Frank Racioppi
Bio
I am a South Jersey-based author who is a writer for the Pod-Alization podcast blog on Substack, Ear Worthy on Medium, Podcast Reports on Blogger, Auditorily on Vocal and The Listening Post on Tealfeed.
Stories (111/0)
Lore Podcast: The Truth That Frightens And Informs
Sadly, gender classification has become a weapon of crass destruction by those who breathe intolerance and excrete grievance. But how about genre classification? Some podcasts don't neatly fit into the genre categories defined by Apple, Spotify, or other podcast feeds.
By Frank Racioppi4 months ago in FYI
Latest With Sound Judgment and Drink Champs Podcasts: Podcast Festival In Brooklyn
Sound Judgment podcast talks hostiness with Speakers HOFer Elaine Appleton Grant, the creator and host of the Sound Judgment podcast tells this story: "National Speakers Association Hall of Famer Jay Baer told me something recently about the financial value of a story that had never occurred to me.
By Frank Racioppi4 months ago in Beat
Freakonomics Can Save Your Pets; The Economics Of Everyday Things: Libsyn's New Podcaster Tools
Freakonomics Radio podcast rescues your Lab Mix and your Tabby People today can get riled up over the dumbest things. The shape of the M&M cartoon character. The new name of a sports team, or the political color of the state in which you reside.
By Frank Racioppi4 months ago in Beat
What We Learned From Podcasts This Week: Our Gut In Charge & A Haunted prison
Gastropod talks about the gut/brain connection In the August 16th episode of Gastropod, Gut Feeling, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley discuss research about the connection between the brain and the gut, specifically the microbes there called the microbiome.
By Frank Racioppi4 months ago in Longevity
Pod-Alization: Podcasts With Staying Power: Podcast Trends: The Golden Goose
Is it harder to create a new podcast? Ariel Shapiro from the Hot Pod newsletter has reported that “it is so much harder to launch a podcast now than it was, say, three or four years ago.” Shapiro cites data compiled by Chartr from Listen Notes, fewer podcasts were created in 2022 than in the two years prior. Even so, the margin is shocking: the number of new shows created dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2020 and 2022.
By Frank Racioppi4 months ago in 01
How Do We Treat Obesity?
Interview podcasts are as common as hidden fees in today’s world. Think about it. They’re cheap to produce, easier to set up than on-location recording, and enable the guest to fill in most of the script with their comments and observations.
By Frank Racioppi5 months ago in Longevity
Pod-Alization: The Conviction Of Max B; On Air Fest; A Podcast that Inspires
New true-crime podcast releases five episodes to binge The Conviction of Max B, a Spotify/Gimlet podcast, has premiered with a binge release of all five episodes out now on Spotify. This is the fourth season of Gimlet’s Conviction series, which features a new piece of investigative reporting each season.
By Frank Racioppi5 months ago in Beat
Playing Anne Frank: A podcast Of Tragedy Then Inspiration
The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 16.
By Frank Racioppi5 months ago in FYI
"Digital Folklore" Podcast: Where Scary meets Smart
Podcasting is a safe space for all varieties of monsters. There are more than 175 podcasts about zombies, 47 about werewolves, at least 200 about witches, and 34 about vampires. In two of those podcasts, the co-hosts believe themselves to be vampires. I don't recommend attending their live shows.
By Frank Racioppi5 months ago in Horror
Sound Judgment Podcast Review
There are some podcasts that are givers and some that are takers. The "takers" use the podcasting platform purely for profit and care little about enhancing the medium. The "takers" include some, but not all, of the larger podcast networks. Then you have the "givers." Podcasts and podcast networks that work hard to make a living through podcasting, but care about the medium and actively work to improve it for podcasters, society, and listeners. Think Amy Westervelt's Critical Frequency network or Chris Colbert's DCP Entertainment.
By Frank Racioppi5 months ago in Beat
Pod-Alization: Celebrity Podcasts Flop; New Conservative Podcast; Movie Review Podcast For Your Ears
Niche Podcasts Generate Better Advertising Returns Than Celebrity Shows In the January 12th edition of the Inside Podcasting newsletter, Marketing Brew shared lessons in podcast advertising from brands including nutrition supplement company Athletic Greens, curated gift online store Uncommon Goods, and sustainable organic sneaker seller Cariuma. Alyssa Meyers wrote that these brands have been "spending millions of dollars on podcast ads," and they primarily manage campaigns in-house.
By Frank Racioppi5 months ago in Geeks
