#RobotSharon steals the show at Podcast Movement

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Being unable to travel from Melbourne VIC, Australia, didn’t stop Triton Digital’s Sharon Taylor from attending Podcast Movement (seen above with Edison Research’s Tom Webster). Based at Triton Digital’s stand, #RobotSharon has been dancing and making friends with many conference-goers. It’s unclear how it works with a glass of wine.
- Sharon Taylor was the co-host of Podland last week.
At Podcast Movement, Futuri Media launched AdMatic, a tool to “organise and monetise the world’s podcasts”. “Two million podcasts all have the same problem: poor metadata sorting that leads to mismatched recommendations for listeners and ineffective advertising for businesses”, says CEO Daniel Anstandig. It also includes automatic detection of copyright music in podcasts.
At Podcast Movement, the sponsor of the Spanish track, RSS Podcasting signed a co-production relationship with Grupo Fórmula, a Spanish-language talk radio network in the US and Mexico. (The company’s also posted a recap of day 1 of Podcast Movement).

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At Podcast Movement, Audioburst launched Finder, which they call the first embeddable search widget for podcasts. They launched an identical product in June.
James O. Boggs has left Apple Podcasts: his last day was mid-July. The Head of Editorial at Apple Podcasts, he had worked for Apple since before podcasting - April 2004.
Holy Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snood, Batman! HBO Max is to add exclusive audio to its app. Batman: The Audio Adventures will be released in Q3; they’ve also announced other forthcoming shows.
Cumulus Media saw record digital revenue, including from podcasting, in Q2/21, according to their financial report; though podcasting didn’t make any other appearance in their earnings call.
The Marconi Radio Awards are be presented by the NAB at the Radio Show in Las Vegas in October. The “Best Radio Podcast Of The Year” category finalists are We Need To Talk ▸ (WGTS), Pregnancy Pearls ▸ (Audacy), Garage Logic ▸ (Hubbard Radio), Purple Daily ▸ (KSTP-AM, Hubbard Radio), and Outkick the Coverage ▸ (Fox Sports Radio, Premiere Radio Networks)
The latest celebrity-interview podcast host is Lucille Ball - 240 episodes of Let’s Talk to Lucy will be broadcast on SiriusXM and then made available as podcasts. Interviews include Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand and Mary Taylor-Moore.
Inside Radio has unveiled The Most Powerful People In Podcasting 2021: #1 is Conal Byrne, the CEO of iHeart’s Digital Audio Group. Inside Radio is owned by iHeartMedia, a fact you won’t find disclosed on either company’s website.

Tips and tricks

The makers of the Low Tide podcast are interviewed about their work at Podcastpage. “Listen to shows that are completely different from yours and draw inspiration from them”, they recommend.
If you add <meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=1256040890"> in the <head> section of your website, it adds a little link to your podcast on Apple Podcasts on iPhones and iPods. The ID is your podcast’s ID, the number at the end of your Apple Podcasts URL. (They’re Smart App Banners).

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OZY Media has announced The Future of X: Farming ▸, looking at everything from ethical eating and factory farming to food insecurity and climate change. It’s co-produced by Vital Farms, and available from today.

It’s a year since the explosion in Beirut port of an abandoned ammonium nitrate storage facility. Beyond The Headlines ▸, from The National, has released a mini-series looking at how it happened, and what happens next.

Good Girls Talk About Sex ▸ will release its 100th episode today. Leah Carey interviews women of all orientations, ages, races, religions and body sizes, so that every listener may hear her own story reflected back to her and know she is not alone.

When Ian Coss decided to get married, every living member of his family who had ever been married had also got divorced. Forever is a Long Time ▸ is a hybrid podcast and album, a look at love with people who have made mistakes. It launches today.