Ear Hustle to be available as a book

• The award-winning Ear Hustle podcast is to be available as a book. This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life (preorder, affiliate) will be available in October, written by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods.

  
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• Apple has set the launch date for Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and channels as Tuesday, June 15; they link to subscriptions best practices. The launch had been delayed from May. (Podnews will have a channel, but not a subscription offering).

• First look: The team behind Dolly Parton’s America are to produce a new series, The Vanishing of Harry Pace. The podcast series will be available within the Radiolab podcast feed from June 17.

• First look: America’s largest online progressive news network and the creator of The Young Turks, TYT has just announced a wider podcast slate in partnership with Acast. The company will increase its podcast production and its slate of programming, with a focus on cultural shows beyond political news.

• Chartable has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification, which tests a company on security and development practices. The company joins Megaphone and Whooshkaa.

• The National Association of Television Program Executives in the US, NATPE, has revealed NATPE Virtual: ContentCast - the Business of Podcasting Content. The event in July will include executives from Audible, GroupM, iHeartMedia, RoosterTeeth, ViacomCBS, Wolf Entertainment, and Triton Digital, and the press release also tantalisingly reveals that “moderators for the sessions include top minds covering the audio industry including Nick Quah (HotPod) and James Cridland (Podnews).”

• The Australian Podcast Report for May has been released by Triton Digital. ARN’s iHeartPodcastNetwork is still #1; and has seen a 75% increase in downloads year-on-year.

• AudioUK has announced Chloe Straw as the new Managing Director. The company is the trade body for audio production companies making podcasts, radio and audiobooks in the country.

• Cabana has published a brief history of dynamic audio insertion.

  
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• Auphonic has released an API to enable podcast hosts to integrate the audio post-production tool.

Hints and tips

• Can you over-prepare for a podcast? Nicola Broomham reckons you can.

• Can you use email to build a viable podcast business? Sean Howard from Fable and Folly highlights the benefit of a viable email list in a three-part series.

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Everyone Dies, which launched fourteen months ago, is celebrating ten thousand worldwide downloads. Hosted by Dr. Marianne Matzo, the podcast provides evidence-based information to the public on serious illness, dying, and death.

Where are all the baby pigeons? Just one of life’s little mysteries that Lucinda Price, best known by her online name Froomes, will be looking at in a new podcast from NOVA Entertainment.

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True crime and music are two very popular podcast genres: so Songs in the Key of Death is a new podcast that combines them. Each episode looks at true history and real-life inspiration behind a famous murder ballad and comes with the original score and a fresh interpretation; it’s hosted by Courtney Smith.

From France, Allons Enfants est un podcast consacré à cette étape de la vie qui nous façonne et fascine tous: l’enfance. Il est tout simplement un hymne à l’enfance - d’hier, d’aujord’hui, et de demain. Présenté par Romain Balland, il est publié par Engle, et c’est en français, évidemment.