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• The 63 finalists have been announced for the RadioToday Australia/NZ Podcast Awards. The People’s Choice Awards are now open for you to vote.

• PodcastAddict has closed its customer feedback and ideas forum, after Uservoice eliminated its free tier (it now asks for $899 a month).

• Within the UK, Channel 4 Information thinks YouTube is ‘where podcast market growth really lies’, in keeping with a narrative in Press Gazette. As proof, the article quotes the obvious success of The Political Fourcast, which achieves “over 100,000 views per episode on common”. By comparability, two years in the past, The Rest is Politics’s audio podcast acquired more than a million downloads per episode; and two years later they’re doing round 200,000 views per episode on YouTube.

• BBC Historical past journal’s web site has published its 30 under 30. There are a variety of podcasters in there – so congratulations Katrina Kelly, the host of The Classics Podcast; Luke Daly from The Daly Medieval Podcast; Will Davis-Coleman from The Cloak and Dagger Podcast, and final however not least, Samuel Hume, the host of Pax Britannica.

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Ad Infinitum this week has Mike Jensen, the CEO of Rhapsody Voices, discussing completely different dimensions of creating audio adverts work with authenticity, together with the substances of a persuasive host-read advert. The present is produced by Stew Redwine of Oxford Highway.

Podcasting 2.0 got here from a Bitcoin convention – not less than partly – final weekend. Quite a few of us from the Podcasting 2.0 world had been in Nashville for a music live performance, and loads of different issues too.


From the BBC, Good Bad Billionaire returns for a brand new season at present, wanting on the super-rich. Within the new season, the present appears at how Tiger Woods went from a toddler prodigy to the world’s highest paid athlete, how a communist mime artist turned the boss of style home Prada, how hedge fund tycoon George Soros escaped Nazi occupation to change into one of the vital profitable traders in historical past, and the way an Indian multinational conglomerate boss constructed the largest fortune in Asia.

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