Here are the best podcast services available in India

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Here's a list of some of the best Podcast services available in India.

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Here are the best podcast services available in India

In the times of COVID-19, we are seeking new ways to entertain ourselves. While music and movies are something most people go to for relaxing their minds, there are also podcasts that people can tune into. However, most people do not know which apps to use for podcasts. So, here's a list of some of the best Podcast services available in India:

Khabri

Khabri is India’s fastest growing vernacular audio platform targeted at the next billion internet users. Knowledge through the spoken word has been the cornerstone for the upward economic movement of any society for ages, and we at Khabri are committed to delivering that in the most advanced way in the current era. 

While offering listeners to discover and consume enriching audio content which is informative and helps users to prepare for government job exams in various formats for passive consumption. Khabri also offers users an opportunity to create content and get discovered. Given the ease of content creation in Audio, Khabri is a big hit among audiences from tier II & III cities of India. Khabri offers an exclusive array of creators who range from popular YouTubers to eminent educators. Each creator comes with a unique style and flavour to give the user chooses to find content best suited to him. The app is free of cost and offers users the option to download the content and consume it offline, as well.

Recently, during a pandemic, Khabri witnessed an unprecedented growth of 6x in terms of users and 4x in a number of creators respectively. Subsequently,  Khabri again became a choice for the worlds leading investors who believed in the value Khabri is creating for the next billion users from Bharat.

Aawaz.com

Agrahyah Technologies has launched aawaz.com, audio a demand platform with professionally generated content in vernacular languages. With this, people can listen to podcasts, chat shows, interviews and also read articles and features. Aawaz.com is currently available in Hindi, and as both website and Android app.

Aawaz.com will also have ML (machine learning) and AI (artificial capabilities) based capabilities to recommend and personalize content based on user’s preferences. With the app, people can listen to over 150 hours of audio content which is scripted, recorded, and presented as podcasts and shows. Both audio and text content is spread across multiple genres including entertainment, lifestyle, health, fiction, literature, devotional, comedy, humour and more.

Audiomatic

Audiomatic is India’s first podcast network that launched in April, 2015. As of June 2015, the website hosts four programmes, each of which has episodes ranging from 15–20 minutes. The podcasts are either weekly or fortnightly, and offer content in genres such as food, science, culture, current affairs, entertainment and humour.

As of June 2015, Audiomatic has four podcasts – The Real Food Podcast, The Intersection, Ask Aakar Anything and Our Last Week. All the programmes are in English, and release a new episode fortnightly, except Ask Aakar Anything, which is a weekly podcast. The Real Food Podcast is hosted by food writer Vikram Doctor, who explores ingredients and Indian food habits and obsessions. According to the show’s page on Audiomatic’s website, the podcast offers information about the origins of and legends associated with various Indian ingredients and recipes. 

Headfone

Headfone specializes in vernacular podcasts, talk shows, short stories, and other forms of audio content. Its podcasts on religion and spirituality, kids and family, news and politics (including the PM’s Mann Ki Baat) are quite popular. Interestingly, Headfone lets users record their own podcasts and publish them on a public profile. 

Cast Box

Castbox is an app that distributes free podcasts. As of 2019, it has about one million podcasts available through it, including about fifty million podcast episodes. It also has a premium platform. In June 2019, Castbox integrated with Waze, allowing playback controls to pause, skip, or restart episodes. 

In addition to its library of podcasts from other distributors, Castbox also produces its own shows. In 2018, Castbox partnered with Heard Well on the podcast series Heard Well Now, which highlights early-career musical artists. As of 2018, Castbox produced 25 different original podcasts, with This Sounds Serious being released in 2019. 

Apple Podcasts

Podcasts is a media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts from the iTunes Store. It is available for the iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS operating systems.

A standalone Podcasts app was initially released for iOS on June 26, 2012, after formerly being a section of the iTunes app. It was followed by launches on Apple TV on September 24, 2012, tvOS on January 26, 2016, and watchOS on September 17, 2018. It was released with macOS Catalina on October 7, 2019 as one of three applications created to replace iTunes.

5 Upcoming Trends About Instagram Marketing in 2022

By Erick Zaldivar - originally posted here.

In this post, we will be talking about 5 upcoming trends in 2022 in Instagram Marketing and how you can use them to grow your small business online.

So without further ado, here are the top trends to make you more money in 2022.

Upcoming Instagram Marketing Trend #1: Instagram Is a Shopping Platform

That’s right folks, instagram is becoming a platform for shopping. Between the new Instagram updates and stories being put to use already as well as third party apps following suit, this trend has been in development for some time now. You can now shop directly within your stories. Take a look at how @secondhandsilver does a great job of utilizing Instagram’s shopping features. They’re able to capture your attention in real time, you’re able to see the full array of products all without leaving your stories.

They also do a great job of making sure they’re taking advantage of the same feature within their feed posts. Not only are you able to quickly get information about what you might like to buy, it makes the brand look cool by incorporating all of Instagram’s shopping features.

Upcoming Instagram Marketing Trend #2: Automation Tools

Automating instagram is becoming more and more popular, so get in on the action while you still can. It’s a great idea to start automating your instagram now that way you’re ahead of the trend and you get to take advantage of the growth trends that favor early adopters.

Instagram DM Automation Tools – Using an Instagram DM automation tool is a quick and easy way to get qualified leads into your inbox.  

Upcoming Instagram Marketing Trend #3: Influencers

With big companies like Apple and Google making privacy a big focus, Targeting your ideal customers using Facebook ads may become more challenging in 2022.

That’s why Influencers are going to have a BIG year in 2022. If you want to make instagram work for you, influencer deals are going to be a big part of your strategy.

If you’ve never worked with influencers before, now’s a great time to get started. With over 900 million users on instagram, you can easily find an influencer in your niche who can connect you with an audience who is ready to listen to what their trusted influencer has to say.

A great way to find influencers is through instagram by using a tool like Ninja Outreach or you can even look up potential instagrammers via your niche’s hastags.

Influencers usually charge based on their number of followers. A quick and free tool you can use to vet the authenticity of an influencer’s followers can be found Influencer Marketing Hub’s website. 

Upcoming Instagram Marketing Trend #4: Live Videos

What’s better than Instagram stories? How about Instagram live videos! Once again, Instagram has provided small businesses with new tools to grow on their platform and this time they’ve added them to their IG lives.

If you want to make Instagram live content work for your business, it’s a good idea to think about who you’re going to target. If you’re a local business, Instagram live videos are going to be a great tool for your insta-story.

You can easily promote Instagram live videos in your insta-stories to gain a bigger audience, all you have to do is add the Instagram icon and people will be able to watch them in their Instagram stories.

Further, you can also promote your Instagram live videos on other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Upcoming Instagram Marketing Trend # 5: Instagram Polls

As Instagram continues to evolve, it’s important that you do too. If you want your Instagram marketing strategy of the future to be successful, Instagram polls are going to have a BIG effect on how well they work for your business in 2022.

If you’ve never used insta-polls before or if they aren’t working out too well for your current Instagram marketing strategy, now is the time to start taking advantage of this awesome tool!

You can upload photos with different options and ask people which one they would prefer as an engagement tactic or even as part of a contest – there’s really so much more than meets the eye when it comes to using instapolls as part of your strategy.

That’s it for this Instagram marketing trend post!