Big Mobile™ has signed a partnership with AudioBoom aiming to strengthen the mobile marketing company’s network with exclusive spoken-word content incorporating audiences across leading broadcasters and podcasters in news, sport, business and entertainment.
 
In the last 12 months, 2.9 million Australians have listened to a podcast with penetration set to increase to 1 in 2 Australians.
 

ABC Radio will host Australia’s most in-depth podcasting conference to celebrate and explore the podcast phenomenon in Sydney on September 30, International Podcast Day.

WERE YOU PRANKED? This was an April Fools Day joke.

As foreshadowed in an earlier report, radioinfo can confirm a radical new format, based on crowd sourced content, will hit the airwaves next week.

radioinfo can exclusively reveal today that the new format, internally code named Radio for Dummies, but expected to be known as Radio 4D when launched, will ditch the network's announcers and replace them with crowd sourced podcasts from Australia and around the world.

Podcasting is disrupting audio on demand.
 
“There are new players in the field all the time, making it vibrant and sexy again,” said Kaitlin Prest who makes a podcast called The Heart in America.
 

Comedian and Broadcaster Andrew Denton has once again stepped into the spotlight, this time bringing with him a cause close to his heart.

His interest in the discussion started with his father's death 18 years ago:

“I watched him dying in pain over three days when there wasn't sufficient pain relief for him, despite the best they could do.”