This Week in Podcasts: 1/12/19 – 1/18/19
This Week in Podcasts is a weekly roundup of the goings-on in podcasting, from highlights to pitfalls to updates and more.
"The Adventure Zone" In Development As An Animated Series
As announced today on The Hollywood Reporter and via a tweet from the official The Adventure Zone twitter account, The Adventure Zone's "Balance" campaign will be adapted as an animated webseries for NBC's upcoming platform, Peacock. Update 1/16/20: The series is in development and has yet to be picked up by Peacock. https://twitter.com/thezonecast/status/1217886517198315521?s=21 As per ...
First Impressions: New Musical Podcast "Childish" Blends Genres and Breaks Expectations
The concept for Whalebus's new fiction podcast, Childish, seems simple at first: An All-New, All Original Musical! Dante, a college student in NYC, becomes an RA in order to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Childish Gambino. While he hopes this will be the next step toward becoming a famous rapper, his delusions of ...
"Windfall" Soars with Its First Season
One of the most exciting and refreshing fiction works from 2019, Windfall's first season continually surprises on each level of its production.
This Week in Podcasts: 12/8/19 – 12/14/19
This Week in Podcasts is a weekly roundup of the goings-on in podcasting, from highlights to pitfalls to updates and more.
A (Written) Oral History of "ars PARADOXICA"
In 2019, I relistened to one of the first fiction podcasts that showed me what this medium could do: ars PARADOXICA. Looking at the podcast industry as it stands today, it's clear that the trajectory of fiction in podcasting would not have been the same without ars. Between its large cast, massively complex writing, and ...
Spotify Releases its Wrapped 2019 with New Podcast Data
Each year, Spotify releases its "Wrapped" summary of the year in listener data, and 2019 is no different. Here's some of what we can learn from the data for Spotify's Wrapped 2019. Courtesy of Spotify While much of the data relates to Spotify's music, a handful of interesting facts can be pulled from their podcast ...
