The new hires are Emily Rasekh, SVP of business development and operations; Brittany Hall, VP of podcasting sales; Ryan Zack, VP of podcasting revenue operations; and Christy Mirabal, VP of podcasting marketing.
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Sony&aposs podcast team will be led by SVP of Business Development and Operations Emily Rasekh; VP of podcasting sales Brittany Hall, VP of Revenue Operations, Podcasting Ryan Zack; and VP of Marketing, Podcasting Christy Mirabal.
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Podcasting took center stage this week, with music giant Spotify snapping up podcasting tool startup Anchor and podcast production company Gimlet.
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So I think that's at the heart of what makes podcasting effective and that's at the heart of what makes podcasting advertising effective.
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Until now, Apple has dominated podcasting, primarily because of the popularity of its iOS operating system, which features a built-in podcasting app.
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Shapiro cites Marshall Williams, the CEO of Ad Results Media, a podcasting advertising agency, as evidence that independent podcasting can support a venture business.
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Spotify recently acquired the podcasting companies Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast, and currently offers a quarter of a million podcasting titles on the streaming platform.
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Spotify purchased podcasting companies Gimlet Media and Anchor for over $340 million in February and bought another podcasting company, Parcast, for $56 million in March.
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And podcasting in general — I was talking to Dan Frommer, who you had on recently — he thinks that podcasting is now the bigger business for you.
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It's kinda fun to hear different people do them and it's kind of ... we're at the stage of the industry — not to jump too far in right away — but I think we're at the stage in podcasting where everyone who loves podcasting is rooting for everyone who's supporting podcasting.
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In his Hot Pod newsletter today — required reading if you care about podcasting — Quah tries to explain what this says about the increasingly-mainstream-but-mildly-dysfunctional podcasting industry.
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"How could a patent issued in 2012 cover podcasting, a technology that's been around since 2001?" asked Dave Winer, who is sometimes billed as the co-creator of podcasting technology.
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Podcasting revenues remain small, and both companies worked very hard to try to grow not only the size of the total podcasting pie but also the size of their respective slices.
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We're essentially kind of broadcasting, but podcasting is a different ... I hate the word podcasting, but we're essentially just sort of throwing out into the ether and hoping it lands, right?
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Blue's stuff is generally decent quality for most of your podcasting and remote meeting needs, but a number of different companies have entered the market as well, as podcasting has exploded.
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In between that there was a lot of trial and error, because 10 years ago this little podcasting industry that you like to talk about ... Did you start in the podcasting ...?
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That's why apps have proliferated from companies like Spreaker, which has a mobile podcasting toolkit, and Anchor FM, which wants to turn podcasting into bite-sized conversational transmissions — letting audiences interact with hosts.
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That's because Apple executives say they don't view podcasting as a business and aren't likely to change their perspective soon: Right now, podcasting is overwhelmingly an ad-based business that's free to users.
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Meanwhile, podcasting has grown into a mainstream form of entertainment.
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The podcast is available on iTunes and all podcasting apps.
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Spotify's latest earnings also further illuminates the company's podcasting ambitions.
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I want to go back to the basics of podcasting.
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That is because the podcasting advertising market is unusually healthy.
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It's search engine, wikipedia and podcasting directory rolled into one.
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Podcasting isn't DIY anymore, and Apple's podcast charts demonstrate that.
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Spotify is buying two major podcasting companies, Gimlet and Anchor.
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I started firmly in radio, and then podcasting came along.
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We'll be podcasting each day from E3, so stay tuned!
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We should talk about some of the mechanics of podcasting.
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Start with these: If you're a podcasting newbie, start here.
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I argued in my recent post What's Next for Podcasting?
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V. Other arguments and predictions Where Does Podcasting Go Next?
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TechCrunch: try the podcast, podcasts, and podcasting tags for archives.
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"Podcasting wasn't this massive industry that got disrupted," he says.
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Wondery launched in 2016 in the early days of podcasting.
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Do you think podcasting could provide an outlet for this?
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So, he did podcasting as a joke, as a lark.
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You could see that dynamic coming to podcasting as well.
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And that's not what podcasting should be in my mind.
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NowThis is the latest digital publisher to stretch into podcasting.
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Radio Motherboard is available on iTunes and all podcasting apps.
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Yet few in the field have taken advantage of podcasting.
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There was microblogging, photo blogging, audio blogging, which is podcasting.
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It's definitely when I emotionally just gave up on podcasting.
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So, we can expect a proliferation of podcasting listening opportunities.
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They were concerned that there's no real tech in podcasting.
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Just didn't exist, you could not make money in podcasting.
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The podcast is also available on your favorite podcasting app.
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Anchor calls itself an "audio social network" — think podcasting meets Twitter.
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If you want to learn about podcasting, you read Nick's letter.
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You got a podcasting app whether or not you wanted one.
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You are blogging, podcasting, that is how you make your living.
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News, commentary, and histories work quite well in the podcasting medium.
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Even in many podcasting circles, Art20113 isn't exactly a household name.
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Radio Motherboard is available on all podcasting apps and on Soundcloud.
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So it bought one of the premier players in premium podcasting.
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And I think, in some ways, podcasting, its costs are lower.
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Obviously, it's gotten ... People now understand podcasting quite a bit more.
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You've now seen a large swath of people get into podcasting.
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Radio Motherboard is available on iTunes and on all podcasting apps.
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The company's software makes easier the work of podcasting and transcription.
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Join introductory podcasting or photojournalism workshops at Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens.
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Radio Motherboard is also available on iTunes and all podcasting apps.
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However, big podcasting powerhouses are a great first place to look.
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After a breakout year, looking ahead to the future of podcasting
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As the podcasting industry grows, its audience is becoming increasingly dedicated.
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"We are still in the early days of podcasting," she said.
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Plus, video and podcasting have become the dominant forms of rhetoric.
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Podcasting exploded as a digital storytelling medium that offered longform content.
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Podcasting maybe isn't the right name for it — on demand audio.
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Who are these strange men you've brought to the podcasting studio?
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That's what I love about podcasting, it's just whatever it is.
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"Radio Motherboard" is available on all podcasting apps and on iTunes.
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I think podcasting is like blogging when I first began, right?
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There's going to be a big need for podcasting in 2017.
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Is the podcasting industry primed for more outsized successes from anywhere?
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The Future of Podcasting: A History Lesson | July 2017 | Justine Moore and Olivia Moore from VC firm CRV outlined the rise of podcasting up to 2017 as part of a 5-part series on the format.
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Guide to Podcasting | December 2015 | Vanessa Quirk of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism published a report on the history, market, and business models of podcasting, including case studies on the implementation of different business models.
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Who: Peter Kafka hosts a panel on the future of podcasting When: 3:30 pm CT / 4:30 pm ET Peter Kafka hosts a deep dive into the future of podcasting and what might be coming next.
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There's an intimacy to podcasting that exceeds even the intimacy of radio.
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We found podcasting to be a great complement to our music service.
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With the podcasting boom has come a comparable explosion in desktop microphones.
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The first decade of podcasting was all about compiling and listing shows.
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Spotify recently announced plans to invest up to $222 million in podcasting.
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I've been podcasting in various forms for about a dozen years now.
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Unfortunately, this request seems likely to conflict with Dorsey's aggressive podcasting schedule.
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You can also click here to open in your native podcasting app!
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Acting, producing, writing, directing, podcasting, hell... shadow puppets, I mean, whatever [laughs].
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That's definitely not the case in podcasting at this point in time.
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Read David Chalian is podcasting weekdays on the politics of the inquiry.
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Because no one believes that there's that much money in podcasting. Really?
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I think authenticity and transparency are baked into this kind of podcasting.
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Are subscription models going to change podcasting as we know it today?
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The world still turns, the sun still rises, and we're still podcasting.
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Still, Carvey largely prefers podcasting and stand-up to on-camera work.
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That's why Wilson can be a nice addition to your podcasting routine.
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He's still acting and is also trying his hand/voice at podcasting.
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The Podcast Master Class: A Complete Guide to Podcasting — $12 See Details
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While on the field, Smith will also be podcasting, writing, and tweeting.
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Podcasting dates back at least until 2000, gaining popular momentum around 2004.
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Any change to the way Apple handles podcasting could have wide ramifications.
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You then lifted your fanbase to bigger heights when you started podcasting.
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The rise of internet broadcasting and digital podcasting splintered the market further.
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You can subscribe to #fsociety on iTunes or your favorite podcasting app.
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I think there's no reason why it has to happen in podcasting.
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And I think podcasting, you take a lot of those rules away.
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The thing that makes podcasting so ... It's the innate mobility of it.
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"Podcasting is the only medium that saves time," Bosstick told Business Insider.
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"Serial" was the first show to induce advertisers to take podcasting seriously.
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Podcasting has offered advertisers a new means of reaching demographically targeted consumers.
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I don't know about you, I think podcasting is so much fun.
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The upcoming season includes riffs on escape rooms and intrusive NPR podcasting.
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Student Opinion How familiar are you with the growing world of podcasting?
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Related: This April we'll be running our Second Annual Student Podcasting Contest.
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Here's a review of the state of podcasting as we conclude 2019.
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"Then, like many other founders in podcasting, he discovered "Serial" and "StartUp.
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Independence is precisely what drew me to podcasting in the first place.
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You know Apple ... I mean, Apple's been a wonderful friend to podcasting.
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You know, I have an iPhone in part because I love podcasting.
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Until recently, if you're a podcasting person, you probably want an iPhone.
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Some of my first exposure to podcasting, was listening to those podcasts.
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Not only are you podcasting but you're doing a live show periodically.
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But the rest of digital advertising brings in more than $107 billion in the US. Until now, Apple has dominated podcasting, primarily because of the popularity of its iOS operating system, which features a built-in podcasting app.
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The following executives, based in New York, are spearheading our strategy that includes creation of high quality shows across all key podcasting genres and a global vision to develop our podcasting expertise in key markets around the world.
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One of the best things about podcasting is the low barrier of entry.
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The brightest minds in podcasting are grappling with how to solve these problems.
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The transition tool is Anchor's latest bid to grow into a podcasting powerhouse.
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You can download Biscuits on iTunes here, or subscribe on major podcasting platforms.
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This is brilliant, meaningful, ambitious podcasting with the potential to elevate the medium.
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Always keep a podcasting rig you can fit in a laptop sleeve. pic.twitter.
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Meanwhile, the company has continued to struggle to court the broader podcasting industry.
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It's not like there's a ton of money going into podcasting from advertisers.
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Has anyone tried to size up the amount of money going into podcasting?
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Nick, we were talking about a lot of things about the podcasting world.
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Startups are trying to bring better adtech into podcasting to fix this issue.
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"The David Gregory Show" podcast is available on iTunes and other podcasting applications.
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And isn't the democratization of voices kind of the whole point of podcasting?
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Spotify's podcast push is working: Spotify is making a big play into podcasting.
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Let me talk about podcasting for a second because these things tie together.
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No. Ezra Klein: I don't either, and it's something I love about podcasting.
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So who better to teach you the business of podcasting than NPR's finest?
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Last year it bought podcasting producer/distributor Midroll for at least $50 million.
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Phoebe Robinson started out podcasting out of her one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
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Already the streaming company is the second largest podcasting platform on the market.
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Normal podcasting can be something of a "faff" to use a technical term.
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And I think another thing that we're seeing is everybody rushing into podcasting.
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KS: They love that relationship ... But you asked me about trends in podcasting.
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My podcasting rig is simple: Two microphones, a Tascam recorder, two XLR cables.
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He took this show that was working, made it better, frankly, on podcasting.
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In podcasting, Gladwell finds love, real love, a perfect medium for his madness.
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You can download Chips on iTunes here, or subscribe on major podcasting platforms.
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More money for podcasting: Radio network Entercom invests in podcast network Dgital Media.
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But the immersive audio experience of podcasting offers the tantalizing promise of renewal.
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This is podcasting at its simplest: one microphone, one voice, much to say.
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But, no, she doesn't plan to stop podcasting now that museums are closed.
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If it can, it's built a podcasting ecosystem fully dependent on Spotify's existence.
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In pockets, the launch of the iPod kicked off the age of podcasting.
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In other words, podcasting is an overnight success 15+ years in the making.
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The Obamas are getting into the podcasting business, and Spotify has the exclusive rights.
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And the famously verbose former president is getting into podcasting to do just that.
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The Google Podcasts creator program, announced today, is designed to promote diversity in podcasting.
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The open secret about podcasting is that everybody's got a podcast but nobody should.
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"We appreciate all the support the podcasting community gave in fighting this bad patent."
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We're talking about the business of podcasting, but you run a newsletter full time?
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Why is direct-response advertising the main kind of advertising we see in podcasting?
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Its interface works pretty much as you'd expect any Android Auto podcasting app to.
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So instead, she found less stressful pursuits: a blog, podcasting and a radio show.
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With its minimalistic design and opinionated typography, Wilson looks like no other podcasting app.
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And just shy of two years we have become the second biggest podcasting platform.
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Mahnke started podcasting—almost as a lark, or perhaps an act of quiet desperation.
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We reported last month from CES that Spotify is going after podcasting this year.
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Could podcasting go the direction of streaming TV, with subscription tiers and original series?
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At some point, someone's going to figure out how to do paid podcasting right.
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But I also look at the world I'm in of podcasting, and you're in.
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The great promise of podcasting has always been a sort of democratization of content.
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Henig's hire signals that BuzzFeed News is interested in developing membership and podcasting further.
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One common problem with podcasting is hardly technical — the fear that nobody will listen.
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Next week, we'll be on a different podcasting schedule, with shows hitting every day!
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We encountered podcasting just as a complete fluke, fall-out-of-the-sky thing.
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The Big Bang took her out, and now everyone thinks Ira Glass invented podcasting.
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Part of the problem is that for lawmakers, podcasting is obviously a side gig.
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I think that's why we're living in this golden age of audio and podcasting.
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Nothing comes close to the level of engagement and positivity I've found from podcasting.
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These brands have built lasting partnerships with creators across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and podcasting.
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Last year, Spotify made a splash when it bought a series of podcasting companies.
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Albaher's lateness to the podcasting session doesn't seem to phase Saleh and his manager.
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Snap Judgement Presents Spooked Glynn Washington is one of the best storytellers in podcasting.
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Similarly, 2019 feels like the tip of the spear for corporate investment in podcasting.
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To gain an edge in podcasting, Spotify plans to do exactly the same thing.
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It's a new approach for podcasting, which has grown into a sprawling, decentralized marketplace.
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With its high production values, real-time episodes, and personable style, Serial transformed podcasting.
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Hartnett, who is CEO and general partner at Human Ventures, is bullish on podcasting.
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Today, Explained is also available on Stitcher, Google Play, and other major podcasting platforms.
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Or that the podcasting industry just isn't big enough to produce an exciting return.
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The Daily, which the Times started in 2017, became a bona fide podcasting hit.
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The Beginner's Podcasting Bundle — $39 See Details After covering the fundamentals of recording, editing, promotion, and marketing, this 10-part bundle delves into the nitty-gritty of the technical aspects of podcasting — things like power breathing, voice acting, and mobile audio production.
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While podcasting has traditionally been mystery to advertisers, the young medium's continued growth is clear.
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Listeners can tune in for free on iTunes, all common podcasting platforms, and via RSS.
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The reporting itself was incredibly good, making it a strong ambassador for the podcasting brand.
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Blumberg's Gimlet Media is one of many organizations benefitting from the renewed interest in podcasting.
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The Podcasting 101 Bundle — $13.203 with code 'WEEKEND60' See Details Not all hackers are bad.
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It's literally everyone who's in the podcasting industry is reading it, so there's 743,000 people.
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I've only been reading for a year because I've only been podcasting for a year.
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From the looks of it, the lab revolves around Rode's terrific new podcasting mixing board.
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We have Verge Extras, which experiments with audio and podcasting in new and interesting ways.
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The role requires someone with experience in podcasting, as a producer or on social media.
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When podcasting came along, suddenly Radiolab just made a hell of a lot more sense.
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I worked on podcasting, virtual reality, anything digital was like ... broadly across the whole agency.
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The Hill reported that the calls allegedly originated from a video podcasting site called TheRoadToPower.com.
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Himalaya raised a pocket of money — $100 million — to build out its own podcasting world.
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At the time, Google teased a partnership with an organization to increase diversity in podcasting.
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While there are some larger podcasting networks, most podcasts are still produced and promoted independently.
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The growth in its podcasting business suggests that Spotify's investment is starting to pay off.
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Its investment in podcasting may be starting to pay off, but sustained profitability remains elusive.
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II. Background: Data on the Current Market The Future of Podcasting: Where Are We Now?
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The news comes as more investors are looking toward podcasting as a potential revenue stream.
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Podcasting, allied as it was with radio, had an old-fashioned air from the beginning.
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But podcasting is a product of a different era for digital media — and for Apple.
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Perhaps as a result, the iTunes podcasting hub that Mr. Jobs introduced remains strikingly unchanged.
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In 2018, BuzzFeed laid off its in-house podcasting team and restructured its advertising group.
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Disney+ is peaking and Google is sneaking, but first, a cartoon about podcasting while working.
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BROADLY: What do you think it is that draws you to podcasting as a genre?
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Podcasting is quickly gaining popularity, but plenty of people aren't familiar with the audio trend.
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If politicians really want to excel at podcasting, maybe they should quit their day jobs.
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Even Serial Productions' willingness to talk numbers speaks to its dominance in the podcasting space.
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First things first, you need to learn the ins and outs of the podcasting world.
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Right before his senior year at Stanford, Systrom interned at a podcasting company called Odeo.
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Spotify's going all-in on podcasting, which means it needs more people to make shows.
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"That&aposs more than I had made in all my years podcasting combined," Marlar said.
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Pandora, like Spotify, is a music streaming service that is making a play for podcasting.
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That year, Williams and Glass sold Odeo's podcasting business to SonicMountain for around $1 million.
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Deals • Spotify is said to be in talks to buy the podcasting company Gimlet Media.
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Peter Kafka: Did you realize you would be a podcasting authority when you grew up?
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In your world, it makes sense that you would leave radio and go to podcasting.
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I stopped writing as much as I should have, because I like the podcasting more.
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DC: Twitter, podcasting of course is really taking off again, it's had this amazing resurgence.
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The New York Times podcasting hit The Daily will soon be a radio program, too.
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In addition to Dipsea's seed financing, podcasting platform WaitWhat secured a $4.3 million round this month.
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Podcasting has also entered its golden age, having seen 103+ percent annual growth in recent years.
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Barry McCarthy, CFO of Spotify, said the company is still open to acquiring more podcasting businesses.
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Alright, fine, there are like, six people in the world who are good at podcasting, tops.
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Spotify has only started investing in podcasting recently, although the streaming service was founded in 2006.
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With podcasting growing rapidly as a medium, a new generation of audio-recording tools are appearing.
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Adam Curry, who was a VJ at MTV, was somehow attached to the concept of podcasting.
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Podcasting has evolved into a solid niche, but there's some sense that podcasts aren't for everybody.
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"I really believe that podcasting has way more than enough room to go around," Sacks says.
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That said, thanks to Instagram and the world of podcasting, The Bachelor is always in season.
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It has rooms for all kinds of collaborative work, from video gaming to podcasting and sewing.
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I'm here with the man described as "podcasting royalty" by the New York Times, Jad Abumrad.
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DAVID FABER: I think we need to get into the podcasting business is what I think.
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Riggs tells me he sees podcasting as a great place to find inspiration for new series.
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Having conquered just about every other form of media, Marvel's getting into the scripted podcasting game.
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IT IS hard to identify the moment when podcasting took off, because it keeps having them.
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I've always considered Blue's USB microphones a podcasting tool — and I suspect Blue has, as well.
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Podcasting revenues hit $314 million in 2017, according to a third-party survey released last summer.
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The app combines traditional podcasting — with professional, or at least themed, episodes — with a social approach.
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Curry, 54, began podcasting in 2004, when most people had never even heard of a podcast.
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I think what is going to be really interesting in terms of podcasting is our audiences.
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And then we've got podcasting, which is mostly guesswork unless someone is using an offer code.
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Spotify also bought Anchor, a podcast monetization platform, signaling a new era for the podcasting industry.
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Today, women in podcasting still have to work against the tide of primarily male-based content.
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Podcasting has become a popular medium for influencers, and Lauryn Evarts Bosstick is at the forefront.
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In the podcasting era, reporters increase their credibility by peeling away the veneer of polished authority.
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With 14 years of history in podcasting, Slate has built a strong infrastructure to promote them.
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So the inside story of starting a podcasting company is refocused as a broad family comedy.
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Launched last summer, the app quickly became the top podcasting app on Android, because, well, Google.
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With podcasting in particular, it is difficult to measure how many people listen to the ads.
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In early 2017, he found himself scrounging for smart podcasting investments on behalf of the firm.
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Platforms like Spotify, which once positioned itself exclusively as a music outlet, have crowded into podcasting.
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Besides YouTube, podcasting can be another lucrative way for an influencer to build a digital business.
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The deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions from Spotify to expand into podcasting.
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Podcasting in particular allows NPR to reach audiences that are not necessarily tied to a radio.
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He had no previous podcasting experience but was one of the most natural communicators I knew.
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That broad spectrum of experience levels was precisely what made podcasting so appealing to so many.
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The state of podcasting Podcasts have been a major focus for Spotify over the past year.
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But does podcasting become a more important part of the value proposition of Pandora as well?
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I mean, there are debates on what the slope of the lines will be on podcasting.
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Dirty John is now available on all major podcasting platforms with all episodes ready for download.
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Podcasting requires an intense amount of collaboration that is fairly foreign to me as a writer.
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Or that the industry is dominated by Apple, and Apple doesn't seem terribly interested in podcasting.
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And when you're not writing, you're not podcasting, you're not on CNN, you are doing comedy.
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But today, that ethos is rampant in the podcasting world, from Moth-like storytelling shows like Risk!
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The company is looking to spend up to $500 million this year to bolster its podcasting business.
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And, of course, to supplement their sponcon incomes, Bachelor alums know a thing or two about podcasting.
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That doesn't imply an Apple partnership, however — iTunes' platform is open to many podcasting networks and publishers.
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Initial Imzy partners include Lena Dunham's LennyLetter, "Community" creator Dan Harmon and Harmon's podcasting network Feral Audio.
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Podcasting is a small industry, with an ad model that generated an estimated $315 million in 2017.
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As the podcasting world began exploding, Spotify became increasingly interested in trying its hand in the market.
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Anchor, a shortform podcasting app, is trying to solve that with a new feature it's launching today.
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I believe that some of those tactics can be incorporated in podcasting, but we're just not ... Right.
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The fact that a humble podcast enticed television executives is proof that podcasting is at its zenith.
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While Acast is a large podcasting platform, there are many other platforms for consumers to access podcast.
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And podcasting, the audio-only medium favored by commuters everywhere, is the perfect place to do it.
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The Athletic, a subscription-based digital sports media company, is launching a multi-million dollar podcasting business.
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Any podcaster can tell you that podcasting itself is more time-consuming than most non-podcasters realize.
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Given the rise of corporate podcasting and other recording needs, a system like StudioBricks makes perfect sense.
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Spotify announced Wednesday that it acquired podcast production company Gimlet Media and short-form podcasting app Anchor.
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Podcasting may be a growing business, but couldn't it try and be a nicer one than most?
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"I think that podcasting has the potential to be more democratic than most mainstream media," Luse says.
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I've spent a lot of time researching, testing and breaking podcasting gear so you don't have to.
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This was about $200 total, which was the most I've ever spent at once on podcasting equipment.
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Anchor is called an "audio-based social network," probably best understood as a podcasting version of Twitter.
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As it stands, podcasting is effectively just one more free feature to help the company sell hardware.
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This guy has recently jumped on the vinyl trend along with Lomography cameras, podcasting, and vape culture.
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But in this post-Serial world, podcasting is rapidly becoming the new vanguard for the women's movement.
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"Podcasting can really be the first industry to be as influenced by women as men," Walker said.
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In Hollywood, there is considerable interest in podcasting as a relatively inexpensive means of developing an idea.
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Our podcasting lesson plan, and the related resources included within it, provide a much more detailed resource.
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The site offers a sensory lab, a podcasting studio, a kitchen, a packaging center and a stage.
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On the podcasting front, Apple noted its Podcasts app now includes over 800,000 shows in 155 countries.
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Spotify acquired podcasting companies like Gimlet Media and inked deals with programmers like Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Podcasting has also been a rare case where YouTube's quirks all seem to align for individual creators.
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Lucky for you, but we're going to be really excited to be podcasting from there as well.
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" Quah says the podcasting community still has to "grow up" in this sense, and forecasts "cutthroat behavior.
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DSPs also offer sophisticated targeting mechanisms, Vanover said, and could work for traditional audio outside of podcasting.
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Radio Motherboard is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, and can also be played using your favorite podcasting app.
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Jacob, why don't you introduce yourself to the crowd who doesn't know you as a podcasting authority.
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Why it matters: The Daily has been a surprise success story in the saturated world of podcasting.
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He got a job at a podcasting company called Odeo, where he met his future Twitter cofounders.
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I'm part of this generation of people who got into podcasting because they were into public radio.
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We're podcasting live from Austin, Texas at the Texas Tribune Festival, and we're onstage with an audience.
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Inexpensive, addicting, profitable and popular, podcasting was supposed to be one of the saviors of digital media.
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A Manifesto for Growth | August 2018 | Tom Webster, the SVP at Edison Research who co-authors the annual Infinite Dial report on the podcasting market, notes that podcasting's growth has been slow-and-steady, not an explosion, and emphasizes the challenges podcasting still facing in mainstream consumer adoption.
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"When we started, we saw that there were a couple of big use cases for podcasting," says Lieber.
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It's been just over a year since the masses "discovered" podcasting in the wake of Serial's blockbuster success.
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"In the public radio and podcasting world, there's definitely this attitude that all boats rise together," says Burns.
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Call recording services like Zencastr have been appealing to the podcasting market thanks to its local recording feature.
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On Wednesday, Spotify said it would buy Gimlet — and the podcasting app Anchor, with hopes of buying more.
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It's acquired several different podcasting companies and last week announced a new exclusive podcast partnership with the Obamas.
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It's the only one about the podcast industry that I know of, except for Jason Calacanis' Inside Podcasting.
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If you're on a mobile device, click this link to open it in your native podcasting app. 2.
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They want what's best for the podcasting space, they want to build open systems that everyone can use.
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The podcasting expansion comes at time when theSkimm's growth for its newsletter business appears to have leveled off.
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The accelerator aims to remove access barriers to podcasting and to increase the diversity of the podcast industry.
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Therefore we are getting amazing content for free via podcasting and any time that happens someone gets hurt.
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But podcasting is among the most intimate forms of communication — a proxy for a close conversation with friends.
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Last month Spotify announced a multiyear podcasting deal with Higher Ground Productions, Barack and Michelle Obama's media company.
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Regardless of your budget or skill level, you're sure to come out of this course a podcasting pro.
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This was also the year that Apple launched the iPod, the device from which podcasting takes its name.
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Combined, The NYT's podcasting efforts reach 7.13 million monthly users, according to Podtrac's industry rankings for March 2019.
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"Pod Save America," a podcast hosted by four former Obama White House staffers, is podcasting the Trump resistance.
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Apple, Spotify, and other podcasting platforms have beenworkingto create better podcast recommendations, which signals platforms are catching on.
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Michael Lombardo, then HBO's president for programming, apparently set out to woo Simmons based on his podcasting work.
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Spotify recently acquired Gimlet and Parcast, two popular podcast creators, as it pushes into the world of podcasting.
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Most recently, Logitech acquired the Blue Microphone business, which made popular podcasting microphones like the Yeti and Snowball.
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And I encouraged the IAB to apply the kind of standardization it has across digital advertising to podcasting.
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So you mentioned Marc Maron, Adam Carolla, both very successful at podcasting, make millions of dollars doing it.
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JW: I don't know what you think, which I think the biggest factor is Facebook doesn't support podcasting.
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If they started selling a bundled product around podcasts, that could make podcasting a billion-dollar business tomorrow.
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As Another Round host Heben Nigatu notes, podcasting is but "a baby," so there's plenty of opportunity here.
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Before Twitter was a public company worth $30 billion, its founders were running a podcasting platform called Odeo.
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Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram on the growth of podcasting and the trendiness of daily news explainer shows.
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"Podcasting gives you another layer, which is to be creative in the way you make things," she said.
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The spontanaeity of a snapshot applied to the medium of podcasting: most definitely an app for our times.
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The company also greatly reduced the restrictions on their free tier to encourage amateur podcasting during this pandemic.
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Saturday • An introduction to podcasting workshop and a social media crash course at Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens. Noon.
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Simmons has been immersed in podcasting since 2007, when he was a rising star at Disney's ESPN unit.
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The company sells educational audio bits, and they want you to know they are not a podcasting business.
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NPR, the public radio and podcasting giant, has a new leader after years of growth and internal turmoil.
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Spotify has made it clear that podcasting is an area where it sees a huge potential for growth.
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But it's most exciting in the challenge it sets other composers to turn their treble clefs to podcasting.
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These brands have built lasting partnerships with creators on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and in podcasting.
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One popular business move among influencers (especially in podcasting) is to offer and charge followers for exclusive content.
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As podcasting approaches $1 billion in annual advertising revenue, audio ad interest in general has never been higher.
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Generally, this playlist represents what many have expected ever since Spotify got into podcasting: a better recommendation system.
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You can subscribe to The Impact on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or any other podcasting app.
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Some people think this is what's going to move podcasting from a small business to a really big business.
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"I think the endgame, where the real money is made in podcasting, actually hasn't been come up with yet."
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Karl Rosander, founder and president of podcasting platform Acast, details how Apple's devices have helped develop this nascent industry.
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At the other end of the spectrum are those who believe social discovery is the missing piece of podcasting.
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At the same time, they launched the "Save Podcasting Campaign," which they say received donations from over 1,000 people.
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On Monday, the Federal Circuit upheld the patent office's decision to invalidate five key claims in the podcasting patent.
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If you're a real podcast nerd, you'll know that this is the second or third wave of podcasting, right?
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Facebook already offers private Voice Clip sharing through Messenger, but the popularity of podcasting has exploded in recent years.
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It's the launch of Luminary, a podcasting startup that wants people to pay $7.99 a month for exclusive shows.
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The startup has done a fine job providing tools designed to further lower the bar of entry for podcasting.
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Spotify is opening up its podcasting section to allow anyone to upload their podcasts to the service (via Engadget).
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SB Nation launched 32 NFL team-focused podcasts in November as a part of a bigger local podcasting push.
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Podcasting is a growing business, but a lack of listener data has made it more challenging to sell ads.
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The music streaming service said it plans to spend up to $22017 million this year on more podcasting acquisitions.
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Reese Witherspoon has already begun taking over television, and now she's moving into a whole new storytelling medium: podcasting.
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You can't always be in the studio, but podcasting on-the-go can be a pain in the ass.
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Google has quietly acquired podcasting startup 60db, as Business Insider first reported and Axios has confirmed with the company.
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Life is admittedly getting good for the most downloaded shows now that the podcasting market is getting serious attention.
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Stitcher, one of the largest podcasting platforms outside of iTunes, has been purchased by E.W. Scripps for $4.5 million.
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To hear the company talk about it, the service fell a bit ass backwards into the whole podcasting phenomenon.
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Even more to the point, Spotify has excelled in one key place many other podcasting platforms have failed: discovery.
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Bumpers is taking a cue from the Ev Williams-backed Medium in its approach to podcasting and distribution, too.
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Spotify's simple podcasting suite, Anchor, is today introducing a new feature designed to help creators promote their podcast: trailers.
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Maybe a podcasting class with Adam Carolla was just what I needed to turn this whole goddamn mess around.
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So talk a little bit about the trends in podcasting, 'cause this is something you hadn't done at Recode.
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Similarly, most of the major podcasting networks and companies (like Gimlet, Crooked Media and Earwolf) were founded by men.
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If you do a Google search for the term "podcast studio,", you might think podcasting is beyond you. Don't.
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It took us a while to settle on a name, but after several weeks of podcasting, we're finally there.
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And I think podcasting is a great way to open people's ears and be a mirror for other people.
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One possibility offered by the podcasting boom is that other kinds of voices might more easily reach Americans' ears.
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While podcasting is on the rise, Schuon said there's still a large audience that hasn't yet been tapped into.
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Podcasts are big business, too; Variety reported that podcasting had come to make up about 35% of Barstool's revenue.
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As anyone will tell you in podcasting, it's very time consuming, and so the balance quickly shifted to audio.
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You're seeing innovation in podcasts and you're seeing fiction as a genre, really start to pick up in podcasting.
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Six in 10 respondents said they were familiar with the term "podcasting," a 22 percent increase over two years.
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In 2017-18 we took deep dives into bioethics, comics, music, student activism, podcasting, argument-writing, mindfulness and more.
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After the release of popular true crime and narrative journalism podcast "Serial" in 2014, general interest in podcasting rose.
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A side project is often more energizing than exhaustingDaisley said he found the podcasting side project energizing, not exhausting.
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In June, New Balance began collaborating with the podcasting company Gimlet on a show about clothing and sneaker culture.
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DAVID FABER: Podcasting is something we seem to be talking more about than a year or two years ago.
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But Baschieri thinks programmatic ads will make big inroads in podcasting, as they have done in other digital mediums.
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In June, New Balance began collaborating with the podcasting company Gimlet on a show about clothing and sneaker culture.
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Audio dramas have been around for almost as long as radio, but the podcasting boom has inspired a renaissance.
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Audio dramas have been around for almost as long as radio, but the podcasting boom has inspired a renaissance.
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This doesn't mean podcasting is dead, but it's not looking like the next big solution for every media company.
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"By leveraging our more than 850 radio stations across the country, we have the unique opportunity to introduce new podcasts to more than a quarter billion broadcast listeners – some of which may only be hearing about podcasting for the very first time," says Chris Peterson, senior vice president of podcasting for iHeartMedia.
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One could argue that we're just now exiting the dark ages of podcasting—not in the middle of a renaissance.
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A handful of other podcasting leaders have taken the recommendation approach in a more limited way, mostly targeting consumer apps.
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The company announced on Wednesday that it has made two huge acquisitions that firmly plant Spotify in the podcasting business.
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In a blog post, Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek shared his thoughts on the company's latest moves into podcasting.
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If anything, the issue in the world of comedy podcasting one of overabundance: There's an overwhelming concentration of good options.
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Carter is an enthusiastic believer that social media is the clearest path into the world of podcasting for new listeners.
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And there's a ton of investment interest and moneyed interests now in podcasting, which then brings in Apple-level competitors.
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It works with Android at the system level, and with a range of music and podcasting apps even on iOS.
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Again, this is a way to make podcasting lucrative for creators while also making it a destination for individual listeners.
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This is a common path for Bachelor expats; contestants move into the world of podcasting and blogging about The Bachelor.
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Do you think that podcasting remains sort of stratified in the demography for a while or does it branch out?
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My sense is that when people talk about money going into podcasting, it's in the single digit millions, if that.
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It makes sense that the app's user interface would change to reflect Spotify's giant leap into podcasting as a business.
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PodcastOne, the celebrity podcasting network from the founder of radio powerhouse WestwoodOne, is launching a free hosting platform for podcasters.
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Morris notes that he feels that there's a lot more experimentation going on with podcasting as a form of entertainment.
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But the company made it clear that it plans to focus its future efforts around podcasting in the standalone app.
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Spotify (SPOT) is in talks to buy podcasting specialist Gimlet Media, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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If podcasts are your thing, you may want to check out Bumpers, which aims to create a social podcasting experience.
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Sure, it's a simple idea, but in a lot of ways, that mission makes Nancy a quiet revolution in podcasting.
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In fact, podcasting network Gimlet has been very open about the business model of licensing IP to movies and networks.
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Hartman disputes the music comparison, noting that podcasting is a nascent field without the same kind of precedent for monetization.
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He was talking about podcasting — radio-style shows made for the Internet that have, in recent years, exploded in popularity.
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Yet at this moment of triumph for podcasting, concerns are growing in the community about how much Apple actually cares.
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Curry is now best known as the "Podfather" — he is credited as one of the first people to utilize podcasting.
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Jack Dorsey joined a podcasting company, Odeo, as a web designer, but then got obsessed with a product idea: Twitter.
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It's an admirable goal, especially in the world of podcasting, where content democratization is supposed to be a guiding principle.
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New or unusual consumer tech sometimes gets you flagged for extra scrutiny (podcasting mics get you searched every damn time).
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If you use iCloud to sync your podcasting data, you'll find all your favorite subscriptions in the Apple TV app.
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I think that's part of the reason why on-demand podcasting is a success in the case of The Daily.
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I also think that in podcasting, more than other kinds of media, you can be up front with the audience.
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While music and radio serve as the backbone of iHeartMedia, the company is placing increasing emphasis on podcasting, Poleman said.
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Mr. Mohn led the push into podcasting and helped stabilize the organization after years of management turnover and budget deficits.
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When it comes to podcasting, listeners judge the book by its cover, so cover art can also contribute to downloads.
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"We've seen podcasting entering a golden age and more and more people and companies... are creating audio content," Mason says.
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Himalaya Media launched in February as a San Francisco-based podcasting startup that had raised an eye-popping $100 million.
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Now it has another idea: Live audio, or what sounds suspiciously like traditional radio or podcasting, in your News Feed.
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Familiarity with the term podcasting was nearly flat as well—up by only one percentage in 2015 from the year before.
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"I was jealous when Serial 'invented' podcasting…80 percent of the world doesn't know what the fuck we do," he said.
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Apple's Car Play and Google's Android Auto, for example, will enable the easy integration of native or third-party podcasting apps.
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Logitech today announced its intention to acquire Blue Microphones, the hardware company behind popular podcasting microphones like the Yeti and Snowball.
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Now some new startups are nipping at SoundCloud's heels by focusing on podcasting in ways the music streaming service never did.
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But on the other hand, I think the way podcasting generally works is, it works better if there's a big audience.
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On Twitter, Alex Sujong Laughlin posted a bingo card featuring all the podcasting clichés you've heard when listening to an episode.
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Many a mystery has been solved thanks to podcasting, but what about one of the biggest question marks of all time?
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Many in the podcasting world see Luminary's launch as a threat to what's up until now, been a fairly open system.
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I plan to keep Spotify, Google Maps, and maybe a few reading, podcasting, and news apps on it, but nothing else.
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That terrific podcast was about Alex Blumberg's real-life attempts to start an ambitious podcasting company, which eventually became Gimlet Media.
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While before, the app was focused on recording audio, Anchor 3.0 is meant to be a podcasting suite in your pocket.
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What I thought we could do is talk a little bit about the podcasting industry, where it's at, where it's going.
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Podcasting may be a way in which one old prejudice—that authority looks and sounds male—plays less of a role.
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He also shed some light on where Tumblr goes from here, including a potential increased focused on multimedia such as podcasting.
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If all goes well for the newly-launched Serial Productions, those will soon be the favorite topics of the podcasting world.
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Audible was at the top of the e-book market, just like Gimlet is at the top of the podcasting market.
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This could benefit Spotify's ambitious podcasting plans, as listeners could pick up where they left off as they switch between devices.
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For Karl Rosander and Måns Ulvestam, co-founders of podcast platform Acast, this means podcasting has plenty of room to grow.
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The company's recent investment in podcasting — it acquired Anchor and Gimlet in February — positions it for a future beyond streaming music.
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When Spotify first acquired Soundtrap, it was focused on collaborative music making — now, that same technology is being turned to podcasting.
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That makes the "podcast" a bit more like a marketing initiative rather than a serious attempt at entering the podcasting market.
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The beauty of podcasting is that you don't need to relocate to Los Angeles or New York to follow your dream.
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"We want to dramatically change the podcasting ecosystem and support more access," PRX CEO Kerri Hoffman said in a press release.
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Podcasting will change the world by bringing us back to literary non-fiction and encourage contemplative, not consumptive, models of media.
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Exclusive podcasts will be an important element in getting people to try Spotify rather than sticking with their existing podcasting apps.
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He points out that the current advertising model for podcasting makes generating a worthwhile ROI on high-quality narrative shows tougher.
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Numbers are way up, too, with 56 million Americans having listened to podcasting in the past month, according to another study.
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It's offering more detailed look at podcasting metrics and listening habits, with more complex insights into how users are actually listening.
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But while Burton is well acquainted with the power of the written word, he was newbie when it came to podcasting.
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Podcasting, in other words, makes 10x less money per hours consumed than radio, TV, magazines or any other major content medium.
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Apple has stuck with an advertising model for podcasting that looks almost exactly like what Mr. Jobs predicted onstage in 2005.
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Founder Molly Beck has a plan to make podcasting easy for everyone by making it as uncomplicated as launching a blog.
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Influencers like Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz see podcasting as a way to connect more intimately and honestly with their followers.
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The Internet and podcasting continued to blur the lines between professionals and aspirants, since expertise, in this realm, is only relative.
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In this way, RSS shares a similar product design problem with podcasting, in that user behavior is essentially a black box.
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And some turned out to be businesses, or were acquired by other businesses, and I think that's maybe where podcasting goes.
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For 22016, these hires are taking a multi-pronged approach: with video streaming, apps, email fundraising, podcasting, and social media groups.
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In an era of online streaming and podcasting, is there an audience still scanning analog radio dials, hungry for more options?
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As the podcasting industry grows, listeners have become overwhelmed with choices and content creators struggle to make their shows stand out.
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When she's not podcasting, she will be reporting on early-stage startups and venture capital trends for TechCrunch and Extra Crunch.
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After many public struggles, the actress is the latest to turn to podcasting, and has a painful #MeAt203 story to tell.
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Grundmann started at NPR as an intern in 1994, and has since helped the company expand into digital audio and podcasting.
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If you have the means and desire to create a home podcasting studio, you're probably looking elsewhere for your mic needs.
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If it wasn&apost for podcasting and stand-up and touring and live shows, I&aposm sure I would be censored.
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"Podcasting is very much day one," Rich Greenfield, a longtime media and tech analyst now at LightShed Partners, told CNN Business.
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Microbulletins, news roundups, and other daily news shows have become formats of choice for media outlets looking to break into podcasting.
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In an official trailer for the upcoming podcast — which comes from Stitcher's comedy podcasting network, Earwolf, and will launch on Oct.
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When Marlar realized he was making more money from podcasting than from his full-time job, he handed in his resignation.
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Talk a little bit about the decision around that, why that is and where you see podcasting going for you guys.
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Recode, which reported the story overnight, notes that the funding runs counter to the common wisdom that VCs hate investing in podcasting.
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As Boudet explains, that's a hangover from a category list that has barely changed since Apple launched its podcasting service in 2005.
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He boasts that with its 200 million users, the music streaming service is already the second biggest podcasting platform after Apple iTunes.
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Steve Jobs explained that podcasting was like "TiVo for radio," which sounded cutting edge at the time because it kind of was.
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Spotify, a digital music service with millions of songs that launched over a decade ago, has acquired several podcasting companies this year.
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McLoughlin is also a podcast consultant, teaching others how to grow and actually make money from the niche and personal podcasting world.
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There was an array of other men most people have never heard of but who are famous in the racist podcasting world.
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Podcast startup Luminary roiled the podcasting industry when it debuted in April this year, and it has since maintained a low profile.
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Check out Ctrl-Walt-Delete's final episode, and our Anchor channel, which experiments with audio and podcasting in new and interesting ways.
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While many attendees were excited by the massive growth in ad revenue, others worried that it may kill what makes podcasting special.
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Other players in the space such as Spotify and WNYC have already made efforts to spotlight these voices in the podcasting ecosystem.
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The podcasting industry is moving toward smarter, more dynamic ads that can be geo-targeted based on where a listener is located.
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The two devices are essentially little boards designed to recreate a radio studio on a small scale at home for podcasting purposes.
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"One of the challenges of fictional podcasting or radio plays is trying to create an immersive experience for the listener," Baker says.
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So nowadays she's got a huge platform, but at the beginning, podcasting was the only place she could even gain a foothold.
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Podcasting is the new talk radio and it skews, at least in the categories we can measure, toward the public radio listener.
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She was introduced to podcasting in 2014 when she discovered Serial, and that catapulted her into the vast world of audio content.
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One example is Gimlet Media, a podcasting startup founded in 2014 by former This American Life and Planet Money staffer Alex Blumberg.
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He called for expansions into video and podcasting and described potential "festivals, music, different types of experiences" fueled by Pride Media content.
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Even with dramatic market growth, podcasting doesn't have a comparative advantage in competing against the scale and ad-targeting of the duopoly.
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There's never been a better time to get into podcasting – it's cheap, it's relatively easy, and the market for content is huge.
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Don't worry if you are not into ASMR, it is also great for podcasting, game streaming, Skype calls, YouTube, music, and more.
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As Spotify struggles to stay ahead of Apple Music's looming growth, however, the company is now apparently suddenly all-in on podcasting.
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Even if these acquisitions do eventually make fiscal sense for Spotify, what does this "third wave" of podcasting ultimately mean for creators?
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" In a statement, Mr. Cue of Apple said, "We have more people than ever focused on podcasting, including engineers, editors and programmers.
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He made it clear that while the company has a "storied past" with explainer articles and videos, it's now focused on podcasting.
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"That's when the floodgates opened, and we saw all this interest around podcasting, specifically using Anchor tools," explains Anchor CEO Mike Mignano.
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Weirdly, I think podcasting might be able to break through that bubble because people don't access these shows through traditional distribution networks.
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Welcome to podcasters talking about podcasting in the podcast studio to a room full of people I think who are all podcasters.
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I'm the CEO and co-founder of Pushkin, which is a new podcasting company that Malcolm Gladwell and I started in October.
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Actually, just for argument's sake, Kara Swisher and I were talking about podcasting for a long time before we got into it.
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Gimlet, the podcasting company that Cross Culture backed at a $2250 million post-money valuation, sold to Spotify for approximately $2000 million.
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"We give them the data and the dashboard to start really doubling down and focusing on podcasting as a medium," he said.
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In 2005, Apple launched iTunes podcasting and Odeo execs realized their big idea was going to be crowded out of the market.
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"Motherhood Sessions," which is produced by the podcasting company Gimlet Media, is in many ways a show about the drama of matrescence.
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The podcast, titled "Office Ladies," comes from Stitcher's comedy podcasting network, Earwolf, and will launch on October 16, the company announced Wednesday.
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Some of the most notable venture investments in podcasts this year ... February 2019: Himalaya Media, a podcasting platform startup, raised $100 million.
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Also be sure to remind your listeners to subscribe to the podcast and to leave reviews on the podcasting service they use.
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It acquired the podcasting companies Gimlet, Anchor, and Parcast and announced a partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company last year.
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In recent years at Slate, Mr. Weisberg focused on how to make digital journalism sustainable while leading the online magazine into podcasting.
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I think there's a strain of podcasting that says, this is a promotion for the live show, especially a lot for comedians.
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I think there's just something ephemeral about podcasting that is ... If you didn't listen in six months, what are you even doing?
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" According to Balogh, one of these bases is podcasting—an enterprise he says appeals "disproportionately to a more diverse and younger audience.
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So we decided to open the space up to members of the local podcasting community, too, and the Anchor Podcast Lab was born.
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"It's funny, I actually thought, how ironic that Spotify is getting into podcasting now [through the acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor]," Curley replied.
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Alex Blumberg, the co-founder of Gimlet Media, said Serial's success was instrumental in helping him raise venture capital for his podcasting startup.
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In the mid-aughts, however, podcasting began picking up steam, and Dan Kennedy, a longtime Moth host and performer, immediately saw its potential.
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Skype's built-in call recording may be late, but late is better than never as everyone looks to get into the podcasting game.
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The amount Spotify is looking to spend on podcast companies is greater than a year of advertising revenue for the entire podcasting market.
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The podcast producer found even another medium for podcasting success when it turned one of its shows into the popular Amazon series, Homecoming.
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While text-to-speech audio recordings are not something that's new to the podcasting industry, the way SpokenLayer approaches this process is interesting.
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And Alex, you talked about a bunch of really large audio platforms that were standing around the edge of the pool of podcasting.
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The thesis is that podcasting offers an on-demand version of radio programming that people can access through their phones whenever they want.
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For instance, Swedish podcasting app Acast expanded to the U.K. in 2014 and then launched in the U.S. near the end of 2015.
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McCarthy said podcasting can help Spotify achieve its long-term goal of 35% operating margins, even if it's weighing on profitability right now.
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Amazon has audiobooks sewn up, which means that podcasting is the natural area for Spotify to try to differentiate itself from its competitors.
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Podcasting has grown tremendously in recent years, and a Stockholm-based company called Acast is looking to help all those podcasters make money.
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Ramsey stressed that Inside Jaws isn't history, and that he's trying to change some perceptions about what podcasting can do as a medium.
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It was always a large focus of my radio and podcasting discussions even before we started a show specifically dealing with the past.
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Candidates should have a love of podcasting, and be familiar with emerging American trends and passionate about finding new, creative ways of storytelling.
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Candidates should have a love of podcasting, be passionate about finding new, creative ways of storytelling and be very knowledgeable about current affairs.
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I posit that podcasting has become the default method for consuming longform journalism and commentary and that should give writers and journalists pause.
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Cast is simplifying this process with its web-based podcasting platform that lets you record, edit, and publish all without leaving your browser.
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This week's list includes a social podcasting app, a space-themed game and an app to help you add animations to your photos.
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Last month, Spotify announced that it had paid $340 million for Gimlet and Anchor in a push to make its mark on podcasting.
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Twitter is not the only company that's tapping into the popular audio format of podcasting to talk to advertisers and marketers more directly.
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The startup's long-term vision includes incorporating a tipping feature, much like Himalaya, another podcasting business that recently secured a $100 million check.
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After you listen, visit Reply All's publisher Gimlet Media, which is responsible for a number of the best examples of the podcasting form.
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While they may not be involved with the new 'Mulan' film, the Bancrofts are plenty busy these days teaching, animating, producing, and podcasting.
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A majority of you, however, most likely feel a bit disgusted to discover that rule #34 even infects the wholesome realm of podcasting.
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It&aposs more "aged up," said Cruz, who has even used the skills she&aposs learned in podcasting to mature her YouTube presence.
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His informed but freewheeling and logorrheic writing voice and the loose persona he brings to podcasting do not translate well to onscreen work.
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Key takeaway: it's the dawn of podcasting; expect a whole lot more venture investment and M&A activity in the next few years.
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What the company does have, however, is some real clout among podcasting hobbyist, since the first Snowball was release half a decade ago.
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By podcasting about a niche topic you care about, you are able to build a specific community around the perspective you are sharing.
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Another Gimlet show, "Crimetown," is in development at FX. And the podcasting company Panoply has signed with WME to develop its own adaptations.
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Podcasting has become so popular and omnipresent that we're seeing more festivals devoted to allowing live audiences to get in on the action.
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That could change now that Google has reintroduced a podcast player and music streaming services like Spotify are looking to podcasting for growth.
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As the popularity of podcasting has grown, producing them, via smartphone voice recorders and free audio editing software, has gotten easier than ever.
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But now that podcasting has allowed for endless shows on demand, audio makers are eager to get their content straight to children's ears.
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Apple's service is the biggest name in podcasting, and it's one of the few major platforms that allows listeners to leave public reviews.
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You'll have to do some research to determine which one provides the terms, features, and interface that works best for your podcasting needs.
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I'm more skeptical of Apple's claims around the three-microphone array — which is supposed to be on par with USB-powered podcasting mics.
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New data and investments into news podcasting suggests that the format is not just a fad, but a trend that's here to stay.
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They point to the market for paid podcasting and its low-cost appeal as a way to test interest in new content areas.
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This static file format means that when it comes to ad measurement, podcasting looks more like a print medium than a digital one.
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In this inaugural list, we are highlighting the top 21 New York-based influencers who run successful digital businesses, from podcasting to TikTok.
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I reached out to friend and former KZSC colleague, Jesse Thorn, who'd built his own mini-podcasting empire in the years since college.
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Corporations are going to go big on podcasting, easily one of the most intimate mediums with one of the most highly engaged audiences.
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Meanwhile, podcasting is going to play a slightly smaller part in the streaming wars as Apple and Spotify duke it out for dominance.
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Impeachment podcasts are the hot new thing in podcasting, and now one of the actual impeachment jurors is getting in on the boom.
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But Solomon, who has been podcasting for a yet-to-be-launched news outlet unironically called Just the Facts, hasn't done the same.
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News publishers have a big opportunity to use podcasting to grow audiences and revenue, but they face heavy competition from podcast-only platforms.
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I wanted to chart the growth of podcasting, so I booked Nick Quah, the founder of Hot Pod and a critic for Vulture.
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The audio industry has been attracting increasing advertising interest over the past five years, fueled by the rise of podcasting and smart speakers.
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She is also responsible for managing our day-to-day relationships with various podcasting partners and overseeing our podcast sales and marketing teams.
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Instead, it had previously invested an undisclosed amount in Ximalaya FM, the established Chinese podcasting platform that Himalaya also lists as an investor.
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Podcasting is intimate and I'm listening to a couple talk about their medical journey together is about as intimate as it gets. Yeah.
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Based on numerous discussions I've had with top figures in podcasting over the last month, it's clear that popular shows are getting large offers for exclusivity on podcasting platforms, major Hollywood players are entering the market and some top VCs are willing to back new streaming platforms taking a Netflix approach to podcasts (like Luminary Media, which raised a $250 million seed round).
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Sony&aposs strategy "includes [the] creation of high quality shows across all key podcasting genres and a global vision to develop our podcasting expertise in key markets around the world," wrote Dennis Kooker, president of US sales and global digital business, and Tom Mackay, president of Sony Music Film and TV A&R, in the memo that went out to staff this afternoon.
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"We just find podcasting really interesting," Mr. Fink said, adding that, as an art form, podcasts are still young enough to allow for experimentation.
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In addition to upending the traditional podcast distribution model, Luminary is committed to modernizing another aspect of podcasting: Getting more women on the air.
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Even though the technology dates back to the 1980s, podcasting (which gets its name from the Apple iPod) became established in the mid-2000s.
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I've always said that radio is the most visual medium, and podcasting has become extremely popular in the same way talk radio was popular.
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To date, Sacks says the entire podcasting industry has only spent $10 million on advertising, building out an audience of 62 million daily listeners.
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And as the popularity of podcasting has grown, producing them, via smartphone voice recorders and free audio editing software, has gotten easier than ever.
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The petition filed by EFF showed that podcasting had actually been practiced at least a year prior to Personal Audio applying for that patent.
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The bulk of podcasting, that's sort of trending at the highest percentage at the highest level, they tend to skew blue-state, left-leaning.
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On this episode of Recode Media, Peter Kafka and Nick Quah go all meta and discuss the business of podcasting while taping a podcast.
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The first season of the show was Marvel's first foray into scripted podcasting, following the popularity of such shows as S-Town and Serial.
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And while Apple dominates the podcasting market today, Spotify is growing fast — and has the advantage of being available on any non-Apple device.
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It's actually pretty adorable: They both like their steak cooked medium rare, they're both in radio/podcasting, and they both think she's certifiably insane.
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Essentially, this is a way for Twitter to reorient the purpose of its live-streaming platform toward live podcasting and other audio-first content.
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Drawn came out of a desire to explore the podcasting world, Erik Resnick, Cartoon Network's senior vice president for business development, told The Verge.
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A week later, I got a call inviting me to join the Radiotopia podcast network, home to some of my podcasting and radio heroes.
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Following its relaunch earlier this year as a podcast creation platform, Anchor today is bringing its suite of mobile podcasting tools to the iPad.
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Though virtually every major digital media company — Recode proprietor Vox Media included — is adding podcasting bits to their business, the real game is video.
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He's been involved in podcasting for years, but he's cautious about promoting the idea that the medium is a path to equality in radio.
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I've been working this way for so long that it now seems strange to be able to see the person(s) I'm podcasting with.
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Before YouTube's representative found him, he was planning on making the leap to podcasting, which would make him less reliant on a single platform.
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For all of the great things you can do on the fly, the podcasting mixing board wasn't great when it came to post-production.
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And part of this is to develop new revenue streams: podcasting both has freemium (ad-supported) and premium (a la carte or subscription) potential.
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"When you talk to those customers and you ask them about podcasting, they describe something that equally enthralls them and frustrates them," he said.
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Tips for successful podcasting in 2019:How to start a successful podcast in 2019, according to an influencer with over 50 million podcast downloads
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With podcasting on the rise, many traditional print media outlets have turned to audio to reach their current audience and engage with new ones.
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Earlier this month, Marco Arment, cofounder of Tumblr and inventor of Instapaper and Overcast podcasting app, wrote about the curious popularity of the computer.
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Today, NPR announced RAD, a new, open-sourced podcast analytics technology that was developed in partnership with nearly 30 companies from the podcasting industry.
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And maybe there's a little less ... there's plenty of great storytelling in podcasting, but it doesn't have to be the only thing you do.
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Why it matters: It's experimenting with how its artificial intelligence features, like automatic subtitling and Google Translate, can help modernize podcasting and broaden audiences.
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One thing we should note about our dip into the podcasting pool: We like the studio, but we love the world outside of it.
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We live in the capital of podcasting, and lots of people in New York City listen to the show, so once in a while.
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Today, the Spotify-owned platform announced that it will be expanding its Record With Friends remote podcasting feature by way of a 2.0 update.
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I've listed Zencastr in a few of my podcasting guides as a great podcast-specific alternative to virtual conferencing platforms like Skype and Zoom.
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What do you think it is about your show, or maybe about podcasting in general, that allows for that kind of personal, discursive storytelling?
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The accounts included Unite the Right activist James Allsup, the white nationalist site VDARE, the American Identity Movement, and the podcasting outlet TRS Radio.
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Since this was our inaugural foray into podcasting, we'd love to hear from you about how we might improve the challenge for next year.
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Balcomb saw a similar opportunity in podcasting, but knew that for a podcast to accomplish this goal, it would have to be much shorter.
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There haven't been quite as many eyebrow-raising deals in the podcasting world — but the Obamas did sign with Spotify a few months ago.
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Eventually — and theoretically — if podcasting becomes big enough, Spotify's overall margins could improve, and that could convince Wall Street that Spotify is more valuable.
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Progress is being made, but the podcasting industry is still primitive compared to web ad technology that knows most everything about a specific user.
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But in 2018, it shrunk the Yeti into a smaller form factor called the Yeti Nano, which arrived just as the podcasting business skyrocketed.
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If you think of audio as the way you think of, say, film, like we're still in the black-and-white period of podcasting.
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So for me, I feel very fortunate that I live in the time I live in so that there's podcasting and there's docu-series.
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Panoply, the podcasting unit set up by Slate magazine, recently laid off most of its staff and will become just a distributor of podcasts.
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Top public radio shows and stations launched some of the first custom apps designed for a more immersive listening experience, followed by other podcasting networks.
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Podcasting was still a nascent medium; no one really knew what to expect, or had any real sense of how the format could be leveraged.
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The move would be the first time Spotify has bought a content company — and one of the biggest acquisitions in the still-nascent podcasting industry.
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Spotify, which has attempted to break into the video business without success, has been public about its ambitions to move into podcasting in recent months.
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That app launched with considerable backing from venture capitalists, branding itself as the "Netflix of podcasting," and coming with a large roster of premium shows.
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The company has acquired Gimlet Media, a renowned podcasting studio; Anchor, a podcast creation app; and Parcast, a network known for crime and mystery shows.
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While a podcasting sub-genre still exists to cater to the fans of the old radio plays, modern audio drama has since shifted its style.
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That is an issue for podcasting if it wants to be classed as a digital product and be accepted within the larger pool of buys.
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These new listeners will have a profound impact on the future of podcasting, in both the type of content produced and the way it's distributed.
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"S-Town" might herald a new era of long-form podcasting; one that goes beyond murder mystery, beyond crime, into the depths of human complexity.
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It's a stark contrast from developed markets like the US where 64% of the population is aware of the term "podcasting", according to some estimates.
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Like the first season, the 10-part series will debut on Stitcher Premium, and will be released on other podcasting platforms later in the year.
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"Podcasting is such a young industry that we sort of don't know what the best way to do things are as an industry," Nelson said.
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SoundCloud has been around since 2007, growing from a simple streaming player to take on podcasting, music discovery, and basically anything else that involves audio.
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"We are committed to lowering barriers to podcasting through education and information sharing," Google Podcasts Product Manager Zack Reneau-Wedeen said in a press release.
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Once the domain of amateur mumblers who spoke at length about laptop specs or chemtrails, podcasting has become big business and listeners are paying attention.
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Podcasting In the past year, Culkin has both made appearances on Anna Faris' podcast as well as on his own debut podcast series, Bunny Ears.
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Join us on this spiritual podcasting journey that will assuredly result in our brains melting from having to say the word "Drake" over and over!
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Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and others have made podcasts a priority over the last year, promoting shows to millions of users who aren't already into podcasting.
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Or at least some money: Nick Quah, who runs the excellent podcasting newsletter HotPod, says his letter lets him pay his New York City rent.
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The Podcasting 101 Bundle can help you launch your own show right away, even if you've never even recorded so much as a voicemail message.
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Despite all the amazing streaming music, online radio and podcasting services launched over the years, using them in the car remains a largely clunky experience.
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"The media in general, and podcasting, is a white and male-dominated environment," said Adey in an interview during a Spotify podcast bootcamp in London.
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Between television, social media and various new outlets, including podcasting, we are consuming information often much more quickly than our brains can process the information.
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DBA has a products division, Digital Brand Products; a podcasting studio, Dear Media; and is partners with the conference series and platform Create and Cultivate.
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G.E., which previously worked with Slate Custom, the site's sponsored-content division, and became intrigued by podcasting, ended up being one of the first examples.
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That could include streaming-technology companies and businesses that help creators monetize their content, like Art19, which provides measurement and other advertising tools for podcasting.
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The show, produced by Michael's influencer-focused podcasting network Dear Media, has over 50 million episode downloads, and over 5,20193 five-star reviews on iTunes.
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Slate started as a digital magazine, but podcasting now accounts for about half of its revenue, up from 20% just a couple of years ago.
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When Gimlet recorded the first season of "StartUp," the drama of the show hinged on the financial and personal risk of establishing a podcasting company.
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"I'm so in love with the medium of podcasting, and I'm conscious of how we can manage this growth without burning our listeners," he said.
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"For podcasting to grow, creators must be able to take risks on more conceptual ideas, and the Luminary model provides that comfort," Mr. Davidson said.
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The author's first foray into podcasting, the seven-part series "Against the Rules," is about a subject that is, by his standards, only medium-wonky.
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I wan to thank our guests so much and everybody, check out the writing and the various podcasting both Deidre and Nate have been doing.
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In an age when virtually every smartphone has a voice recorder, podcasting is a cost-effective medium, which could help explain its surge in listeners.
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Podcasting is on the rise, with the industry expected to generate $863 million in ad revenue this year and more than $1 billion in 2021.
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The Ringer, the website and podcasting network founded by Mr. Simmons in 2016, will soon become the property of Spotify, the companies said on Wednesday.
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One thing I love about podcasting is how conversation breaks down the illusion that discussions have binary outcomes: Someone is right and someone is wrong.
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And if you'll lend us your ears for a report about podcasting, we'll explain why some companies consider it both a risky and desirable investment.
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Lauren LoGrasso, an executive producer on female-led shows in the Cadence2000 podcast network, knows a thing or two about how to succeed in podcasting.
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This year, Spotify aggressively entered the podcasting space with acquisitions and new shows, while already established networks continued to build their rosters with big names.
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"We want to become synonymous with podcasting in the same way Netflix has become synonymous with streaming," said Luminary co-founder and CEO Matt Sacks.
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Big changes coming to podcasting: Apple is going to let the people who make podcasts learn what podcast listeners actually like — and what they ignore.
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Part of the idea when we started was, if you listened to podcasting in 2014, you heard a lot of ads for direct response product, right?
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"That's why we're also partnering with the podcast industry on a program to increase the diversity of voices and remove barriers to podcasting," Reneau-Wedeen said.
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Stadia could be about podcasting, cookery shows, Bob Ross-style oil painting classes — whatever — and its presentation would have gone more or less the same way.
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Recently, Gimlet has extended its attention from podcasting to film and television, as seen by its recent deal with Amazon to turn Homecoming into a series.
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They keep coming back, and that's how the industry has been able to grow steadily year over year, even before the sort of moment in podcasting.
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Under the Interactive Advertising Bureau's podcasting standards, the type of proxy traffic Luminary is sending has to be thrown out because it's classified as bot traffic.
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It's the latest indicator that at least some investors think there's a lot of upside to podcasting, which to date has been a very modest industry.
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After continuing to build out its podcasting presence over the past few months, Google finally looks ready to roll out an app dedicated solely to podcasts.
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In 2018, BuzzFeed shut down its podcasting unit and underwent a restructuring of its business team to explore new types of revenue, like commerce and licensing.
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The company is also billing itself as a discovery platform, offering free promotion for the service's various podcasts across its own network of popular podcasting talent.
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It seems that about the only time I don't have some sort of Zelda stream on in the background, it's when I'm streaming or podcasting myself.
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Traditionally, the largest barrier to podcasting has been the complexity of steps and multitude of programs it takes to go from recording to editing to publishing.
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That is an issue for podcasting if it wants to be classified as a digital product and to be accepted in the larger pool of buys.
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Earlier this year the company acquired the podcasting network Gimlet Media as well as Anchor, which produces tools to let creators build, publish, and monetize podcasts.
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A new version is currently in beta that makes the app even better, but as it stands, it's one of the better podcasting apps out there.
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"We see stitcher for us also as key to solving one of the major issues with the podcasting business and that is content discovery," he said.
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These are the stats most news articles and industry experts refer to as the "market size" of podcasting but they are only the podcast advertising market.
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Beyond Watch compatibility, podcasting didn't get a lot of love as Apple blew through announcements at a frenetic pace during its two-hour-plus keynote yesterday.
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In an interview with TechCrunch, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström admits that the company wasn't doing a particularly good job serving up podcasting content.
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She is a distinguished lecturer at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches podcasting and directs the radio journalism program.
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"Over the last decade, we've grown into the biggest ad-driven podcast network in the world without being able to laser focus on podcasting," Byrne said.
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SCOTT Interesting that you bring up radio, a medium that, like the movies, is believed to be wobbling toward extinction, undone by streaming services and podcasting.
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Podcasting has become an important vertical for Anchor's parent company Spotify, which led to it acquiring both Anchor and Gimlet earlier this year for $340 million.
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JW: I think podcasting as a whole comes a lot out of the world of public radio and it largely reflects the values of public radio.
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She quit her job and spent a year and a half teaching and taking commissioned book projects, before channeling her love of old movies into podcasting.
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You can ask it for shows in a specific category, and if you're new to podcasting, the bot will give you a few options by genre.
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The utopian dream of platforms that are open and meritocratic has been reborn in the internet era in the form of blogging, and more recently podcasting.
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This list of power players recognizes those who have topped the download charts, used podcasting to create social change, or are leaders driving the industry forward.
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While Shondaland is known for its TV shows, it has already been moving into podcasting with Katie's Crib, a show about motherhood from actress Katie Lowes.
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And while The Ringer has a web publishing operation and has made forays into videos and TV shows, the bulk of its revenue comes from podcasting.
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"Podcast for Laundry" is a satire of podcasting, but only in the way that "Larry Sanders" sends up talk shows: T his is its starting place.
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Since podcast ads, and host reads in particular, are organic and intimate, advertisers are increasingly turning to podcasting to appeal to this "unreachable" demographic, Lieber said.
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Would their relationship to local news, technology, podcasting, radio, audible books, talking billboards and verbal political broadcast narrations change if the speaker's voice mirrored the listener's?
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"One skill that's common to improv and podcasting is working with other people, which is not something that comes right away" in a career, he said.
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Content creators of all kinds are trying their hands at podcasting, but with so much competition, it can be hard for independent shows to make money.
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NPR expects to make more than $55 million from podcasting next year, which is more than it makes from radio sponsorships, according to the Reuters Institute.
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Right, okay, and raising VC for his podcasting enterprise, one of the first big shows which is still a big show is Reply All, very successful.
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What we're able to do in podcasting is take the most creative risk because it's not as expensive to produce and distribute a show as a podcast.
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Podcasting is a somewhat natural next step for the former president, whose love of telling stories is legendary in Arkansas, his home state, and across the country.
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The Obama-produced podcasts will be exclusive to Spotify's platform -- part of a broader push by the company to make a bigger splash in the podcasting space.
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The move to feature this type of "text-comes-to-life" content arrives at a time when there's an increased interest in podcasting and audio in general.
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Grandmaison's podcast is credited for launching the careers of many artists including XXXTentacion and Lil Yachty, but he's a controversial figure in the YouTube and podcasting world.
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Anchor launched late last year and has iterated a bit in the time since to make the app work better for amateurs who want to start podcasting.
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Everyone I work with has a podcast or aspires to have a podcast, but beyond this nerd group that I'm in, regular people have heard about podcasting.
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I always think of the difference in podcasting being it's on-demand, and you just get to it when you want, and the form is the same.
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For misers interested in media production, New York City's underutilized public access stations offer professional training in subjects from production and editing to documentary storytelling and podcasting.
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But Majelan thinks Apple Podcasts and the iTunes podcast directory are reminiscent of a phone book — Apple Podcasts is by far the leading podcasting app right now.
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News media company theSkimm is delving further into podcasting, with the launch of its first daily news podcast called Skimm This, set to launch on March 4.
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Normally, the Podcasting 101 Bundle retails for $1,990, but you can knock 98% off that price and get lifetime access to all 10 courses for just $29.
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After Google bought the company in 2003, Mr Williams worked on a podcasting firm called Odeo that ended up launching a text-messaging service, which became Twitter.
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The assembled comics, though little known beyond the city's stages, represented the wide range of performance today, from stand-up and improv to Vine videos and podcasting.
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They record the podcast right in the middle of the living room in their shared apartment, and Seamon said they spent close to $800 on podcasting equipment.
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I like to believe that the great thing about podcasting thus far has been that it is an antidote to our social media, short-term driven culture.
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Panoply, the podcasting company that produced "The Message" in partnership with General Electric this year and is releasing the techno-sci-fi parable "LifeAfter" on Sunday, Nov.
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On a recent episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, "Call Your Girlfriend" co-host Aminatou Sow said she started podcasting because men told her she couldn't.
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The company announced today that it's acquired two big names in podcasting: Pineapple Street Media, a content network, and Cadence13, an ad distribution platform and production company.
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I'm also a rapt beneficiary of the renaissance in podcasting — a classic example of technology, innovation and investment coming together to eventually get a new medium right.
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As we judged, we also admired the way teachers took full advantage of the open-ended nature of the contest to make podcasting work for their purposes.
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She told them podcasting was essentially the same work she was doing with broadcast for "All Things Considered," but she recognized a big difference in the mediums.
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Podcasting is entering a lot of white space — areas where people used to listen to very little media, like while they were commuting or doing the laundry.
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The bottom line: Signs point to podcasting becoming a bigger part of the news industry in the foreseeable future, but don't expect all newsrooms to benefit equally.
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Spotify's setting itself up to be a critical part of the podcasting ads ecosystem with user data and exclusive content as a reason to work with them.
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Workers at Gimlet Media, a podcasting company based in Brooklyn, announced that they were forming a union about a month after Spotify bought the company last year.
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These leading digital stars, like the lifestyle and fashion Instagram influencer Courtney Quinn, run successful digital businesses in podcasting and on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
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For the sake of brevity, let's call 2004 the birth of podcasting, as that's when the term was coined, at the pre-iPhone apex of iPod popularity.
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Spotify is still a relatively new entrant in the field, and while podcasting is growing at a rapid rate, many listeners have already settled on a player.
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Last month the company stated that global streaming revenues had risen 21.4% year-over-year, most of it from music, as Sony is still new to podcasting.
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He'd been on Bill's show a lot, and Bill told him how much he liked doing podcasting, and when Malcolm decided to do it, he plunged in!
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Gradually, All Songs Considered became a hub for covering some of these shows: Boilen began podcasting, blogging, and webcasting shows from the venues and festivals he attended.
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Earlier this week, podcast startup Gimlet raised $15 million — which gave us the opportunity to note that investors have not been clamoring to put money into podcasting.
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I think it fits in with the fact that there's a bunch of really large audio platforms that are standing around the edge of the pool of podcasting.
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Gimlet Media, the Brooklyn-based podcasting network behind shows like StartUp and Reply All, announced today that it has closed a $15 million round led by Stripes Group.
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Many of Recode's Vox Media colleagues will also be podcasting live, including Vox's Ezra Klein and the hosts of The Verge's Vergecast and Why'd You Push That Button?
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Screenshot: GizmodoFor finding new podcasts, there's a simple search option, plus the usual selection of trending and popular podcasts that you're going to find in most podcasting apps.
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The service launched just as RSS was starting to gain some real momentum, in particular as podcasting gave RSS a use case that didn't seem quite so niche.
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This is Spotify's latest move into the podcasting space in the past year, following nearly $400 million in recent acquisitions of podcast networks Gimlet Media, Parcast, and Anchor.
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Featuring a foolproof design and a relentless focus on making podcasting as high-quality and easy as possible, Zencastr includes a ton of features that makes production easier.
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But the podcasting patent itself became particularly notorious after Personal Audio sued comedian and radio show host Adam Carolla over his podcast The Adam Carolla Show in 2013.
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Is the podcasting boom really the Serial boom and it's just about one show or do you think this thing has legs and ... We know it has legs.
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The service isn't disclosing specific numbers here, but says those estimates come through Magellan, a podcasting analytic service that works with some big names like WNYC and Gimlet.
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After a wave of hype for its star-studded podcast offerings, Luminary got off to a rocky start after it managed to anger many in the podcasting community.
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Marvel is making its first move into scripted podcasting next month with the premiere of Wolverine: The Long Night, a 10-episode series that's launching on Stitcher Premium.
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Popular paid podcasting app Pocket Casts has been Android Auto compatible since 2015, but support for Google's free alternative, which was launched just last year, is long overdue.
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The only time we do see Ben, he's comforting "friend-zoned" pal and podcasting parter Ashley Iaconetti, who is sobbing, as is her way on all Bachelor properties.
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" Burton also notes that podcasting helps enhance the stories he selects: "What audio storytelling does is it engages the listener in a way that visual storytelling does not.
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It supports both USB and XLR, giving users plenty of flexibility if they want to use it for multiple purposes (like, say, podcasting) or across various audio interfaces.
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Given the popularity of podcasting today, it's actually fairly remarkable that no one else had yet introduced audio editing tools built with the needs of podcasters in mind.
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Podcasting is growing up: According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016's $119 million.
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And although many podcasters make money, typically through sponsorships, the podcasting industry (such as it is) hasn't received much in the way of venture funding until quite recently.
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He's already slowed down his YouTube output, going from uploading almost every day to a few times a week, and he started in on other ventures like podcasting.
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Ideally, Ryan said that an email would be sent to listeners with instructions on how to find their series on a popular podcasting platform like the iTunes Store.
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Justine and Olivia Moore at VC firm CRV crunched the numbers to show that podcasting makes 10x less money per hours consumed than any other major content medium.
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They see podcasting as a brand-building mechanism, however, and as an opportunity to understand a new storytelling format that could become even more lucrative in the future.
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The combination will make Scripps one of the biggest players in the podcasting industry, which is growing in popularity by the day thanks to cultural hits like Serial.
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Unlike in traditional media, the rules in podcasting are still being written, Wang said, and most people can get their voices heard regardless of their gender or background.
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When she set out as a professional comedian, Ms. Klausner tried just about every format and venue: stand-up, improv, cabaret, memoir-writing, a Tumblr, online videos, podcasting.
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The YouTube and Instagram influencers Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz are among the first in a wave of online-content creators to make names for themselves in podcasting.
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Platforms like YouTube and Instagram are known as hubs for influencer content, but social-media stars with millions of fans are trying something new with their content: podcasting.
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Its eight-part science-fiction thriller "The Message," produced with the Panoply podcasting network, hit No. 1 on the iTunes podcast chart and had nearly five million downloads.
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"I always feel a little guilty telling this story, because for people who want to get into podcasting, it's not something you can replicate," Frey told Business Insider.
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At the same time, I feel people are doing really exciting things with podcasting—like Homecoming and Heavy Weight—so I can't wait to see where that goes.
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Before his illustrious podcasting career, Steven Crowder worked for Fox News where he wrote a column advocating abstinence until he was fired after making fun of Sean Hannity.
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Last year, we did an episode like this, and we got an overwhelming number of questions and suggestions from people about their podcasting experience and their favorite programs.
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But, I don't see them as one or the other, I think ultimately to be a healthy, sustainable industry, podcasting needs both advertising revenue and revenue from listeners.
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You start from this basis of incredible love for the medium, people liking the ads, this extraordinary engagement, and then the ad load's not that heavy on podcasting.
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But launching a social native brand, or investing in popular personalities in a way similar to TV news or even podcasting, could help legacy publishers change that dynamic.
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The series had been conceived by Adam Sternbergh, a novelist and journalist; although he had contributed segments to "This American Life," it was his first attempt at podcasting.
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In fact, it's a long, complicated story, I was not the first person to be asked, but I was asked to do podcasting at the New York Times.
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Hernan Lopez, a former Fox executive who founded Wondery, has blurred distinctions between the podcasting world and Hollywood by giving his shows tag lines, trailers and advertising billboards.
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As friends and self-described "true crime podcasting soulmates," RedHanded co-hosts Hannah and Suruthi have turned their show into one of the smartest podcasts in the genre.
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" Another way to feel as though you're hanging out with friends is by tuning in to the pop culture podcasting duo Crissle and Kid Fury on "The Read.
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Pattiz is a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame, but he also saw the rise of podcasting coming before "Serial" broke into the mainstream in 2014.
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So with little audio experience prior to 2016 and no precedent for daily news in podcasting, how did a legacy publication end up dominating in this modern medium?
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And Serial Productions bucked podcasting convention by releasing the full season at once, inviting listeners to download all seven episodes instantly, thus encouraging big first-week download numbers.
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Spotify set the stage for the boom in 2019, spending $400 million to buy Gimlet, Parcast, and Anchor, and podcasting was one of the big trends at CES.
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Chinese podcasting and audio content app Lizhi debuts on Nasdaq Lizhi, one of China's biggest audio content apps, is debuting on Nasdaq today under the ticker symbol LIZI.
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The podcasting duo launched the show in December 2018, relying on back-and-forth banter to keep listeners engaged in conversation topics from French fries to Kevin Hart.
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In addition to her production work, LoGrasso recently launched her own independent show, "Unleash Your Inner Creative," and gives talks about podcasting at conferences like the Girlboss Rally.
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But for you or anyone on your list who's looking to get a bit more serious about podcasting in 2020, this should be a good place to start.
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Podcasting companies are looking to automation to make their ads more efficientAs host-read ads have surged, some podcast companies are looking to automate parts of the process.
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The nature of podcasting makes his relationship with those listeners profoundly different from what it would be with a written column in a place like the New Yorker.
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Many of our Vox Media colleagues will also be podcasting live, including Vox's Ezra Klein and the hosts of The Verge's Vergecast and Why'd You Push That Button?
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It's a surprisingly soothing hour of podcasting, and a great return for a podcast that's always challenged the idea of what "success" looks like for women in business.
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It's the same thing me and ... The Denzel podcast is based on friendship, for me these are ... That's what I love about podcasting, it's a more intimate medium.
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BuzzFeed recently announced it was laying off staff at its dedicated podcasting unit, and Audible, the audio arm of retail giant Amazon, laid off its entire podcast staff.
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ML: But the growth of radio was like, audio is a great medium for advertising, and the same is true today with podcasting, and brands are increasingly discovering that.
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So anyway, Casey's trying some podcasting out and today we're here with Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, the editor in chief and managing editor of the digital magazine Into.
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A podcasting app you've configured and filled up with content is going to take up more room and more system resources than it did when it was first installed.
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And there's basically a disconnect between the number of people who are listening and the amount of shows they're listening to, and the amount of money coming into podcasting.
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Both these issues have been fixed, but they speak to Luminary's broader challenges as a podcasting startup and one that might not have fully understood the industry it entered.
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The purchase, which Spotify confirmed last week, is the streaming platform's latest move to grow its presence in podcasting, and follows recent purchases of Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast.
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The company has always played a neutral role in podcasting, one in which anyone could upload their podcast's RSS feed into Apple's app and distribute it through the platform.
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There's Ctrl-Walt-Delete which will be airing our final episode in the next week, and Verge Extras, which experiments with audio and podcasting in new and interesting ways.
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"In this particular case, podcasting is a technology that is used by a lot of non-traditional media outlets," EFF staff Attorney Vera Ranieri told TechCrunch following today's decision.
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The latest funding, which adds to the more than $16 million already raised, will be used to add more subscription services and also further expand into video and podcasting.
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Matt Hartman, partner at Betaworks — an early investor in both Gimlet and Anchor — says the massive acquisitions could help signal the beginning of a new wave of podcasting growth.
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Podcasting: Yeti USB Microphone The Yeti by Blue, our top pick for USB microphones, sits above the competition because it offers the best overall audio, build and included features.
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Podcasting isn't new for corporations, but the format of American's and its release to the public is "very uncommon," said Rohit Deshpande, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School.
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Reggie Ossé, a knowledgeable and boisterous broadcasting personality better known as Combat Jack who parlayed his experience in hip-hop into a podcasting empire, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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"We want to become synonymous with podcasting in the same way Netflix has become synonymous with streaming," Matt Sacks, Luminary's co-founder and chief executive, said in an interview.
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Yesterday, the company announced that it acquired two podcasting companies, Pineapple Street Media and Cadence13, to help it build its podcast advertising business as well as its show catalog.
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Most of that advertising has traditionally been direct-response, but it&aposs becoming more mainstream as more advertisers are drawn to the intimacy of podcasting and its loyal audiences.
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A federal appeals court on Friday denied a bid by patent holding company Personal Audio LLC to revive a controversial patent it has argued covers the concept of podcasting.
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Those creators get their data from audience surveys, in some cases, and sometimes Spotify's own podcasting dashboard, which is available to anyone who puts their show on the platform.
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The medium is basically a combination of podcasting and talk radio, with mobile apps enabling interactive features like live chats with other listeners, call-in requests and emoji reactions.
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Anchor offers podcasts (ha!) that guide you through both the conceptual and technical aspects of podcasting: narrowing down on a topic, choosing the right equipment, structuring the show, etc.
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A year later, though, Apple's successful introduction of its own podcasting platform had forced Odeo's founders to think of a different path rather than competing with the tech giant.
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Nobody in film, television, music, or book publishing would ever make such a claim without their fingers firmly crossed, but Rob Walch, a living legend of podcasting and a man of hard data, certainly makes a compelling case that, despite the arrival of venture capital, legacy media, branded content, and big-name talent, podcasting remains—if not a "level playing field" for out-of-left-field creators—then certainly the squarest game in town.
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Just as podcasting hits the mainstream in the west, China, which is also experiencing an audio boom, is seeing restrictions tighten around shows as evidenced by new curbs from Apple.
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The Actors: Who's leading Apple TV+ Octavia Spencer: The multi-Oscar winner will star in and executive produce Are You Sleeping, about the modern-day obsession with true crime podcasting.
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Several apps can do this, including Overcast and Podcast Addict, but we'll describe how it works in one of our favorite podcasting apps: Pocket Casts for Android and iOS ($4).
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For Anchor to succeed, it has to go far beyond making podcasting easier — it has to make listening to amateur audio fun in a way that it usually just isn't.
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The Podfund team has raised $503 million in its seed round, which will go toward investing in creators that they think have the chops to build a successful podcasting business.
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This year, Spotify intends to spend up to $500 million on podcasting — the company has acquired multiple major podcast networks and is redesigning its app to make podcasts more accessible.
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Snyder helped usher in what might be called the new wave of podcasting with "Serial," which broke out of its relatively limited world in 2014 to become a cultural phenomenon.
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New features on the podcasting app include personal landing pages and better search capabilities so listeners can discover new podcasters, an ability to edit podcast metadata and an embeddable player.
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NPR's already a massive entity in the podcasting world, so having the buy-in of its shows and platforms represents a big step to getting the entire industry on board.
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There was a New York Times article a couple months ago saying, 'I'm not sure where advertising's gonna go with podcasting because there's really no way to track this stuff.
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Burton says that podcasting is an ideal medium for encouraging reading and literacy, in part because of its accessibility and convenience — allowing people to listen when it's best for them.
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I broke that story, and I've talked to some ... And there was a lot of like ... In the podcasting world, people don't spend a lot of time thinking about money.
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The studio also teaches women to engineer and edit podcasts, so it's important that we have a setup that isn't a barrier to learning as we introduce people to podcasting.
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Today, Spotify announced that it has acquired a small podcasting studio called Parcast, known best for true-crime and other factual serials in genres like mystery, science fiction, and history.
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Podcasting can't just be a side hustle if you want your show to be a hit, said top executives from Wondery, the largest independent podcast production company in the world.
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In the case of podcasting, The Times will be showing up to the party after half the guests are already there and the other half are crowding through the door.
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Graphic: Gimlet Union twitterAfter over a month of private and not-so-private squabbling, the management of podcasting firm Gimlet has recognized a union composed of staffers at the company.
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And then unless Apple sees some commercial potential in podcasting, it's going to be hard for us to do what I was talking about earlier in terms of selling podcasts.
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"We believe deeply in the power of listening, of bearing witness and sharing each other's stories," the Another Round hosts said of the importance of podcasting and the feminist experience.
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The public-radio show that has had the most influence on narrative podcasting is undoubtedly "This American Life," which débuted in 1995 and was syndicated on NPR the next year.
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NowThis producers told Business Insider the show capitalized on the audio-only medium of podcasting to bring readers closer to the political narratives than they could in the video series.
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Wirecutter, a product review site owned by The New York Times, recommends the $130 Blue Yeti USB microphone as a multipurpose model for podcasting, voice-overs and other audio projects.
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By snapping up podcast producers, the streaming service is hoping to stock up on high-profile titles in its rivalry with Apple, which has historically been the top podcasting platform.
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While I moved beyond the Anchor stage a number of years ago, the app offers a lot for those taking their first step into the brave new world of podcasting.
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It's probably no coincidence that many of these creators are women — true crime is one of the very few podcasting genres that seems to have an almost equal gender balance.
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I've opted out of heavy email list building, podcasting, and some consulting gigs, for example, to focus on activities that better fit together and support my business model and interests.
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Favorite CultureCon Moment: Interviewing podcasting greats like Phoebe Robinson and Andrew Hawkins, and Anchor executive Jessica Angeles about how up-and-coming podcasters can optimize and monetize their content successfully.
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"Right now, there's a lot of the same content aimed at the same audience — investigative journalism, amateur chat," said Mr. Soyoola, who joined Endeavor from Panoply Media, a podcasting network.
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They have since built very not-minimal careers out of inspiring others to do the same through podcasting, blogging, writing books and making a documentary that is available on Netflix.
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Daytime panels will focus on podcasting, book writing and diversity, and featured performers will include Ana Fabrega, Ophira Eisenberg, Jo Firestone, Karen Chee, Gina Brillon, Kerry Coddett and Molly Austin.
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Perhaps inevitably this will now also mean podcasting, which Ms. Couric first tried from 2016 to 2018 with an interview show, before deciding to do a series about the zeitgeist.
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Critic's Notebook One of the great revelations of the rise of podcasting is the format's eagerness to lift the curtain on the journalistic process and mine the method for material.
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"We have drawn inspiration from Vox Media, watching their growth trajectory and success in developing premium editorial brands and leading the industry in areas like podcasting and entertainment," Wasserstein said.
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Two of the most well-known conservative commentators in the United States — both of whom made high-profile departures from top-rated shows on Fox News — will be podcasting together.
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He'd also assisted in helping set up a veteran comedian named Marc Maron flirt with the world of podcasting — not sure if that guy's show ever got off the ground.
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Vice Media started podcasting about five years ago, but the company recently solidified its audio style with deep-dive podcasts related to its various digital properties, such as Vice News.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday will hear a bid by patent holding company Personal Audio LLC to revive a controversial patent it has argued covers to concept of podcasting.
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So that's kind of what's on the horizon for us, is just more podcasting with iHeart Radio and more traveling on our own accord to experience the world, you know?
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I realized I've been doing this for about a year or so, which means I've been podcasting a lot, you've listened a lot, it's great, thanks to all our guests.
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While the vast majority of shows were poor quality and attracted few listeners, the podcasting genre supported new kinds of storytelling, interviews, and talk formats that didn't fit with traditional radio.
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When iTunes launched its podcasting service, there was no streaming Netflix, no Kindle, YouTube had been in existence for four months, and the smartest phone on the market was a Blackberry.
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Apple has dominated podcast consumption since the beginning, even before mobile apps for podcasting; according to data tracking company RawVoice, in 2007, 96.5 percent of listeners played podcasts on Apple desktops.
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The 83-person staff of Gimlet Media, a podcasting startup acquired by music streaming service Spotify for $230 million in February, is unionizing with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).
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At a party after the announcement in Spotify's Manhattan office, one Gimlet employee, Devon Taylor, pulled out her phone to capture audio of the celebration, because — well — it's a podcasting company.
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"We're pleased that the Federal Circuit agreed that the podcasting patent is invalid," said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the EFF and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
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Given the success of its Discover Weekly playlist, a similar feature, but with podcasts included, would make sense and potentially expose more of its 100 million subscribers to the podcasting world.
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Williams co-founded Twitter in 2007 with Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone after the social network spun out from other projects that the group worked on together at podcasting company Odeo.
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Rothenberg says the distribution shift that happened in print in the early 2000s is happening across every medium: Radio is moving into podcasting, and movies and TV are moving into streaming.
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Romatelli: But if you look at podcasting now, there are twenty-five different topics with all of the smartest minds—the best people at what they do—and it's so overwhelming.
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As cities grow larger, as more people have longer commutes, as podcasting networks turn into self-sustaining businesses, the desire for the best possible wireless headphones is only going to increase.
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Doug Benson is a weed activist, a longtime fixture of the Los Angeles comedy scene, a major player in the world of podcasting, and a dude who is high a lot.
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" Niekamp says he loves the serialized storytelling potential that podcasting offers, specifically "taking a format that seems really set, like a chat show, and having stories sort of creep into it.
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You can easily grab a daily news rundown and listen to it at your leisure just as you can easily download the best of the podcasting world for slow, careful consideration.
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With narrative podcasting on the rise over the last couple of years, it's no surprise, really, that television executives have begun looking at the medium as a resource for new shows.
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Podcasting is idiosyncratic by nature, and if we have learned anything in the last year, it is that the idiosyncrasies of America do not add up to a coherent American life.
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A day after Spotify announced the launch of its podcast analytics dashboard, Pandora is today expanding its own podcasting efforts with the arrival of a self-service online hub for creators.
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Frey said she feels podcasting has less of a gender disparity than many other industries, but that the industry still needs to remain conscious of providing content for people across demographics.
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According to a report released in October by the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, podcasting "plays a particularly outsized role in spreading alt-right messages to the world" in 2018.
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But for a select few looking to start down the path to serious podcasting, this will really hit the sweet spot and up your game with the press of a button.
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You can literally make ... We had the good fortune of visiting Marc Maron, who was one of the early adopters of podcasting, in his "studio," which was essentially ... Also a garage.
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Podcasting has spurred a renaissance for the radio play, and this show's carefully curated selection of bite-size dramas is a weekly reminder of the unique intimacy this format can deliver.
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That perhaps exacerbates an already present generational divide in public radio, where a younger generation of practitioners is being increasingly drawn to the freedom offered by other audio formats like podcasting.
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Laszuk said the firm has been interested in this area for a long time — it was an early investor in podcasting startups Gimlet and Anchor, which Spotify acquired earlier this year.
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This is especially relevant for the culture of podcasting, where the DIY nature of recording and uploading means most podcasts will gravitate toward the universal audio standard we all still use.
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Mr. Thompson credited him with playing a key role in the development of podcasting at The Times, including "The Daily," a popular political podcast hosted by the Times reporter Michael Barbaro.
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As the medium becomes more popular, media companies are increasing their efforts with on-demand audio, while independent studios dedicated exclusively to podcasting are stepping up to bat against audio veterans.
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Spotify also wants to use podcasting to build up its advertising business; earlier this month, it announced plans to provide ad targeting for podcast advertisers using Spotify listeners' demographics and behavior.
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Before we go any further, I'd recommend everyone check out our on-going series "How I Podcast," in which top podcasters give a peek behind the curtain at their podcasting rigs.
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The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio.
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When I walked into the office a few hours before we were due to start podcasting, Cado asked me what the plan was, and I stared forward with a blank look.
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Dear Colleagues, As we continue to grow our podcasting business, we want to acknowledge the team that has been leading our expansion in this key area of creative and business development.
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Together this leadership team strongly positions us to super-serve the podcast community, help them reach larger audiences on more platforms and further grow our podcasting business opportunities around the world.
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Along with Pivot co-host Scott Galloway, Swisher and Kafka will be live podcasting at Vox Media's The Deep End March 8-10 and at several SXSW events over the weekend.
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On this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Roman Mars, the founder of Radiotopia and host of the hit podcast 270% Invisible, talks about the state of podcasting in 280.
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But you're doing some really interesting stuff and I want to talk about podcasting in general and how you got to doing it, so people get an idea of the business.
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So you moved into podcasting, you are also the author, I want to get to your book in a second, and you also moved very heavily in commentary on Twitter especially.
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If you were to put together a playlist solely of shows podcasting apps promoted, you could easily get the impression that creators of color just haven't really taken to the medium.
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This is my first official podcasting job since last year when Another Round went on hiatus and I was nervous to the point of wondering if I remembered how to do it.
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Plenty of podcasting apps come with Chromecast support, so check out your favorite, but one that we regularly use and have tested with a Chromecast is Pocket Casts for Android and iOS.
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"Podcasting is one of the most exciting new media platforms for storytelling and Gimlet is at the forefront of creating compelling content," WGAE executive director Lowell Peterson said in a press release.
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During the Hot Pod Summit, an invite-only day of podcasting talk, host and journalist Nick Quah asked whether Gimlet's startup story was over now that it had a big corporate parent.
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Gimlet Media, which was founded by Alex Blumberg (a former producer for This American Life) and Matthew Lieber in 2014, has been one of the dominant figures in the growing podcasting market.
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Podcasting numbers we'll get to in a second, but that seems to have been a one-off, and in terms of that success, that sort of national phenomenon, everyone's talking about it.
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One is the sort of measurement issue that we were alluding to earlier on in this conversation, that podcasting is still, at this point in time, summer 2017, defined by the download.
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Spotify is spending millions to become a major player in podcasting, and today we got a look at how it might begin promoting shows: by placing suggested episodes into algorithmically generated playlists.
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A group of former Uber employees unveiled their podcasting startup RedCircle last week, and now they're already launching new features — specifically the ability for listeners to make small tip payments to podcasters.
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Amazon, by way of its subsidiary Audible, also gains a noteworthy set of audio exclusives at a time when major streaming services like Spotify and Pandora are focusing on podcasting and audio.
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Between the lines: Podcasting offers media companies ad space where Facebook and Google currently aren't dominant, as the tech giants have almost nothing in podcasts and audio ads, Axios' Felix Salmon notes.
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The Raspberry sounds much, much better than any mic its size that I've tested, but it's also markedly more expensive than the Yeti which remains our top pick for USB podcasting microphones.
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And public radio has long been a major player in podcasting, with many at the conference pointing to the 2014 debut of Serial as the start of the medium's "gold rush" era.
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Spotify, meanwhile, has been getting more serious about podcasting with the acquisition of startups Gimlet and Anchor, as well as by hiring longtime media executive Dawn Ostroff as its chief content officer.
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Another Round is hosted by major podcasting network Panoply, and created by BuzzFeed, which in itself is staffed by a number of executives formerly of The New York Times and Washington Post.
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Why Spotify is betting big on podcasting The feature came out of beta today and is available for all users, showing key analytics like listening time, number of listeners and episode streams.
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In an blog post up this morning, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he didn't plan on getting into podcasting when he founded the company 11 years ago, but he's in it now.
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In the debut episode, offered via the podcasting network Radiotopia, Louis, a can of generic soda played by writer and performer Louis Kornfield, dreams of meeting his end in a frosty mug.
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"I set out to create a company that could build on bringing to podcasting the skill set of television and movies, both in storytelling and production, as well as marketing," he said.
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Driving the news: Shonda Rhimes, who already has a nine-figure TV deal with Netflix, has now signed a 3-year podcasting deal with iHeartPodcast Network, creating Shondaland Audio in the process.
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That said, the company has been expanding its modest podcasting team (Apple recently hired a Vox Media employee who specialized in podcast promotion), and wants to promote podcast consumption on its platform.
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"Red Scare" by Anna Khachiyan, Dasha Nekrasova, and Meg Murnane"Chapo Trap House" came on to the podcasting scene in March 2016, half a year before the US political status quo collapsed.
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The unionization vote also comes on the heels of organizing campaigns at two other tech companies—a successful one at podcasting mainstay Gimlet, and a contentious, ongoing one at fundraising platform Kickstarter.
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Some worry of ad oversaturation, but podcasts aren&apost there yetAs automated ad sales become more popular in podcasting, some worry this could lead to oversaturation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Not only has The New Yorker expanded beyond print into media such as podcasting and a TV series that will run on Amazon, but it has increasingly focused on the bottom line.
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"There are only five political talk radio shows with 10 million or more weekly listeners, and they are all right-wing," said Jeff Ullrich, founder of Midroll Media and a podcasting entrepreneur.
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Though they started out as podcasting royalty, thanks to the success of 2 Dope Queens, the comic duo conquered premium cable last year with a four-episode HBO special of the same title.
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While not quite podcasting in its method of distribution, Periscope's addition of an audio-only broadcasting feature due to user demand shows just how popular online audio shows and series' continue to become.
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Recently at a podcasting conference I watched as a woman perched herself awkwardly at the edge of an armchair that was elevated so her crotch was exactly at eye level for the audience.
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"We really do feel like what we're introducing is choice and optionality and trying to help elevate premium and paid podcasting, which would be good for creators and listeners, as well," he says.
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward comes from British director and writer, Julian Simpson, who's directed episodes of Doctor Who and Hotel Babylon, and who has recently started up a podcasting studio, Storypunk.
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The last time we heard from The Astral Plane—a club music outfit that dabbles in music journalism, podcasting, and also runs a label—they were gearing up to release their second compilation.
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Spotify is about to try to become a podcasting giant with two new acquisitions — and we have some suggestions for that — but first, it's crossing an important milestone with its music streaming business.
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As podcasting has matured as a medium, it's grown to cover almost every genre and style imaginable, from old-school tech talk and true crime, to sci-fi and sobering historical deep dives.
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Despite the current flight of comedians into podcasting, UYDstays humbly afloat by accepting their outsider status, and continuing to put out a comedy gem that hasn't changed in the decade it's been on.
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