Resonate Recordings launches a podcast host

• Exclusive: Resonate Recordings has launched its own hosting platform: Resonate Hosting. The editing, mixing and mastering platform’s hosting service means simpler workflows, the company says, with analytics, a podcast microsite and embedded players.

• Exclusive: Podcasting: will it prove to be recession-proof? Writing for Podnews, the CEO of Quill, Fatima Zaidi, looks at how podcasts have fared during the pandemic, and why she believes that podcasting is resilient and offers great opportunities to come.

• 25% of Latinos in the US are monthly podcast listeners, according to the Latino Podcast Listener Report from Edison Research. Latinos also spend more time listening to audio.

• Latino USA and PRX have announced a new partnership. The Latino USA podcast will join PRX from October 1.

• NPR has announced their slate for the second half of 2020, including three new shows and a change for Invisibilia.

• Player FM’s iOS app has had an update: the popular podcast app now includes Apple Watch support, a 'relax and sleep’ collection of shows, and full support for iPad.

• Castbox is now correctly sending a useragent with its RSS feed scraper, after Podnews reported a bug. The useragent is now CastboxFeedParser/1.0. Reporting useragents that parse RSS feeds is of great help to gain more accurate analytics.

• Modus has launched an updated version of their podcast tools directory, including articles and resources.

  
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• The Pivot podcast is hosting a series of virtual events called Schooled in August. The shows will include live interviews and the opportunity for viewers to ask questions in real time.

• Nominees for the third annual Audio Theatre Central Seneca Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced on Jul 24.

• Audio description has come to Australian public service television, allowing people with vision impairment to enjoy TV programs and movies. Our thought: wouldn’t these audio-described shows be great as podcasts?

Tips and tricks - with Podcorn

• Get the 'calls to action’ right in your podcast, says the ABC’s Andrew Davies.
• Top podcast interview questions to ask your guest (Wavve)
• How to use Twitter’s new voice tweet feature to reach your audience (Modus)

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Podcast News

Pablo Torre will be the new host of the ESPN Daily podcast from August.

Launched today, Missing or Murdered looks at Katie O’Shea, who vanished in a small country town in Queensland, Australia, in 2005. Her daughter, Lily, wants to know the answer to this one question.

The Vaizey View has former British minister Ed Vaizey, looking at tech disruption. His first guest is analyst Benedict Evans.