The Indian Express is doing podcasts now. The group is launching with eight shows, to begin with, and is doing both news shows and in-depth thematic programming. For instance, a show titled "Water" will look at the politics and history of how water is distributed and used in agriculture in India. The Express Adda podcast, an extension of the newspaper's in-house event brand, released an episode where they spoke to the Dalai Lama. Podcasts in India Podcasts in India, at least professionally speaking, are controlled by a small number of firms. The largest one is quite possibly Indus Vox Media, which has its own app and a roster of forty apps. Then there's Audiomatic, another indie network of podcasts that produces fewer but similar shows. Both companies are networks — the actual distribution happens over multiple podcast apps with standardised RSS feeds. Arré and other media companies have a few in-house podcasting ops too — the financial daily Mint had a weekly podcast until October last year. Newslaundry also does podcasts that are behind a paywall. Monetizing may be very far, though. One digital marketing agency's CEO told Mint that podcasts were around a decade away from making any money. But partnerships with streaming apps like Saavn (and soon, perhaps, Spotify) might help firms make money quicker. For companies like Newslaundry, which are subscription-driven and don't rely exclusively on podcasts, audio makes more business sense. Another recent development in the podcasts space has been the launch of Google's own podcast…
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