Skype to add an official call-recorder; and Podnews em Português: ouça agora!

Skype to add an official call-recorder; and Podnews em Português: ouça agora!

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  • Skype will soon let you record your calls. The feature launches later this month in Skype 8; older versions of Skype will stop working in a few months.

  • Thanks to Megafono, the Brazilian podcast host, you can now listen to Podnews em Português every week. It’s a weekly podcasting news update, translated from our weekly update on Spotify and The Word from Mouth. Obrigado!


    This link is no longer available, as at Aug 4 2023
  • Kellie Riordan, the boss of ABC Audio Studios, is interviewed in PodMail and highlights radio’s relationship with podcasting. “Whether someone consumes [audio] in the on-demand environment or on a radio, to me that’s almost the wrong argument.”


    Aug 4 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Related to the above, Fantastic Audio is a new podcast from the University of Bedfordshire (an actual place, not from a sleepy children’s story) about making radio, and “exploring how we define what good audio is”.

  • Google Play Music appears to have had some issues with importing recent episodes: according to some podcasters it’s been stuck for five days. (It’s entirely different to Google Podcasts: here’s an FAQ all about that).


    Aug 4 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
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  • Audioboom have two new hires - former UK radio exec Mike Newman (Free Radio, Gem 106) is their London Head of Content Partnerships, and former advertising exec Umesh Barve is their Head of Partnerships in India.

  • 50 years since the ultimate psychedelic movie Yellow Submarine was released, alt music station BBC 6 Music have released the A to Z of Psychedelia, a 36-part meandering journey through the golden age of psychedelia from the mid 60s with Marc Riley and Rob Hughes.

  • In the United Arab Emirates, podcast downloads are up by 100% year-on-year.

  • In Canada, podcasting is growing. 20% more Canadians have made podcasting a weekly habit in the last ten months, says Audience Insights.

  • Fans of aloof British accents might enjoy this episode of We Are Podcast, featuring Podnews’s editor, James Cridland.

  • The Sun in Minnesota interviews one of the hosts of The High Five Podcast, a comedy podcast; meanwhile NorthJersey talks with Michael Manzi and Joey Lewandowski who have a podcast featuring all of Nicholas Cage’s 86 movies, #CageClub.


    Aug 4 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • HotPod 169 focuses on the US book publishing industry. The WSJ also covers this area. Nick also really likes Wilson FM, a curated podcast app.

  • Listicle, schmisticle: Podcasting Is Spry In July, No Lie is a list of the Legal Talk Network’s latest podcasts; 3 tips for the mobile podcaster from Blubrry helps podcasts like ours when we hit the road to Philly.

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