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Nicholas QuahMarch 26, 2019

Spotify is still hungry for podcast companies, gobbling up Parcast

Plus: Gimlet pushes back on its aspirant union, Acast gets more continental, and Joe Rogan’s galaxy brain.

Caroline CramptonMarch 26, 2019

The great British brush-off: The BBC and Google are fighting over who gets to control the podcast experience

Which is more important for a public broadcaster: distributing its content as widely as possible or putting its own interests above a tech company’s?

Nicholas QuahFebruary 6, 2019

Anchor too? With a second big acquisition, Spotify shows it’s serious about podcasts — as both producer and platform

Do we have to start saying “platisher” again? We might have to start saying “platisher” again.

Nicholas QuahDecember 4, 2018

A year in, Apple’s podcast analytics have been an evolution, not a revolution

Plus: The BBC is fully on board with podcasting now, Serial has its biggest season yet, and boy, the new Ron Burgundy podcast escalated quickly.

Nicholas QuahNovember 13, 2018

Pandora wants to map the “podcast genome” so it can recommend your next favorite show

Plus: SNL pokes fun, Conan O’Brien tackles a new medium, and why we need more podcast transcripts.

Caroline CramptonSeptember 18, 2018

The Guardian is getting into the daily news podcast game — here’s what it learned the last time it tried

“If you didn’t read The Guardian or know anything about it, you should be able to listen to that podcast and get an idea of the stories we thought were important. We certainly tried to reflect The Guardian’s values.”

Tom WebsterAugust 7, 2018

Podcasting’s next frontier: A manifesto for growth (beyond the already converted)

“When people say that ‘Podcasts just aren’t for them’ or that there aren’t topics that they are interested in — maybe we should take them at their word? They need a show — just one show — and we either haven’t led them to it yet or maybe…just maybe…we haven’t made it yet.”

Nicholas QuahAugust 7, 2018

A big shakeup at Audible has left the audiobook giant’s podcast strategy unclear

Plus: Alex Jones gets deplatformed, a new alternative to Patreon for producers, and some contradictory data about how people use Alexa.

Nicholas QuahJuly 17, 2018

Wilson FM, which aims to “elevate podcast aesthetics,” is the first exciting podcast app in a long while

“I’ve always had a soft spot for print design and aesthetics that have a point of view or opinion. But I’ve been working in tech for quite some time and am just tired of this A/B-tested, data-proven, metric-driven design.”

Nicholas QuahJuly 17, 2018

Dog-eared MP3s: The podcast and book publishing industries are finding new ways to cross-pollinate

Plus: S-Town gets sued, Spotlight goes audio, and a remarkable new podcast player named Wilson FM.

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