Industry News 📰
The Joe Rogan Experience Is Spotify’s Most Popular Podcast
There’s a reason Spotify shelled out millions to bring Joe Rogan’s podcast exclusively to its platform. The Joe Rogan Experience was the most popular podcast on Spotify in 2020, the audio streamer revealed as part of its year-end Wrapped campaign.
Amazon Take Lead To Acquire Wondery
Amazon.com is in exclusive talks to acquire podcasting company Wondery for more than $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reported, following a bidding process that also drew interest from the likes of Apple and Sony Music Entertainment.
Pharrell Williams Launches New Podcast Network Called OtherTone
Whether it is Will Ferrell and his comedy-focused Big Money Players Network, actor-director Kevin Connolly and his ActionPark Media, or radio personality Charlamagne Tha God and his Black Effect Podcast Network, the creative and entrepreneurial have merged in podcasting. Music artist and producer Pharrell Williams has become the latest to debut his own podcast company, called OtherTone Media.
Headliner Announces Spreaker As Latest Integration Partner
It's been a busy few months for Headliner as they have now partnered with Spreaker for a new intergration. With the latest integration, podcasters that use Spreaker to host their show can create promotional videos with Headliner from within the Spreaker interface.
iHeart & Podimo Partner To Translate & Adapt Podcasts For Global Audiences
In a move to expand the reach of its podcasts around the globe, iHeartMedia has formed a strategic alliance with Copenhagen-based Podimo to translate and adapt popular podcasts into different languages. Podimo is currently live in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and across Latin America.
Acast Gets Into Holiday Spirit With Its Podcast Advent Calendar
Advent calendars typically give a bit of candy or another treat behind each door leading up to Christmas. But the team at Acast has developed a podcast version that has a morsel for the ears. It has launched the “Santa Recommends” podcast advent calendar that will feature “Father Podmas” recommending a new podcast every day until December 25.
Magellan & Sounds Profitable Create The Podscape
Podcast advertising intelligence company Magellan AI, in collaboration with the Sounds Profitable newsletter authored by Bryan Barletta, have created an impressive graphic representation of the podcasting industry. Get your free copy HERE
Analyst Predicts Global Podcast Revenue Will Top Over A Billion Dollars This Year
Global podcast ad revenue is forecast to reach $1.4 billion this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic hitting some budgets. That is according to Omdia Tech analyst Georgina Howes, who writes in a new report that Amazon’s recent addition of podcasts to the Amazon Music app and the Amazon-owned Audible will help drive the medium’s growth.
Communities We Love ❤️🧑🏿🤝🧑🏽
Podcasting for Bosses- Podcast Community for Entrepreneurs & Creators (FB Group)
A group focused on creating community, building your network and growing your knowledge in all things surrounding podcasting and entrepreneurship.
Podcasting Deals (FB Group)
Podcasting Deals is the go-to group for podcast related essentials. Curating the best deals on podcasting gear, software, and resources.
r/PodcastGear - Sound Gear and Rig Pix for Podders (Reddit)
What gear do you use? What is your workspace set up like? This is the place to share your equipment lists, stories about your 'hardware journey', and what you have found that works for you!
Gear 🎙️
Electro-Voice Introduces RE20-BLACK
Electro-Voice has announced the introduction of the RE20-BLACK – a new colour option for the classic RE20 broadcast microphone, sporting an elegant, low-reflection dark charcoal finish.
Plug & Play - The 10 best USB Microphones Of 2020
This year, leading audio tech manufacturers rose to the occasion to provide easy to use recording solutions. Check out this list from Happy Mag of the best USB microphones for all your home recording needs.
Bingeworthy 📺📚
📚 Podcast Magazine - December 2020 Issue
Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle Morning and host of the Achieve Your Goals podcast, graces this month's Podcast Magazine. Download your free copy HERE
🎧 Selling Shovels During the Podcasting Gold Rush With Mubashar Iqbal - The Indie Hackers Podcast
Mubashar Iqbal is a prolific indie hacker with almost a 100 side projects under his belt, and more than a few of them are serving the growing podcast space. In this episode, Mubs discusses with Courtland Allen opportunities for indie hackers to serve the podcasting market.
Pods We Love ❤️🎧
Life In The A-Zone
Peggy Sweeney-McDonald, actress, producer and author of Meanwhile, Back at Cafe Du Monde… Life Stories About Food shares her journey of moving back to Baton Rouge, Louisiana after 36 years when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. These are her heartfelt stories of love, laughter, loss and life in the A-Zone.
The Disc Dump Podcast
Like most movie, game, and music lovers, there is a mountain of CDs in host Miles Trout's house. The Disc Dump Podcast combines spring cleaning with reviewing, comedy, and mental health awareness. He is on a mission to decide which movies, games, or CD's make the cut or get dumped.
Mockbusters
Mockbusters is a comedy podcast where two voice actors battle it out to pitch the ultimate movie. Each week, they'll be given a random genre and six hilarious randomly generated movie titles and they'll have just two hours to come up with a kick ass movie trailer to sell their idea to a special guest judge. Whose movie will be thrown out as trailer trash and whose will be awarded the prestigious title of.... Mockbuster.
I Understood That Reference!
Brought to you by Rob & Ross, this podcast follows the conversations of two film, comic and video game enthusiasts as they discuss what’s trending in pop culture today.
Hot Flashes & Cool Topics
A funny podcast that talks about life in midlife. We talk about the good, the bad and the freedoms that we earn as we reach a "certain age".
Apps & Tools 🧰
Podurama - Podcast player
Podurama is the best free podcast app for iOS, Android, Web, Windows and MacOS with no ads.
Podvertizer - Podcast advertising
Podvertizer is a peer2peer podcast sponsorships marketplace helping brands, influencer agencies and podcast hosts to build ROI partnerships.
EchoWave - Share Audio With Engaging Videos
EchoWave allows you to repurpose your audio by converting sound files to video, without downloading and installing software. Enabling you to increase your social reach and drive engagement.
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Nuggets 🤓
Should You Buy USB Or XLR Microphone?
When buying a microphone you're faced with a huge amount of options and decisions to make. Dynamic or condenser, which brand, what price point, XLR or USB. Check out this video from RiversideFM breaking down the difference between an XLR or USB microphone.
Should You Be Pitching Podcasts?
Everyone has a podcast. That’s how it feels, anyway, especially during a year when many people took on new hobbies and side projects. Not every podcast has an audience, however. Building an audience in podcasting is hard, time-consuming work. Check out this great article from Builtin.com's Expert Columnist Hailley Griffis
How To Start A Podcast If You’ve Never Edited Audio Before
If you're new to podcasting, audio editing is a critical component of the audience experience and can seem daunting to learn. Check out this how-to post by Sounder on editing a podcast for the first time.
Events 🎫
PM Holiday Virtual Meet Up - December 9 (Virtual)
Podcast Movement plans to deck the halls by having an open forum with virtual rooms for general discussion as well as the option to split into small groups to discuss niche podcast-related topics.
The Making Of True Crime LIVE - December 9 (Virtual)
A 1-hour virtual gathering with some of the greatest true crime storytellers in podcasting! Hosted on the Stitcher Facebook page
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