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Bookmarks for Pocket Casts

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  • Popular podcast app Pocket Casts has added a bookmarks feature, letting premium users mark those parts of podcasts they want to come back to later. You can add bookmarks from the app or directly through your headphones. The Android app is also to display episode artwork in more places.

  • Exclusive: In Australia, we’ve had a number of tipoffs suggesting that the Australian ABC will be listed in November’s Australian Podcast Ranker, which is released tomorrow. It’s one of the country’s biggest podcast producers.

  • On Musk with Walter Isaacson launches today on open RSS in most markets from iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (as below) - but in an interesting development, the show will be exclusive on Podimo in five European markets (Denmark, Norway, Germany, The Netherlands, and Finland).

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Podcast News

    Underwater
    Play trailerThe finale episode of audio fiction podcast Underwater has just been published. It stars Jason Derulo and Alexandra Shipp, and is from Warner Music Group’s (WMG) in-house podcast network Interval Presents. It’s the last of eight episodes.
    Death, Sex & Money
    WNYC’s Death, Sex & Money, which ends in its current form this month, held an event last weekend which was reported by The New Yorker. Host Anna Sale told the room: “I’m not dead, the members of the ‘Death, Sex & Money’ team are not dead, and we don’t even know if the show is dead.”
    ON Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson
    Play trailerThe man who single-handedly destroyed Twitter? Or a visionary? On Musk with Walter Isaacson is new from iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope. Evan Ratliff (“Mastermind,” “Longform” Podcast) sits down with Isaacson to draw out the behind-the-scenes stories of this epic biography, and what the writer has learned as an outsider inside Silicon Valley.

Podcast promotion in the wild

Grinch podcast

The Grinch popped his eyes. Then he shook. A surprise! At Westfield Century City.

A pop-up store, see? From the folks at Wond’ry. With QR codes, swag… what a pity!

For he looked and he saw, it ends Dec 24. In Los Angeles you might spot him,

But you’ll have to be quick, until the day of Saint Nick. Thanks to Tony for doing his shopping.

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Podcast data for Dec 13

#1 in Apple Podcasts
US flag Mortal Sin (NBC News)
IN flag Bhagavad Gita (Spydor Studios)

#1 in Spotify
US flag The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
IN flag Shri krishna Geeta Vani (Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta)

Over the last week, 184,371 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 9.8%). source

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