Bbc Global News Podcast Download
Melony Kai
In fact, not only BBC World Service is dead, all of the BBC series such as Global News Podcast and The English We Speak and Learning English podcasts are dead too. The episodes are there, but nothing can be played or downloaded. Please fix the problem. Thank you.
I am having a similar problem. Yesterday, the BBC In Our Time podcasts suddenly stopped working. My phone shows the podcast as playing, but there is no sound. I am having the problem on my iPhone 11 and my iPad. I did a clean reinstall, updated iOS, but nothing has helped. Super frustrating, since I have a subscription to this content!
Same problem here. I have tried every possible solution. Now i see everybody have same problem with every BBC network podcasts. So finally get that problem is not from me. Please fix it as soon as possible.
I tried to launch the latest BBC World Service podcast ( ) from a browser (Firefox) without being connected and it worked. Once I get connected, it didn't work. This really looks like a problem on your side.
I am also experiencing this issue on iOS! Other podcasts play fine but not BBC. I have tried the clean reinstall and playing on different wifi network, restarting phone, etc. But nothing so far has worked. Thanks.
While the Global News Podcast brings a complete digest of the latest stories in twice daily updates, The Global Story will drill deep into a single story offering unrivalled context and deeper insight, helping you make sense of the global news cycle. From 27 November 2023, you can download The Global Story every weekday. Each episode will be around 25 minutes long.
Host Katya Adler has been a BBC correspondent and editor for more than 25 years, covering conflicts in the Middle East, political and economic crises in Europe, and drug cartels in Mexico. She was a founding host of the award-winning Brexitcast, a BBC podcast that covered the intricacies of Brexit when the UK withdrew from the European Union.
Iran-backed rebel groups in the Middle East threaten to disrupt global shipping, American families caring for aging relatives, and a living nativity in Kentucky. Plus, Word Play with George Grant and the Thursday morning news
The following is a list of daily news podcasts, organized by type (original podcast or adapted media) and then by country. It represents a small subset of news podcasts that release an episode every day, sometimes with the exception of weekends or holidays.
The Global Story podcast is produced by the BBC Long Form Audio News Podcast team, which is behind award-winning news podcasts from the broadcasting corporation including Americast, Ukrainecast, and Newscast. The podcast will be available from 27 November and will be released on BBC Sounds and other major podcast platforms.
This report focuses on the phenomenon of daily news podcasts, one of the fastest growing areas of media consumption and a format that has been a lifeline for many people during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For publishers like the New York Times (The Daily) and the Guardian (Today in Focus) these on-demand audio briefings are now attracting large daily audiences, building habit and loyalty for their brands, and driving significant revenue too. Elsewhere the daily podcast scene is more nascent, though more European public broadcasters and commercial publishers have been embracing them in the last year.
As in our previous report, we combine data analysis of podcast consumption and production with industry interviews with key players in each market. Overall, publishers remain extremely bullish about the prospects for daily news podcasts while recognising that it may be only one of many new products that they need to develop to engage audiences and drive new revenue.
Understanding podcast consumption is more challenging due to the fragmented nature of podcast platforms and the lack of comprehensive, publicly available data. The Apple podcast episode charts provide some clues about the most popular individual programmes each week. They are loosely based on recent downloads but only apply to the Apple platform and do not provide the underlying numbers. To help fill in these gaps, we have used consumption data provided by individual publishers and podcast aggregators, such as Chartable and Podtrac in the US, Triton Podcast Tracker in Australia, the ACPM tracker in France, Poddindex in Sweden, and the Podcast Index in Denmark. These podcast rankers often measure the number of plays for each podcast based on a standard industry measurement,2 but they only count podcasts from participating publishers and so are not representative of all podcasts. Where appropriate, we have used these to help inform our lists of top shows. Where we have specific numbers from publishers or aggregators, we have listed these separately.
In terms of our country selections, we chose the US, the UK, and Australia because these countries have been quick to embrace podcasting, with fast-developing monetisation and professional podcast services. France has an emerging podcast scene and is an example of a non-English-speaking country with a developed media ecosystem. Sweden and Denmark are two smaller markets with high levels of podcast consumption. We interviewed publishers that were producing daily news podcasts in all six countries to understand their motivations and to hear about their experiences of creating daily news output. A full list of interviewees is in Appendix A of this report.
Podcasting has been around since 2004 but it is only recently that news podcasts have begun to take off. Improved speed of access, always-on connections, and the growth of streaming services such as Spotify have all encouraged news publishers to take another look at a genre that was assumed to be a poor fit for time-sensitive content.
These data do not fully reflect the leading position taken by the US in the development of podcasting, and especially in news podcasting. Not only are many of the top episodes in the US about news (30%), but overall podcast listening is also higher than in many other countries (see chart in next section).
Data from the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report show that around a third of Americans and Swedes (36%) listen to at least one podcast monthly compared with around a quarter in Denmark (28%) and France (26%), and nearer to a fifth in the UK (22%). Of these, around half say they listen to news podcasts in the US, and nearer to a third in European countries such as the UK.
Podcast listening overall also skews young, with under-35s in the UK four times more likely to consume a podcast when compared with over-55s. Previous research shows that younger groups spend a considerable amount of time listening to podcasts (Flamingo 2019) and generally listen to the majority of each episode. They say they appreciate the diversity of voices and enjoy getting away from screens.
Most podcast listening has traditionally been done via Apple devices, but in the last few years a range of streaming apps have embraced podcasts, while broadcasters have also revamped their apps to showcase podcasts in addition to live and catch-up radio.
Public broadcasters in particular are concerned that, as podcast listening grows, they may lose the direct connection with audiences they have enjoyed on radio. The BBC often releases content first in its own BBC Sounds app to try to increase its value as a destination, while Radio France recently set a target to have 50% of listening via its own platforms by 2020, compared with just 32% at present.7 ABC in Australia has restricted some podcast content from third-party platform Spotify for similar reasons.
Overall, Apple remains the most-used podcast app in all the countries in our study, but Spotify is now a strong second according to data sourced from Chartable for this report (see chart on previous page). Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Castbox, Acast, Pocket Casts, and Stitcher are other popular apps. With Amazon Music also now adding podcasts, and Google surfacing podcasts within its core search results page, there are more opportunities than ever to distribute news content to more diverse audiences.
In our last report (News Podcasting and the Opportunities for Publishers) we identified around 60 active daily news podcasts that were produced especially for the medium (or that were significantly adapted from radio output to fit the podcast medium8).
The longest-running daily news podcast is The Gist, started by Slate in 2014, but acceleration of the genre really came with the launch of The Daily in 2017. Many publishers we interviewed for this report said their shows were directly inspired by this format:
But this exploration of one story in depth, often using narrative storytelling techniques, is only one approach used by publishers. Detailed analysis of our list of native daily news podcasts identified four distinct types, often aimed at specific audience needs and with different implications in terms of the resources required to create and maintain them.
Different staffing levels reflect to a large extent the strategic importance placed on daily podcasts by different news organisations. For the New York Times and the Guardian investment in audio represents a major commitment from the top, with the aim of building habit and attracting younger audiences. The case for investment is also clearer in the US and the UK, where the podcast advertising market is buoyant and many shows are already profitable. In smaller markets and for smaller publishers, investment in audio has felt like more of a risk and many podcasts are seen more as experiments to stimulate demand from both audiences and advertisers.
But while these dual-use techniques make sense for extended chat and shorter podcasts, creating distinctive deep-dive formats often requires a different approach. Danish public broadcaster DR decided it needed to hire a dedicated team with experience of native podcasts to launch its daily Genstart. NPR continues to experiment with production models. It has just launched Consider This, which reworks content from its evening current affairs show All Things Considered, but other shows such as The Indicator and the NPR Politics Podcast are all original podcasts with dedicated teams.
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