Pleased Friday, everybody, and welcome to my second-ever try at a Scorching Pod Insider. I solely obtained one letter of grievance yesterday, which might be an excellent signal — or possibly it means I’m not getting spicy sufficient. I don’t assume at present’s the day I say something past the pale on a contentious matter like programmatic advert tech, however hey, there’s nonetheless time earlier than Aria’s again…
The Every day provides a brand new host
Sabrina Tavernise, a longtime nationwide correspondent for The New York Occasions, will be part of The Every day as its second host, sharing duties with Michael Barbaro. Tavernise has already been showing on the present with dispatches from Ukraine, however going ahead, she’ll be buying and selling internet hosting duties on and off with Barbaro all through the week.
“Having a second host will make ‘The Every day’ even stronger,” Occasions government editor Dean Baquet wrote in a word alongside Occasions audio workers. “It would permit each Michael and Sabrina to dig deeper into tales and share duty for The Occasions’s flagship present, which — as Michael himself has instructed us — has grown too large for one particular person.”
Fairly large information for a reasonably large podcast that implies the Occasions is barely getting extra critical right here.
Useless Eyes lands Hanks
The day Useless Eyes listeners have been ready for has lastly come: Useless Eyes, a podcast about why Tom Hanks supposedly fired a small-time actor for having “useless eyes,” will sit down with Hanks himself after three seasons to get some solutions. How large of a deal is that this? Present host Connor Ratliff announced the news on Late Night. The episode will air March tenth.
From the division of fascinating new podcasts
A bunch of recent reveals have been introduced previously couple weeks. What I believe is fascinating right here is that, for lots of those, we’re seeing corporations increase into podcasting as a brand new medium or in any other case put a brand new spin on how they make and distribute their reveals.
- How does Peloton preserve its health fans hooked when the climate is good and all of us need to be exterior? With Peloton’s first podcast, meant to present subscribers one thing to take heed to whereas on a stroll exterior. The present known as “Health Flipped” and shall be hosted by Peloton teacher Tunde Oyeneyin. Peloton has performed audio-only classes earlier than, so this isn’t completely new for them, but it surely’s a intelligent growth — and given how a lot Peloton homeowners love the model, it’s straightforward to see this connecting. (Oh, however 🚩🚩🚩 for podcast purists: the present is barely accessible within the Peloton app.)
- Arthur simply wrapped up its 25-season run, however its characters will stay on. There’ll nonetheless be video games, video shorts, and an Arthur podcast. PBS needs the podcast to “introduce a brand new technology to the collection and a few of its traditional storylines.” The brand new materials will begin “rolling out in 2022 and past.”
- This Day In Crime is Tenderfoot TV’s first subscriber-only present, accessible for individuals who pay for Tenderfoot Plus on Apple Podcasts. The subscription providing additionally consists of early entry and ad-free listening for different Tenderfoot collection.
- NBC Information is pushing additional into podcasting, with a number of new reveals deliberate over the “subsequent few months,” in line with the Related Press. The community already has a protracted record of titles, principally tied to their current TV properties. Now it seems like NBC needs to increase past that, with an eye fixed towards “unique, distinctive reporting.” New reveals will give attention to topics together with conspiracy theories and the British royalty.
- Final week, Spotify debuted its first “bookcast.” The audio “blends story narration with unique music and sound,” in line with Axios. The primary present re-envisions excerpts of Run, Rose, Run, a forthcoming novel by Dolly Parton and James Patterson, for the brand new format. It’s accessible on Spotify without spending a dime.
Clubhouse provides a textual content chat characteristic, drops out of SXSW in protest of Texas insurance policies
Clubhouse final week added the power for hosts to allow a stay textual content chat, giving listeners a strategy to work together with out talking out loud. The corporate envisions it as a strategy to run polls, take requests, and usually have extra viewers interplay. This builds on the “wave” characteristic Clubhouse added in September, which helps you to invite others into a personal group chat.
The flip facet of extra engagement is extra areas to reasonable. Clubhouse says hosts have full management to allow or disable chat, delete messages, and appoint moderators. Thus far, the characteristic appears to be getting utilized in an oddly nice method. I popped into plenty of rooms and noticed hyperlinks being shared to information sources on Ukraine and a bunch of individuals saying “good morning” and “completely satisfied Friday.” I didn’t see a ton of back-and-forth engagement, however I didn’t see any crypto spam, both — so not the worst begin. Nonetheless, it’s one thing moderators must control.
In different Clubhouse information, the corporate dropped out of SXSW earlier this week, saying it didn’t really feel comfy “asking LGBTQ+ voices from the Clubhouse neighborhood to come back to Texas,” the place the governor lately enacted a horrific coverage concentrating on mother and father of trans youngsters over medical therapies. I don’t need to give Clubhouse an excessive amount of credit score right here — a spokesperson instructed me they have been simply internet hosting one panel, with advertising and marketing chief Maya Watson — so it’s not precisely a significant wrench in SXSW’s plans. However it’s the type of factor that may very well be disruptive if different corporations observe go well with, although I’m but to see different large names drop out.
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- Sam Sanders is leaving NPR after 12 years and 500 episodes of It’s Been a Minute. He says the present will proceed with visitor hosts for now, whereas NPR “does a nationwide seek for a full time substitute.”
- Greg Herman has joined Apple Podcasts as managing editor after almost 5 years at Spotify. He’ll lead curation within the US and Canada, overseeing the app’s all-important Browse tab to focus on nice reveals. Apple tells me you’ll be able to submit reveals for promotion, and there’s some steering on the best way to format your request.
- Spotify’s head of worldwide licensing, Paul Smith, has headed to YouTube as managing director of YouTube Music for Asia-Pacific. The rent was noticed by Music Enterprise Worldwide and confirmed by YouTube.
That’s all for at present — I’ll be with you once more on Tuesday, eagerly awaiting Aria’s return later within the week!
