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What can be said about my first guest that has not been said before, he was once described as the world's most famous man and indeed it's difficult to think of even a contender.
A podcast hosted by an AI replica of Sir Michael Parkinson, a talk show presenter in the UK, is to launch in spite of Parkinson dying last year. The show has been produced by Sir Michael's family estate and will feature new chats with guests with an AI-powered voice, trained on over 2,000 of his interviews. Podcast platform RSS.com has been awarded a patent for AI-driven scalable ads.
The AI-powered technology replicates a host's authentic voice and style for ads that can be customisable in real time using contextual data. What's the biggest podcast on YouTube? Well it's not Joe Rogan, according to new research from Tubular Lab. Studio 71's Kill Tony more than doubled in watch time over the last year. A new podcast newsletter has launched, the Indian Podcast List. The newsletter shares five Indian podcasts to your inbox every week.
The Resonate podcast festival took place in Richmond in Virginia, Wil Williams has written that up, we link to that today. Now we've covered Intuit, the owner of MailChimp before in Podnews, remember: it cancelled a podcast because it required all work to be performed by non-union workers. The company is now accused of insisting that part of a podcast interview on The Verge's Decoder should be deleted because they didn't like the line of questioning The Verge declined.
The questions were around Intuit spending $3.8 million last year to stop people filing US tax for free and tricking people to pay for its products. That kind of behaviour, we're not Intuit. Audacia Audio announced that it has enabled multicultural targeting for audio advertising. The company has partnered with five of the leading media buying agencies. The End now lists over 1,000 fiction podcasts and audio dramas, all of which have reached the end of a seasonal storyline.
The website and newsletter is curated by Evo Terra. In New Zealand, the accessmedia.nz podcast platform run by the Community Access Media Alliance has undergone a makeover. It contains more than 1,000 podcasts generated by the 12 media organisations in the CAMA. The website is now mobile-friendly and available in Maori. And Earbuds this week looks at podcasts for the season of The Witch, a set of curated Halloween-themed podcasts.
It's a Monday so time for some tech stuff and RSS.com has made improvements to its chapter creation and editing experience. It's also made changes to its podcast pages and added filters for its analytics tool. Google's Notebook LM has competition, Meta's Notebook Llama, which TechCrunch says doesn't quite work as well but is entirely open source. We'll link to the GitHub repo today if you want to spin it up and give it a go.
The Pocket Casts version 7.75 now shows HTML transcriptions in a web view in case individual creators aren't clever enough to create a VTT file. And in podcast news, "Educating to be Human" delves into the intersection of education, technology and culture. It's hosted by Lisa Petridis and launched in August. The latest episode talks improv with Chris Miller, who uses improvisation as a tool to cultivate leadership, creativity and innovation.
Anime is growing in popularity and "Do You Watch Anime?" is a show where Adam Corky interviews guests about their favourite shows. Recent guests include Monica Flatley and Corey Wilder. The show is celebrating its first year of podcasting. Donald Trump says his appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience", released late Friday, was the longest he's ever done. The three-hour interview was fact checked by the Associated Press.
"Object Diaries" launched last week from Lisa Weiss, exploring the deeply personal stories behind everyday objects that reveal profound human emotions and connections. "The Podnews Weekly Review" this week is a special feature-length interview with Jack Sylvester off of Diary of a CEO and Flight Studios Podcast Innovations. Plenty to learn from how they do things there, especially how they choose which episodes to release.
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