Triton Digital: O Assunto is número um in Latin America

• The new Triton Digital Podcast Report is out for Latin America: new publishers include Audioboom and the audio·ad podcast network. The data is only from participating publishers.

  • The number 1, O Assunto, a news podcast in Portuguese, saw 60% more downloads; the top 10 grew 9.9% as a whole, to 3.08m weekly downloads.
  • The highest new entry at #7 is Últimas noticias de CNN en Español (from WarnerMedia), which is also on smart speaker news briefings. Us too: we’re on Alexa and on Google Assistant.
  
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• Hubl is a new podcast app that offers “the best way to find, review and share podcast episodes”. It links with Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and uses the Listen Notes directory.

• Ode is a new service offering a Chrome extension to help listeners remember promo codes from their favourite podcasts, and to monitor their use of them.

• Podcast producer JAR Audio has joined the Get Canada Connected Coalition, which calls for rural Canadian homes to get better access to high-speed internet. In Feb 2019, we found that Canada has among the highest costs for mobile data in the world, charging US$136 a month for a plan that would cost $75 in the US or $35 in Australia.

• Later today, at 1pm Toronto time, you can enjoy the unveiling of The Infinite Dial 2020 Canada in a free webinar - which will include podcast consumption figures for the country. (Yes, we published this yesterday. But it’s actually true today.)

  
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• The Podcast Festival has put videos of their recent Future of Podcasting event on their website, for anyone to watch. Caution: includes our Editor, but also includes Jason Phipps and Kara Swisher among others.

• Solstice Media, a media publisher in Australia, has announced Solstice Podcasting, a new national podcasting and audio production agency. The company has joined forces with Nicola Haack, a broadcaster and podcaster.

• Omny Studio has highlighted best practice for dynamic content in podcasts - what it is and how people are using it.

• Bill Rosenblatt profiles the European podcast market for Forbes, including what he calls Podimo’s “promising start”. From the UK’s Sparklab Productions, Mel Harris says that branded podcasts are definitely a thing. “It’s a creative way of building brand loyalty,” she says.

• Podcasting changes: and we do, too. As of today, we now clearly mark older stories once they’re a year old.

If you took all the ad revenue in the podcast space and gave Apple a 30% cut, it’s a rounding error of a rounding error for Apple. It’s not their core business. It doesn’t move their market cap at all. - Rob Walch, Libsyn, talking on The Feed

Tips and tricks

• How to do a podcast like Joe Rogan (Dave Jackson)

• Do a recording kit tune up, says Transom, to get all your recording gear in shape.

• Why it’s critical to have a website for your podcast (Brenden Mulligan)

• Daily? Weekly? Seasons? What’s your podcast episode strategy? (Frank Racioppi)

  
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On The Jordan Harbinger Show: Deep Thinking for Disordered Times. Was chess a political tool for the Soviet Union? Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist, and the author of books about machine learning and Vladimir Putin. What can and can’t be applied from chess to politics and decision making? And could he be a chess champion now? Listen now

News Beat is a politics podcast with a difference: combining hard-hitting journalism and interviews with hip-hop music and original lyrics from independent artists. The show, calling itself a social justice podcast, promises to arm listeners with knowledge that “they won’t hear from mainstream media outlets”; in the feed today, a re-run of 'Why We Riot’: particularly prescient in today’s environment.