A podcast gets archived by the British Library

• The British Library’s Sound Archive is to permanently archive the Radio Moments Conversations podcast, “so that future generations may enjoy the character and colour of the analogue age”. The podcast contains interviews with nearly a hundred well-known radio professionals, mainly from the UK: we would recommend US radio consultant Valerie Geller, Australian broadcasters Bryan Hayes and Jono Coleman, and the much missed John Myers. The British Library Sound Archive contains other radio and podcast material.

• Another podcast host is now IAB Certified. Simplecast achieved the citation this week. It means the podcast host’s figures are calculated the same way as others, like Voxnest, Libsyn and Blubrry.

• Acast has announced Acast Live, a way to help Acast podcasters take their shows live on stage. “The first programme of live events is in partnership with DICE, launching an initial run of shows in late 2019 into 2020 taking place in high-profile venues across London.”

• Podcast Day 2020, the successful podcast industry conference in Europe run by Radiodays Europe, has a date: it will be on 16th June 2020, at a new venue of The Mermaid in the City of London.

• French-language podcasts probably wouldn’t do too well in Australia, you’d think: but you’d be wrong - SBS French, a department of the Australian public service broadcaster SBS, is celebrating 250,000 downloads per month for their podcast SBS en français. Incroyable!

• Are subscriber-only podcasts on the rise? Digiday claims so, reporting on Slate’s Supporting Cast and Stitcher Premium.

• PRX look after 127 podcast shows. Donna Hardwick, PRX’s Chief Marketing Officer, explains how the marketing department, a team of nine, all work together.

• Like comparing microphones? Bandrew Scott from Podcastage compares fourteen dynamic microphones in a YouTube video.

• Google Podcasts was launched 16 months ago. We note with a small degree of exasperation that Google Play Music Podcasts, an entirely different product, is still going: confusing podcast publishers every day who don’t understand the difference.

• Chris Krimitsos (Podfest) has released a book. Start Ugly is “a timeless tale about innovation and change”, told through the parable of Gregory Sharp, a lumber business owner. “People who bought this book also bought an ATR2100 dynamic microphone”, Amazon tells us.

  
  Aug 18 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

Podcasts

Back for a new series, Feeling My Flo, a reported podcast that treats menstruation like an event that happens to all types of bodies. Episodes are about 12 minutes long, and has a 84% listen-through rate. (Lantigua Williams & Co / Simplecast)