WGBH invests in RadioPublic

Podcast app and service RadioPublic announces a new group of investors and advisors, led by Boston MA, US broadcaster WGBH. The seed round is USD$1.2m, and Bostinno covers the likely reasons for the investment: fundraising opportunities and to be closer to the podcasting industry. (As subscribers, congratulations RadioPublic!

80+ podcast tools every podcaster must have is a run-through of many different online tools for making and publicising a podcast.

How much do analytics matter in podcasting? asks the owner of a creative agency. “To date, podcast advertisers have been given a wide berth to experiment. And now we must be careful that the allure of metrics does not put an end to this creativity.”

New Hampshire Public Radio publishes a “ten minute writer’s workshop” with the co-creators of Welcome to Nightvale.

The Deccan Herald from Bangalore, India, publishes a piece about podcasting. This is the first content from India I’ve seen about the medium.

iHeartMedia launches an app on Comcast cable set-top boxes. Content includes live streaming radio stations, music channels, and podcasts. (Listening to audio on the TV accounts for 5% of all radio listening in the UK, so it’s an interesting market. In other news, the iOS app has been updated to give access to podcasts while using Apple CarPlay.

The Netherlands: a set of podcasts and an opinion piece from Elger van der Wel about the state of podcasting in the country. In Dutch.

Belgium: an article all about podcasting in Belgium, summed-up best by its headline: Podcasts: a new journalistic medium, attracting people, building a reputation, maybe earning something.

South Africa: “Podcasting not profitable yet, but a powerful medium”. Quality is seen as an issue: “Good podcasts will chase away bad podcasts, but the fear of course is that bad podcasts will just tank the whole industry.”

The Columbia Journalism Review reports on a speech made by Ira Glass at the Third Coast Festival. Additionally, the festival’s website contains podcasts and audio from all over.

The Houston Press lays into the Apple Podcasts app. “Somewhere in a nice office there are people paid to make an iOS podcast app, and I’m convinced said people have never actually listened to a podcast in their life. It’s the only thing that would make the baffling decisions they’ve made for how the app handles podcasts make any sense.”