For me, the best way to wind down after a long day is by changing into comfy pajamas, crawling into bed, putting on a podcast, and letting my mind drift off into ~relaxation~. As an avid podcast listener, I’m always on the hunt for new and exciting ones I haven’t heard of before. And, these…
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Pocket Casts overhauled its app to upgrade discovery, curation and playback. Pocket Casts Podcast app Pocket Casts relaunched Wednesday with an overhauled app and a mission to make podcasts less awful to discover. It’s a coming-out party for the podcast app taken over by a group of public radio giants earlier this year. In recent…
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Podcasts can reach virtually anyone, anywhere, anytime, but for an accounting firm, launching a podcast is not a decision to be made lightly. Podcasting has been called an unstoppable force in marketing. Around 3.5 million Australians aged 16 to 64 listen to podcasts, or one in four people in that age bracket, according to…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 185, published November 13, 2018. Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project enters the wild. Sydney Pollack had a great line in Michael Clayton where he wags his finger at George Clooney’s down-in-the-dumps fixer protagonist saying: “Fer chrissakes, Michael, you’ve got something everybody wants! You have a…
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Animation by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by David Livingston/Getty Images, Rich Fury/Getty Images for Girlboss. The Jersey Shore Family Vacation Cast Is the Voice of Our Generation The Definitive Queer Eye Power Rankings Lil Xan and Noah Cyrus Show How Magic Can Happen When a Who Dates a Who Seems Like Us Weekly Suspects Something About…
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Welp, that wasn’t the way that we thought any of this was going to go down. Jason, Adam, and Ben are here to talk about D.C. United’s loss to the Columbus Crew, sending them home for the rest of the 2018 MLS season. We talk about this team writ large, talk about the amazing atmosphere…
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TODAY’S SHOW SUMMARY… PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a Friday Mailbag edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with ProWrestling.net’s Jason Powell answering Mailbag questions including these topics: If not Triple H who should Batista wrestle, who is candidate to be African-American WWE World Champ, Drew on verge of championship, is Triple H hurt by…
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Hollywood is busily trying to figure out the best way to present big-budget films in VR. The platform is great for games and short-form entertainment, but if you want to tell an epic story and really draw the viewer in emotionally, the limits of VR present barriers to that type experience. At the forefront of…
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The Knoxville News Sentinel and the USA TODAY NETWORK will be launching a new true-crime podcast series titled “Suspicion” on Tuesday, Nov. 13. The 10-episode podcast will focus on Raynella Dossett Leath, an accused “black widow” who over the course of three trials was convicted to a life sentence following the deaths of her two husbands…
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On this edition of the Black & Gold Banneret Podcast, Jeff, Eric and Brian look back at the UCF Knights’ wild win over Temple, where that put them in the College Football Playoff Rankings, and whether UCF could still lure ESPN’s College GameDay to campus. Mitch Northam of SB Nation’s Against All Enemies blog joins…
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