NPR and Edison Research release their Smart Audio Report

• The Smart Audio Report from NPR and Edison Research has been released, highlighting the behaviour of the 43m Americans who own a smart speaker, according to the study. There is lots of data in the full slide deck. 39% of smart-speaker owners say they listen to podcasts at least once a week; 28% use their smart speaker to do so. Edison Research reveals more data at Podcast Movement.

  
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• NiemenLab cover In The Dark's monetisation methods, including a charge of $50 to get into their exclusive Facebook group.

• Headliner has announced a number of updates, including stock images and video, and advanced video editing.

• Richard Berry, a radio and podcasting academic, published his recent paper presented at the Radio Conference 2018 - it covers “how podcasters are developing their own cultures and practices, which might be resemble radio but is increasingly establishing points of cultural difference”

• WRCBtv explains podcasting, and interviews Jeff Brown from Read to Lead among others.

• In Charlotte NC, USA, a new podcast network has been launched from Sentire Media. The network starts with twenty shows, including the excellently-titled We like drinking.

• In The Word from Mouth this week: Tommy Savoia of The Cube Command Podcast, a video gaming podcast made for players by players, Stuart Fensterheim of The Couples Expert, advice on having a loving and enriching relationship, and James Thomas of Four Seas One Family , adjusting to life overseas as an expat or immigrant) - all recorded at the 2018 Podfest Multimedia Expo.

  
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• Event: Brisbane Podcasters has a session about systemising and streamlining your podcast tasks and outsourcing; Wed Jul 25 in Brisbane QLD, Australia.

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