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• IMDB is now accepting listings for audio podcasts, the website has announced. Kind of: currently, podcasts are marked, as our listing shows, as a TV Series, and there’s no link to the RSS feed nor the audio. For now.

• Acast has announced that any show on Acast Open, the company’s podcast hosting service, can now apply to be part of the Acast Marketplace and generate revenue from ad impressions. Podcasters will receive monthly payouts based on dynamically-inserted ads in their shows.

• First look: Juleyka Lantigua-Williams from Lantigua Williams & Co today announces a three-part webinar called Podcasting, Seriously. “With so many excellent 101 resources available about HOW TO podcast, it’s time to take a deeper look at skills and ideas that will take you a step further into podcasting as an industry,” she says.

  
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• Wondering what podcasters have in their PodKit? PodKit helps share the tools that podcasters use. Currently in “very early alpha”, here’s what our Editor uses - and you all use Podnews, right?

• A company called Bertom has released a free noise reduction plugin called Denoiser. It has zero-latency processing, which could help; and proudly boasts six sliders and two knobs. It provides very decent results while being easy to use, says a review.

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• Podfund has announced another strategic investment, this time into Atypical Artists, a fiction audio company.

• Enterprise podcast host Knit will now be run by co-founder and CTO Matt Kinser. Co-founder and President Kris Smith is now to lead PodcastAds, a company helping podcast ad buyers. Both companies share a common owner, Palegroove LLC.

• Updates…

  • Descript, a “edit podcast audio as if it was a word document” tool, has a number of new features in v3.6, including remote recording and an integration with Buzzsprout and Headliner.
  • Captivate have added customisation for their embeddable podcast player, and added the IAB seal to their sponsor kits. Disclosures
  
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• The RØDECaster Pro is a fine mixer, but Quentin Howard, a broadcast engineer, reckons it’s missing a PPM meter. So he’s built one.

• Podcast User Magazine published in the UK between February 2006 and November 2007. The first edition covered Yahoo’s podcast directory, recommendations about the ideal length of a podcast, and an editorial from Chris Skinner (still involved with podcasting with Wise Buddah and The Bugle ). Go back in time with a full archive of every issue.

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Tips and tricks

• The best audiogram apps to turn your podcasts into videos (Travel Is Life)

• Got a Chromebook? You can install Audacity on it, you know.

• Seven mistakes to avoid when starting a podcast (Ashley Grant, Podcast Generator)

• Why looking at your podcast stats might cause you to change your show (Paul Colligan)

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