The Asia Podcast Awards are launched

• The Asian Podcast Awards are now open. The awards are open to anybody who produces a podcast in Asia or the Pacific, in any language. Winners will obtain recognition in radioinfo and Podnews, and the general winner will likely be flown to Kuala Lumpur in September to attend the Radiodays Asia convention.

• Conshax, a price 4 worth analytics service, is to close on July 15. “We need to take Conshax into a brand new path,” the company says on X.

• A brand new Castro launch at the moment for iOS consists of some lockscreen widgets.

• Podcast Movement introduced its first keynotes for its Washington DC occasion – Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Silver from Multitude Podcasts. Use code PODNEWS for a particular reader low cost.

• In the US, podcasting is almost as big as talk radio, based on Edison Analysis. For folks aged 13-64, podcasting is already larger.

• The YAP Media Community has signed Earn your Happy, The Trent Shelton Podcast and This Naked Mind.

• Yesterday, the BBC’s Newscast did what the BBC breathlessly called “an amazing experiment” – a six hour present broadcast “stay”. It comes scorching on the heels of one other “superb experiment” simply 37,122 days in the past, when, in 1922, the BBC additionally broadcast a radio present stay. Congratulations to all concerned, and many others.

Pleased Independence Day, US! And Pleased Common Election Day, UK!

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