Fyre Festival fraudster produces podcast from prison

Fyre Festival fraudster produces podcast from prison

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*Our cover story:** the convicted fraudster behind the Fyre Festival is to launch his own podcast. More in our Podcast News section below.

  • Loop Media has acquired Spkr, a podcast app that plays short clips of podcasts to help you discover new ones. They’ve also announced their own podcast studio.

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  • Podcast Movement Virtual kicked off yesterday with a keynote from Edison Research’s Tom Webster. He unveiled the slide above - showing that podcasting’s share of all audio listening is now 6% of all consumption. Fittingly, it was also World Statistics Day yesterday.

“Podcasting has become the greatest companion medium. Not only can you take it with you while you do other things, but we also see people turning to podcasts for a sense of community and connection during a very stressful time.” — Tom Webster at Podcast Movement Virtual

  • The second keynote session at Podcast Movement Virtual looked at emerging podcast markets across the world. Our Editor hosted it; panelists were Norman Chella from Malaysia, who hosts the Podlovers Asia podcast; Paula Rogo from Kenya, who runs the Pods4Africans newsletter; and Núria Net from Spain, from the boutique podcast publisher La Coctelera Music, currently in the middle of several productions for Podimo, Audible and others.

  • Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee’s New Media Show will be recorded later today at Podcast Movement Virtual. They’ll be joined by, among others, Podnews Editor James Cridland, and Sounds Profitable Editor, Bryan Barletta.


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  • We’ve a nice page all about embedded players for your podcast. Olli contacted us with an interesting note - if you use the embedded Spotify player, if the listener isn’t logged into Spotify, that play won’t appear within Spotify for Podcasters, which just measures logged-in users. No worries, though - for podcast hosts with passthrough (which is most of the big ones) it’ll still count there. We’ve updated the article.

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