(By Ed Ryan) When I launched my first podcast with my wife back in August, I never gave a thought to where the show might rank on Apple's New & Noteworthy. It appears I am in the minority.
Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick host Stuff To Blow Your Mind. To date, the show has over 900 episodes and more than 100 million downloads. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Podchaser has a nice feature story on PBJ Editorial Board member Elsie Escobar, one of the industry's superstars.
Are You A New Podcaster? If you answered yes to that question here's a podcast we want you to listen to this weekend.
This advice comes from eight Forbes Agency Council members who point out that consumers are more receptive to ads on podcasts than on any other medium.
Zenti Joins Voxnest as Head of Content
Voxnest has hired podcast producer and host Jonathan Zenti as Head of Content. Zenti is the founder of the Meeting of Independent Radio Producers and host and producer of the Meat podcast.
Anchor Hires Head of Content Partnerships
Armand Wilson is Anchor’s new Head of Content Partnerships. Armand joins Anchor after recently serving as the Product Marketing Manager for Kit, and spending six years with Royal Bank of Scotland before that. He’ll be working on getting new voices on the Anchor platform.
Stitcher Bulks Up
Drew Welborn is the new Vice President of Content Partnerships for the company. Welborn will oversee Stitcher’s partnership team and the process of working with its podcast partners, ranging from content publishers to talent.
Don’t Keep Your Day Job
You read that correctly. It says Don't Keep Your Day Job NOT Don't Quit Your Day Job. And that's the name of Cathy Heller's podcast. Heller's story is incredible.
NPR’s Bryan Moffett
On Tuesday, NPR made the big announcement that Remote Audio Data, better known as RAD, is rolling out. RAD could be a game-changer for podcast measurement...that is, if everyone gets onboard.
Jack Rhysider
If you were thinking about starting a storytelling type podcast take a lesson from Jack Rhysider. Jack hosts Darknet Diaries where he researches true stories from the dark side of the Internet.
PBJ Spotlight: Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick host Stuff To Blow Your Mind. To date, the show has over 900 episodes and more than 100 million downloads. Yeah, that's pretty good.
PBJ Spotlight: Olympic Fever
Jill Jaracz and Allison Brown love the Olympics so much they started a fan-based podcast about the Games.
Chronicles Abroad
The Chronicles Abroad podcast is about the journey, the process, and the experience of travel. It's hosted by Nubia Younge and Frantzces Lys.
Show Includes New Superman Audio
iHeartMedia's WNIC-FM Detroit says Jim Bowers, co-host of “The Caped Wonder Superman Podcast” and morning man Jay Towershave released never before heard audio of Christopher Reeve on their latest episode.
Radio Host Launches Exclusive Content
ESPN Radio host Dan Le Batard is launching a podcast called South Beach Sessions. A preview episode will be released Tuesday. But even bigger than that, he’s launching his own podcasting network.
Dr. Phil. Podcaster.
Dr. Phil is launching a new podcast in 2019 with Stitcher as part of a partnership bringing three more shows to listeners in 2019. The first show is called Phil In The Blanks and it launches January 8.
Beasley Launches Comic Book Podcast
Radio's Beasley Media Group has added the Comic Book Gurus podcast to its bPod Studios platform.
Two Big Wins For WNYC
WNYC has been honored with two duPont-Columbia Awards for its Trump, Inc. and Caught podcasts.