Hey Podheads, a pretty short edition this week.
PodPass
The awesome folk at RadioPublic want to make life easier for podcasters who want to offer premium content. Even though there are services like Patreon, Supporting Cast by Slate, and most recently Glow.fm, this involves maintaining two separate feeds and isnât cross-platform.
PodPass aims to make this simple and seamless, across platforms
PodPass is a simple protocol that uses RSS and HTML to enable both existing and new identity-based interactions for podcasting across platforms.
Hereâs a post by Jake Shapiro explaining the protocol and hereâs a Twitter thread of Chris Roden, CTO RadioPublic with some more context
Hi network
Himalaya, the podcasting platform which raised $100 million last year is spinning out a podcast network called HiSudios. The new network will focus on developing shows with influences and short shows.
Ultimately, [influencers have] just really rabid fan bases,â Peter Vincer, HiStudios CEO, tells me. âItâs easy to grow an audience, and itâs easy to monetize those, as well, because they tend to be lightning rods when youâre talking with big ad agencies or otherwise because theyâre looking for attention.â
The network has already signed James Harden, Mike Tyson and will be working with Studio71, the talent agency. Hereâs a write up by Ashely Carman with more details.
Newer shores
A couple of weeks ago, Wondery had announced plans to launch multi-lingual versions of its podcasts now. Last week, the network launched hit podcast âDr.Deathâ in seven languages.
Spotify watch
Spotify for Podcasters is now out of beta. Podcasters now access a rich seam of data on demographics, location, and listening times.
Also read: Spotifyâs pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data
BBC watch
BBC has pulled itâs radio streams from TuneIn, but podcasts will remain unaffected for now. Most recently BBC had blocked its podcasts from being shown on Google Podcasts because it wasnât getting enough listener data from Google.
When we make our programmes available via third parties, we ask that those platforms either allow you to sign into your BBC account â or provide us with meaningful data directly. Unfortunately, TuneIn doesnât do either of these, so we couldnât reach a data sharing agreement with them.
Podcasts to TV
The podcasts to TV trend seems to be taking root in Canada. Five podcasts from CBC - Canadaâs public broadcaster are getting the TV treatment.
CBC, Canadaâs public broadcaster, today announced its first-ever development slate of podcast-to-television series that will see five popular, original CBC Podcasts adapted for the screen. These initial projects include: David Ridgenâs SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING (First Generation Films, scripted); UNCOVER: THE VILLAGE (Noble Television, documentary); PERSONAL BEST (3Arts Entertainment, unscripted); TAI ASKS WHY (Irwin Entertainment, unscripted); and, ALONE: A LOVE STORY (Sienna Films, scripted). The announcement was made at Podcast Movement 2019 in Orlando, Florida, the largest podcast gathering in the world.
Voices from India
Hereâs last weekâs edition of Voices from India.
Bytes
Veritone Inks Deal With ART19 to Use aiWARE for Intelligent Ad Targeting in Podcasting
Pandora has opened up podcast submissions - Pandora
Marvel and Stitcher Expand Partnership by Launching New Fictional Podcast Series âMarvelsâ - Marvel
ESPN Podcast Audience up 17% in July - Dave Nagle/ESPN
Dan Misener has created a podcast feed exclusively for new podcast trailers. This is a really cool way to keep up with the deluge of new shows we are seeing. - Dan Miser/Pacific Content
Top true crime podcast accused of multiple accounts of plagiarism - The Week
If I Watch/Listen to It on YouTube, Is It Still a Podcast? - Canadian Podcast Listener