The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical. Smartphone driven but acts faithfully to the original format of podcasting.

1. Adaptive podcasting futures
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770

2. @cubicgarden |
Podcasting now
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3. @cubicgarden | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/rise-of-podcasts | https://www.statista.com/chart/14306/podcast-adoption/
The rise of podcasting

4. @cubicgarden | https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/programming-and-sales/techsurvey-2020-looks-at-podcast-growth
Podcasting with younger people

5. Podcasts
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6. Attempts to change podcasting
@cubicgarden | https://appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/21/apple_looks_towards_personalized_on_demand_podcasts

7. Media has much more potential

8. Object based media
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/object-based-media

9. Media + Metadata = Objects
The idea behind ‘object-based’ media is that you take all the
assets for a given TV or radio show – the video clips, the
accompanying audio, any music soundtrack, and extras like
subtitles and sign language translations
wrap it up in useful metadata and then use software to ‘remix’
it as needed
@cubicgarden | https://thenextweb.com/media/2016/03/09/bbc-r-and-d-object-based-media/ | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770

10. Media
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/adelinapeltea/9026208637/

11. Metadata
Red Tile 2 x 1
Yellow Brick 1 x 1
@cubicgarden | https://rebrickable.com/downloads/

12. The objects make the story
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13. New medium, new rules
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15524004

14. Storytelling timeline
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15. Oral storytelling
@cubicgarden | http://www.flickr.com/photos/smcgee/234278571

16. Immersive, engaging, participatory & adaptive
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17. Storytelling with variables
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18. Context, location, environment...
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/haaijk/14196995087

19. Narrative on Rails
@cubicgarden | http://www.flickr.com/photos/ag2r/4437697015

20. Perceptive Radio
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

21. Computer in a box
@cubicgarden | http://thecreativeexchange.org/projects/perceptive-media

22. Responsive & Perceptive
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjohnbeckett/16530229333/

23. Reinventing podcasting
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemilo/14525042460

24. Smartphones
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25. Players, smart devices and apps
@cubicgarden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting

26. Audio first experiences
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27. Always on & computational power
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28. Perceptive podcasting
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

29. Sensors everywhere
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30. Data points
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Device Owner Name
Number of Contacts
Battery Level
Battery Condition
Current Activity (Running, walking, etc.)
Elevation
Number of Installed Apps
Device Make/Model
Time of Day
Weather
Sun Elevation (Twilight, Broad Daylight, etc)
Location (City, Town, Nearby Points of Interest, etc.)
Indoor/Outdoor
Mobile Network Operator Name
Available Wifi Networks
Altitude Pressure
Connected Bluetooth Devices
External or Internal Audio Device
Device Orientation
Ambient Brightness
Local Noise Environment (Ambient loudness, audio
recognition)
Calendar (Upcoming/recent appointments or occasions)
Music Tastes (Genres, Favourite Bands/Artists,
Recommendations)
Financial News (notable market crashes, upswings, etc.)
User Fitness Information (Fitbit/Google Fit)
Current Heart-rate
Number of Listeners/Users
Can it hear itself
Is it in someone's pocket or elsewhere?
What kind of apps
Knowledge of Home and Work
Proximity

31. Examples

32. Perfect mix everytime
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33. Location based
@cubicgarden | https://www.futurebroadcasts.com

34. Personal choice
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013-05-5-live-football-experiment

35. How much time do you have?
@cubicgarden | http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/responsive-radio

36. Demos

37. Perceptive podcast app
@cubicgarden | APK v0.8

38. Available on the beta Google play store soon *
@cubicgarden | * Media AT approval

39. Consumer/Creator
@cubicgarden | https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/connectedstudio-perceptivepod/PerceptivePodcasts.xml

40. Reference specification & implementation
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

41. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/
Adaptive podcast creation

42. Perceptive podcast specification
@cubicgarden | https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/connectedstudio-perceptivepod/demos/playbackTimingDemo.zip
Podcasts are zip files
With a XML SMIL file,
JSON descriptor,
Audio / Images folders

43. Manifest markdown
@cubicgarden | https://www.markdownguide.org/
Used to specify podcast metadata such as series number,
episode number and various credits. This file is saved inside
the podcast folder root and named "manifest.json".

44. SMIL Lite
@cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL3/
SMIL Lite is a simplified implementation of the W3C SMIL
(Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) specification.
SMIL is used to script media narratives and coordinate
playback of separate audio and TTS speech objects which can
change depending on arbitrary injected data.
This file is saved inside the podcast folder root and
named "smil.xml"

45. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-SMIL3-20061220/smil-timesheets.html
Why SMIL?

46. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/
SMIL

47. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/
SMIL example

48. The app will be open sourced
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49. @cubicgarden | http://storytellers.link | https://mwm-berlin.de/blog/workshop-podcast-produktion-ian-forrester
Community of practice

50. @cubicgarden
Ian Forrester
@cubicgarden
ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk
Thank you for listening, questions?