TWiT turns 15

TWiT turns 15

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  • This Week In Tech, the first show from Leo Laporte’s netcast podcast network, celebrates its 15th anniversary on Sunday with a special episode featuring the original team of Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton and Robert Heron. The network now has twenty tech podcasts, over 16,200 episodes, and a monthly audience of four million; it has twenty staff, including four full-time hosts. Congratulations, Leo.

  • Honouring the best of the European internet, The 10th Annual Lovie Awards includes eleven new podcast categories this year. New judges include a number of prominent podcasters: the early entry deadline is next Friday, Apr 24. You can enter now. (We’re a media partner).

  • Acast has partnered with DIVE Studios, a K-pop podcast network. Korea is the biggest country in the world for podcast consumption, according to Reuters Institute data. DIVE Studios is based in Seoul and Los Angeles.

  • For every review, Podchaser is paying 25 cents to Meals on Wheels America. It’s extended its reviews4good program until the end of April. Libsyn and Captivate are also matching all donations for podcasts on their platform, and if a podcast replies to the review, that doubles the money. (Our Editor is on Captivate’s advisory board. Disclosures)


    Aug 23 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Friend of podcasters Kara Silverman highlights a number of “good newsletters” on her website today.


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  • Interested in podcasting in China? You’d like JustPod, a brand new English-language podcast newsletter, from Yang Yi who’s based in Shanghai.

  • We’ve added Swoot links to our podcast pages.

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