The Podcast Academy names its Board of Governors

• The Podcast Academy have posted an updated Board of Governors. Rob Greenlee from Libsyn has been confirmed as the Chair; governors include Conal Byrne from iHeartMedia, Ben Cave from Apple, Anya Grundmann from NPR and Courtney Holt from Spotify. The Board also includes podcast producers, talent agents, and studios. Google is absent.

  
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  • Membership for the organisation opens on June 22 for podcasters across the world; there’ll be a webinar on June 18. The price for membership will be just US$50, lower than first announced.
  • The award ceremony, to be held in Los Angeles in early 2021, will be renamed. In case you missed it, here’s the initial announcement and speech.

• Podimo, a subscription-based podcast service, announced today that it has raised $16.5m in funding. The service is live in Denmark and Germany; it raised $6.6m in July 2019.

• Deezer says podcasts are being used to fight loneliness during lockdown. 19% of those surveyed have started listening to podcasts for the first time during lockdown.

• Amazon may be investing in local sports podcasts, according to Axios, as part of their push into podcasting. The company they’ve sniffed around, apparently, is Blue Wire, which we first wrote about in February.

  
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• Veritone has published a white paper around topic extraction from podcasts and what you can use this new technology for. (Google Podcasts has automatic topic extraction within its player, incidentally)

• Dave Winer has posted where the idea for RSS came from. (Microsoft, it turns out.) Meanwhile, co-inventor of podcasting Adam Curry has blogged about Joe Rogan. Focus on your Tribe, he advises.

• The French government wants you to stop saying the word “podcast” - in French, at least. The Commission d’enrichissement de la Langue Française has determined that you should be saying “audio à la demande” from here on in, rather than “le podcast”.

• RØDE has added a number of accessories for their popular RØDECaster Pro device, including audio cables, a power connector, and identification rings for microphones.

  
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• Spotify wants to become the go-to for podcasts. Creators and audiences should worry, says Hank Green, the creator of VicCon and YouTuber in the Washington Post; meanwhile Steven Goldstein wonders What’s next on Spotify’s shopping list?

  
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The term 'Podcast’ has become a generic term for a Tribe. How or when you participate is unimportant, and you will do whatever it takes to keep up with Tribe. Different app? Spotify? Fine. Just wanna be at the meeting. - Adam Curry

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