The number of active podcasts on iTunes alone has gone beyond a dazzling 60,000. That’s a lot of noise to cut through. We at Bibblio have done the digging, surfaced the best podcasts, and curated lists to kick off your year the smartest way possible.
Happy listening!
Expand your mind
Good Job, Brain — Part pub quiz show and part off-beat news
Stuff to Blow Your Mind — A podcast by the edutainers at HowStuffWorks
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know — By Freakonomics’s Stephen J. Dubner
TED Radio Hour — A journey through fascinating ideas and inventions
Stuff You Should Know — Josh & Chuck’s truth behind everyday myths
How to Do Everything — You send in questions & experts answer them
In Our Time —The UK’s leading academics discuss the topic of the day
99% Invisible — The thought that goes into the things we don’t think about
Don your lab coat
Radiolab — A show about curiosity #science #philosophy #experience
Star Talk — Hosted by hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, so yeah
The Infinite Monkey Cage — Witty look at the world through scientists’ eyes
Rationally Speaking — The borderlands between science & pseudoscience
Flash Forward — On bizarre futures that may be to come
Philosophy Bites — Sometimes, overthinking is great
Big Picture Science — Modern science research through lively storytelling
Hidden Brain — Helps curious people understand the world and themselves
Dive into history
Hardcore History — Carlin’s unorthodox thinking, applied to the past
You Must Remember This — Exploring the forgotten histories of Hollywood
BackStory — Uses current events as jumping-off points to delve into the past
Revisionist History — Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance
The History Chicks — Half the population: several thousand years of history
TPHOOW — The Podcast History of Our World
History… in 100 Objects — Re-telling history through objects we’ve created
The Memory Palace — Nate DiMeo tells short, surprising stories of the past
Build a business
How I Built This — Entrepreneurs share the stories behind their movements
StartUp — What it’s really like to get a business off the ground
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders — An engaging speaker every week
Women Who Startup Radio — Empowering women in startups
Founders Talk — In-depth, one-on-one conversations with Founders
Product People — On great products and the people who make them
The Twenty Minute VC — Venture Capital, startup funding and the pitch
Six Pixels of Separation — Bringing you digital marketing & media insights
Reboot Podcast — Emotional & psychological challenges faced by leaders
Be informed
Love + Radio — Otherworldly-produced interviews with a range of subjects
Left, Right and Center — Passionate political discussions, minus the yelling
The Moth Podcast — Funny, tragic and uplifting stories abound
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics —Raising today’s political discussion
Song Exploder — Musicians tell the story of how their songs were made
Longform — Conversations with non-fiction writers on how they tell stories
Slate’s Political Gabfest — Facts & opinions on the U.S. political climate
And here’s a little extra from the good folks at freeCodeCamp…
10 podcasts that new coders should listen to
Demand quality
If your job was considering which of the 60,000 podcast channels to recommend, listening to each for one minute, it would take you 25 working weeks to hear them all. We don’t know what a professional podcast listener does in their breaks, but we’re confident it wouldn’t be unwinding to spoken word!
Similarly, if your job was recommending the clickbait that sits at the bottom of content pages, where do you go to browse during your downtime? We’d like to think they’d be purifying themselves by visiting sites with relevant recommendations to quality content (preferably powered by Bibblio!).
If your site has become punctured with these sponsored links, turning it into a click-chasing colander forever draining users, it’s time to plug the holes by making your own content the hero once more. Use Bibblio on your site to recommend your own pages, directing users to the content you took time and effort to create, rather than losing them to frivolous clickbait.
Bibblio is a content recommendation platform that helps content businesses and publishers deliver more relevant and engaging discovery experiences to their users. Visit us on Twitter.
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