James Cridland and Sam Sethi

Podnews Weekly Review

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The last word in podcasting news. Every Friday, James Cridland and Sam Sethi review the week's top stories from Podnews; and interview some of the biggest names making the news from across the podcast industry. Winner, "Best Podcasting Podcast", 2025 Ear Worthy Awards Support the show at https://weekly.podnews.net - or hit the boost button! Sponsored by Buzzsprout: start podcasting - keep podcasting!

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James Cridland and Sam Sethi

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Down Anchor, Goodbye Facebook, Au Revoir Michael Mignano & Tom Webster. Hello Squadcast! 05.05.2022 55:05

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,549 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout NEW: Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser: and, using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Steve Jones - Content Director at Crowd Network Show Notes & Links: Facebook is pulling out of p...

Will video help make the next podcasting star? Anchor, Substack and YouTube think so. We talk to Tom Billington about the London Podcast Show and Neil Mody about Headliner, Disco and Eddy. 28.04.2022 1:30:54

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,448 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Guests Tom Billington - Content Director for The Podcast Show Neil Mody - CEO & Co-Founder Headliner Show Notes & Links: Spotify’s Anchor has rolled out proprietary video podcasts to all Anchor users in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK . Paid subscr...

Hello to Spotify's new curation and moderation policies. Goodbye to Spotify's Greenroom creator fund and Facebook's podcasts. 21.04.2022 59:27

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,684 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Notes & Links: 1. Spotify Selling Vapourware Again!? In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the communities they build and the experiences they create”, as part of the launch of Spotify Greenro...

Internationalise in order to profitise or use swap promos but never ever plagiarise. 14.04.2022 1:11:42

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,686 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special Guest Lauren Passell - CEO TinkMedia talks about why she has launched a podcast swap database for podcasters interested in setting up a promo swap for their podcast. Notes & Links: An Anchor podcast called Soldier of Misfortune has been accused of being a shameless...

Acast you're still spamming your competition? BBC you're still losing your talent? YouTube you're still making us wait? Apple you're still not providing us transcripts? Why O Why!? 07.04.2022 1:08:24

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,847 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special Guest Harry Duran talks about how he found a sponsor for his new podcast, raising $9k before launching SubStack Substack is moving into podcasting - “but better” . The platform also lets you podcast for free YouTube YouTube is the third most popular podcast platform i...

Like London buses, you wait ages for one new podcast app and three come along at the same time. We talk with Chris Messina about NEW YouTube, Spotify and Twitter podcast apps coming soon. 31.03.2022 1:15:20

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail SPECIAL GUEST: Chris Messina NEWS: YouTube: Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts. Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk, at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week YouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube....

Podland on tour in LA with Alban Brooke at Podcast Movement talking about the Podnews Report Card, The Ambies, the Infinite Dial 2022 and YouTube's no show. 26.03.2022 44:27

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout News: Kai Chuk from YouTube presented but said nothing about their future plans Matt Deegan writes more about podcasters using video in his newsletter By the end of the year, it’s going to be essential that podcasters are creating proper video versions of their shows. - Matt Deegan It’s also why...

Acast spam, spam multiple platform updates, spam, Gumball, spam, Websub, spam but no chapters, no transcriptions just lightning comments. 17.03.2022 1:11:33

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail MONTY PYTHON: Spam Sketch SPECIAL GUEST: Marty Michael - CEO & Co-Founder Gumball Gumball has raised $10 million to expand its podcasting host-read advertising platform . The company was built by the team behind the Headgum Podcast Network. NEWS: Podcast host Acast is still spamming podcasters, even co-founders of rival podcast networks , or hosts...

"Will Video Kill The Podcast Star?" - We interview James O. Boggs and Andy Bowers from Spooler Media the "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system. Amazon released Amp, a “live radio app”. YouTube offers podcasters up to $50k to switch. 10.03.2022 58:30

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUESTS: James O. Boggs Andy Bowers NEWS: Spooler's "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system launched last week . According to an analysis by John Spurlock , on its first day, Spooler helped The Refresh from Insider to produce five editions of their podcast. A new podcast platform, Spooler, has launched . It's founded by a who&ap...

Is Youtube the best place for podcasting now? Is Twitter the next place for podcasting?Is interactive podcasting the future of podcasting? 03.03.2022 1:15:54

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest: Laura Ivey - Director of Research at Edison Research News: Will we see a podcast player in Twitter? Alessandro Paluzzi has spotted a podcasts option in the latest Twitter code, and Jane Manchun Wong has also unearthed a Podcasts tab . Nathan Gathright has brainstormed some ideas about what he hopes Twitter is up to - let’s hope it’s not jus...

This week's report card: ACast very bad, GoodPods bad, ActivityPub very good and Super Listener Wayne Cheong dies, very sad. 25.02.2022 1:14:19

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUEST: John Spurlock talking about implementing ActivityPub/Co-Comments LINKS: https://podcastsocial.org https://minipub.dev/ NEWS: Anyone can claim to be a creator of any podcast within the GoodPods app, without any proof or validation, we’ve discovered. Acast has been been “spamming podcasters”, says competitor Buzzsprout , which has published an u...

Crowd Network launches in Manchester, James launches 'Podnews Report Cards', Facebook launches audio rooms, Podping launches live notifications and Sam launches The Crafty Tug? 18.02.2022 56:26

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail SPECIAL GUEST: Mike Carr . - Crowd Network NEWS: Spotify has acquired Podsights and Chartable Spotify has published an interview with Sean Creeley from Podsights Apple has just published a guide to getting promotion for your podcast from Apple Podcasts Breakit, a Swedish news website, has published an article ( translated ) that alleges downloads are bei...

Pay Attention, Cash is King, Bitcoin is the native currency of the Internet and it's raining Sat's on Fountain. 11.02.2022 1:25:01

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUESTS: Gigi - Closing the Loop - The Future of Value Oscar Merry - Fountain Podcaster Wallet Evo Terra - Hall of Fame Induction Stewart Townsend - Podcast Hawk NEWS: Lightning Network is now available on Cash App . It's the fastest, free way to pay anyone in bitcoin. The Lightning Network is a new way to send BTC/SAT that's faster and free!!! S...

Captivate CEO Mark Asquith talks about the global acquisition and their future. Castos CEO Craig Hewitt talks about supporting Value4Value and why it's a better model than advertising for podcasters 03.02.2022 1:29:05

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUESTS: Mark Asquith co-founder and MD of Captivate. FM talks about their acquisition by Global and what's next for Captivate and how the line between radio and podcasting has blurred? Craig Hewitt founder and CEO of Castos talks about the latest version of their platform and their upcoming support for Value4Value and why advertising is not the futur...

Scott Waxman tells us why books and podcasts fit together? Hala Taha tells us why promoting your podcast with an audiogram maybe a waste of time? Amazon buys exclusive rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ podcast. Libsyn5 is live to all users. 27.01.2022 1:16:29

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUESTS: SCOTT WAXMAN // HALA TAHA NEWS: Spotify takes Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s podcast ‘into its own hands’ after the couple produced NO content for a YEAR. Spotify picks Joe Rogan over Neil Young Stephen Fry has launched a new podcast exploring the brain . The podcast is exclusively on Audible. Amazon Buys Exclusive Rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’...

Brad Mielke tells us what he learnt from 1,000 daily podcasts? Effy Kang tells us about podcasting in China. Celebs tell us about their favourite podcasts on Apple. Helipad tells us how many SAT's we've earned in real-time and Podping tells us first! 20.01.2022 1:10:13

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUESTS: Brad Mielke - Host/Managing Editor, "Start Here" Podcast at ABC News Effy Kang - Head of Capital Markets at Lizhi - the first podcast app that Apple promoted in the Chinese app store NEWS: Apple Podcasts has launched “Listen With” , a podcast playlist service to help listeners discover new shows. The first podcast guide is Jay Shetty. C...

Spotify launch call-to-actions cards, ratings but still no Hifi? What's a GUID and a ULID? Cash app now supports Lightning payments. Facebook mutes podcasts, not as big as they think. India the biggest podcast market by 2023? Sam talks about Podcasting3? 13.01.2022 55:03

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail NEWS: Spotify has launched clickable call-to-action cards , - described as ad banners for podcasts. Currently limited to Spotify Originals and Exclusives, US only. Spotify’s new CTA cards aren’t new and aren’t open. The new JSON-based chapter specification from Podcast Index also allows graphical banners and clickthroughs which can be timed with audio. S...

Jonas Woost, Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content, predicts the near future of podcasting in 2022 04.01.2022 37:02

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James Cridland talks with Jonas Woost Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content about his podcast predictions for 2022. They talk about ... Who is Pacific Content? Is Podcasting still open in 2022? Paid Subscriptions? Legacy media buys into podcasting What does that mean for indies? The rise of fiction podcasting Are celebrity podcasts dead? It’s been anoth...

Fake it until you make it, unless you buy it. Spotify's Megaphone buys Whooshkaa but still no date for exclusive podcasts, HiFi sound or transcriptions? SiriusXM we can't read you? Comments are live on Podverse and Buzzsprout supports the Person Tag. 16.12.2021 1:40:36

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail GUEST: Larry Rosin, the co-founder and President of Edison Research Spotify buys Whooshkaa ! Congratulations Rob Loewenthal. A great guy and a great team. SiriusXM is being sued for failing to provide podcast transcripts for deaf users by the National Association for the Deaf and the Disability Rights Advocates. As we researched in June 2020, transcri...

Spotify may owe millions from missing licenses and may have gained millions from missing podcasts? 09.12.2021 1:20:38

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail HOSTS: Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Jeff Price CEO - Word Collections Spotify has pulled a number of comedy albums from its service, after claims they weren’t licensed correctly . Jeff Price has announced a $3.5m investment round for his Word Collections company, which “focuses on getting comedians and other spoken-word performers p...

Winslow Bright talks about licensing music for your podcast. Hint: there is no fair usage. It's the start of the podcast awards season. Facebook podcasting is growing but it's clearly not ready for primetime and Spotify is testing sponsorship? 02.12.2021 57:17

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail HOSTS: Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Winslow Bright - Executive Producer at Premier Music Group NEWS: Apple Podcasts announced its Best of 2021 . A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar from Pushkin Industries was chosen as Best Show of the Year. The chart also gives us some understanding of the performance of Apple Podcasts Paid...

Happy 1st birthday to us! What will Spotify do with its big M&A war chest, Castamatic 8 supports Value4Value and Lisa Laporte CEO of TWiT tells us how to run a successful podcast network. 25.11.2021 1:07:13

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Lisa Laporte - CEO - TWiT.tv Franco Solerio - Founder & Developer - Castamatic NEWS: Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding . The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows and plans to move into new markets. $78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice A...

Podcast listening is growing globally, Spotify advertising and subscriptions are expanding internationally but why is no one checking the content is factual, not breaking copyright and has a license to use it? 18.11.2021 1:05:51

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Sean Li - Clever. FM NEWS: Spotify expands Podcast Subscriptions globally and now includes 20 price points from $0.50 to $150 and a way for creators to download subscribers' contact info — Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making...

Podcasting 2.0 is all about an open 'Interoperable' ecosystem of apps using RSS that create shared value, not closed ecosystems from old SAGA apps - (Spotify, Apple, Google and Amazon). 11.11.2021 57:52

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi "INTEROPERABILITY IS THE KEY" - says Dave Jones Apple Podcasts has brought back the 'refresh feed’ button. While Apple seem confident that new episodes and other changes in your podcast feed are now seen within 'a few hours’ On Friday, the Apple Podcasts Connect system was checking Podnews’s...

Why's everyone going proprietary? Is it time to change the name podcast? Is James really one in a billion? And what's the secret sauce for creating a hit podcast? 04.11.2021 54:35

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUESTS: Dino Sofos - Founder and CEO, Persephonica. Recently departed Editor of BBC News Podcasts. Creator of the award-winning Brexitcast, Americast and the daily Newscast. NEWS: Spotify's proprietary video podcasts system is "a dumpster fire" , says Drew Linsalata, the host of The Anxious Trut...