bey.