Australians are spending seven minutes more time every day listening to audio entertainment than last year, with radio staying dominant and podcasts overtaking owned music for the first time, according to the fourth annual GfK Share of Audio study just released at the Radio Alive conference.

In a typical day, consumers spend three hours and 28 minutes listening to audio, seven minutes more than last year.

The University of Wollongong is offering a free online course on podcasting for a limited time.

Participants will learn learn how to plan, write and publish your own podcast, and why the audio medium is so powerful for storytelling.

Topics covered include:

Checking the health of the emerging podcast industry at Radiodays Europe, Matt Deegan (Foder Media), Tom Webster (Senior VP, Edison Research USA) and James Cridland (Editor of Podnews.net and radioinfo columnist) examined the vital signs of podcasting in 2019.
 
 

American podcast company Panoply has released data that indicates that Spotify is "growing the pie" for podcast listening in the United States.

Acast has secured investment funding equivalent to $45 million, led by a group of European Investors.

Podcasting is one of the fastest growing on-demand mediums in Australia. But can just anyone make a podcast?

How does the medium differ to radio? And what’s the secret to a successful pitch?

“You don’t know what you’ve done… he’s going to die…”
 
Ash Bradnam talked about his podcast Addicted during a Radio Alive conference session about podcasting, playing some audio of his wife’s response to seeing him come out of a bottle shop.
 
The podcast is his story of alcohol addiction.
 
“I needed the time to tell my story. I’m an alcoholic, three years sober.
 

Commercial Radio Australia will establish a Podcast Working Group, comprised of major radio players - commercial, ABC and SBS - to spearhead the development of the growing podcast industry in Australia.

Announcing the initiative at today's Radio Alive national conference, Joan Warner said the working group will be charged with developing an all-of-industry podcast strategy, including recommendations on measurement, promotion and research.

Podcasting expert and radioinfo columnist, James Cridland addressed OzPod in Melbourne today, for the session ‘Who is Our Audience’.
 
The following is a summary of his presentation