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• Oxford Road and Veritone One are to combine to form the world’s largest podcast agency. For now, each corporations will proceed to commerce independently. “With Veritone One’s industry-leading tech and knowledge platform, together with Oxford Street’s innovation on behalf of manufacturers, we’re creating an company that units a brand new customary,” says Dan Granger, who’s CEO of the newly mixed organisation.

• A variety of podcasts hosted on archive.org have gone silent, after an assault on the service. The Web Archive, which is funded by donations, has been badly affected, and person knowledge has been leaked. Podcasts on Librivox, an audiobook community, are all unavailable.

• The podcast boom is “far from over”, says Spotify’s Karin Bäckmann, talking at Lyddager in Oslo, Norway, on the finish of final week. The occasion additionally noticed PrixNorge, an audio industry awards. The podcast Historier fra virkeligheten from Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK was made Podcast of the 12 months. Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, was a speaker – talking on podcast tendencies and audio instruments.

• The winners of Guldörat, an audio awards in Stockholm, Sweden, were announced yesterday. Podcast of the yr went to Alla goda ting är tre, a comedy podcast hosted by Acast. The day additionally included Power of Sound, an occasion for advertisers, and Guldörat’s conference for audio creators. Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, spoke at each occasions.

• After the success of Goalhanger’s The Relaxation is Politics tour of the UK, The Rest is Entertainment has announced a live show in the Royal Albert Hall on Oct 4. The present, introduced by Marina Hyde and Richard Osman, is among the UK’s top 25 podcasts.

• YouTube despatched out error messages by way of e-mail to many podcast creators who use the RSS ingestion device, asking creators to “please be certain that your media recordsdata aren’t corrupt”. This seems to have been a fault at YouTube’s finish; all affected episodes have now been ingested accurately.

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• Wanting to depart X, for no matter cause, and to strive BlueSky? Justin Jackson has made a starter pack of people in podcasting to follow. You may observe Podnews there, too: @podnews.internet

  • Nonetheless, we’d advocate open social media within the fediverse, like Mastodon, quite than going from one closed platform to a different. Identical to podcasting, you need to use completely different apps, and select a internet hosting server to swimsuit you. Podnews is [email protected] over there, and you’ll see who follows us as a superb start line. (If there could be any curiosity in social accounts on the Podnews server, maybe for our supporters, please tell us).

Podcast Information returns tomorrow. (For a clue as to why, see tales 3 and 4!)