TPX announce more sales partnerships

• TPX has announced sales partnerships with two Canadian podcasts: Canadian True Crime and Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids. They’re TPX’s first Canadian signings; the company also represents Wondery in Canada (Apr 16).

• It’s still not so easy to listen to a podcast, says Steven Goldstein - confusion about 'subscriptions’ and complaints about the Apple Podcast app abound.

  
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• Larry Rosin from Edison Research will be presenting the Infinite Dial Australia 2018 report in a free webinar this Thursday at 11.30am Sydney time. There is lots of information about podcasting in this report; here’s where to register.

• Event: a panel discussion on brand podcasts, in the University of Madrid, Spain.

• Castro 3 was released last week. This week, the team blog about their decisions - why it has an optional paid subscription, particularly. Of note: they tweeted: “Castro 3 has been downloaded more times in 3 days than Castro 2 was in 2 years”.

• New podcasts:

  • In the UK, The Rubber Chicken and Folder&Co are producing the official podcast for ITV’s Love Island - Love Island: The Morning After is already trending high in podcast charts.
  • 2SER, a Sydney radio station, launches History Lab: 'Australia’s first investigative history podcast exploring the gaps between us and the past’. It’s a collaboration between the station and the concisely-titled Australian Centre for Public History at University of Technology Sydney.
  • Moneycontrol, India’s financial website, has a new podcast, moneycontrol Podcast. In its first month it’s had 75,000 listens.

Our podcast pages now show more information (if requested), including who’s hosting the audio in many cases, and whether or not it’s being measured by Podtrac. We’ve also removed all mention of “subscribing” from these pages. Our site search now also searches podcast pages; and we’ve removed our event pages.