Mark Cuban's 'next-gen' podcasting platform

• Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi are co-founding a “next-gen podcast platform” where hosts can talk to fans live and monetise their conversations, reports The Verge - it’s said to be similar to Clubhouse but with the ability to record conversations. Cuban sold internet radio company broadcast·com to Yahoo for $5.7bn.

  • The app is reportedly to be called Fireside, which comes as news to the five year-old podcast host Fireside. “Surprising and more than a bit concerning,” says Fireside’s Dan Benjamin.
  • Chris Messina doesn’t think much of the logo, either. #awks

• Have you considered syndicating your content to other podcasters? Sounds Profitable this week, with Chartable, suggests a way to do that with ad-tech. (One more reason to subscribe.

  
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• Will podcast advertising keep surging in 2021? MediaRadar expect to see a 10-15% increase in ad spend this year.

• iOS 14.5 may allow you to choose your default podcast app, according to beta testers.

• In India, the podcast producer WYN Studio has raised Rs 2 crores (US $275,000).

  
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• Casey Reed has joined Blue Wire as Head of Marketing. She’d been at Hulu for almost five years.

  
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• In Norway, podcast company Acast report a 266% increase in revenue last year, and a 39% increase in new advertisers. Plan-B, a Norwegian content creator which produces some of Norway’s biggest podcasts, has signed with the company.

• Transistor has published five free pieces of music for podcast intros. Attribution is required.

• The Brussels Podcast Festival is looking for your votes for the Public Prize 2021. The event itself takes place over three days from February 25.

• “I have a few thoughts on what Clubhouse really means for podcasting. In short: not that much.” Rebel Base Media’s Mark Asquith suggests that Clubhouse is “a solid way of getting cheap attention right now, but it’s not likely to push people to listen to your podcast.”

• Downloading This American Life costs a typical South African the equivalent of US$3.52 in data costs. Writing on his personal blog, our Editor wonders whether the proposed alternateEnclosure tag could mean we get another billion podcast listeners.

• Auphonic published two listening examples for podcasts encoded at different bitrates and codecs: even 6kbps!

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Tips and tricks

• 9 lessons in podcasting from Asian creators (Acast)

• The One Change That Took Us From $20 to $900 a Month on Patreon (Sean Howard, Podcast Movement)

• How many podcasts are in each Apple Podcasts category? Someone asked, so here’s the answer.

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From CBC Podcasts: Evil By Design In Episode 1, hear from two 'Jane Does’ who allege they were lured with false promises to fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s palatial estate in the Bahamas, and attacked.
Resonate’s co-founder Jacob Bozarth appears on a recent episode of Ecomonics “to talk about lessons he’s learned about podcasting, the experience of producing a podcast, and the story of Resonate over the past 5 years”. It’s the episode published on Feb 3.

Financial literacy podcast Earn Your Leisure, which we first reported in July 2019, is now part of The Black Effect Podcast Network. It’s had more than five million downloads.

The Alfred Daily, a 40-minute daily local podcast for Shaftesbury in Dorset, has been awarded by the town’s Rotary club. A number of Rotarians nominated Alfred for the vital role the daily podcasts have played in strengthening community cohesion during lockdown.

The NewsWorthy's Erica Mandy is profiled in Kansas City magazine. (The podcast is currently hiring).