Eyes Are Optional by Tom Webster for Sounds Profitable. Though stats indicate that video-first platforms are eating up most of the podcast audience, the audience is, more often than not, too busy to watch the screen. Does this mean people are paying for YouTube Premium to listen to podcasts they could listen to for free?

Congratulations to the winners of the Mattia Cellotto Sound Design Contest! Of note: the winner in the Behind The Scenes category shows some foley methods by Junki Kim that are worth your time and attention.

Podnews reports that The Tribeca Festival has selected a sci-fi podcast, The Dolos Project, for its audio line-up. Hasn’t Tribeca always been selecting fiction podcasts as part of its audio line-up?

Podnews also reports, “It’s easier to get new shows into Apple Podcasts; but that also means it’s easier to push spam into it - Apple Podcasts (and, therefore, many other apps that rely on the Apple Podcasts directory) is being flooded by spam.” A search on Apple Podcasts for “Temu code” shows 14 search results, which are cover art, show notes loaded with Temu discount codes, and no audio. Finally, we have reached the podcast advertising singularity.

iHeartMedia and CitizenSkull Team Up To Develop Premium Scripted Podcasts and Announce First-Look Deal “The deal underscores iHeartMedia’s continued commitment to high-end scripted audio, aligning with top-tier creative talent to develop original IP with multiplatform franchise potential,” said Will Pearson, President, iHeartPodcasts, in a surprising statement. Multi-platform franchise potential? What about Temu codes?

Roundup: Kingett's PodRoll is a collection of their favorite podcasts, including Forever Yours, Love and Luck, Margaritas and Donuts, and many more.

Roundup: We heard you like science fiction, so Evo Terra has put some science fiction sub-collections in his giant Science Fiction collection.

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Tom Crowley’s next full-length Happier Scriptwriting course starts on the evening of Monday 22nd June, and runs on Monday evenings UK time, 7pm-9pm BST in June and July. And now, Happier Scriptwriting courses are 6 weeks long, rather than 5! Tom has listened to the course feedback and expanded and retooled the course to contain more time for exercises and sharing your works. With the extra week, the course is now priced at £155 per place. Not sure if this course is right for you? Try “a dirt-cheap, short n' sweet taster session” taking place on the 30th May 2026 - the first Happier Scriptwriting Taster Session! Each spot is a mere £15, that's right, one-five, fifteen pounds! Get it while you can.

Tickets are now available for Transom 25! A Gathering of Kindred Spirits in Radio and Podcasting. September 17-19, the program includes workshops, featured talks, and plenty of festive celebrations to mark 25 years! Why are there so many exclaimation points? Get your tickets to Transom 25 now and find out!

10 Creature Voice Acting Tips The Monster Factory specializes in creature voices, and in this new video by Sébastien Croteau, he shares 10 tips for making your own vocalizations sound great.

Today I learned about MediaScout. If there’s a book you love and want to adapt foir audio drama, that’s not in the public domain, MediaScout can help you find out how to get the rights.

Waves Voice ReGen: Can It Rescue Problem Voice Recordings? by Luke Goddard for Production Expert

Recording Historic Oilfield Machinery Sounds and heritage sound effects, by Paul Virostek for Creative Field recording

Casting Call: World Wide Web of Sports Podcast: Tubby Johnston. Twelve-year-old Kathryn Johnston cuts her hair and sneaks onto the field as "Tubby." She becomes the first girl to play Little League Baseball. Paid.

Casting Call: Political/Sci-fi Audio Drama Series. A political strategist and a content creator team up to stop legislation mandating a controversial new treatment for mental illness. Seeking talent in Virginia, Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC. Pay rate TBD.

The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a 3-year fellowship intended to foster an equitable environment where a diverse and inclusive community of artists and arts workers have the opportunity to live and thrive professionally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Applicants must be at least 25 years old and U.S. citizens, permanent legal residents, or O-1 Visa holders. Artists can be from any medium and/or discipline as long as they have a minimum of five years of arts experience. Over the three years they provide: a $150,000 stipend, a $36,000 housing stipend, a one-time $1500 relocation stipend, fully subsidised studio space with equipment, childcare reimbursements for any fellowship activities, and $3600 stipends for a studio assistant and health and wellness activities. Deadline: 7th of May.

The GRUND1535 Positive Futures Festival Sound and Performative Residency is for artists working in sound, voice, and performance to develop a project and present work as part of a festival in Tyrol, Austria. The selected artist will complete a residency from 1st - 26th October, culminating in a live performance at the Positive Futures Festival and a public-facing workshop or talk. Support includes an artist fee of €1000, accommodation, and a travel allowance of up to €600. Deadline: 30th of April.

The British Podcast Awards are for podcasts that have been either produced in Great Britain and Northern Ireland or designed for U.K. audiences. They have 31 categories, including a Rising Star Award, for people with under two years of experience in the podcasting industry. The entry fee is £210+VAT or £50+VAT for independents/freelance producers, charity podcasters or companies with less than 10 full-time employees. Deadline is 30th April. Late deadline: 21st May.

The Sunfall Train. The world will fall apart in eight days, at the hands of an impossible monster. That is, according to a mysterious letter trusted by biologist Kieran Grimshaw, almost-PhD. To prove it, they’re on a trek across Colorado with the only person who believes them: their cousin Vic, local bike mechanic/farmer/part-time musician. But proving the apocalypse is coming isn’t the same thing as stopping it, and when the truth takes a turn towards folkloresque beasts, phantom railways, and old rivalries, the cousins realize they’re matched up against something far more than they bargained for.

Our Wars Have Ended. Twenty years ago, the Kindly Ancestors rose from their graves to reconquer the lands of Old Cyshane. Today, an endless multitude of ancient kings and queens squabble and bicker for cultural supremacy. Labouring corpse-technology has swallowed up agriculture and industry. Dead-divers descend into the netherworld, searching for answers. Even as progress rolls relentlessly onwards, all of us remain helplessly bound to the past. What will it take to stop looking back?

Don’t Touch Anything. The year is 3026, two navy pilots stumble upon a time machine. Will they use it to save the universe, or bring her to ruin? (I love a short logline. Thank you.)

Crossroads: A 48 Hour Audio Drama Festival. Creatives from all over come together for a weekend of intense fun, start from nothing, and end the weekend with a full produced audio drama! This is the Spring 2026 festival.

Cloud 9 Anthology A post-apocalypse story in Britain. An AI-powered arranged marriage app. A Lovecraftian ghost story set on Mars. There's something for everyone in this strange, thrilling, chilling, funny collection.

The Oracle. Hey there retroheads, your favorite gaming YouTuber, RetroJeff, has something a little different for you today. Come on a journey to ancient Greece as he delves into the world of the Oracle of Acheron, a lost game from the heady early days of console gaming. Who knows what he'll find, or who he'll encounter? And never you mind that ominous music.

For what it’s worth: if you’re going to cram your “ultimate strategy guide to kickstart your crypto casino adventure” in the Fiction section of Ausha, at least make it about a couple of plucky young people who are trying to find their missing brother in a casino, could you?