Gimlet launch new shows for spring

• Gimlet Media launch three new shows for Spring - the press release includes a video explaining what they’re all about. Enjoy fiction series Sandra, The Habitat, and football documentary We Came To Win, as well as season seven of StartUp.

• Gimlet Media also announce GimletFest, a two-day festival in Brooklyn NY, USA featuring “the best of Gimlet”.

• Podcasting - good reasons to be cheerful. A look back at Radiodays Europe in Vienna, which had a number of podcasting speakers (including podnews). The organisation is planning the Radiodays Europe Podcast Day in Copenhagen in June.

• The April event for Brisbane Podcasters is Cameron Reilly from The Life of Caesar. The event’s on April 26th.

• In Las Vegas NV, USA, the NAB Show continues. Speaking yesterday, Triton Digital, Spreaker, Midroll, Jacobs Media and more. Here’s a report of the day from AllAccess.

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• The host of WNYC’s new podcast Late Night Whenever, Michelle Buteau, gets an interview in Podcast Review:

“Podcasts provide a creative freedom I’ve never had before.”

• Also the subject of an interview is Emily Graslie, host of science podcast ExploreAStory from Chicago IL, USA. She was interviewed on PBS station WTTW.

• The rest of the speakers have been announced for the Audiocraft Festival in Sydney NSW, Australia, in early June.

• Radiotopia is live along the East Coast of the US next month: in Atlanta, Durham, Washington, New York and Boston. Dates and venues are in our events section.

• A tool that generates shareable audio videos from podcasts (for use on social media) - SpareMin.

• Finding a happy medium in podcast monetization, a piece by Wil Williams, discusses Patreon and other options.