This week: Why articles in audio format increase member loyalty, behind the scenes of podcast advertising, 10 things new podcasters can do to boost downloads, building a podcast studio from scratch, tools to make your podcasts sound good, startup opportunities in podcasting, and more.

This week: Rev.com (popular online transcription service) lowers pay rates for their contract workers, Apple now allows you to hide new shows in Podcasts Connect while you wait for their review and approval, the podcast industry is grappling with the prospect of automated ads, Podsights looks at conversion rates for pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll podcast ads, and more.

Welcome to The Podcast News, a new weekly news show for podcast producers. My name is Aaron Dowd, and I'll be your host this week.

I'd like to share with you a few interesting articles and stories I found during the week of November 9th, 2019.

This week: Pacific Content writes about what makes a great podcast host, Google and PRX launch a new Podcasting 101 series, and I'd like to know: Are you listening to podcasts on your smart home speaker?

I share AIR's rates list for podcast engineering and composition with someone from Reddit, podcasters shared their top frustrations with the folks at the Hot Pod newsletter, and more.