Adaptive podcasting is a dynamic approach to storytelling through audio productions that are tailored to the preferences and needs of audiences. It is a powerful way to connect with your audience on a deeper level by telling experiential stories adapted to their situation at the moment of listening, using mobile sensory data. Moreover, adaptive podcasting can make podcasts more accessible, as they can be adjusted to the needs of the listener, for instance by adjusting to their level of hearing all without sharing personal data.

1. Object based audio with adaptive podcasting
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden
@cubicgarden

2. @cubicgarden |
Podcasting now
@cubicgarden

3. Adaptive podcasting launched, yesterday!
@cubicgarden | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting

4. BBC Podcasts
@cubicgarden

5. The future of broadcasting
@cubicgarden | https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/celebrating-100-years-bbc-manchester

6. Media has much more potential

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

8. 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

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

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

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

13. Storytelling timeline
@cubicgarden

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

15. Immersive, engaging, participatory & adaptive
@cubicgarden

16. Storytelling has variables
@cubicgarden

17. Context, location, environment...
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/haaijk/14196995087

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

19. Interactivity is responsive & perceptive
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjohnbeckett/16530229333/

20. Forecaster
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-11-forecaster-our-experimental-object-based-weather-forecast

21. Cook Along Kitchen Experience
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/cake

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

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

24. Reinventing podcasting
@cubicgarden

25. Smartphones
@cubicgarden

26. Perceptive/Adaptive podcasting in an app
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-09-adaptive-podcasting

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

28. Computation, Data and Sensors
@cubicgarden
Device Owner Name
Number of Contacts
Battery Level
Battery Condition
Current Activity
Elevation
Number of Installed Apps
Device Make/Model
Time of Day
Weather
Sun Elevation
Location
Indoor/Outdoor
Mobile Network Operator Name
Available Wifi Networks
Altitude Pressure
Connected Bluetooth Devices
Proximity
External or Internal Audio Device
Device Orientation
Ambient Brightness
Local Noise Environment
Calendar
Music Tastes
Financial News
User Fitness Information
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

29. Perceptive interactivity
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjohnbeckett/16530229333/

30. Security, privacy and decentralisation
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-09-adaptive-podcasting

31. What is adaptive podcasting?
@cubicgarden

32. Let’s talk podcasts

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

34. Examples
@cubicgarden

35. Adaptive podcast app
@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts

36. Available on the Google play store now
@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts

37. Everything is open source
@cubicgarden | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting

38. Adaptive podcasting open sourced
@cubicgarden | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting

39. Beyond podcasts examples

40. Perfect mix everytime
@cubicgarden

41. Companion media with media
@cubicgarden

42. Extended performance
@cubicgarden

43. Companion media with objects
@cubicgarden

44. The music album reimagined
@cubicgarden | https://pxhere.com/en/photo/173599 | https://theprodigy.info/discography/official/experience/
Moby credited Experience with changing his perception about
dance albums; previously he felt that "dance albums had always
failed [...] because they didn't work over the full length of the
record.
Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didn't
want to do," and noted that Experience "impressed me because
they'd managed to create a full listening experience which
encompassed various styles.
This was the kind of vision I had for my debut album

45. Create an adaptive podcast in minutes?

46. Decentralised web editor
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/adaptive-podcasting-editor | https://adaptive-podcasting-web-editor.glitch.me/

47. The underlying code

48. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/ | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting.github.io/wiki
Adaptive podcast creation

49. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-SMIL3-20061220/smil-timesheets.html | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting.github.io/wiki/SMIL-timing-model
SMIL?

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

51. @cubicgarden | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting
Want to know more?

52. Community of practice

53. New medium, New rules
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15524004

54. New medium, New rules
@cubicgarden | https://kathyhinde.co.uk/adaptive-podcasting/

55. @cubicgarden | http://storytellers.link | https://mwm-berlin.de/blog/workshop-podcast-produktion-ian-forrester
Community of practice

56. Some community efforts
@cubicgarden

57. Community of practice
@cubicgarden | https://innovatie.vrt.be/en/about/hubs | https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/adaptive-podcasting | https://storytellers.link/

58. Rabbit holes collective
@cubicgarden | http://www.pixnio.com/people/children-kids/children-walking-forest

59. What will you create?

60. Computation, Data and Sensors
@cubicgarden
Device Owner Name
Number of Contacts
Battery Level
Battery Condition
Current Activity
Elevation
Number of Installed Apps
Device Make/Model
Time of Day
Weather
Sun Elevation
Location
Indoor/Outdoor
Mobile Network Operator Name
Available Wifi Networks
Altitude Pressure
Connected Bluetooth Devices
Proximity
External or Internal Audio Device
Device Orientation
Ambient Brightness
Local Noise Environment
Calendar
Music Tastes
Financial News
User Fitness Information
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

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