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Daily Podcasting Blog and news related to podcasting, RSS, podcast news and aggregation. Information related to podcasts are added on a daily business and cover the gamut, from new podcast product announcements, podcast directories, marketing for podcasters and much, much more.

12/31/2015 Finding Podcasts
At the moment, there is nothing doing for podcasts what Spotifys algorithms can do for your music listening habits, or what aggregators like longreads.com or thebrowser.com can do for the scope of what you read.

There are a few ways you can explore this.

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12/29/2015 Why Podcasting Is Going To Sound Totally Different In 2016
Thanks to a number of rapidly evolving technologies and changes in listener behavior, a lot of the seismic shifts that have swept across other digital media will shake up podcasting, too, making its ads more easily targeted and its shows easier to discover and share.

Below are a few of the forces that will turn the podcasting industry on its head next year.

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12/05/2015 RecordForAll Audio Recording Software
RecordForAll makes it simple to record audio files, layer audio files and edit audio files for podcasting. Podcasters can record voices, or music files or other sounds.

RecordForAll Audio Recording Software

12/03/2015 As Podcasts Go Mainstream Will Corporations Take Over
And while big-name podcasts are trying to go to new platforms, the reverse is also true. Apart from Pandora, music streaming services including Spotify and Google Play Music have announced that they too want to host podcasts. And that could be the start of real problems, down the line. So far, Apple has just been an index for podcasts, while these other services want to host them them instead of just listing them.

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12/01/2015 What Publishers Can Learn from Podcasting
Every other form of media is clamoring for engaged, loyal readers — traits that would certainly be encouraged by intimacy with the media consumed. Just what about podcasting fosters this, and is there anything other mediums can learn from it?

Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media, introduced a panel of podcasters at a recent CUNY event by talking about four things that audiences want out of podcasts: engagement, learning, entertainment, and connection.

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11/29/2015 Podcasters Target Thanksgiving Travelers
Even as the popularity of podcasts climbs, sparking recent moves by major players like Spotify and Google, consumers still struggle to discover new shows. Thanksgiving weekend, one of the heaviest travel periods of the year, offers the industry a key opportunity to reach those potential listeners.

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11/27/2015 These Microphones Have as Much Personality as the Podcasters
Neat Microphones, a division of Gibson, recently announced its Widget series, a simple, elegant line of affordable USB podcasting microphones targeted at homebrew broadcasters.

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11/25/2015 Starting a Podcast for People Who Do Not want their Lives Taken over by Podcasting
First, let me break down how both my shows work.

Invisible Office Hours
The first podcast is one I co host with Jason Zook called Invisible Office Hours. We release the show in 12 episode seasons approximately twice a year, so we can focus on it for a short burst, then go off and do other things.

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11/23/2015 The Power of Podcasting Redux
It is no secret that technology continues to transform the way educators teach and the way students learn. Increasingly, students want to be able to learn on their own terms–that is, they want to be able to study whenever, wherever, and however they choose, and they expect institutions and faculty to be accommodating. We have likely all had students who for one misguided reason or another believed that their professors–particularly those teaching online—were available around the clock to answer questions, provide feedback, and generally just be there if needed. As unrealistic as this belief is, would not it be nice if instructors could approximate being available 24/7? Well, you can—sort of—through the power of podcasting.

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11/21/2015 Corporate Sponsors Could Change Podcasting
Single corporate sponsorship of television programs fell out of vogue in the 1960s, in favor of now-familiar ad spots. But after 53 years off the air, General Electric is reviving the concept in a modern (if retro) medium: podcasts.

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11/19/2015 Google Challenges Apple with New Podcast Feature on Play Music
Podcasts have been a thing for a while no, and Google has decided to make it official by welcoming podcasters with open arms. Play Music will soon include podcasts after podcasters will respond to Googles request to upload content before the launch of the service sometime in the coming months.

The news was announced in a post on the Android Official Blog, and it aims to provide users with its own collection of podcasts rather than losing users to third-party apps. Google is also rather excited about the mood-based curation that will be available for podcasts, in a very similar to its current music curation

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11/17/2015 These 3D Printing Designers Used Podcasting To Create A Massive Audience Fast
Their hope was to establish themselves as recognized 3D printing experts and to build a strong audience and social media following. In addition to the podcast, they post videos, photos, reviews and links on their blog as a visual companion to the podcast.

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11/15/2015 Podcasting as a Business Content Marketing Strategy
Every day we hear more experts preaching the gospel of podcasting as a content marketing tool. It is a very enticing sermon. We get to have our own cute little pre-recorded radio show our audience can listen to when they are working out or driving in the car.

But how is a podcast supposed to help grow our business?

In theory, podcasts create brand fanatics, people who are deeply invested in who we are as people and as business professionals. This is essence of long-form content marketing.

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11/13/2015 Podcasting Blossoms, but in Slow Motion
Is podcasting in the middle of a long boom or a short bubble? The future of radio, a medium already being buffeted by streaming music, may be riding on the answer.

Podcasting — a terrible tech insiders name for delivering radiolike shows directly to your phone — has long been prone to cycles of hype and doom. While the medium is more than a decade old, from the moment the very first pods were cast, people have been calling podcasting either the worlds next great media revolution, or another failed byway in digital experimentation.

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11/11/2015 Podcasting for Entrepreneurs
I love podcasting. The reason I love it is because I rarely need to think about it.

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11/09/2015 How to Conduct a Podcast Interview
Conducting a successful podcast interview can be a tricky proposition for a podcaster starting out. Once you have determined individuals that will appeal to your target audience contact potential interviewees and arrange a time to conduct the interview. Following this guide will insure that the interview goes off without a hitch.

1. Prepare Questions in Advance
Prepare a list of questions prior to the interview, contemplate possible follow-up questions based on the expected responses. Create a list of notes along with the questions that are accessible during the interview and will help you direct the conversation.

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11/06/2015 General Electric is Producing a Science-fiction Podcast
In a sign that what is old is new again, U.S. conglomerate General Electric is producing its own science fiction podcast series in an effort to raise its profile among a younger, tech-savvy audience.

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11/04/2015 Product Hunt Adds Podcast Discovery To Its Fleet Of Channels
Product Hunt is continuing its expansion of channels, this time with podcasts. But it is not about the actual podcast show so much as certain episodes of those shows that will be added to the list for upvoting.

The new listing offers an opportunity for the Product Hunt community to chat about particular episodes with other podcast fans and the hosts themselves – something missing in other podcasting networks.

Will the podcast discovery channel display the same chatter as other categories on the site?

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11/02/2015 Podcasts and Geneaology
Maybe the most versatile method of genealogical education is listening to podcasts. It is like listening to a radio show about genealogy, but you do not have to make sure you are sitting near a radio at a certain time. You can listen anytime you want. Just like an audiobook, you can listen to it in the car, while taking a run or walk or waiting in the doctor's office. An easy way to think about it is as a blog that you listen to.

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