How Spain listens to online audio

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• The IAB in Spain has published a study about internet audio listeners (pdf). A website called “toyoutome” - which inexplicably isn’t a fan site of the Chuckle Brothers - reports that - 40% listen to podcasting. The study also compares live vs on-demand - news (80% live, 20% on-demand), and sports (77% live, 23% on-demand).

  
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• Just in time for the European elections, the Acast app has been translated into an additional four languages. Cela fonctionne maintenant en français! Es funktioniert auch in Deutsche! ¡Y en español también! Och på svenska kan vi förolämpa redaktören och han kommer inte ens veta om det!

• Exclusive: Auxbus has launched a new feature, called Episode Assembly. They tell Podnews that “with the press of a single button, Auxbus gathers up all your raw recordings, prepares them, adjusting levels, trimming silences, tuning them, arranging them according to your episode setup; then mixes in your music, and the result: your finished podcast in a matter of seconds.” The product is currently free for a trial period.

• Podfinder is a new, conversational way of finding new podcasts to listen to. It uses human curation and is available on the web and also on Facebook Messenger.

• Podcast Day in London have announced a ton of female podcast speakers, including reality TV star Lydia Bright.

• Sruthi Pinnamaneni of Gimlet’s Reply All gives advice on a useful framework for producing great-sounding podcast stories.

• Clothing store Betabrand in San Francisco hosts weekly live podcasts in-store, reports Forbes.

• The hosts of My Favorite Murder have a book out. Called Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered, it’s released next week; and press coverage is featuring the story of how they met.

• Meanwhile, Ashley Flowers from Crime Junkie is working on a second crime podcast, working with the Indiana Police.

• A Latin American website, Ladobe, asked its readers to recommend podcasts. Here are 22 “podcasts with power” in Spanish.

• We built this for ourselves - but if you want to link direct to a podcast episode, our episode link pages now use “magic links” that open directly in Apple Podcasts (on iPhone), Google Podcasts (on Android), or a web player. Here’s an episode about a haunted school in Brisbane from the Brisbane is Weird podcast, as one example. Search for your podcast in Podnews, and choose “Link direct to an episode” from the tools at the bottom to find a list of episodes.

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• On Monday, we mentioned Bottom of the Map, which promised to “unpack the Trap/Trap Brunch/Trap Water phenomena.” If you’re wondering what that meant, this is a potted history of Trap music - it’s a type of hip-hop. Consider yourself educated. (WABE / PRX)
• The folks behind The Nightcap built a studio above a famous restaurant in Stratford Upon Avon, England, and invited the top chefs in the country to come and… have a nightcap. (Big Bertha Productions / Libsyn)