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• The NAB Show, due to take place in Las Vegas NV in mid October, has been cancelled for a second year, after a number of major exhibitors pulled out. Citing the ongoing pandemic, NAB’s EVP of Events Chris Brown said: “It has become apparent in the face of these challenges that we can no longer effectively host NAB Show in person”. The exhibition was to have a podcasting section, and attracted 91,000 people in 2019.

  • A pro-AV equipment show InfoComm is still scheduled in Orlando FL for Oct 23-29; in Las Vegas, CES is still scheduled for Jan 5-8; and Radiodays Europe in Lisbon, Portugal - the most vaccinated country in the world - is between Oct 9-11.

• First look: Nielsen has just released their Podcasting Today Report. It says that almost half of US monthly podcast listeners are “light users”, listening less than once a week: they are the segment fueling continued audience growth. It also says that comedy is the top podcast genre for almost every age group, apart from people aged 55+, who prefer news. The report is free to download.

• Samsung Free Listen, the mobile phone company’s podcast app, is to expand from the US to launch in Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland from the end of October. If you’re on the platform, sign in here to accept the new terms (and you can use that link to add your podcast, too).

• Attribution company Podsights is adding attribution for ads in streaming radio and music services, as well as podcast ads. The company pulled its contract from AdvertiseCast last month.

• LiveXLive, which bought PodcastOne in July last year, is to rebrand as LiveOne. The company’s music service, Slacker, is now to be known as SlackerOne. They’ll spin out their PPV company, now called PPVOne, as a separate entity. The “One” comes from Norm Pattiz’s PodcastOne; he was also the founder of Westwood One.

• American Public Media have unveiled APM Studios, the organisation’s podcast production division.

• Cumulus Media radio stations and podcasts will now be on the Audacy digital platform. Cumulus shares rose 3% on the news.

• A new sports betting podcast network, Green Roll Media, has launched, working with SuperBook Sports.

• Podcasting on Anchor? We’ve discovered a bug: they’re using outdated ISO 639:1988 language codes, which were changed in 1989 for Indonesian (“id”, not “in”), Hebrew (“he”, not “iw”), and Yiddish (“yi”, not “ji”) - so caution if you’re podcasting in Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world. The RSS specification calls for ISO 639-1 codes (“en”), or optional country subcodes used in the W3C’s standard (“en-GB”).

• Melanie Withnall is SCA’s new Head of News and Information, responsible for broadcast and on-demand news.

  
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Tips and tricks

• Podcast host Captivate is running a free Podcast Maker Day on Sep 23. It’s open to everyone, not just Captivate customers; and features guest speakers sharing their stories of growing their podcast, as well as a Q&A session. Podnews’s Editor is an advisor.

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Podcast News

Pulling the Thread is a new interview series from Audacy’s Cadence13 and Elise Loehnen, who will explore the biggest questions of our time in conversation with cultural luminaries, thought leaders, scientists, theologians, doctors, and others.

Etiquette and manners podcast Were you raised by wolves? has been chosen as Apple Podcasts’ new monthly spotlight.

YouTube has released its first podcast. The Upload: The Rise Of The Creator Economy is a partnership with National Public Media, and hosted by Brittany Luse. It launched today (on YouTube and, we’re promised, “Spotify, Google Podcasts and Apple Music”), and is a five-episode series on the creator economy.

Facebook knows it’s causing harm, but time and again hasn’t fixed it, according to a new investigation into Facebook from The Wall Street Journal. The Facebook Files is a series as part of The Journal.

Every day, New Day wants to find one way to make life a little better. It’s a new daily podcast from Lemonada Media, and launched this week.

Media Roundtable this week features historian and Webb-award-winning podcaster Lindsay Graham.

We Imagine… Us launches today: a groundbreaking podcast and multimedia project to inspire people and communities to envision how they can work together to create a world that is truly equitable for all. There is a live virtual event tonight at 7pm ET.

Högt Spel det en dokumentärserie som avslöjar några av världens värsta bedragare och svindlare genom tiderna, från podcastbolaget Acast och produktionsbolaget Studio Olga. The podcast, in Swedish, launched yesterday.