Podtrac: NPR back at #1

Our photo story: kids have bright minds and big ideas, says a new podcast: see below

• Podtrac has released its top US podcast publishers ranker for June 2020. NPR regains the #1 slot, followed by iHeartRadio and the New York Times. The ranker includes participating publishers only.

  
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• Pandora’s Android app now supports offline podcasts: however, you need to be a paid Pandora user to gain access to this feature.

• Spotify has announced it has created a team to develop original audio programming for the growing US Latino podcast audience.

• Sony Music Entertainment and 'Crimetown’ creator Marc Smerling have announced an exclusive podcast partnership.

• An interesting data point from the Edison Research Latino Podcast Listener Report: 35% of Latinos who don’t listen to podcasts say that the reason is “they’re too long”. We’ve updated our article on how long should a podcast be with this new data.

• From Germany, Airtape is a new remote recording service that just needs a browser.

• The new Wondery+ app isn’t available outside of the US. “Since the Wondery app includes a subscription service, there’s a lot of research that needs to be done on a market by market basis,” CEO Hernan Lopez tells Podnews.

Tips and tricks - with Podcorn

• Recording mobile phone calls (Transom)
• Pacific Content’s Dan Misener highlights how Mozilla promoted one of their back-catalogue episodes and suggests you do the same

Podcast News

“Even though they may be small, kids have bright minds and big ideas,” say the founders of Fireflies, the original kids debate show. Each episode features a kid host and two kid debaters who discuss and debate an engaging and relevant topic.

Podcast Junkies interviews Brenda Salinas Baker from Google in the latest episode. “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful. And that is why Google cares so much about the open web and the RSS ecosystem in podcasting.”

An episode of Well & Good, a health and wellness podcast, has been removed after it was accused of being “dangerous and harmful”. The podcast had interviewed Pete Evans, a conspiracy theorist. It was removed by the podcasters themselves “as it is not having the positive outcome that we had intended.”

An episode of You Cannot Be Serious, a sports podcast, has resulted in a formal apology and a AU $100,000 (US $70,000) settlement after it made racist comments about Nicky Winmar, an AFL footballer. The settlement will go to a charity that funds education and football programs for Indigenous children.

BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein has released a special report on the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, an alleged accomplice. Season two debuts later this year.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has launched Spinning Plates - “where I speak to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work.” She’s released seven albums while having five children, so has some experience…

Culture Class Podcast, a podcast that learns about different cultures and backgrounds, recently interviewed Daryl Davis, a Black man who befriended members of the KKK.