NPR podcasts - now available on Spotify

• NPR podcasts are now available on Spotify, they announce. Spotify is, say Libsyn, the #2 podcast destination in the world.

• WNYC and Night Vale are producing a deluxe edition of the first season of the cult-favorite fictional podcast, The Orbiting Human Circus (of the air), a fantastical, wildly popular radio show broadcast from the top of the Eiffel Tower. They’re also co-producing series two, available later this year.

• The Gimlet podcast Sandra is to be developed into a TV show.

• A long interview, and case study, for a podcast that has 35,000 downloads/month after two years: the Food Blogger Pro Podcast. Also in this vein: Kevin Goldberg is a guest on the latest Bitrate, discussing “how to market podcasts correctly”.

• Podcasts of note:

  • Masters Series is a podcast consisting of “great takeaways for nearly every business with advice from industry experts on SEO, content marketing, social media, developments in AI and scaling up”. Produced with WeTeachMe, by Written and Recorded in Melbourne VIC, Australia.
  • Novel Targets, focused on cancer research, which started in 2015. Season four has just started. Produced by Blue Ice Publishing, in Miami FL, USA.

• Nice tip from Transistor, a podcast host: how to automatically email your Mailchimp list when you release a new podcast.

• News of a Denver podcasting co-working space.

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