Vietnamese audio company raises $1.8m for podcasting

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• Fonos, a Vietnam-based audio platform, has raised $1.8m to expand into podcasting. The service already includes audiobooks, meditation content and book summaries, and has 130,000 monthly active users.

• Acast is encouraging the use of visual descriptions in podcasts, to make content more accessible for blind or low-vision people. There’s an example in the blog post we link to.

• Audiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. They’d launched in the US in September.

• Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen, long-time Australian indie podcasters, have been signed by LiSTNR. More than 400 episodes will move to the platform, though they’ll continue to be made available elsewhere.

• Luminary has launched in India. US pricing is $34.99 annually; pricing in India is ₹999.00 annually (US$12.20).

  • The company also appears to have a new logo: see it below in our supporters list.

• Podcast music provider Studio Dragonfly is running a Black Friday sale of 50% of all podcasting and production music and sound effects on their website. Podnews uses them for our music.

• In Brisbane, Queensland? Friday night at 6pm, come and find other podcasters at The Plough on Southbank. We’d love to see you.

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From Post Script Media, Climavores is a podcast for eaters who are trying to navigate the complex relationship between healthy food and a healthy planet. Read on to discover how you can watch a virtual live episode!

Climavores Live: Can we eat right and still save the planet?

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On November 30th, we’re putting together a virtual live episode of our podcast Climavores, featuring author and NYU professor Marion Nestle.

For decades, Marion has been a towering figure in nutritional science. In a field littered with fad diets and bogus studies, she’s been a voice of authority on the complicated relationship between food, politics and our health. Now she’s written a book called “Slow Cooked” about the things you should and shouldn’t eat – and who you should and shouldn’t trust about food.

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