James Cridland and Sam Sethi

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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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Will Superfans pay extra to come into a Spotify Green Room or Twitter Space? Should Apple buy Clubhouse? Interviews with Will Page, Author of Tarzan Economics and Charles Van Winkle, Senior Software Engineer, Descript. 06.05.2021 1:11:46

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's deep dive into subscription services. SPECIAL GUESTS: - Will Page - Author of Tarzan Economics, Visiting Fellow at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Former Chief Economist at Spotify and PRS for Music . - Charles Van Winkle - Former Senior Computer Scientist II at Adobe Sys...

Like London buses, you wait years for a subscription service to turn up and two come along at the same time. James and Sam analyse Spotify's new subscription service and compare it with Apple's alternative subscription service. 29.04.2021 55:01

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's thought-provoking show about Spotify's new subscription service. NEWS: Spotify has announced their Paid Subscriptions service , which is hosted on Anchor . Spotify’s Paid Subscriptions tool sounds nice when compared with Apple - who can argue with free. But it isn’t quite as straightforward as tha...

Podcasts, Podcasts everywhere but not a mention of RSS anywhere! We discuss Apple's podcast subscriptions, Facebook's podcasting app and Google recommendations 22.04.2021 45:37

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show about Apple subscriptions and Facebook's entry into podcasting with the help of Spotify. NEWS Apple Podcasts is adding paid Podcasts Subscriptions in May. As a podcaster, you can set your own price for your own show. Apple Podcasts will take a 30% commission of the subscription pri...

It's all about the numbers! Google 100m, Amazon 1.5bn, Podcast Index 2.7m plus interviews with Juliana Meyer CEO Supapass and Elsie Escobar Libsyn. 15.04.2021 1:08:00

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join Sam Sethi and Matt Deegan on this week's jam packed & informative show INTERVIEWS: - Elsie Escobar - Libsyn talking about Libsyn 5 beta 1 - Juliana Meyer - Supapass - one website and app for your content, community and paywall. NEWS - Google Podcasts has hit 100m installations on Android. - Amazon Podcasts launched to more than 1.5bn pote...

James and Sam are joined by Alban Brooke from Buzzsprout, and talk stats and sats 08.04.2021 1:03:08

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Full episode notes coming soon, and chapter marks and all of that. Support the show Connect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Organiser of The British Podcast Awards Matt Deegan joins as co-host. Spotify launch 'Sound Up' and buy Locker Room. Voting for the Ambies is now open. You can now download the Podclock. 01.04.2021 41:01

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join Sam Sethi and Matt Deegan on this week's highly informative show NEWS: James Cridland launches his new project the PodClock The British Podcast Awards has closed entries for this year. Organiser Matt Deegan says it was the best ever year, with entries up a third since 2020 . Last week we talked about how podcasting had hit 2 million shows in Appl...

It's now 2 million podcasts, Interviews: Chair - Podcast Academy, CEO - Riverside FM, Head of Digital Audio - iHeart Podcast Network 25.03.2021 51:44

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show INTERVIEWS: Donald Albright , Chair, The Podcast Academy Corey Layton , Head of Digital Audio, Australian Radio Network and iHeart Podcast Network Nadav Keyson , CEO& Co-Founder, Riverside. FM --- NEWS: We just hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcasts , according to Daniel J Lewis&ap...

Is Apple no longer free? Is podcast streaming a myth? PodBean Live or Clubhouse? Why was Message Heard in the NY Times? The NEW Recommendation Tag and Where's James? . 18.03.2021 54:47

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show INTERVIEWS: Jake Warren - Message Heard Benjamin Bellamy - Ad Aures Norma Jean Belenky - PodBean --- NEWS: Next week, Podbean is to run a Finance Podcast Week : a week-long livestream and podcast event focused on finance podcasts (with many podcasters lined-up to speak). A full pass...

To subscribe or not to subscribe that is the question. Interviews with Sean Glynn from Novel, Rob Loewenthal from Whooshkaa, Jess Kupferman from She Podcasts and Agnes Kozera from Podcorn 11.03.2021 1:20:48

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Apologies some of the sound recordings on Sam's interviews were not clear due to a broken mic. Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEWS: Sean Glynn - Novel Rob Loewenthal - Whooshkaa Jess Kupferman - She Podcasts Agnes Kozera - Podcorn --- NEWS: Entercom has acquired Podcorn , valuing the company at $22.5m. Entercom...

The Ambies nominees announced, Will Spotify overtake Apple?, Interview with Kal Amin Sounder, Women's History Month 04.03.2021 37:12

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEW: - Kal Amin - co-founder and CEO of Sounder. FM, a podcast management and monetisation platform, has raised $2.15m in a seed round . They've raised $4m in the past 14 months --- NEWS: The nominees for The Ambies , the awards for excellence in audio, are to be announced today at 12p...

Spotify StreamOn Analysis, Interview with Spotify's Mike Mignano and Podcast Movement the winners and losers. 25.02.2021 47:02

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEW: - Michael Mignano - Co-Founder, Anchor / Head of Podcaster Mission, Spotify - talks about all the new announcements from this weeks StreamOn --- NEWS: Extended Spotify analysis by James and Sam Buzzsprout , Podbean , Spreaker and Captivate were all subject to a denial-of-service attac...

iHeartMedia buy Triton Digital, Songs For Podcasters, Interview with Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout 18.02.2021 49:29

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEWS: - Kirt Debique the CEO & CTO from SyncFloor talks about their Songs For Podcasters music service. - Tom Rossi the co-founder of Buzzsprout talks about their support of Podcast Index and the new 'person' and 'location' tags coming soon. He also talked about Dyna...

Clubhouse, SoundClub or Fireside? Music Fair Usage, New Spotify Play Book and Maps.FM 11.02.2021 54:45

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show Interviews with: Jonas Leijonhufvud , the co-author of a new book " The Spotify Play " out this week, about how CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the race for audio dominance. Wayne Parker the co-founder of MapsFM , about the value and context of combining loca...

Anchor's redesign; podcast consumption in Denmark; Sounds Profitable's clever ad-tech, New People and Location Tags 04.02.2021 40:16

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : Anna Sian - Head of Marketing, Spotify & Anchor FM - talks about their redesign. Bryan Barletta - Sounds Profitable - talks about 'Dynamic Content Insertion' Peter Niegl and Rasmus Kidde - DR’s research department - talk about podcasting in Denmark. Mark asks a qu...

How fast is podcasting growing? Plus: Africa Podfest, Podcast Radio, and news of a new, 24-hour global podcast conference 28.01.2021 43:06

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : Melissa Mbugua from Africa Podfest Gerard Edwards from Podcast Radio Matt Deegan from Podcast Day 24 News: Podcasting is growing fast, according to LiveXLive CEO Robert Ellin. Speaking on Fox Business alongside Adam Carolla , the PodcastOne owner reckons the future for podcasting is i...

Apple's new subscriptions? Spotify's failing strategy? Does Clubhouse need moderating? Interviews with Podpage, MatchCasts, Podchaser and A Million Ads 21.01.2021 1:05:00

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. We talk about Apple's proposed new subscription service and what it means for podcasters? And has Spotify's foray into podcasting failed? Citi Research said "The only thing podcasting seems to have influenced is Spotify’s valuation.” They suggest that clients sell the stock. We&apos...

Clubcasting, TwitterSpaces, Dynamic Content Insertion and Interviews with, Buzzsprout, Adelicious.FM and BBC World Service. 14.01.2021 41:37

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James and Sam talk about the possibility of using Clubhouse to conduct interviews with a live audience and record the room to use later for podcasting. Could " Clubcasting " be the future of podcasting? Sam talks with Wayne Cheong from PodFest Asia in Clubhouse, to workout how to record a room. (pl ease note : recording a room without the partic...

Apple and Spotify privacy issues. Interview with Rob Greenlee about changes at The Podcast Academy. 08.01.2021 46:21

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : News: Previous Episodes: https://podland.news Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Connect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediver...

Podcast Predictions for 2021 with Steve Pratt, Partner at Pacific Content. 27.12.2020 21:09

The pros and cons of closed Spotify v open distributed podcasting. Interview with The Podfather Adam Curry & Dave Jones from podcastindex.org about Podcast 2.0 24.12.2020 40:32

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk on this weeks show about the open independent podcast ecosystem versus the closed ecosystems. Will 2021 be a good year for podcasting or will we see the big players dominate such Amazon, Spotify and Apple by swallowing up all the independent podcast producers? We talk about whether Spotify is good or bad for the industry...

Podcast Misinformation, Podcast Taxonomy, Interview with Kate Bradley Chernis, CEO Lately.AI about atomizing your podcast into hundreds of mini-movie trailers. 18.12.2020 45:59

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the report in the Guardian by the journalist Ariel Bogle. She's also an analyst at the Australian strategic policy Institute and she researches online disinformation. She was questioning whether podcasts are becoming. The new dangerous content space and should be regulated or fined like social networks. James sp...

New podcast:location tag, interview with Sam Liang, CEO of Otter.AI, about live notes. 11.12.2020 40:55

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the new Podcast 2.0 location tag which James has been working on. They also talk about PodLP providing podcast translations and Audible offering $10k for new podcast ideas. Then they are joined by Sam Liang, the CEO of Otter.ai who tells us about how Otter Live Notes & Captions can be used on Zoom calls. He als...

Does Amazon want to buy Wondery? Interview with Mark Asquith, CEO Captivate, about private feeds. 03.12.2020 32:39

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James and Sam talk about if Wondery’s new owner will be Amazon? What's the difference between and Apple and Spotify's podcast lists for 2020. They also talk about Elastic Pod's new searchable transcriptions. Then they are joined by Mark Asquith, CEO of Captivate, who tells us about why they are launching Private Feeds. Buzzsprout Start podc...

The Podnews Weekly Review - the last word in podcast news 28.11.2020 1:13

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Every week, the Podnews Weekly Review is the last word in podcasting news - with a look back at the most important news in podcasting, and interviews with the people that matter. Hear from James Cridland, the Editor of Podnews; Sam Sethi, the CEO of Podfans; and interviews with the people that matter. The Podnews Weekly Review. With Buzzsprout - podcast ho...