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- The Podcast Show in London has announced its return, on May 24-25 in Islington. The organisers have announced new features and events for the two days, including a preview night.
- Seeing loads of downloads from a mysterious app called Dalvik? You're not alone; they're all coming from Samsung Android phones, and we understand that the downloads are related to Samsung Free, the company's podcast app.
- The RSS user-agent that these downloads are from is
feedparser/6.0.8
, which is used by Samsung Free (but which is used by others, too). Here's best practice for RSS crawlers and user agents.
- The RSS user-agent that these downloads are from is
- UK rugby star Sam Warburton has signed with Crowd Network's sports division, Crowd Sports.
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- The nominees for the New Zealand Podcast Awards were announced. RNZ got 23 nominations across 25 categories. NZME achieved 19.
- The winners from the Audio Production Awards were announced. Our friends at Pod Bible went to the event.
- New today - weekly podcast stats from the Podcast Index, to help us all spot trends in production. Find them in the new "Podcast Data" section below (which would make a fine sponsorship for someone)
- Coverage of the Spotify exclusive show Toni & Ryan has got into the Daily Mail, in the form of curiously concocted crockery controversy.
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