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Women Podcasters Awards — Reminder: Prices increase on March 15th! Submit your nomination today. Our mission is to elevate women’s voices globally and within the podcasting industry.
The Power of Branded Podcasts — Join Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster, JAR Audio’s Liz Hames, and special guest Andrea Marquez from Amazon as they debut NEW research and a case study on branded content and “Brand Fans.”
The real growth opportunity for branded podcasts is to tap into underserved markets, says Quill Podcasting’s Tianna Marinucci. Meanwhile, there’s a free webinar about the power of branded podcasts tomorrow, with JAR Audio and Sounds Profitable.
Podcastle has added what it calls “the world’s largest library of AI voices”. The company is also adding a new version of its voice cloning tool, which gives reduced processing times and greater fidelity to the original voice. The release includes one of the company’s stock voices reading it.
Your audiobook reader might be AI in future. Spotify added audiobooks using AI voices by ElevenLabs at the end of last month: the use of AI voices will be marked in the book metadata and the audio. And, last week, Futuri Media launched FuturiBooks, using broadcast-quality AI voices tuned to “perform”.
Where’s the best place to record an Apple Podcasts chart-topping show? How about at the Apple Store? Mamamia Out Loud will be celebrating ten years of shows with a live recording in the store in George Street, Sydney on Mar 28.
Plink, a method of making “smart podcast links”, stopped working for paid members in early Feb. By Mar 5, the problem was partially fixed; the company currently suggests that episode links may still be intermittent for those users.
Descript will demonstrate new features later today in a webinar.
In India, the Podmasters 2025 podcast awards has extended its early bird deadline to March 17.
She Leads with CARE
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She Leads with CARE is a limited podcast series hosted by actress and producer Bellamy Young. From Vietnam to Ukraine to Tanzania, community leaders share their life experiences to show how local empowerment programs are changing lives. Join Bellamy to learn about the difference we can make in our own lives – and the lives of those around us – when we care.
From Daria, helping Ukrainian kids stay in school, to Ra’edah, breaking barriers as a female plumber in Jordan, these are the stories of resilience, leadership, and impact.
The first episode drops today—don’t miss it! Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Tips and tricks – with Pod Predictor by Coleman Insights
One, simple, link for your podcast makes it more likely that people will listen.
Do you use QR codes on your website to help people listen to your show? Today, we learnt about style=”image-rendering: pixelated;” which ensures that the QR code doesn’t get smoothed out by your browser, and work better.
Podcast News – with Airwave
Over the last week, 200,906 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 1.3%). source