Podnews Daily - podcasting news

AdExchanger reckons 2018 was the year podcasts grew up and programmatic audio took off.

Lore creator Aaron Mahnke posts a bunch of great tips for podcasters in 2019.

Voxnest looks at the podcast marketplace across the globe, and reports that podcasting is growing fastest in India; while the podcast market in China is "huge": earning at least ten times more revenue than the US.

According to Chartable, there were 200,000 podcasts in 2018 - and a quarter of all reviews were written this year, too.

Pocket Casts gets pride of place in The Verge's list. Meanwhile, TechRadar has discovered a different one.

We link to a guide on how exactly to explain podcasting to your technophobic and mostly disinterested family.

The app plays random podcast episodes, one after another after another. And that's it. Will this be your new podcast app?

The 36-page report, published by the BBC, includes a detailed list of the top 10 audio podcast dramas.

In a special article today we look at privacy, GDPR, and podcast apps. Is RAD a privacy violation? Or do podcasters already get the information that concerns people?

Both IAB Certification and NPR's RAD continue to make news in podcasting today

People are leaving Patreon - both creators and supporters. Why? And what makes Patreon kick people off anyway?

The glitch is causing some ratings and reviews to disappear from the Apple Podcasts app

EFTM has published (the first?) video review of the Røde Rødecaster Pro. It looks a beautiful and highly-powered device. The reviewer, Trevor Long - who also podcasts - says “I’m ecstatic about it.”

19% of US adults listen to podcasts each week, and 45% of smart speaker owners claim to listen to podcasts and audiobooks. 43% of all available minutes in each day are being used to consume some form of media.

The standard allows podcasters to know, cross-platform, what bits of their podcast are getting listened-to.