The Infinite Dial UK to be revealed on Dec 2

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• Edison Research’s Infinite Dial is coming to the UK, with a webinar on Dec 2 at 2pm with the results. The UK has, until now, been without a direct comparison to the US, Canada and Australia in terms of podcast consumption (and other forms of audio).

• Fireside Chat is enabling streaming of your shows to YouTube. Their terms and conditions were quietly updated yesterday, with a new section about the use of the YouTube API “to make it easier for our users to simultaneously casts (sic) streams to YouTube”.

• Fireside Chat is also making transcripts of chats - but not publishing them, yet. This chat recording contains code including a full transcript, which doesn’t appear to be visible on the public web page, but which appears in Google search results. As a proof-of-concept, we’ve temporarily put up this tool to pull those transcripts out.

• Lizzie Widhelm from SXM Media has spoken to Digiday on the challenges advertisers face with podcast buying.

• We’ve updated our 100 Most Popular Podcast Names article today, with the latest data. We’ve additionally learnt that 705,000 shows have the word “Podcast” in them; there are 1,719 podcasts called “Real Talk”; and 177 shows called “This RSS Has Been Deleted”.

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• Karen Burgess at Pacific Content asks: “Has your podcast got personality?”, advising you to “lean into your personality, it’s what makes your show unique.”

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Dr Jane Goodall is the first guest for season two of Now, Then, Ten, Facebook IQ’s leadership podcast. It’s hosted by Nicola Mendelsohn, who’s VP of the Global Business Group at Meta. It launched yesterday.

The Muslims Down Under Podcast is a new podcast to engage the community to learn and understand more about Islam and Muslims - whether in Australia or elsewhere. The group is well known for their complimentary ‘Coffee and Islam’ service in all major cities across Australia.

Raise a glass to Drinks Adventures who have won a wine industry award for 'best wine blog or podcast’. James Atkinson, the host of the independent podcast, said that it was “gratifying for the podcast to have been recognised”. The show recently included a documentary on Chuck Hahn, the legendary American-Australian brewer. - read more

My Own Worst Enemy: The Podcast looks at how and why a song like “My Own Worst Enemy” became permanently woven into pop culture consciousness. Over the course of four episodes, it explores the song’s dominance at the time, the anatomy of a megahit, the career ups and downs of the band that wrote it, Lit, and the ways in which it has become permanently embedded in American pop culture. It’s produced by Osiris.

It’s Native American History Month in the US, and The Modern West is taking a look at medicine in a three-part series. Shall Furnish Medicine takes a look at how tribes have dealt with covid-19 - in some cases, better than local governments. The full season is available now, with Indigenous guests Savannah Maher and Taylar Stagner and hosted by Melodie Edwards.

Dropping In, the podcast from the Omega Institute, returns for a third season. Emmy award-winning producer and Omega director of digital media Cali Alpert sits down for intimate conversations with some of Omega’s trailblazing spiritual teachers, thought leaders, and social visionaries. - read more