Scorching Pod, one of many longest-running newsletters about podcasting, is to droop publishing. Lead reporter Ariel Shapiro has introduced that her last week with its owner, The Verge, will be next week; Deputy Editor Jake Kastrenakes provides: “We gained’t have a brand new author in place by subsequent week, so we’re planning to place Scorching Pod on hiatus whereas we determine subsequent steps.” The publication’s writers, Ariel Shapiro, Ashley Carman and Nick Quah, have been a significant a part of the business since 2014 and impressed Podnews to provide this each day e-newsletter in 2017. We hope the publication is again quickly.
“In October final yr, Stephen posted on LinkedIn that he had ambitions to launch a podcast community: an open name for anybody to contact him that felt they might add worth to the podcast media business. Georgie and I noticed it, and we pulled collectively an e-mail that summarised a bit of bit about us. After which you’ll be able to think about our shock – we included a hyperlink to schedule a gathering your self, and a few days later I used to be in a co-working area with Georgia, bought an e-mail, and I have to say I screamed.” The Podnews Weekly Review this week has an interview with Georgie Holt and Christiana Brenton of Stephen Bartlett’s new company Flight Studio, plus an Indian podcast app and a brand new gross sales firm primarily based in New York.
The Podcast Standards Project met recently in Los Angeles. Sam Sethi was made Chief Evangelist. The group has been assembly frequently since its launch; Podnews will assist with press protection, however gained’t be within the group to permit discussions to be made with out “the press” being current.
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