Podnews Weekly Review
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Every Friday, James Cridland and Sam Sethi review the week's top stories from Podnews; and interview some of the biggest names making the news from across the podcast industry.
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Podnews Weekly Review
"Keep Calm and Carry On". BBC R&D launch 'Adaptive Podcasting' and Alby launch a new SAT's dashboard.
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James Cridland & Sam Sethi
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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Guest Interviews
- Ian Forrester - BBC R&D - Adaptive Podcasting
- Rene Aaron - Alby - New Dashboard
Show Notes
- The BBC Global News Podcast's presenter Jackie Leonard, and producer Karen Martin, spoke at Radiodays Asia in Malaysia. The show, which is also recording a special edition at the event, is one of the top-rated shows in many Asian countries, with 33m downloads a month.
- In collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union and partners, BBC R&D has developed an open-source platform that allows the production of 'adaptive' podcasts.
- Is podcast search broken? Justin Jackson took a tweet from Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta as inspiration to test the search facilities in podcast apps.
- Podnews did some research on what podcast search engines actually index.
- Alby is a micropayment wallet that uses the lightning network. They are working on a new Dashboard and their new WP plugin. Link: https://saturn.fly.dev
- August’s platform data for Buzzsprout
- Podverse, a podcast app, has launched searchable transcripts. Here’s an example from the Podland podcast.
- Wavvy – new web-based audio editor based on Audacity
- Trebble has launched an online audio editor
- Podnews podcast pages now support the podcast:person tag
- Pod The North, a Canadian podcast newsletter, launches today. Run by Kattie Laur
- Radio France podcasts will be available on Amazon Music
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