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News, Roundups, and Announcements
Podnews reports that “videos from Podcast Movement Evolutions at SXSW are now available, free for everyone, on YouTube. The event contained quick-fire ten-minute talks as well as longer sessions; there are 25 sessions from the event earlier this month.” Start with Protecting What Matters: A New Vision for Podcasting's Future, and take it from there.
Oxford Road Reveals That The Best-Selling Podcasts Are Independent. Take this info with you the next time you pitch to sponsors.
Great Pods Relaunches With User Accounts and Editorial-Driven Discovery, and by that I mean GreatPods is doing what audiences wish a podcast directory would do: prioritize “articulate and thoughtful reviews (whether from critics or listeners) [to] help everyone find better shows.”
Otonal and The Asahi Shimbun Company Jointly Release Results of Their Survey on Podcast Usage in Japan; Usage Rate Exceeds 40% Among 15- to 19-Year-Olds. Not only this, but also teens surveyed used PocketCasts over YouTube, nearly equaling their use of YouTube Music.
A.I. is Going Great? is the most recently updated collection from The End, curated by Evo Terra.
POLL TIME! Some podcast directories ask that podcast creators identify their shows that use generative AI. Some creators mention it, others don’t. But, audiences can tell when a podcast uses generative AI voices, art, and/or scripts. How would you best describe what stands out and shows you that the show uses generative AI? This is a two-question poll, and one answer is open-ended. I’ll try to have the responses analyzed for you in the next issue, though it may take longer.
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Creator Resources
Today I learned that Gordon Firemark has a podcast about the legal issues of podcasting. Legit Podcast Pro isn’t specific to topics for fiction podcasters, but you may find information you didn’t know you needed.
Dialing In the Audio Flux Podcast, by Rob Rosenthal for Transom.org (Don’t forget, the deadline for the Circuit 7 Call Out is the 6th of April).
FREE KRYPTON sounds like a side plot in the Superman franchise, but all current and new Audio Jobs Newsletter subscribers get KRYPTON for free (offer and coupon expires Monday). What’s Krypton? It’s a sound library with “DARK AND LIGHT ATMOSPHERES, HITS, BRAAMS, RISERS, GLITCHES, DRONES, BOOMS, WHOOSHES and more.” And there’s an audio jobs newsletter, so go get’em, Tiger.
For people who make binaural audio, APL HeadTrek Released: Camera-Based Binaural Head Tracking For Virtuoso should bridge the gap between how sound travels in real environments, and how people perceive sound in real-world environments.
Field Recording Tips: 12 Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them, Part 2, by Paul Virostek for Creative Field Recording
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Opportunities
Casting Call: The New Edinburgh Demonological Society. Paid, listing expires 16 April.
The In The Making Programme is a 12-month artist development programme for 50 young people in the U.K. aged 14 to 18 who are interested in working in music and sound. The deadline is 20th April, midnight.
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Creative Caravans Grants are grants supporting festivals, touring cultural projects, and independent digital media platforms that circulate artistic work or produce arts and culture storytelling engaging with global issues across the Arab region. Deadline: 31st of March.
Getting ready to cast your next story? Send me your casting notice!
Launches and Milestones
Guess Who Didn't Die Today launched Season 2 on the 23rd of March. Join Pehryz and the Wanted as the stakes rise in their battle against the Blackthornes. They keep writing home, of course, to keep everyone updated.
Just The 2 Of Us. Watts Wineright is a well-meaning lowlife. One night, however, he accidentally shoots a woman. Soon after, he discovers he has the power to hear the narrator of his own story.
Orphan Six follows the crew of the Looking Glass, a military compound tasked with maintaining The Oracle, a device that may be the only thing keeping reality intact.
The Tree Whisperer. A forest ranger named Susan can talk to trees about the everyday adventures in Bufford National Park.
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