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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
  
  
• All podcast roads lead to video, suggests Anchor founder Michael Mignano
  
  
• Fountain has added its new charts and added a number of additional features
  
  
• How to pretend your podcast is a hit - Nick Hilton
  
  
  

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