Amanda Palmer launches weekly podcast

• Musician, author and speaker Amanda Palmer has launched a weekly podcast, The Art of Asking Everything. Of note: the show is entirely paid-for by over 15,000 people on Patreon.

• Podnews is now on Siri’s news service - on phones, tablets and HomePod. “Hey, Siri - play news from Podnews” is how to hear us. “Hey, Siri, change my news to Podnews” is how to hear us more. You’ll find us in the tech news category in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.

  
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  • “Alexa, play news from Podnews”, or “Hey, Google, play news from Podnews podcasting news” works too.

• New research from Podnews shows a way to identify up to 50% more user agents, according to a piece published yesterday in Sounds Profitable, Podnews’s adtech newsletter. It uses RSS useragent data is all open on Github.

  
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  • Subscribe to Sounds Profitable here.

• Wonder about the power of podcasting? Pod Save America has helped raised $22.7m, from 251,000 people, to help a campaign against US politician Mitch McConnell. As one of the prganisers of the British Podcast Awards, Matt Deegan, notes, it’s a great example of super charging an audience.

• Acast has launched in Canada, with Canadian MD Heather Gordon, formerly of CBC/Radio-Canada; it launches working with Corus, CBC, eOne, and others; and has already had more than eleven million downloads. The company is now operating on the ground in ten countries around the world.

• What’s The Story? Sounds, a podcast production company in Leeds in the UK, has signed a first-look development deal with Kudos, a drama producer.

• Raise your glass to WhiskyCast, which won the award for “Best Broadcast, Podcast, or Online Video Series” by the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation.

• 280,000 shows have been started in the last 90 days, Steve Goldstein writes, in an article showing How to Know When Pull The Plug on Your Podcast.

  
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• End your podcast? Or just pivot? That’s what Expedia did, according to JAR Audio who works with them on their Out Travel The System podcast.

• Captivate, a podcast host, is to integrate with Zapier, and are looking for beta testers. Zapier allows a number of automation triggers with over 2,000 apps and services - Podnews uses it to post stories to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. (Disclosures)

  
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• The Australian True Crime podcast - which claims a monthly audience of 1.4m people - is planning a virtual event in October, promising stories which never made it to the podcast.

• Podcast in Color has been announced: a three-day virtual summit in November, to to empower voices of color.

• Wish your favourite blogs or news websites could be podcasts? HeraldPod is a service that lets you email articles to turn them into a personal podcast feed. Here’s a sample podcast from the system.

Tips and tricks

• In Authority Magazine, Gary Leland is interviewed with five things you can do to get into the podcaster hall of fame. Humbly, we submit thing number six: someone needs to start up the podcaster hall of fame again.

• What not to do on a podcast - Rachel Corbett, with an impressive clickbaity title (but, to be fair, an on-point observation)

Podcast News - with cabana

From cabana: Ever miss those spooky campfire stories you heard growing up? Well, gather round… Full Body Chills is back with more creepy bite-sized stories. Season 2 starts October 1st - just in time for Halloween.

Another podcast about podcasts is on the way: and if it sounds a bit meta, that’s because it literally is. Meta - A Podcast About Podcasts is presented by Nine’s podcast reporter in Australia, Peter Wells, working with Acast.
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The ABC’s Trace podcast has just published the final episode of Trace: The Informer, examining lawyer Nicola Gobbo, who represented some of Australia’s most dangerous criminals, all the while secretly working as a police informer.

Between The Devil launched yesterday - a new show from the scripted horror network The Violet Hour.

In 1995, the War Child charity album HELP was released. HELP - The Story of the War Child Album documents the album’s creation, with interviews from artists including Paul Weller, Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, James Dean Bradfeld from The Manic Street Preachers, Tim Burgess from The Charlatans, Dave Rowntree from Blur, Adrian Utley from Portishead and many of the key figures behind the record’s creation.

Whirlwind, from Entercom’s Cadence13, will have its first episode tomorrow. It tells the story of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president.