Steve Goldstein: Finding Your Voice

by Steve Goldstein

The Amplifi Media CEO recaps the highlights and takeaways from the Voice Summit conference. The event covered “the good, the bad, the weird” of this early stage in voice technology.

Steve Goldstein: How many of the 706,000 podcasts are still in production?

by Steve Goldstein

People starting a podcast are a dime a dozen. So are people who stop podcasting. Steve Goldstein shares some statistics from Blubrry about the stopping and the starting.

Steve Goldstein: New Medium, Old Strategy – The Popularity of “Host-Read” Ads Explained

by Steve Goldstein

Host-read sponsor endorsements are common in podcasting, which owes its success in large part to leveraging the relationship between hosts and listeners. In this guest column, Steve Goldstein takes a fascinating trip through the history of live reads, including pioneer Paul Harvey who created the original playbook.

Steve Goldstein: “Subscribe” is a bad word for podcasting

by Steve Goldstein

Most podcasters are used to issuing a call-to-action of “subscribe,” but that language may be sending the wrong impression to the vast audience of non-podcast listeners and keeping them away.

Google Podcasts establishes a web presence, not yet full-featured

Thanks to Podnews.net we learned that Google Podcasts now has a web-app presence in addition to its fuller-featured Android app. The experience is rudimentary for sure, but the experience does offer podcast playback in Google’s customary clean format.

Steve Goldstein: Who’s going to listen to all of this stuff?

by Steve Goldstein

As more creators hop on the podcasting bandwagon and more new shows launch, audiences for the audio format may find themselves facing the same questions as they do for streaming video. Read of for insights on programming and the paradox of choice.

Steve Goldstein: Why ESPN is all in on podcasts; We interview ESPN’s Traug Keller

by Steve Goldstein

Traug Keller of ESPN talks to Steve about the sports specialist’s approach to podcasting. He shares insights on the network’s popular shows and how it developed a strategy.

Steve Goldstein: Finding your voice

by Steve Goldstein

One week after CES, Steve attended a conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The subject? Amazon Echo and how people will respond to and use the technology.

Voxnest launches Spreaker Enterprise: High-end podcast hosting for brands and media companies

Today Voxnest is announcing the launch of enterprise-level podcast hosting that seems to bring the company into more prominent competition with high-tech, soup-to-nuts podcast hosts. Spreaker Enterprise is described as “an all-in-one podcasting platform designed to meet the production, distribution and measurement needs of high-volume audio publishers.” Click through for details.

Maria Shriver enters podcasting as host of new Cadence13 show

Cadence13 has added a new celeb-driven conversational podcast to its steadily expanding portfolio. Maria Shriver will host an interview podcast called Meaningful Conversations.

Global posts job opening for Podcast Project Manager

We noticed in Podnews that international media behemoth Global has posted a job opening for Podcast Project Manager. The job seems to be temporary, interim, or trial, and is described as “an initial three-month contract.”

Steve Goldstein: At CES, Audio Was The Thing

by Steve Goldstein

Audio was the big deal at this year’s CES. Google dominated. Autonomous cars hitting a speed bump? The founder of Amplifi Media shares CES impressions.

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