Manipulated: the Top Charts on Apple Podcasts are broken

Manipulated: the Top Charts on Apple Podcasts are broken

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  • CNBC reports that brands are set to double their ad-spend on podcasts.

  • Suly is a (French) app designed for podcast discovery. Google Translate tells me it’s an “application that will allow you to discover new podcasts with a disconcerting ease!”

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  • AdAge reports that women are driving podcasting growth. According to a study from Westwood One, “time spent with podcasts significantly grew among women, from 4.6 hours per week in 2017 to 5.5 hours per week this year, a 20 percent uptick year-over-year. Time spent among men may be reaching a plateau, however, growing 3 percent to 7.6 per hours per week in 2018.”

  • Resonate Recordings, the podcast production service, has revealed a new client portal that’s faster and more secure.

Podcasts

    Moonshot
    Play trailerMoonshot is back for a new season. The podcast is now weekly, and is focusing on narrative content around the world’s biggest ideas. Space mining is the first topic - they say “We’re also covering other topics such as using AI in cancer detection and treatment, robots designed to mimic animals, and doing a deep dive on driverless vehicles.” (Lawson Media / ART19)
    POLITICS AS UNUSUAL
    Play trailerPolitics as Unusual is a new weekly interview podcast from Washington DC media coach Michael Sheehan. The press release describes it as a captivating respite from today’s intense, often polarizing news cycle while still touching on everyone’s favorite topic du jour, politics. (Cadence13 / ART19)

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Your help - for a forthcoming article, we’re interested in podcasts in planes. If you’re on a plane in the next few weeks, please hunt out the podcast section in the in-flight entertainment, and take a snap of the selection for us? We’re interested. Thanks.

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