Podcast downloads are happening later in the day

• Podsights has published a piece about the current effects on podcast advertising from the coronavirus. It reports downloads are holding steady; but that many downloads have moved to later in the day. The company estimates that advertising revenue is going to be down for Q2 by about 20%. (Also: almost half of all podcast publishers surveyed said they were making podcasts about the coronavirus.)

• The most popular way of choosing a podcast is the show description, according to The Podcast Host who have published the results of their survey, Podcast Discovery in 2020. They discover that most people just use the search in their podcast app to find new stuff to listen to.

• Owen Grover, the CEO of Pocket Casts, has suddenly left the company. Pocket Casts now has a new “interim lead” of Matt Moog, who’s a board member, while they search for a new CEO.

• What’s the future of podcasting? A paper for the International Journal of Communication, Podcasting as Public Media: The Future of U.S. News, Public Affairs, and Educational Podcasts, argues that podcasting is at threat from “platformisation”, where platforms (Apple, Spotify, iHeart) control access to podcasts: retaining consumption information and promoting their own content.

• An idea for an open podcast directory has been proposed by Craig Constantine, using DNS entries. (We’ve added the DNS entry required to Podnews’s records).

  
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• Ennuicastr is a free beta for a multi-track recorder based in the browser. “Ennuicastr’s main feature is its commitment to synchronization. Ennuicastr should never lose sync for any reason.”, says the developer.

  
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• In Australia, podcast downloads increased by 15% overall in the week commencing March 16, according to a press release quoting the Podcast Ranker for the country. Consumption of news podcasts increased by 30%. The podcast ranker does not measure podcasts from the ABC, which has seen the highest increase in consumption for news websites.

  
  Aug 22 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• BBC producer Tony Churnside has posted “tips for broadcast quality audio from your spare room”; and 'creative audio storytelling post-production team’ Final Final v2 has also posted a long thread.

• The UK’s Podcast Radio got a cover feature spanning two pages of industry magazine Radio World in their last edition.

• Family Guy’s Stewie and Brian made a podcast, posted on Seth Macfarlane’s Instagram.

Podcast News

The host of Coffee with Craft writes a piece of things he’d do differently when launching his podcast.

Tape Club is a weekly podcast on the podcasting industry; the latest episode is all about coping with covid-19.

Baby Got Backend is a new podcast aimed at people who run a photography business, run alongside a website.
Aug 22 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

NBA fans have been waiting for Chad Ford to return to the spotlight for two years - and Chad Ford’s NBA Big Board is new today from Locked On, who also report that they’re seeing their biggest weeks ever for their NFL podcasts. “Sports fans still want sports,” COO Carl Weinstein tells us, “and at least a little relief from the ”real world" news."

Quizicle Kids is a play-along podquiz “where the whole family can have a go”, according to Nova Entertainment. It’s meant for adults and kids 6-13.