Google Podcasts Creator Program announces teams

• Google Podcasts has announced the twenty teams selected for the 2020-21 Google Podcasts creator program. Working with PRX, eleven countries and six languages are represented.

• Spotify has launched Spotify Pumped, where hosts of Spotify’s biggest podcasts, like Dani Dyer from Sorted With The Dyers, take you through an HIIT workout of your very own. It’s launched in the UK and Ireland (though seems to work in other places too). A clever idea to promote their podcasts and music choices.

• Wondery is ドラマ型ポッドキャストで人気を集めているアメリカ第３位のポッドキャストネットワークで、- and, today, working with Nippon Broadcasting System, they launched Business Wars in Japanese - telling the story of PlayStation vs Nintendo.

• Lots of things broke for Apple earlier this week. While Apple Podcasts isn’t important enough to appear on their system status page, the Podcasts Connect system was down for a while, and at least one podcast was knocked off for a bit. But we’re back now.

• Podfront Virtual is next week, with presentations from a number of large podcast networks.

• The Podcast Movement Virtual schedule is now available. The event takes place in October: tickets are here.

• PODdash helps you find new episodes just published, and sort them by category. It uses The Podcast Index.

• A clever promotional idea: Edison Research have produced a Spotify playlist featuring all their team member appearances on podcasts.

  
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• Starved for time and privacy, India’s women are finding refuge in podcasts, according to a long article from Quartz with an overview on the country’s podcast market.

• Happy 60th independence day to Podnews readers in Nigeria. Mine’s a Guinness.

Tips and tricks - with True Crime Reporter from PAR

• What Actually Makes a Good Podcast? Victoria A Fraser writes her “Advice from Someone who used to Hate Podcasts”.
• Want to embed a podcast player into your website? Here are three, and data that suggests that one of them could add new subscribers…

Podcast News - with cabana

From cabana: In Aaru, a land torn apart by a fear of magic, and ruled by brutal mercenaries, two young friends leave the only home they’ve ever known to find the one who could save them all. Carcerem is an original audio fantasy series from Shane Salk Productions. Listen to season 1 now.

The first serialised true crime podcast for the Philippines launches tomorrow. Super Evil is being launched with the best-selling newspaper The Philippine Daily Inquirer and PumaPodcast.

In March 2015, Roman Mars tweeted that “if someone made a show like #99pi but for video games, that person could crush the world”. Challenge accepted. Gameplay launched yesterday, with stories about video games and the virtual worlds that power culture and community. They’ve got one listener already.

Musonomics, a podcast about the business of music, has a special episode all about music licensing for podcasts. Why is it so complicated? And what are the main approaches to licensing songs for it?

The Michelle Obama Podcast, until now a Spotify exclusive, has now been released on other podcast apps.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend features Michelle Obama this time around - coincidentally, promoting her new podcast. Oh, and an election that’s coming up.