This Porsche comes with Apple Podcasts

• The electric Porsche Taycan now comes with Apple Podcasts. It’s the first “full integration” of Apple Podcasts in any vehicle; the Porsche voice assistant will allow you to ask for “popular podcast episodes or shows”, and it also includes the Top Charts for navigation. Listening is synched with other Apple devices. We’re eagerly awaiting our review unit.

  • The press release claims “over 1.5 million shows” are now in Apple Podcasts.

• First look The winners of the iVoox Audience Awards have just been released. We have the full list.

• Podcorn, a self-service marketplace connecting podcasters with advertisers for native sponsorships, is announcing new partnership deals with podcast hosts Buzzsprout, Podomatic, RSS, Captivate and Omny Studio. Podcorn claims to have done thousands of campaigns with tens of thousands of podcast creators.

• MIDiA has posted a survey claiming that Spotify is now the most widely used podcast platform. It says that 42% of podcast listeners use Spotify, with Apple at 32%, and Google Podcasts at an un-disclosed third place; and that 14% are weekly podcast users. The data covers the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany and France, weighted to country population size.

• Want to do a “Spotify Show With Music” but not use Anchor? You can, actually - as a playlist. This playlist uses Spreaker for the talk, and Spotify for the music. It still is only playable in Spotify, though.

• Sounder has partnered with Triton Digital to allow any podcast to earn revenue with dynamically-inserted advertising. This adds to their partnership with DAX for larger publishers.

• Podtrac has posted data showing how podcasts did in the US last year during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. (We’ll be publishing every day, as normal)

  
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• Descript has added a video editor. Like their audio product, the service allows you to edit media as if you’re editing a word document.

• Spotify has signed with Scooter Braun, a US media owner, to produce Country Shine with Graham Bunn, a country music broadcaster. The show appears to be an exclusive.

  
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• A podcast studio is coming to the Southern Illinois University, in Edwardsville IL, USA. Students and Illinois Small Business Development Center members will be able to use it for “a low cost”.

  
  Aug 28 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Transistor has announced early access to their Zapier podcast integration, joining Captivate.

  
  Aug 28 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• NPR has subscribed to Nielsen’s Podcast Buying Power Service. “NPR will have access to podcast insights spanning 18 genres that can be cross-referenced against a massive category of consumer purchase behavior patterns and services usage.”

• As Podcast Movement Virtual continues, details of PodFest China 2020 have been added to our events website. The in-person event is in Shanghai on October 31. Their 200+ tickets sold out in 8 minutes, they say.

• Anyone want a good “podcast hosting” domain?

Tips and tricks - with True Crime Reporter from PAR

• With news that Google Podcasts is the #3 podcast app, here’s how to tell where they’re pulling your podcast from.
• Not growing as fast as you’d like? Before you blame your content or marketing, the problem may be a lack of desire, says Evo Terra.

Random Podcast Movement Virtual photographs

Podnews Editor James Cridland, Núria Net, Norman Chella and Paula Rogo bring an international perspective to proceedings (pic: Josh Miely)

Todd Cochrane, Rob Greenlee, Podnews Editor James Cridland and Sounds Profitable Editor Brian Barletta recording The New Media Show last night (pic: Lee Uehara)

One more random photograph

Big trucks from Energex rewired the street today, leaving us without power for six hours. The main casualty is our email backlog and our podcast news section, which returns tomorrow.