PodLP: a new podcast app for the next billion listeners

• What’s next after iOS and Android? KaiOS is the third most popular mobile operating system in the world, aiming to help the 3.5bn people who aren’t yet connected. In India, 70 million KaiOS phones have been sold (costing US $7.85 each). PodLP is the first podcast app for the platform; Thomas Barrasso writes about the development experience - and tells Podnews that Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania are among the top countries using the app so far. It makes money from ads and podcast sponsorship.

• First look: Free podcast host Sounder has launched the Sounder Discovery Suite, which they call the first-ever keyword-based analytics tool, along with Audio SEO and Soundbite Sharing, all free for creators. The release also marks the launch of a new player, tech stack, and Sounder’s move out of beta.

• EW Scripps is, apparently, looking at selling Stitcher ($). Podnews is told, by someone familiar with the matter, that the company has been looking for buyers for some time.

• Audiocraft, an Australian podcasting conference, has announced ites first set of speakers. The event, normally held in Sydney NSW, will be virtual this year.

• iHeartMedia and VICE News are to produce a new show. VICE News Reports, will be a new weekly investigative series covering critical news subjects from around the world. It’ll launch in Q3/2020. Condé Nast has also announced a podcast network.

• The Independent Filmmaker Project has extended its 2020 submissions process to close on July 1. IFP is seeking innovative audio creators in any stage of development to participant in IFP Week 2020’s inaugural Audio Hub. Selected projects will meet with top distributors, financiers, and programmers.

• Voxnest is planning a Podcast Advertising Industry Summit: free to virtually attend, it’s on June 30, 1pm-3pm Eastern.

  
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• Where’s iVoox in your podcast stats? Probably nowhere: but there’s good news: “iVoox applications use an anonymous user identifier on each mobile device for requests and they are not identified with their own user agent, but we plan to implement it soon.”

• Megaphone is now hosting podcasts from 'Noisier’, a Bristol UK based production company. Their first show, Real Narcos, has topped the charts in many different countries.

• Zoom is to offer end-to-end encryption to all its users after work by the EFF.

• I don’t care about Kim Kardashian’s Spotify deal, says Africa Podfest’s Paula Rogo, who is to write a regular Medium column about the African podcasting scene.

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