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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.

04/29/2016 Podcasting from a Bloggers Perspective
There is a lot to be said about podcasting from a bloggers perspective. The most obvious is sheer numbers. I can talk for an hour about topics that would take me days to write about. We can include actual audio, guests, and opinion — most importantly there is no need to point out sarcasm or explain a joke. Plagiarism is another factor to consider. I’ve lost count of the amount of articles I have spent hours writing, only to see them on some other website, surrounded by cheesy ads, bearing someone else’s name.

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04/27/2016 Podcasting the New Digital Frontier
There is a podcast for every kind of niche you can imagine, from entrepreneurship to storytelling. However, there is a new wave of popular podcasts that includes marginalized content creators; those who normally find themselves pushed to the margins of media and traditional platforms can now find themselves center stage in this uncharted frontier of content production.

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04/25/2016 Where Are All the Kidcasts?
And yet, while adults and teens could easily fill their waking hours with audio, kids would struggle to fill a few. The crowded Kids & Family section of iTunes has surprisingly little to offer children, save for a handful of audiobook-like storytelling podcasts, and some programs that spin off major brands (like Sesame Street Podcast, Despicable Me, and Nick Jr.).

The obvious follow-up question is why? Podcasts for kids seem like such a no-brainer.

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04/22/2016 6 Reasons Why Podcasting Is The Future Of Storytelling
Since the beginning of time (and the advent of humans), oral storytelling has served a critical role as the sole means of abstracting experiences and emotions in narrative form. Ancient oral storytellers were revered keepers of local knowledge, history, and traditions in their communities.

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04/21/2016 Bridge Ratings Offers Podcasting Audit Highlights
Among the findings, revenues have grown 25% over the past five years, and the average CPM has risen to $20 from $11 in 2010. However, listening to podcasts has shown somewhat slower growth, with the number of listeners up 8% in the last 5 years and the number of listens to shows up 11% in the same period.

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04/19/2016 Transforming Villages Through Podcasting
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) communication devices such as the radio, television, landline and cellular phones, computer hardware and software, satellite systems as well as the various services and applications associated with them, is at the heart of human development as it enables people to access information, improve water and sanitation as well as keep in good health.

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04/17/2016 What Podcasting Can Not Do
Is podcasting the hot new thing?

Maybe. But it is not the hot everything, not even when it comes to audio.

Look at Facebook, a platform that was driven primarily by text until recently, when it became driven primarily by images and later by video. Now the big news is that Facebook is pivoting towards LIVE video.

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04/15/2016 Podcast Network
Podcast networks are not a new idea, nor is competition for innovative producers. Radiotopia, a podcast network from PRX, is always searching for fresh and inventive shows. So is Alex Blumberg’s podcast company, Gimlet, a magnet for former public media veterans looking to get in on the resurgence of the medium.

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04/13/2016 Anchor - Podcasting
Have you ever wished you could respond to a podcast as easily as you can comment on an online story or reply to a tweet? Anchor is an iOS app designed to allow for these kinds of two-way conversations; it is essentially audio blogging.

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04/11/2016 Podcasting Dos and Do Nots
Consider following these simple podcasting tips to get the most from your podcast and make it stand out from other podcasts in the crowd.

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1. Make it Professional
Regardless of whether you are podcasting from your garage or a corporate boardroom there is no reason that your podcast cannot have a professional sound and feel. Use software to edit the audio file and filter background noise. Listeners will not tolerate poor audio quality. With the wide range of relatively inexpensive software and hardware available there is no reason you can not provide good quality audio podcast.

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04/09/2016 Bridge Ratings: Podcasts Continue to Gain in Popularity

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04/07/2016 Podcasting As Your New Revenue Stream
If traditional radio held the office of president, streaming would be the vice president, and podcasting would be the speaker of the house. Over the past decade we have started to move from a digital democracy to a more direct democracy. Content was once funneled mostly through film, television, and radio. Today the options are more plentiful, and the audience is exploring them more deeply each day.

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04/05/2016 How to Make Your Podcast in 5 Steps
As worldwide celebrations for the first ever World Speech Day get into swing, there has never been a better time to make your own podcast. So we caught up with Adam Martin, the Content Director of podcasting platform Acast, to find out his top tips on how to make a podcast and ensure it is a success.

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04/03/2016 Podcast March Madness
I spend a lot of time listening to podcasts, but I hardly listen to any of the most popular titles. That's why I decided to listen to an episode from each of the top eight podcasts on iTunes, and see how they compare against each other in a March Madness style bracket.

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