talkSPORT is bringing together a network of award-winning, fan-led football podcasts.
It will complement talkSPORT’s established commercial podcast offering and will provide advertisers with an opportunity to reach the most loyal and engaged sports audience at a national level.
Podcast agency Earworm has launched Turn Up, a competition to find the UK’s next generation big podcaster.
Acast and two charities have collaborated with some of the biggest podcasters in the UK and Ireland to produce an exclusive podcast mixtape.
Using the Acast+ one-time payment technology, a collection of podcast episodes called ‘The Mindful Mixtape’ has been created, featuring some big names across the UK and Ireland.
The collection is only available behind the paywall on the Acast+ platform, with proceeds going directly to charities. Listeners will be able to donate fixed amounts to access the mixtapes.
Spotify is to launch broadcast-to-podcast technology fully integrated into Megaphone.
Megaphone is Spotify’s one-stop-shop for enterprise publishers to create, monetise and measure their podcast businesses.
This specialised tool makes it simple to turn existing audio content into on-demand podcast content, providing a new opportunity to re-distribute and re-monetise content.
Podcast Radio has launched a new production house to create, promote and distribute podcasts alongside its radio stations.
A new nine-part podcast series investigates the disappearance of eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra.
On 29 July 1981, the day of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, Vishal disappeared on his way home from the celebrations.
Despite a huge police search, he was never seen alive again. Seven months later, his partial remains were discovered in a small patch of woodland in rural Sussex, many miles from home.
Audio interface manufacturer, Focusrite has launched a USB Microphone Trade-In Programme.
The industry newsletter for podcasting and on-demand, Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal, a newsletter from Streamline Publishing Inc.
The Capsule #inconversation podcast will be available to customers travelling on British Airways flights.
It becomes a part of the airlines Audio In-Flight Entertainment offering supplied by Spafax UK. The deal was brokered by audio content agency This Is Distorted, which will see the release of three episodes for in-flight listening in the podcast’s first Inflight entertainment partnership.
Now in its fourth year, the popular health and wellbeing podcast hosted by Natalie Anderson, features female issues, with well-known guests sharing stories and giving advice.
US podcast platform, Glassbox Media has acquired the educational podcast Who Smarted?.
The podcast is co-created by Emmy Nominated producers Adam “Tex” Davis and Jerry Kolber, who also hosts the show as ‘The Trusty Narrator’.
Davis, the show’s head writer is best known for screenwriting the cult classic film ‘Just Friends’ starring Ryan Reynolds, while Kolber was a producer on the original Queer Eye For the Straight Guy.