Is audio in Medium's future?

Is audio in Medium's future?

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  • Ev Williams posts about the business model of Medium. As he does so, he also highlights ambitions for them to move into audio. “We see audio as a highly complementary format for sharing the types of stories Medium is great at.”

  • Westwood One Podcast Network has announced it is monetising APM’s In The Dark podcast. The second season of the podcast launches May 1st. Stats: In the Dark’s first season, which has driven nearly 12 million downloads to date, continues to receive downloads more than a year later at roughly 465,000 per month.

  • Sonix has updated their transcription and editing service with a number of new features. Sonix for teams; integration with Adobe Audition and their video products; a video editor (which, like audio, you edit just by editing the text); and more new features.

  • 2018's Top Podcast Problems… And Solutions are covered by Sarah Rhea Werner. tldr;: Diversity; everything’s a bit formulaic; and we should embrace silence. Also, a piece in The Athens Post about sexism in podcasts.

  • Steven Goldstein posts Interesting Podcast Data Never Seen Before. There’s data here about Fridays; about smart speaker use for short podcasts; and ad rates.


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    • Smart speaker use for short podcasts reminds us: we’re on Amazon Alexa’s Daily Briefing; “Alexa, ask anypod to play podnews”; or “OK, Google, ask podnews for the latest”. Our podcast is also in many other places.
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  • Spotify are doing some behind-the-scenes work on their podcast platform. Libsyn warns of delays in new shows. (We’re on Spotify with a special weekly version of our podcast).


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  • Radiodays Europe’s Podcast Day has shared a presentation originally done at Radiodays Europe about podcasting trends from podnews’s editor, James Cridland.

  • The New York Times write about Parcast, who they call a “little known podcast network”. “The company’s revenue in the first quarter of 2018 was 95 percent of what it had earned through the entirety of 2017”.

  • Help, I sexted my boss is a UK podcast “to help you navigate the daily struggles of modern life”. One host is from BBC Radio 1; the other from Mail Online.

  • The Dirty Bits History Podcast covers all the bits that your history teacher left out, says a profile on the podcast from DiscoverPods.

  • More history: this time from Before You Were Born, “Harry and Nash bring their unique brand of educational comedy to explore significant events that occurred this week in history”. It’s a podcast from NOVA Entertainment in Australia.

  • Author Tyler Bell writes to us with a podcast for lovers of horror and dark fiction, Westside Fairytales.

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