How Italians listen to podcasts

How Italians listen to podcasts

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  • One of China’s largest interactive podcast platforms, Lizhi has set a price target for its US IPO next week, and looks set to raise US $61.3m. The company made $116m in 2018, almost reaching profitability (a loss of $1m).

  • The Google Podcasts Android App has a new 'account switcher’. You can also switch the podcast app to operate “without an account”, i.e. a kind-of incognito mode that doesn’t save history (and doesn’t let you subscribe).

    • 571 days since the launch of Google Podcasts, the company is still operating Google Play Music Podcasts, a competing but otherwise separate product, with no signposting between the two.

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Podcasts

    Up and Vanished
    Play trailerUp and Vanished is coming to Oxygen, a US true-crime TV channel. Here’s the trailer: it airs Feb 15 in the US, and presumably will also air on the channel in Australia. (Tenderfoot TV / Megaphone)
    Secret Societies
    Play trailerLaunching simultaneously in the US, Brazil and Mexico, Parcast has released a podcast about secret societies, called Secret Societies. It joins a show about mythology called Mythology, a series about con artists called Con Artists, and episodes about serial killers called Serial Killers. In case you missed it, LaunchPod Media’s John Dinkel says this is not an accident.
    The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow
    Play trailerThe Catch and Kill Podcast, which covers the systems that protect powerful men accused of terrible crimes in Hollywood and beyond, gets a full review from Podcast Review, describing one episode as “38 powerful minutes of podcasting that puts into perspective how precarious these acts were and continue to be”. (Pineapple Street Studios / Megaphone)
    Tradeoffs
    Play trailerA new episode of Tradeoffs details how a promising solution to the US’s skyrocketing healthcare costs -- one that health care executives here have invested years and millions of dollars in -- doesn’t actually work.
    Hysteria 51
    Thank you to Hysteria 51, which has joined Podnews as a personal supporter today. It’s a weekly podcast that takes an every-man approach to the World of the Weird. (And it’s in the chart in eleven countries!) (Buzzsprout)

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