Tenderfoot TV's new investigative podcast

• Podtrac have released January 2019 figures for the top 10 US podcast publishers, and top 20 US podcasts, using their service. NPR remains at #1, with a yearly increase in US unique audience from 16.3m to 17.9m. iHeartMedia has seen significant increases year-on-year, but their figures now include the StuffMedia purchases, so aren’t comparable.

  
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  • Podtrac only measures podcast publishers who opt in to their measurement service, and so these numbers are incomplete. Addtionally, Podtrac have removed all global figures from these reports this month: in December, NPR achieved 147m global downloads.

• Bob Pittman, the CEO of iHeartMedia, is interviewed in a recent edition of AdAge AdLib.

• When Serial returns, it’s focusing on the US public school system. It will be hosted by Chana Joffe-Waltthe, and for some reason the producers are keen to highlight that this will be “a limited series” rather than your actual Season 4.

• Chartable think we’re entering the global age of podcasts. There are lots of stats and data as to changing habits. If you read nothing else today, read this.

• Following her promotion, Theo Balcomb from the NYT is interviewed in WWD about expansion plans for The Daily.

• Jon Moore writes on basic mic techniques.

• Apple Podcasts appears to have a branded embedded player, called the “Mezzanine Player Prototype”. This player - designed to be embedded in a web-page - was sent to us as part of a press release. Of interest - the audio is hosted by Apple and is available in both MP3 and OGG varieties. A Google search reveals it’s been used for Beats 1 video clips as well.

Podcasts

• Tenderfoot TV and Cadence13 have announced To Live And Die In LA, an investigative podcast into the death of an aspiring actress, hosted by Neil Strauss. The podcast is set to launch next Thursday, Feb 28. (Tenderfoot TV / Cadence13 / Megaphone by Panoply)
• What happens when people leave their regular routine and comfort zone and find themselves far from home, in foreign places and cultures unknown to them? 22.33 tells the life-changing stories that result. (Anchor)
• Not Skinny But Not Fat is a podcast inspired by an Instagram account, covering the dating lives, drunken escapades, and makeup lines of superstar digital citizens. (Podglomerate / Megaphone by Panoply)