An interactive audio drama for smart speakers from Netflix

• Netflix has worked with Google to produce an interactive audio drama on Google’s smart speakers. It’s an audio adventure called Lost in Space; to play: “OK, Google, play the Lost in Space game”. It also works on Google Assistant on your phone.

  • “OK, Google - ask podnews for the latest” is also a good party trick.

• Spotify is planning a redesign for free users, says The Verge. It’s unclear from this story what this means for podcasts within Spotify’s free tier.

• Hosting on SoundCloud? SoundCloud’s Financial Losses Are Way, Way Worse Than We Thought, says a piece in the (not altogether impartial) Digital Music News website.

• Chris Hardwick’s ID10T podcast, formerly the Nerdist Podcast, is now going to air on 107.7 The End in Seattle WA, USA.

• Finding the tricky balance between editorial and advertising is a blog from Lionel Birnie, co-host of The Cycling Podcast, talking about how they raise money and their relationship with advertisers. Cabana has, separately, published 5 things to know about bringing sponsors onto your podcast.

  
  Aug 1 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
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• Podcast Movement have released “still more speakers” for their event in July. (Podnews will be there).

• A piece about Paul Bae, who 'Helped Spearhead the Audio Drama Movement’, in DiscoverPods. He’s behind The Black Tapes.

• StudioBricks is a Barcelona-based startup that sends you a studio in a box. It’s more a voice booth than a studio; and expect it to be about $10,000. But still, if it avoids a commute…

• Listicle corner: The best marrketing podcasts; Podcasts for web designers and developers

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