Faking IAB-compliant downloads

• Can IAB-compliant downloads be faked? Anthony Gourraud thinks so: indeed, he built a contraption for about $210 that can theoretically fake up to 30,000 downloads a month if you’re really determined and quite technical. He documents how he did it - and how podcast hosts can detect it. (Version française ici)

• International Podcast Day is September 30th: but it’s already Sept 30th in some parts of the world, so a bunch of live presentations are happening right now. Watch for free here.

  • For International Podcast Day, Hindenburg is planning a set of free workshops and a 40% discount for Hindenburg products.
  • The Mat Talk Podcast Network and founder Jason Bryant will be hosting a 14-hour live stream interviewing and showcasing wrestling podcasters from around the U.S. “That’s the college, high school and Olympic styles of wrestling, not the drama that is sports entertainment”, we’re told. The live stream will starts at 9 am Central time tomorrow.

• Love the podcast you’re listening to? Daniel J Lewis has added a new feature to My Podcast Reviews - called Love The Podcast, it will help your listeners give reviews for your podcast, linking to the right platforms for their device. Here’s an example for Podnews.

• Apple’s spending money on podcast advertising: Magellan AI has published their list of US podcast advertisers who increased their spend the most in August. Apple spent $311,000 on advertising: according to the company, it was all for their Apple News+ product.

• The 2020 Discover Pods Awards are open for nominations. The fourth-annual awards are fan-nominated and fan-voted without a paywall. This year the awards expanded their categories with dedicated awards to LGBTQ+, POC, and women created or hosted podcasts. You’ve only got two weeks to nominate your favourites.

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• Pushkin Industries has a nice new website.

• Another podcast app in India: Kuku FM has a number of podcasts, as well as live radio and music. It appears to list third-party content, but we can’t quite see how to add ours.

• Congratulations to the Podfest Global Summit, who set a Guinness World Record in August for the “largest attendance for a virtual podcasting conference in one week”. We’re told Guinness wanted at least 5,000 attendees to set the record. They achieved… 5,003! Phew!

Tips and tricks - with Podcastfestival 2020's listen back

• Podiant has added free online courses and industry news to a brand-new Podcasters’ Hub, which they’ve launched today.
• The economics of running a physical podcast studio looks at the Triangle Podcast Studio in Raleigh NC, USA.

Aug 28 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
• How to grow a podcast with email marketing - with Kelly Forst from AWeber.

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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. (ad)
It’s fine to hear from millionaires and financial whizzkids about what to do with money - but better to hear from real experience. Small Change: money stories from the neighborhood highlights smart, practical and collaborative money skills developed by people living with lower and unstable incomes. It’s new from MPR News.

Horror narration podcast Creepy is launching their “31 Days of Horror” series beginning October 1. The series will air a new chilling tale each day of the month, culminating in a special episode on Halloween. (It gets more than a million downloads a month).

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