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  • Hey, weirdos! Morbid, which recently switched from Audioboom to Wondery, has debuted at #2 in Podtrac’s top 20 US podcasts chart for June, its first month with the network. Its old home, Audioboom, doesn’t participate in Podtrac.

  • Podio is a service based in Dubai that appears to download podcast audio and then plays a selection of them from its own servers in a radio-like stream. Shows streamed in this way include NPR’s Planet Money, WSJ’s The Journal, and Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. It also appears to stream excerpts of Joe Rogan, and is pulling our podcast into its service somewhere. While we’re sure that site owner Uber Media has organised the right licenses, our email enquiry to them bounced.

  • Eddy, the audio editor that works like a word processor, now lets you edit video too. It’s also faster and more stable, the company says.

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