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October 08, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 14 minutes
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Discover Who Makes the Cut in Awful Announcing's Sports Podcast Power List Sports podcasts are growing in popularity, with fans tuning in for news and discussions about their favorite players, teams, and leagues. Many athletes are now hosting their own shows, giving them a chance to stay connected with fans after retirement in a less traditional way. While sports television's future is uncertain, digital audio and video content continues to thrive as more hosts come up with innovative ways to attract listeners. |  ctto: Awful Announcing |
YouTube Plans to Improve Podcast Experience YouTube is planning to enhance its platform for podcasting, making it easier for audiences and creators. It aims to create dedicated podcast listening experiences that can sync across devices and introduce new tools for content creation. The company believes this could help with discoverability of podcasts, an issue in the maturing sector. |  |
Podtrac Releases September Ratings with News Shows Leading Podtrac's September podcast rankings saw The Daily by The New York Times, NPR News Now, and Up First from NPR take the top three spots. Dateline NBC rose to fourth while The Dan Bongino Show dropped to fifth place. Notable changes in the ranking included comedy podcast Bad Friends jumping nine places to 15th spot, and ABC News program 20/20 moving up five positions to 16th. |  |
Uncovering Political Scandals and Crimes in New Podcast Sarah Geary and Harley Adsit host a podcast called Crime in Congress, discussing historical murders, political scandals, and congressional crime related to the US Capitol. They spend about 15 hours on research for each episode and have featured members of Congress as guests. The hosts plan to delve more into investigative work in future episodes. |  |
New Wondery Podcast Explores Fascinating Origins of Beloved Products Jack Crivici-Kramer and Nick Martell, hosts of the pop-business news show The Best One Yet, have launched a new weekly podcast called The Best Idea Yet. Each episode will feature stories behind popular products and offer business insights. The podcast is available early on Wondery+ from 8 October and across all platforms from 15 October. |  |
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JAY & DAVE’S PODCAST JOURNEY
Meet Jay and Dave, the dynamic duo behind Voice Notes Suck. Known for their candid chats and off-the-cuff commentary, they bring a new flavor to creator community topics. With their unique voice note format, you'll experience raw and spontaneous discussions like never before. Get ready for fun-filled banter, unexpected insights and an extraordinary journey into different subjects with Jay & Dave! |  |
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background? We met under unconventional circumstances, online via Twitter Spaces surrounding Web 3 in 2021. Jay was pushing his kids’ brand via NFTs to find some early adopters and Dave was hosting Twitter Spaces with an interest in the blockchain, Web3 and with a strong marketing background. They became instant friends but due to their distance apart in the UK, have kept in touch via voice notes. | What inspired you to start a podcast? We communicate via WhatsApp voice notes every day, we sometimes get into discussions about things and we just thought, why not share these with the world in a more organized fashion? And so we set up some rules for a podcast. We reckon the topics are helpful, and insightful and could help a lot of people and open up discussions around topics we might not usually approach. |
How did you come up with the name of your podcast? Nobody really likes voice notes do they? Spoiler - we do. The general consensus though, seems to be that people don’t want to sit through two minutes of their mate rambling while they’re putting their socks on or chewing on some corned beef hash, so we decided on a name that was ironic really as the podcast is put together entirely using voice notes. | What is the main focus or theme of your show? We wanted to pick a topic for each series. The first series focuses on the Digital Community, as that’s where we spend a lot of our time. The second series we’re focusing on AI and the impact it has on society. For the third series we have an idea but don’t want to share it yet as it might change.  |
Have there been any particularly memorable moments during the recording that stick out to you? The sheer speed of production. Being able to reply to each other, in our own time, without interruption, has been one of the highlights for us both and it’s been an efficient way to put it together. We used the assistance of AI too, mainly Chat GPT, to help us put together summaries of the episodes and help with creating our branding graphics and logo. It wasn’t that we needed it
| Who has been one of your favorite guests so far, and why? We’re our own favourite guests on our phones. What's next for your show – any exciting plans we should know about? We just want to keep recording our discussions, highlight important topics, keep helping others and aim to maybe monetize it somehow if it starts becoming popular. We’re just taking it one small step at a time. |
A special thanks to JAY & DAVE for sharing their insightful podcast journey thus far and we wish them all the best with their continued podcast growth.
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