MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release July 26, 2016 ** Contact Information Below ** Kids Listen Opens Membership to Build Kids’ Podcast Community Kids Listen, a grassroots advocacy group for high-quality audio for children, is now accepting applications for membership. The organization aims to build a supportive community of producers and advocates for podcasts, which encourages the creation, growth, and awareness of podcasts for kids. Those who want to play an active role in developing a healthy ecosystem of kids’ podcasts are encouraged to apply. Kids Listen launched in June 2016 with eight founding members from popular podcasts Brains On, Ear Snacks, Tumble, Sparkle Stories, Book Club for
"Why aren't there more podcasts for kids?" is a question that to my ears sounds like a close cousin to questions in the kids music world -- "Why isn't kids music as popular as children's books?" or "Why don't more people know about all this great music?" Those latter questions are ones that I've been asked -- and have pondered -- a lot for more than a decade, ever since I started Zooglobble, a website that has been dedicated to discovering and sharing great music for kids and families. For those of you who haven't followed the kids music scene, since the turn of the century there's been a tremendous flowering in music aimed at kids but sophisticated enough musically, lyrically, and sonicall
