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News, broadly…
Its official: SiriusXMs acquisition of Stitcherhas been completed.
FromVanity Fair: Fyre Festivals Billy McFarland Has Recorded a Podcast From Prison.
Sure, why the hell not.
From NME: Kanye West says he is guesting onThe Joe Rogan Experiencepodcast this week.
…. sure, why the hell not.
Yes, these shows will be produced in accordance with journalistic standards.
(The targeting aspect is just going to get so much better, said Plotz.
Theyve got a good product, and its going to be really helpful for us.)
For what its worth, I really like City Cast as an idea.
Its still an open question if this thing will even make it to a second or third year.
And then there are all the greater concerns that should be considered in a personality-driven business like this.
But lets not get too far ahead of ourselves.
Plotz tells me that the plan is to launch in the winter and go from there.
Go for a city like Denver, Austin, Phoenix,Providence, or Milwaukee.
Hell, come to Boise, where I live.)
This is all very intriguing, and I wish him the best of luck.
Programming officially kicked off yesterday, and its scheduled to run up until November 1.
We knew we would have to go virtual since early March, the team told me recently.
A key mechanic of these ambitions involve the adoption of what the team calls a collective pricing model.
Collective Pricing is a pricing philosophy that is community-conscious, responsive, and honors the needs of our audiences.
This way, we all arrive more equitably, together.
We encourage you to think of your entry to Third Place as an act of radical industry-building.
A mixed-medium future, perhaps.
Oh, and also:here are the winnersof this years Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
In tomorrowsServant of Pod…Hanif Abdurraqibis on the show this week.
I love this new run as well.
Share, leave a review, so on.
Two things about this story.
Its introduction comes in the wake of another Spotify-specific feature: on-platform video podcasting (vodcasting?
), and these Spotify-specific audio experiences (on-platform vodcasting, this new mixed experience format).
The data produced by those measurements serves as the body of this report.
It should be noted thatGastropodisnt technically the first podcast to mount this pop in of initiative.
But Graber and Twilleys effort is distinct for the depth and granularity of their accounting.
In some ways, that was a downside of our method.
It wouldve been amazing to have the resources to keep track of this in real-time.
Where this projectdidaffect production workflow was in terms of episode planning.
Of course, that was probably a good thing anyway, but it stretched us pretty thin at first!
HP: In the report, you noted how you werent actually able to meet your diversity goals.
Gastropod: There were a few reasons.
One, we deliberately set goals we thought were pretty ambitious to push ourselves.
Two, the reward for these efforts takes time.
Of course, we are also continuing to work hard to find and interview female BIPOC scientists (e.g.
the awesome Asmeret Asafaw Berhe and Ainissa Ramirez, who have starred in episodes this year).
HP: Why did you partner with the Sloan Foundation on this?
Gastropod: As we mentioned in the report, this was an extremely time-consuming project.
Gastropod: We can and should do better and the same applies to our colleagues at other podcasts.
But when he let up his attention, the proportion slipped.
