Podcast Review

It's International Podcast Day for all those who celebrate. To mark the occasion, we're bringing back our much-loved list, '7 Podcasts I Wish Would Come Back'. This article is our assistant editor Alice Florence Orr's love letter to the podcasts no longer with us. https://lnkd.in/gzbfV5dz

If you want to drive traffic to your podcast, you should give this a read!

17 signs you're an audio person living in a video world: - You miss bedtime stories - You tune into strangers' conversations in public without getting annoyed or distracted. You even find them interesting - You actually enjoyed lectures at university - You get impatient watching TV and start talking over the top - You can't follow video instructions - You put on the TV while folding laundry or cooking... but never look at the screen - You send and receive 20+ minute voice notes with your friends - You find AI voices unnerving, soulless and boring - You can't listen to anything at more than 1.2x speed. It's just not the same - Your parents were NPR/BBC fans and you still remember their favourite shows - You talk to yourself while getting ready in the morning - You can remember the theme songs and catchphrases of kids' TV shows but nothing about what they looked like - You love telling stories at dinner parties - You like working in public because of the ambient noise - You say "Can you just explain it to me on a call instead?" - You watch TikToks with the sound on - Your favourite YouTubers make video essays you play in the background Audio listeners are born. But they can also be cultivated. Why aren't podcasting/radio investing money into cultivating the next generation of audio fans? Don't accept crumbs from video platforms. We have an audience. They might not know it yet. --- How did you know that you were an audio person? How do you know that you're not one? Would love to hear your thoughts.

For the third year running, my show A Mouthful of Air poetry podcast has been listed as one of the best podcasts for poetry lovers, by Podcast Review. I set out to make the best and most welcoming show about poetry I could. So it's great to see it up there with podcasts I consider the benchmark, including shows from the The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Poetry Foundation and Shakespeare and Company, Paris. If you're a poetry lover or curious about what it might add to your life, have a listen to A Mouthful of Air poetry podcast and let me know what you think! Thank you to Alice Florence Orr for the thoughtful (and informed) review, to all our guest poets and their publishers, to our listeners, and to Mami McGuinness マクギネス真美 for help behind the scenes. #poetry https://lnkd.in/ezd4fKNk

Excited about the return of #Oasis? I wrote about a fantastic podcast called 'The Rise and Fall of Oasis' for Podcast Review a few weeks ago. If you want to refresh your memory (and remind yourself of all the drama), this is the podcast for your commute.

The podcast industry is capitulating to video platforms that invest in building and shaping their audiences. Audio listeners are not born - they are made. What are we doing to cultivate listeners? Nothing. When YouTube and TikTok monopolise attention, we shrug and say "Well, we might as well make video podcasts, nothing we can do." Reps from YouTube will tell you that your next listener is to be found on their platform, but I haven't seen one single iota of data that suggests a video subscriber turns into a podcast subscriber. And don't try to convince me we should be satisfied with the crumbs. It's time we invested in turning the next generation into audio fans, rather than paying for a slice of video's audience.

“A quiet audio marvel.” - Podcast Review about City of the Rails.

Want to feel old? The early 2000s are now as far away as the 1980s were at the turn of the century. When Francis Fukuyama told us that we’d reached the end of history, he hadn’t taken into account that youngsters would start calling Blink 182 “dad rock.” But here we are. If you’re feeling nostalgic, we’ve rounded up a collection of the best music history podcasts that will indulge your sentimentality. These shows cover most mainstream genres, like rock and pop music, and range in format from wide surveys to focused studies of an artist’s oeuvre. Music podcasts continue to push the boundaries of the medium. We can’t help but relate to music on a deeper level, even when attempting to take a documentary approach. But rather than cloud the podcast genre with rambling episodes and directionless formats, people’s passion for music history has led to many ambitious and memorable projects. Here are some of our favorites. Any that we missed? Read the full article on our website.

NEW ARTICLE: 7 Podcasts I Wish Would Come Back "Hearing the news that Longform will be saying goodbye to listeners after twelve years, I reluctantly consigned the show to a mental list that I have been writing since the pandemic. It’s a roster of shows that “I couldn’t live without,” until suddenly I was forced to." - Alice Florence Orr https://lnkd.in/gzbfV5dz