Here are all of the Audible Channels and Content Producers

Audible Channels is a new platform that launched earlier this month and it is available for free to monthly Audible subscribers or can be purchased as a standalone subscription. It features podcasts, audio versions of newspapers, comedy shows and tech.

When Audible Channels first launched they 84 different companies that are contributing content, such as The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, CNET, Reader’s Digest and Forbes. There are also 8 Audible podcasts that have been created by an in-house team. Audible told me that additional original content will be added on an ongoing basis.

Channels was designed to be a compliment to your existing Audible subscription. When you run out of your listening credits you can simply listen to additional content. I think the big selling point is not everyone has time to listen to a 13 hour audiobook, but everyone can devote an hour to listen to one of their podcasts or news shows.

Audible Original Shows

PRESIDENTS ARE PEOPLE TOO!

A show that transforms each of the American presidents into real-life people complete with flaws, quirks, triumphs, scandals, and bodily ailments. Hosts Elliott Kalan, former Daily Show head writer, and American historian Alexis Coe, talk to experts, comedians, journalists, actors, and re-enactors to better understand the men memorialized on the Washington Mall, and those all but forgotten.

DAMNED SPOT

This series looks at what happens to properties after bad things happen on them. Whenever a tragic event happens, our first thoughts are immediately with the victims, their families, and even, in some ways, with the circumstances and motives driving the perpetrators. But what about the places where these things happen? The spectacle is the jumping-off point; the story is the aftermath. What does a building or house, and, ultimately, a community need to heal? This series looks the places that are changed forever when murders, suicides, hauntings, or nefarious and wrong things happen. Rest of the series to follow in August.

BREASTS UNBOUND

Breasts have been bared, flaunted, measured, inflated, suckled, pierced, tassled — and in every way fetishized by our society. Host and science journalist Florence Williams (prize-winning author of BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History) delves deeper into the mysteries of the human breast with funny and enlightening reporting. She tackles the big questions of why they evolved in the first place, how jet fuel ended up in breast milk, why they are arriving earlier and bigger in teen-aged girls, man boobs, and how breast cancer in men can help female breast cancer patients.

MORTAL CITY

Former crime reporter Kathleen Horan has a way of getting strangers to talk. And not just any strangers – she finds souls on the fringe of the city – lost souls and eccentrics mostly hiding in plain sight. Each episode of Mortal City, Horan’s talk show on the street, is defined by the vivid, dark, often humorous stories of its guests.

AUTHORIZED
An Audible Original series with host Ashley Ford, in which authors share their most intimate firsts; from drafts to rejections and even first loves.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

In this Audible Original Series a single butterfly effect is told over the course of ten episodes. The butterfly effect in Episode One will lead organically to the butterfly effect in Episode Two, and so on. Host Jon Ronson follows the cause and effects, which will take us in slow motion through space and time across the world and through a wide range of lives and stories.

The Future is Curation

Audible is putting an emphasis on curated content in order to keep things topical, but to also introduce shows that people have never heard of before. They told me that they will have upcoming holiday themes for Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas and New Years.

Here is all of the curated content channels that are available now and will be debuting within the next few months.

Highly Curated Channels

The Future of Channels

Audible has disclosed that they are planning on adding at least two two new content providers a month going forward. They will also be adding more people to their in-house content team, which has close to 40 people right now. This includes narrators, editors, writers, engineers and executives.

Right now Audible Channels is only available in the United States and the company does not have any current plans to launch the service in the United Kingdom or other markets. This is not to say that they will never launch outside the US, but it looks like this is their priority market for the foreseeable future.

Topics in Channels

Michael Kozlowski

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Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.