Announcing: Kids Listen
Click to download a .pdf version of this press release.MEDIA ADVISORYFor Immediate ReleaseJune 07, 2016 ** Contact Information Below **Announcing: Kids Listen, An Advocacy Organization for Kids’...
View ArticleKids Listen Inaugural Survey Now Live
Take the Kids Listen survey: bit.ly/kidslisten-surveyThere's a gaping hole in the data we have about podcast listeners: It does not include anyone under the age of 12. This is understandable. It's...
View ArticleZooglobble: A New Advocacy Organization for Kids' Podcasts
Kids Listen is proud to count Stefan Shepherd of the influential kid's audio blog Zooglobble as a founding member. Stefan makes his own announcement about our formation on Zooglobble.If you've read...
View ArticleHot Pod: Towards More Pods for Kids
We've launched! Making it official, Nick Quah from the influential podcast newsletter Hot Pod has covered our formation and inaugural survey in today's edition of his newsletter about podcasts.A couple...
View ArticleWho the Heck Are We?
Who the heck are these podcasters who call themselves Kids Listen? In future weeks, you'll be hearing about science podcasts and music podcasts, but we'll start with a podcast for kids about...
View ArticleThe Atlantic: "The Kidscasts are Coming"
Atlantic writer Stephanie Hayes follows up on her earlier article, "Where Are All the Kidcasts?" with the appropriately titled, "The Kidcasts are Coming" about Kids Listen and more recently-discovered...
View ArticleCurrent: Kids Do Listen to Podcasts - So What Next?
Founding member Lindsay Patterson of Tumbleshares the story behind why we got together - and why we're doing what we're doing in this article in Current, the public media trade magazine.Kids make up...
View ArticleTen Steps to a Top Ten Podcast
Podcasts are the best - and everyone knows it. There are a gazillion of them and there is a podcast about anything and everything. Cashew dip, Plattsburgh NY, mouse lemurs, making crayons into candles....
View ArticleFinding Podcasts for Kids
"Why aren't there more podcasts for kids?" is a question that to my ears sounds like a close cousin to questions in the kids music world -- "Why isn't kids music as popular as children's books?" or...
View ArticleKids Listen Opens Membership to Build Kids’ Podcast Community
MEDIA ADVISORYFor Immediate ReleaseJuly 26, 2016** Contact Information Below **Kids Listen Opens Membership to Build Kids’ Podcast CommunityKids Listen, a grassroots advocacy group for high-quality...
View ArticleClosing the Circle: How to Rate and Review Podcasts on iTunes
Aren’t podcasts just the best? Commuting, doing the dishes, exercising, engaging your kids – podcasts are the latest and greatest form of entertainment. They are easy to find – there are podcasts on...
View ArticleMaking "Calls to Action" Work
If you read many “how-to” podcast articles, or–like me–have entered the endless loop of how-to-podcast podcasts, you’ll see the same advice over and again about calls to action: Focus on one. It could...
View ArticleSeven Podcasts that Podcasters Love
If you ask a podcaster to recommend a new show for your queue, it’s best to set aside a half hour or so as the show suggestions come pouring forth. A little while ago, feeling that my subscription list...
View ArticlePodcast Pick: Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonalds?
Even though Kids Listen is focused on audio storytelling for kids, we’re all huge fans of a variety of podcasts. So each week I’ll recommend a (not kids) podcast that’s a personal favorite of someone...
View ArticleInterview with "Best of 2016" winner Tumble podcast
Earlier this week, iTunes released its list of the “Best of 2016” podcasts, and we were all buzzing to see that Tumble, one of the Kids Listen founding podcasts, was on the list. If you’re a fan of...
View ArticleMust-Hear Kids Podcasts of 2016
With New Year's Eve approaching, and the annual period of reflection and retrospection just beginning, I think we can all agree on one thing: Nothing has changed in the last year and 2016 was...
View ArticleThe Weird and Wonderful What if World?
For an on-demand medium, podcasting has a cozy relationship with spur-of-the moment storytelling. Some of the best comedy podcasts—like improv4humans, Spontaneanation—rely on improvisation to drive the...
View ArticleDigging Deep with the Past and the Curious
In general, podcasts gravitate to one end of the order and chaos spectrum. You either have the freewheeling, roundtable discussion style of many interview and comedy podcasts, or the carefully crafted,...
View ArticleFive Minutes with April Eight
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's almost unfair the secret weapon April Mann has in her back pocket. At the beginning of every episode of her April Eight's Song and Stories podcast, she...
View ArticleKids Listen Sweep: Many Podcasts, One Theme
We’re excited to announce our first-ever Kids Listen Sweep! KL members will take a common theme and present it through our diverse podcasts, tackling it from several different angles. Think of it as...
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