Voxnest helps monetise UK podcasts with DAX

• Podcasting solution provider Voxnest announces today that it has partnered with DAX to help monetise UK audiences. Voxnest customers, including those on the company’s Spreaker platform, now have the benefit of DAX monetisation, while advertisers can take advantage of advanced targeting and measurement solutions. Voxnest President Francesco Baschieri says: “It’s an exciting time to be involved in this medium, and we’re confident that our easy-to-use, efficient and scalable solution for creating, monetizing and distributing audio content will have a catalyzing effect on creators worldwide.”

• Castro, the well-received iOS podcast app, is now part of Tiny, owners and investors in a range of companies including Dribbble and Flow. Oisín and Pádraig post that “for the first time in five years of work on Castro, we’ll have the resources to focus exclusively on it as product designers and developers.” Congratulations to them.

• Jaclyn Schiff from Pod Reacher listened to over 800 episodes of Marketing School to produce How Neil Patel and Eric Siu Grew Their Podcast to 750,000 Downloads Per Month in Two Years

  
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• Leon Neyfakh from Slate’s Slow Burn podcast, and some of his team, are leaving the company, he’s announced on Twitter.

• Job: The University of Chicago is looking for a Podcast Producer. “The University Podcast Producer leads podcast production, marketing and distribution at the University of Chicago. The role is vital to growing podcasting at the University, with the producer building content and audience for individual shows such as Big Brains and Capitalisn’t as well as the larger UChicago Podcast Network”.

• “Podcasting vs Radio” still is a thing, it seems. When making podcasts, it turns out you have to unlearn some of what you learnt in network radio, says Richard Davies. Meanwhile, Leslie McMurtry, Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford, compares podcasting to radio.

Podcasts

The Super Awesome Science Show is a brand new series that was launched yesterday. It’s hosted by researcher, educator, and Canadian-bestselling author, Jason Tetro, better known as “The Germ Guy”, and explores the answers to today’s burning science questions, from climate change and blockchain, to sleep and artificial intelligence. (CuriousCast / Omny Studio)
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The MAS*H cast are due a reunion: on Alan Alda’s Clear + Vivid podcast, USA Today reports. Alda says: “Loretta Swit and I will be talking from New York, Mike Farrell will be in a studio in L.A., Jamie Farr will be on the phone from his house in Bell Canyon and Gary Burghoff will be on the phone from Northern California.”