RØDE gets into headphones

• RØDE has launched its first ever set of headphones. The NTH-100s have “been meticulously crafted to deliver exceptional sonic performance for critical listening, from monitoring to mixing to mastering,” and have been built to wear for long periods of time. The Sydney-based company is well-known in the podcasting world for producing microphones and the RØDECaster mixer.

  
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• Apple Podcast Connect has a new terms of service document. Comparing the old and the new, we notice new clauses about the “right to label or remove” your shows (¶1); a new clause about confidentiality (¶4); and a new license clause (¶8). It may allow Apple in future to label shows (as Spotify are doing for COVID-19), and promote guests on your show.

• An Australian podcast covering a swindle got swindled themselves - by a fake guest. The guest, working through a bogus PR agency, demanded payment for her appearance on LiSTNR’s The Briefing. Owner SCA said they removed the episode, and didn’t pay.

  
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• Want a recap of Podcast Movement Evolutions 2022 from Dan Franks, one of the organisers?

• iHeartMedia is to produce new kids-focused podcasts as part of a collaboration with, um, Collab Inc.

• Freakonomics Radio is to become a radio station on SiriusXM. It’s a streaming channel available to all subscribers of the platform; the shows continue wherever you listen to your podcasts.

• The TV show Only Murders in the Building is to return for a new season. The comedy show includes a not-very-flattering portrayal of podcasters and podcast fans. It’ll be on Hulu on June 28.

• PodHound, a podcast discovery service, has had a redesign.

• Fiction podcast Greater Boston is fundraising for its fourth season. Part of the Fable & Folly podcast network, it’s got three days left to reach its goal; it’s 89% of the way there.

• Here’s a list of podcast editing communities from Stephanie Fuccio.

  
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Moves and hires

• Steve Raizes is now Executive VP of Podcasting and Audio at Paramount. He was Senior VP of Podcasts, and will now oversee all audio initiatives for CBS News.

  
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• Scott Menz, a former content director for rock station Triple M, has launched The Sound Business, a branded podcast company.

  
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Tips and tricks

• How to re-record podcast audio without it sounding obvious, from Rachel Corbett

Podcast News

Half audio book, half intimate writer conversations, Daring to Tell features emerging and accomplished writers, reading their work then talking about it with writer/host Michelle Redo. Redo was with WGBH Boston for thirty years; it’s produced by Redo’s Flying Pig Audio.

Awakened Underground is launched today - an investigative talk show exploring the ancient art of healing yourself with plant medicines and other things we’d mention if we didn’t reach so many corporate inboxes. It produced by Cavalry Audio and iHeartPodcasts.

No Harm In Asking is a new podcast from Michael Kerr and Eric Byron - and is the podcast that reviews podcasts. They’ll be reviewing some of the top shows to discover why they’re so successful, and look at less well-known niche podcasts to showcase the diversity of creative approaches that podcasters can take to make their shows stand out. It started this month.