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Women listen longer; and 'What A Day' to launch on Monday

The Podchaser Feed: a new way to discover podcasts

Australia: new podcast research and a podcast ranker

Spreaker is now using IAB Certified numbers; and podcast listeners love their advertisers

Choose-your-own adventure fiction podcast launches

Podcast consumption in Germany: new study released

Radio Sodoma tops the charts in Finland; introducing 'microcasts'

International Podcast Association shares interim survey results

ShePodcasts LIVE to stream live with Podbean Live

'Your Daily Drive' comes to Spotify in Germany

Apple Podcasts demonstrate 'Browse By Hosts And Guests'

British Podcast Awards launch a £50,000 funding scheme

Libsyn now hosts 67,000 shows; but CFO resigns

Owen Grover on the demise of Apple, and being cautious of Spotify

Apple is removing 260 podcasts a day

Podcast Alarm allows you to wake up to something different

The Messengers: free podcast documentary movie to celebrate International Podcast Day

55% of podcast fans have bought something advertised on a podcast

UK newspapers pass off podcast interview as their own

Branded podcasts 'more effective than TV'

'Stuff' rises to #2 in Podtrac chart, and a positive podcast for prisoners

True-crime podcast 'plagiarised' by newspaper; actors love audio drama podcasts

Think most podcasts are downloaded before playing? Think again

Descript’s Podcast Studio launches: we try it out

The Pocket Casts podcast app is now free

Podcoin app to close next week

NPR: podcasting revenue bigger than radio in 2020

Brexitcast filmed for TV

RSS tool falls over; hundreds of podcasts fall offline

Listening to podcasts on the web is increasing

40% of new podcasts are hosted by women

Podcasting workshop to be held in Jamaica, and new Spotify hirings

Podcasts on a plane; free ebook, webinar and classroom tools

Happy 9th, 99% Invisible; Acast moves to IAB v2 guidelines

Audioboom partners with Voxnest for ad-tech; Boudet goes legal

Unravel returns with a con artist; Crime Junkie served legal letter

Tom Webster: Let's put on a show

Help fund a new indie fiction podcast

Podchaser opens up the Social Feed

OzPod podcasting conference returns for 2019

Another podcast accused of copying

Fan podcast sells out live season finale

WWE Podcast Network to launch

Apple Podcasts transcription search is now live

Conan signs a seven figure deal, apparently driving the podcast revolution

Dr Death tops podcast charts across the world

Crime Junkie episodes disappear after plagiarism claim

Podcast Movement wraps up

Using music in podcasting moves a step closer

The doors open to Podcast Movement 2019

Music: finally coming to podcasts?

Fun Kids launches children's podcast network; RadioPublic unveil PodPass

Google adds podcast episodes to Google Search

Radio tunes in: Entercom buys Pineapple Street/Cadence13; iHeart expands podcasts internationally

Veritone One launches new monetisation tool; Cleanfeed to launch browser-based multitrack recorder

Second virtual summit for podcasters announced

Podsights releases “Open Downloads” spec

The new Apple Podcasts categories go live

Data: podcasting and the UAE

Is Amazon AWS an alternative to a real podcast host?

Do The Right Thing returns; Spreaker launches Spreaker Prime monetisation

UK - 92 percent of podcasts are listened-to alone

AdBarker promises ad insertion for podcasters on any host

Spotify continues to gain on Apple, which rolls out new categories

Apple are putting new podcast category changes live

Audioburst launches on Android Auto and Bixby

39 percent of internet users consume podcasts every month

Acast doubles revenue year-on-year; Spotify solicits Spanish shows

Audioboom revenue grows by 171% year-on-year

Apple to make its own exclusive podcasts

Podcasts are getting shorter

The battle of the one-star reviews

Audioboom adds new NYC studios

Stitcher and Wondery expand into the UK; podcast targeted with one-star reviews

BBC Sounds Controller announced; Nielsen announces new podcast advertising service

Castbox has 3m daily users; The Infinite Dial comes to Germany

Podcasts to come first on new Apple iPhone OS

The Nod visits Johannesburg, South Africa; BBC Sounds resets ratings

75 per cent of UK ad agencies plan to spend more money on podcasts

Podimo - a European Netflix for podcasts - raises $6m

Whooshkaa adds free dynamic ad insertion and transcription for all

Who's the fastest podcast host?

Wondery to go global with $10m of funding

Podtrac admits to website error; Apple slips to below 60% of podcast downloads

Anchor: skipping the approval queue, and filling Apple Podcasts with illegal copyright material?

Almost Tangible wins big at the NY Festival Awards

Podcast gets conviction overturned

The radio station earning money from subscription podcasts

Castbox integrates with Waze

Household tips from the 1950's; and a PM19 session not to miss

French podcast publishers work together; Duolingo make a dual French/English podcast

Spotify gets a podcast redesign - and lets advertisers target listeners

Record companies agree: podcasting helps music discovery

Triton Digital acquires Omny Studio

Applications now open for Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship

Spotify adds embedded player for podcasts

Podcast Live's Rugby At Twickenham; Spotify's Daily Podcast Playlist

Death in Ice Valley to return with a live show; and Spotify beats Apple in more countries

More on Apple's new categories, and a Spotify curated podcast playlist

Apple make over 100 changes to podcast categories

US podcasting ad revenues up 53% to $479m; Apple Podcasts adds full-text transcript search and device sync

Apple to kill iTunes: why it makes no difference for podcasters

Castro adds podcast clip sharing to its app: but does it help podcasting?

Audible UK announces audio drama production grant

Is podcasting in China really worth $7bn?

Apple fixes New and Noteworthy

Libsyn plans new advertising platform; and Inside Star Wars launches this week

Gimlet launches a new scripted LGBTQ+ series

How Spain listens to online audio

Infinite Dial Canada 2019 released in full

Libsyn podcast revenue up 16% in Q1 2019

Awards nights - podcasting's winners in Britain and Australia

Rob Greenlee moves to Libsyn

BBC plans 'public service algorithm' for personalisation

Spotify launch a browser-based podcast audio editor

Chartable launch SmartLinks, get $1.5m funding

Three companies get IAB Certified; Arabic podcasts on the rise

Growth in podcast listening in Canada

Google adds podcast results within main desktop search

Podfund - a funding source for podcasters - launches

Luminary fixes show note links in their apps

Show notes: only 60% of apps support links

How people find new podcasts

How people discover new podcasts

Acast launches secure paid-for podcasts in almost any app; Pacific Content bought by Rogers

Auxbus launches; NPR press the wrong button

New podcast host RedCircle launches; Parcast cost Spotify $55m

Overcast launches clip-sharing to social media

Luminary removes proxy server, disguises app user-agent, truncates show notes, removes donation links: more publishers exit

Acast buys Pippa; three more publishers come off Luminary

Podcast downloads by country; and the Peabody Awards

Luminary launches - without some popular podcasts

18m Crime Junkies; a Swootiful social app; de-umming with Spext

Countries where podcasting is growing fastest

Wondery does a deal with Universal Music

The podcast that crashes car radios

The Daily, The Weekly, the Apple Watch, and more Google Podcasts features

Is this one word we should all stop using?

Podcast Consumer 2019 released; Luminary sneek peek

Apple Podcasts now available on the web

The top personal care podcast advertisers

She Podcasts gets conference funding; Apple Podcasts to get a desktop app?

NAB Show 2019: more podcast companies than ever

Understanding podcast metrics using pizza

Spotify: now #1 for podcasts in Spain, Indonesia and India

Beer brands advertising in podcasts

Google Podcasts are working on an analytics dashboard

BBC says podcast listening will quadruple by 2021

The total number of available podcasts is now 700,000

Laughable, a top-rated comedy podcast app, comes to Android

Blubrry and Audioburst announce partnership; Spotify buys Parcast; BBC explains

'Seems to be insane' - more on the BBC block; and StreamGuys enables RAD

BBC pulls podcasts from Google Assistant and Google Podcasts

If a podcast is too long, a fifth of listeners never return

Google Podcasts will soon have a website (and it'll run on iOS too)

Australia leads the world in smart speaker adoption

Apple - what they should do next

Strategies to grow your Patreon support

Patreon says Sword and Scale's Mike Boudet can stay

Gimlet staff want a union; Spotify files complaint against Apple

Ron Burgundy podcast fails to hit the mark for iHeartRadio