Podcasts to come first on new Apple iPhone OS

• The Apple Podcasts app will appear on the front page of new iPhones. The new iOS13 operating system, to be launched in September, places the Apple Podcasts app on the front screen for the first time. The Apple Podcasts app will also be on the front screen of iPadOS13. (Users upgrading won’t have their homescreen apps moved.)

  • Oddly, on iOS13 on the second home screen is… the iTunes Store. We thought it was going away. Anyway, it’s nothing to do with podcasts.
  • Users of the brand new Google Pixel 3a? No, the Google Podcasts app is not pre-installed on the phone. The player is, as it is with all Android phones.

• Audible has posted 145 jobs in the past month, Karen J tips us off. There are roles in many countries; and as this job makes clear: “In an effort to push the boundaries of spoken-word entertainment, Audible is now developing, commissioning and producing a wide range of high-quality, original, audio programs.” It’s 11 months since the Amazon-owned company eliminated almost all their roles from podcast-style programming.

  
  This link is no longer available, as at Aug 14 2023

• Global is also hiring for DAX, its digital audio advertising platform. Digiday report that 300 advertisers currently use the service.

• Correction: no, Brittany Luse wasn’t in Johannesburg last week. With Eric Eddings was WNYC producer Veralyn Williams, who’s working on The Stakes with Kai Wright. We apologise for the mistaken identity, and have updated Friday’s web edition.

• Podtrac have revealed their top US podcast publishers for June 2019. They note that average US unique monthly audience (a proprietary and opaque figure) is up 6% from May.

  
  Aug 14 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
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• Saludesfera highlights the large number of health professionals moving into podcasting in Spanish.

• Panama: Medcom Go is a podcast platform in the country; it’s run by the television and radio company Medcom.

• India: PodMiners is developing a global blockchain platform for podcasting, according to a paid article in Coin Idol.

• Feedburner has posted a short blog communicating the withdrawl of their MyBrand service, a way to run Feedburner RSS feeds on your own domain.

  • We’d note that the copyright sign on this page is from 2008, and that it links to a blog that Google closed in 2012. We know that Podcast Mirror is still maintained, and is a free alternative.

• A nice piece of customer communication: What did the Simplecast team listen to in June? We looked for everyone’s favourite podcast and were disappointed, though.

Podcasts

Andy Richter, “best known for his role as sidekick of Conan O’Brien”, launches a new podcast today. The Three Questions sees Andy ask the same three questions to each of his guests: “Where do you come from?” “Where are you going?” “What have you learned?” (Team Coco / Earwolf / ART19)

NPR report on the Steel City Academy Podcast, which All Things Considered says is a hobby turned into serious journalism. (Soundcloud)