David Tennant launches new interview podcast

• Podbean, a podcast host, has unveiled audio recording and editing features in its app. It also offers background music and other enhancements - it’s for both iOS and Android.

• How can you get funding to do your podcast? Juleyka Lantigua Williams spoke at the Werk It conference about how to find grants to support your work, and how to apply for them.

• Omny Studio, the enterprise podcast host, has partnered with Headliner to offer “one-click access to create best-in-class podcast audiograms”, which help share podcasts in social media.

• Westwood One have appointed Cory Smith in the newly created role of VP, Digital Sales Marketing & Operations. He’ll be responsible for digital sales planning, ad sales marketing, audience development, and ad operations, focusing on podcasting.

• Thinking about doing a Super Bowl podcast? Yeah, think carefully about that, says a lawyer.

• Ad Age notes the current fight for podcast dominance by Spotify and Pandora. We’d note that the article claims Castbox is the #1 podcast app; it also says Spotify has 170,000+ podcasts on its platform, while the US-only Pandora apparently has 100,000+ podcasts - Pandora’s official blog claimed “hundreds of podcasts with over 100,000 episodes” a month ago.

• Course: The Audio Podcast Fellows at Stony Brook Southampton/Manhattan - a year of advanced, hands-on training to introduce students to the most current information on every aspect of audio podcast production, from storytelling and writing, to audio editing and sound, to marketing, production and distribution.

  
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• We mentioned Radiodays Europe yesterday - lots of great speakers, including our own Editor; in Lausanne Switzerland at the end of March. Register now and use promo code PON19LA - you’ll save €160 on your ticket. Shh, don’t tell everyone.

• In March, Podnews will be at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit in New York; Podfest in Orlando; and Radiodays Europe in Lausanne, Switzerland. And you?

  
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Podcasts

David Tennant does a podcast with… is a new interview podcast from the British actor, with impressive access to big named guests. The press release promises current Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker, is a future guest. (Somethin’ Else / No Mystery / Acast)

TNT has posted the trailer for Root of Evil, a a companion to TNT’s six-episode suspense drama I Am the Night. The podcast series premieres on February 13; we first reported it on 18 Dec. It focuses on the real story and real people behind the dramatized crime series. (TNT / Turner Podcast Network / Cadence13 / knit)

Too Late To Die Young claims it’s one of the first podcasts to be aimed at an over 60 audience: hosted by Nina Miskow, each episode interviews a high-profile guest who is at that time of life when they are closer to the end than the beginning. 'If you want to know about living your best life, learn from those who have lived theirs’, says the description. (Audioboom)