YouTube is #1 for podcasts

• YouTube is the #1 podcast platform in Japan, according to a new report from Otonal and the Asahi Shimbun Firm. A brand new excessive of 17.2% of Japanese adults aged 15-69 pay attention no less than as soon as a month; that determine rising to 34% for 15-19 year-olds.

  • Audio in Japan has all the time seen decrease consumption than in different international locations. The 17.2% month-to-month listeners quantity compares with 55% within the US.
  • Final week was the a hundredth anniversary of the delivery of radio in Japan. Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, can be on Tokyo radio station J-WAVE on Friday morning to speak about podcasting and radio’s future.

• Megyn Kelly is to launch her own podcast network. The MK Media community has already signed numerous journalists.

• Podcast internet hosting firm RSS.com has added automatic Apple Podcasts submission. The function from Apple, which was launched in Feb, was pushed partially by feedback within the Podnews Report Card, and makes it simpler for brand spanking new customers to get into Apple Podcasts with out registering as a consumer. (The brand new Report Card is revealed subsequent week, in a keynote at Evolutions).

  • The corporate can also be exhibiting off its critiques and metrics in a new page.

Strikes and hires

• Acast has expanded into Queensland, Australia’s greatest state, with a brand new rent and a set of key promotions. “Queensland creators are producing among the greatest content material within the nation,” says newly appointed Senior Account Supervisor, Lauren Everist. As a Queensland-based publication, we expect she’s promoting us quick: the world, certainly?

Suggestions and methods – with Pod Predictor by Coleman Insights

• It’s all the time greatest to advertise your podcast by linking to your web site – however for those who don’t have one, you might want to use a universal link instead. We’ve an inventory of the great instruments to make use of, and the way all of them work.

Podcast Information – with Airwave

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