Tenderfoot TV to fund a podcast from Bitcoin

• Tenderfoot TV is funding a podcast entirely from Bitcoin. From Nowhere will look at the “dark past” of the crypto world; it’ll launch in early 2022. (Read this to earn Bitcoin from your podcast; we’ve just updated it with the latest information.)

• At Fast Company, Nicole Laporte publishes More than Joe Rogan: Inside Spotify’s Audio Revolution, with a number of quotes from Spotify insiders. Spotify is presumably pleased with it, since their PR team flagged it up for us to include today.

  
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  • In The Verge, Ashley Carman also looks at Spotify’s purchase of Findaway, the book distributor.

• Apple Podcasts has sent an email to podcasters. In it, they flagged up the new feed refresh button in Apple Podcasts Connect, and added a tool to promote Apple Podcasts on social media, which look like this: although we’d recommend using universal links too.

  • Didn’t get Apple’s email? We didn’t either this time, but Elsie at Libsyn has our back. If you didn’t get it too, get to Apple Podcasts Connect, and edit your profile (top right), to make sure the little tickbox for the newsletter is still turned on.

• The Apple Podcasts app, which was once Apple’s worst-rated app at just 1.8, is mysteriously riding high at 4.7 these days. Why’s that? PodMov Daily suggest that people are hearing “give us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts” and rating the app instead. One five star review for the Apple Podcast app says “So glad my friend introduced me to this podcast”. (And, presenting your daily reminder that ratings and reviews don’t have any effect on the Apple Podcasts charts.)

• VOCAL Podcast Network has been launched as a partnership between Quality Control and The Network Advisory.

• Acast has signed Latin American podcast publisher Dudas Media. The company also held an indigenous podcasting event in Canada, which you can watch again.

• Remote recording tool Zencastr has added an active speaker layout which automatically gives the big screen to the person who’s speaking; or shows the two (or three) people who are talking back and forth. The company has also added a face centering tool, to stop those “sitting on one side” moments.

  
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• Another short-form audio app, Logcast, has launched. The app “will reconstruct the way audio creators create, monetize and distribute their content”, and lets you record and share up to ten minutes of audio. The iOS-only app is described as “if you took a podcast app, crossed it with Twitter and added a dash of TikTok.”

• Indian audio platform Pocket FM has received more than 100 million plays for Yakshini, a horror audio show in five different languages.

• Meanwhile, Amit Kukreja, cofounder and CEO of another audio platform, Audea, says that RSS is broken, and major audio platforms are a graveyard of content.

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• Irene Noguchi is to join The New York Times Opinion Audio as Executive Producer. She’s currently Head of Audio at Politico, and formerly worked at Vox.

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Tips and tricks

• Promoting your podcast on social media? Linking to just one player would be a mistake - how many people don’t have those phones or apps? Use universal links instead, we think.

• We’ve updated our article on how to earn Bitcoin from your podcast. It’s not the simplest thing, but make it a weekend project to enable one of your shows - you’d be surprised!

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