AI Spanish version of top English podcast, Apple & Futuro, Tepito show, YouTubers turning to podcasts, branded podcasts in LatAm and more...
AI Spanish version of top English podcast, Apple & Futuro, Tepito show, YouTubers turning to podcasts, branded podcasts in LatAm and more...
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Thanks to Veritone´s technology, David Meltzer now has a podcast in Spanish. He hopes to access this 500 million market. Will Latinos engage with an artificial voice? Will other celebrities that don´t speak Spanish follow?
Apple signed a deal this week with Maria Hinojosa´s Futuro Studios to create podcast that could eventually turn into Apple TV+ series. Great news for the podcasting industry and for Latino-owned media companies!
Tepito, the legendary rough/fierce neighborhood in Mexico City, now has a podcast that showcases the reality of women living there. Produced by Sonoro, it launched exclusively in Wondery and Amazon Music but will be available on all platforms on August 23. The eight episodes feature a kidnap and rape survivor, a 70´s prostitute and tarotist, a trans soccer player, the daughter of a luchador, the guardian of the Holy Death cult, a police officer and a mother whose kids dissapeared in a bar along 11 other almost 10 years ago.
The pressure of appearing visually perfect on Youtube makes it easy for influencers to want to transition to podcasting, claims one of Spain´s top newspapers.
Madrid´s Metro podcast celebrated its first birthday this week. They share some stats and data on their first year.
Actors and celebrities who work or have worked on TV have found their niche in the “growing and rich world of podcasts in Spain”. They list 11 top Spanish podcasts.
What´s needed to be a succesful prodcaster in Mexico? The founder of Dixo Media, one of the first podcast production companies in LatAm, talks about the industry, monetization and other lessons he has learned since founding Dixo in 2006.
Former Podium Podcast leader and now PRISA Audio´s CEO, María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros, talks about taking care of the podcast industry. The leader of the largest audio producer in Spanish in the world, and second in general according to Triton Digital’s Streaming Metrics, has a lot to say in this interview.
The list of La Asociación Podcast shows participating in this year's awards has just been published. The organization was founded in 2010 in Spain and this will be the 12th consecutive year the best podcasts are awarded.
Mexico´s La Fonoteca Nacional, created to research, register, conserve and disseminate the sound heritage of Mexico, just launched a podcast around the country´s most renowned living writer: Elena Poniatowska. It focuses on famous and not-so-famous women stories Elena uncovered.
Three years with a daily podcast around Apple that´s normally number 1 in the Tech category but doesn´t figure at all in Spotify has taught Javier Lacort lots of things he now shares.
It´s becoming normal to see a podcast story being promoted on movie magazines. Now is the time for a new Spotify Original in Spanish to appear on Cine Premiere. E-status features Consuelo Duval, a Mexican actress and influencer, and LatAm´s Fortnite champion Thiago “K1NG” Lapp.
Flapz, originally from Colombia, just launched the first podcast in Spanish that focuses on private flying. Flapz is a private aviation marketplace that aims to revolutionize accessibility to this segment of aviation.
Chevrolet Argentina talks about women behind the wheel on it´s new podcast. The show focuses on issues related to gender equality and women empowerment.
A podcast that is soon creating a village because it doesn´t talk about immigrants but to them. Two award-winning Latino journalists, Valeria Fernandez and Maritza L. Felix, informally chat from "the womb to the subconscious".
An alumnus of the biggest private university in LatAm, Mexican ITESM (or Tec for short), is giving voice to indigenous communities and tapping into their wisdom in a podcast, MSN reports. The project was the only Latino one selected to be on the Google Podcast Creator Program 2022.
The PEPcast, Pepsi´s bet on connecting with Brazilians on a different level, just launched.
Podimo is hiring in Mexico.
Events
Register for the Latino Podcast Listener Report webinar launch on August 16. Sign up here. It´s free!
You can register for free and attend Podcast Fest LatAm in person in Chile or online on August 17 and 18.
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