Limetown returns for a second season

• Anchor is promising to build a podcast studio in your office for free. If you’re in New York, and if you pay for the equipment.

• The Washington Post’s upcoming daily podcast will be called Post Reports, and presented by Martine Powers.

• Adobe have inked a deal with A Million Ads to offer personalised audio advertising on Adobe Advertising Cloud.

• Podnews’s editor gets interviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald about the massive areas of podcast growth still to come.

• Last weekend, the ACRAs (the Australian Commercial Radio Awards) were held in Melbourne VIC. There were three new categories for podcasts. OzPod has, meanwhile, made available audio of all of its sessions.

  
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• Blubrry give advice on Repurposing Podcast Content; while The Podcast Host helps podcasting intros and outros.

• Betto Arcos, a Mexican radio presenter, talks about his podcast, 'The Cosmic Neighbourhood’.

• In L’Alfàs del Pi, Valencia, Spain, the Mayor has funded a podcast course. Meanwhile, there “is very little evidence of podcast penetration in Spain”, according to this talk from Spanish podcast company Cuonda, which concludes that the industry has lots of problems to solve, but lots of opportunities.

  
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• Podlabs is a new podcast studio and classroom, teaching the art of podcast creation. It’s based in Washington DC, USA.

  
  Aug 7 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

Podcasts

Limetown returns for season two on 30 October. The first season had over 10m downloads. (Two-Up / Endeavour Audio / Megaphone)

Fun idea: Cross Country Coffee Roadshow is a podcast travelling across America, one coffee shop at a time. Starbucks is happily absent. (Blubrry)

The Station Tapes, recorded in an old railway station, interviews musicians in a casual and honest atmosphere. (21 Soul / Whooshkaa)
The Yak focuses on the bit of Australia that nobody wants to talk about: the children detained on the tiny island of Nauru. It’s part of the #kidsoffnauru campaign, calling on the Australian parliament to get every child off Nauru by Universal Children’s Day on November 20th. (World Vision / Omny Studio)

Listicle

• Top 10 mistakes that podcast guests make (Jason Rigden)