Tag: podcasting

  • Podcasting: Data/Tech Improvements or Leave Alone?

    A couple of interesting pieces on the development of podcasts, and Apple’s role, have been published recently and thought worth thinking aloud about (that’s effectively what my blog is – me thinking aloud). The New York Times published a piece that suggests major podcasting groups have been talking to Apple asking for extra functionality from…

  • Google and Podcasts – More Thoughts

    This is a follow up to the post I wrote a few days ago when it was first announced that Google was getting into podcasts. Go away and read that if you’ve not already done so! A few things are worth noting that I hadn’t quite understood initially. Google Serving Podcasts and Metrics It’s very…

  • Google and Podcasts

    This week we heard the first news that Google is starting to get into the podcast game. Recode had the first decent report on the move. Currently, Apple dominates podcasts. Indeed, the word “podcast” might seem to imply to casual listener, that listening to a podcast means having an actual “iPod” to listen to them…

  • Podcasts – A Rebirth?

    Earlier this year, I was sad when The Guardian shut-down a number of podcasts including the Media Talk Podcast (Phoenix style, an entirely independent-of-the-Guardian podcast, The Media Podcast, rose from the ashes through a Kickstarter – I’m a backer). But with a certain amount of irony, the final episode of the Guardian’s iteration included contributions…

  • Podcasting – What Next?

    Tomorrow evening, there’s a Radio Academy event taking place in London looking at podcasting. As I’ve written previously, you always feel that podcasting is the perennial bridesmaid and never the bride in the digital media, and digital audio world. I suppose I’ve been thinking a little more about it recently because one of my favourite…