Tag: podcasts
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Google and Podcasts – Stuck in Draft #3
This is another of my Stuck in Drafts series – where I dig into things I had largely written months or even years ago – and get around to publishing them. This one is a little unusual in that it was penned back in April 2016, and I’ve left it alone. However, I’ve added some…
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Faster, Faster, Faster!
There was a Buzzfeed piece recently, exploring those people who listen to podcasts at super-fast speed. I don’t just mean 1.2x or something, but some of them listen at 3x speed or even faster. Elsewhere, a Guardian writer thanked Netflix for allowing him to skip all the intros to TV series and the ability to…
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If People Think It – Does It Matter If It’s Actually True?
In this week’s excellent episode of the Reply All podcast, Alex Goldman and PG Vogt explore the question Is Facebook Spying On You? In particular, a number of people are of the belief that the Facebook app is listening to what you’re saying and that’s the only way to explain why things you were talking…
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What I’m Listening To… October 2017
It feels like it has been a long time since I wrote about what I’m listening to, and I thought it might be worth just recording my current listening patterns, for my own interest at a later date, if nobody else’s. In any event, this week I was a panellist on this month’s Radio Today…
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Tour de France 2017 Podcasts
At the 2015 Tour Le Tour is back underway, and while I’m sadly not planning to go and visit this year, I am of course closely watching TV, listening to the radio and podcasts and following all the action on Twitter. And of course, I’m helping out with The Cycling Podcast, the finest podcast covering…
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Fortunately…
The first ladies of radio, Fi Glover and Jane Garvey have a new podcast out that’s really quite essential listening: Fortunately… Glover and Garvey are fantastic radio people, and to a large extent, the joy of this podcast is just to hear them in fairly casual conversation with one another. Episodes are recorded in various…
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How Podcasts are Being Listened
Podcast listening metrics have long been seen as something as a bone of contention. In the digital advertising world, they’re seen as inferior to metrics delivered by other parts of the industry, because while you can be pretty sure a podcast advert has been delivered, you can’t be sure that it has been heard. As…
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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…
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The Tow Center Guide to Podcasting
There’s a terrific new report that the Tow Center for Digital Journalism – an institute within the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. It has published called A Guide to Podcasting. It’s an unashemedly US-centric view of the podcasting market in 2015, detailing the history of the medium, and presenting a series of case studies…
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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…