Podcast Movement wraps up

• Podcast Movement wraps up later today. Our Editor is presenting a session on Google Podcasts (10.00am, Gatlin E6).

• A detailed study into Spanish-speaking podcast listeners has been released by Podcaster@s. Based from a self-selecting sample, it shows that Spotify is most popular, and that Apple is just as popular as YouTube for podcast listening. It also touches on ideal podcast length, attitude to advertisers, and more. (Go to the end for a summary).

• Wondery announced at Podcast Movement yesterday that their hit podcast Dr Death was now available in a variety of languages as part of the company’s global expansion. Dr Morte, 死亡医生, Dr Muerte, Dr LaMort, and Dr Tod are now all live.

• Patreon has announced a new secure way to share video for supporters, using Vimeo.

• Veritone has announced that its artificial intelligence software aiWARE will be used on the ART19 podcast platform. It’ll automatically work out what individual podcast episodes are about, to allow programmatic ads to be based on the content of that episode.

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• Lila Shroff from glow·fm has written her takeaways from Podcast Movement. Among other things, she suggests that audio fiction is becoming more popular.

• Podsend is a new tool in early release, letting you share and comment on audio. It might be good for sponsor ad approvals, bonus audio for your supporters, or a way to annotate audio for your editor.

• The CBC are developing five of their podcasts for TV. The Canadian public broadcaster made the announcement at Podcast Movement: shows include Tai Asks Why.

• The Cork Podcast Festival (Oct 11-13) in Cork co Cork, Ireland, have announced that Acast are partners for the event. It’s Cork’s first podcast festival.

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The host of Start Here from ABC News, Brad Mielke, spoke at Podcast Movement. “What I’ve learnt is how much more information you can get out of a good piece of sound than even the interview. How you use sound to tell the story [can be as important] as the voices you speak to”.