RØDE launch new products at the NAB Show

• Audio equipment manufacturer RØDE has launched a number of new products at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. The announcement of seven new products and product updates includes:

  • The Streamer X, a unit with an XLR audio interface and video capture in one (above, right)
  • The RØDECaster Duo, a smaller version of the RØDECaster Pro. (above, left)
  • The PodMic USB, an XLR and USB-enabled dynamic microphone.
  • A software updates for the popular RØDECaster Pro II will allow native connections to RØDE’s wireless microphones.

• At the NAB Show, a number of podcast companies including Blubrry, Podbean and Libsyn are exhibiting among the plethora of equipment manufacturers. The event has a podcast conference track: among the speakers: our Editor, James Cridland, interviews Valerie Geller in Podcasting in 2023: Where Are We & Where Are We Going? (11.30am, N255/N257)

• Chartable is to remove its integration with Apple Podcasts Connect from Jun 1 according to an email to customers. Apple-specific consumption data for your podcasts will no longer be available within Chartable, though Apple’s trending charts will continue. Apple Podcasts does not offer a method to programmatically export podcast consumption data to other services.

  • Spotify has also announced it’s closing Heardle, a popular music guessing game it purchased last year for an undisclosed amount.

• Podscribe is now IAB certified. The company says it is the only measurement provider certifed by the IAB Tech Lab that does not currently sell media.

• ENCO, a radio automation company, has launched two new AI-powered services. AITrack automates a radio announcer; ENCO-GPT makes radio ads automatically.

• “Narrative podcasts” are a thing, argues Samantha Hodder in NiemanStoryboard.

• Pocket Casts has added episode search in the new beta version of the app.

• We reported on Edison Research’s “batting average” data a few weeks ago, suggesting that true crime is “the genre that yields the highest chance for a hit”. Curious, we compared the top 200 list with all 4.05mn podcasts in the Podcast Index, rather than Edison’s own comparison with 20,000 shows, just to see if it made a difference. It didn’t: the top 5 genres remained unchanged.

Tips and tricks

• Pippa Johnstone writes about “the art of making a good unscripted podcast”. Preparation is key, she says, and post-production is essential.

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