YouTube listening time falls; and working safely during a pandemic

YouTube listening time falls; and working safely during a pandemic

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  • Audioboom has closed its Indian office. “While the podcast market in India has grown over the past 5 years, it has not become big enough for us to sustain an operation there. Our hosting platform will still be available to podcasters in India of course,” CEO Stuart Last tells Podnews. “We’re still focused on global expansion, but need to be smart in how we do that. The US and UK remain our core regions, but we are the biggest international podcast publisher in Australia, and we are currently developing a new partnership in Canada that will grow podcasting there.”

  • Lower Street has unveiled a rebrand and a new website promoting their production services. The UK-based company focuses on narrative podcasts with brands, and works with brands across the world. They’re also Podnews supporters, which is kind of them.

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  • Castopod is “an open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want [to] engage and interact with their audience.” It’s due to launch later this year as part of an initiative called podlibre.

  • Podthon20 is a virtual summit on Jul 18-19. Tickets are available now; one of the speakers is our Editor, in a panel with other podcast newsletter editors.

  • The Podcast Academy is doing a true crime workshop on Jul 14; and a webinar on mixing and managing your audio on Aug 12. Both events are free.


    Aug 25 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Nothing to do with podcasting, but Apple’s Keynote has had an update: with a new feature to “play slide show in window”, which those of us who do a lot of presenting via Zoom will like.

  • After we reported it as a bug, Player FM’s RSS feed checker now identifies itself correctly (rather than Ruby which was its useragent until now). We’re seeing it identify itself as something like PlayerFM/1.0 Podcast Sync (687 subscribers; url=https://player.fm/series/podnews-podcasting-news) which looks excellently informative. Thank you!

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