RTÉ launches The Nobody Zone in five languages

• Irish broadcaster RTÉ has launched The Nobody Zone, a true-crime story set on the streets of London. But In a first for the company, it will be available in five languages: English, Danish, Spanish, German and the Irish language. The Nobody Zone is a co-production with Third Ear Productions in Denmark, and is published on Acast.

• Spotify has redesigned its podcast show pages. Show “trailers” are now given a prominent position at the top of the episode list (so, we’d recommend recording one); it also adds category browsing buttons. (This appears to be rolling out - we see it on iOS, not yet on Android.)

  • “In a new Spotify for Podcasters feature, creators can now directly select which episode they want to feature as a trailer on their show page.” - we don’t yet see this feature; but it does appear that Spotify does not use the iTunes 'trailer’ type, since our trailer isn’t yet appearing. We’re over here on Spotify.
  
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• Staples have built some new stores, called Staples Connect, in the state of Massachusetts - and each of these new stores have podcast studios. Spreaker is working with Staples to offer discounts for all Staples Connect Podcast Studios users.

  
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• The Listen In Podcasting Conference has confirmed its headline speaker. Sarah Koenig is the host and co-creator of the award-winning podcast Serial. The conference is on Jun 25 in downtown Los Angeles CA, USA. Tickets

• Nick Quah weighs in about The Podcast Academy. “There is a way to approach this cynically: give up trying to fully represent the podcast universe as a whole and instead build the buzziest possible coalition … But the involvement of founding member PRX in particular, which has historically advocated to preserve the open nature of podcasting, suggests that such a bottom-line strategy isn’t in the cards.”

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• The Horse Radio Network is celebrating posting over 10,000 episodes. The podcast network, which has been in operation since 2008, includes a daily morning show, Horses in the Morning, which is now at 2,400 episodes.

  
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• I just listened to this podcast is a weekly podcast recommendation newsletter for women. Why women? “Because there are host of topics about women’s health and women’s issues (fertility, egg freezing, health, gender quality) that aren’t covered by the most popular podcasts (e.g. Tim Ferris, Joe Rogan, etc) and we want to make sure women know that there are resources for them.”

• There are five stages of the podcast listener journey, says Alice Ko, who explores some of the ways to help audiences discover, listen and evangelise your podcast.

• Want podcasters to remain independent? Support independent podcasts argues Brian Heater in TechCrunch.

• Free event (with student ID): podcasting conference WAVS will be in Providence RI, USA, Mar 13 and 14. The lineup features Andy Mills (The Daily), Nate DiMeo (Memory Palace), and speakers from Wonder Media Network, Stitcher, and WNYC, focusing on “young podcasters”.

  
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• Podiant has added Deezer as an endpoint for distribution.

• Here’s another set of instructions on how to get your podcast onto Samsung Bixby, from the Voice Tech Podcast.

  
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• Thank you to our latest supporter, The Podcast News. You’ve helped us more robustly check podcast websites in our podcast pages by adding our PodnewsBot useragent to those requests, and listing the errors; and tweaking all the site to make it load fractionally faster.

Podcast News

The first live podcast on Broadway? Of course it’s true crime - True Crime Obsessed, which takes to the stage on Jun 1. In Playbill, the hosts let slip that they have enlisted some Broadway stars. (Audioboom)

A new, daily, podcast covering video game news has launched. Gaming Ride Home is new from the makers of the Techmeme Ride Home. The host is former Game Informer senior associate editor Kyle Hilliard (Ride Home Media / ART19)

Bad On Paper is a weekly podcast bringing you the people, products, and books you need to know about; it already boasts 125,000 monthly downloads, and a Facebook community with over 4,000 members. (Libsyn)