Show notes: only 60% of apps support links

• Testing how show-notes display in over 40 different podcast apps, Podnews has uncovered vast inconsistencies between different podcatchers. Only 60% of apps support links to websites. Spotify is the worst app to display show notes, based on total downloads; Pocket Casts and Overcast were the best according to our tests.

• Podcasts are more popular than music playlists, says a international study run by MIDIA Research. Meanwhile, Sounder uses Google stats to claim that podcasts are more popular than blogs.

  
  Aug 13 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Edison Research have released a few more pieces of information about Infinite Dial Australia 2019. There’s a webinar later this week with the full study.

• Hindenburg, an audio editor, now exports directly to Spreaker, a podcast host. (It exports to many others).

  
  Aug 13 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Event: Acast and AudioOne are hosting a seminar on podcasting in Dublin, Ireland, on May 14th.

• If you fancied coming to Podcast Day 2019 in London in June, we’ve got a discount code which can save you (or your organisation) just over €100. Want it? Just reply to this email and ask nicely.

Opinion

• Ashwin Krishnan shares the 5 unexpected things that podcasting taught him.
• Jon Moore says You’re not the BBC, and that’s good.
• Bill Rosenblatt says that Luminary’s wobbly launch portends big changes in the podcast market.

Podcasts

FBi Radio, an independent Sydney radio station, has launched Under The Bridge, a new podcast showcasing the week’s freshest new Sydney music. In the podcast’s debut, Abby and Joe dive into the debut EP from Ella Haber, new singles from GAUCI, Oh Boy, & Murray Darling, and shine a spotlight on their must-listen Sydney release of the week - Body Type’s EP2

Sticking with the land Down Under, Australian True Crime is celebrating hitting 100 episodes, with a special show and some live events. (Whooshkaa)

But that’s another story, a podcast about books that changed peoples’ lives, has Melinda Gates as their current guest. “She talks about what James Baraz’s Awakening Joy taught her about meditating, learning to take a step back, and trusting her soul.” (Macmillan / Megaphone)