Podnews Weekly Review

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests Ami Thakkar   - The Podcast Academy, Board Member Staffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-Founder News:  YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now .  Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report . Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now a...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests:  Steven Bell Elisa Shearer News: Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet shows Starting on June 1, Chartable will no longer provide confirmed plays and episode consumption data from Apple Podcasts Spotify has also announced it’s closing Heardle Spotify has struck a deal with Jellysmack , the creator company that work...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids Listen News:  Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week.  You can sign up for free here Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools . Building on its acquisition of Whooshkaa in D...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests:  Lizzy Pollott   -  SVP Marketing, Communications & Brand Nina Robinson - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions  News: Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast . Shows were previously with Spotify. Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month!   Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episo...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests: Justin Jackson and Charles Wilchin. A new grassroots industry coalition, the Podcast Standards Project , has been launched to advocate for open podcasting. The group includes podcast hosting companies like RSS.com, Buzzsprout, Red Circle, Captivate and Acast; and podcast players like Pocket Casts and Podverse.  Remote recording tool Riversi...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global) News:  YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!” YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metrics Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy , a six month incubator pilot for nineteen shows...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James is joined this week by Courtney Kocak, while Sam Sethi goes skiing. Links for this week's show at https://podnews.net/archive  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

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest:  Jordan Blair  - Buzzcast Co-Host and Producer Show Notes:  Anchor is now called Spotify for Podcasters . The new podcast hosting service includes automated ads (US-only, invite-only), and podcast subscriptions (in 34 markets).  Spotify will allows any podcaster to use Q&A and polls - wherever they’re hosted. Spotify also announced an ex...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest: Steve Pratt - Founder / Attention Strategist at The Creativity Business The News:  ( All links are from Podnews.net ) YouTube Music adds podcasts and will support RSS uploads. See our full report.   YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan , has written a blog post on the company's 2023 priorities . There's a paragraph about podcasting,...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests:  Nayeema Raza - talks about ON with Kara Swisher/Vox Media  - Podcast Extra Mitch Downey - NEW Podverse v4.12.1 with LIT, Video and Value4Value streaming SATs.   Jake Chudnow - Podimo enters the UK podcast market with more than twenty new shows .  Show Notes:  Apple finally removed the AppleCoreMedia user agent from Apple Podcasts. ( Jonas...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests   Chris Mottes - CEO at Hindenburg Systems Hindenburg announced this week Hindenburg PRO v2 , a new version of the editor with new features including transcription. Podnews has an exclusive review of the new version . Here are the Hindenburg team demonstrating the new Hindenburg PRO v2 . Dovydas Joksas - CEO RSS Blue   RSS Blue now support k...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests:  Tom Rossi Sean Glynn Jordan Harbinger  Show Notes Google tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are being replaced with a new feature.  Over a thousand Buzzsprout podcasts are using the subscriptions feature, according to Buzzcast . It was announced in lat...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Guests:  Leo Laporte - Twit. TV Todd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value" , a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger Podcasts Spotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off . Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff is to leave the company; "Alex [ Norström ] will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward&quo...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guest Interviews: Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about " A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time " Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting . Top News Stories Exclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search.  Now,...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Show notes come soon! Spotify chapters workaround... (0:00) Fri 13 Jan (0:53) Apple launches Delegated Delivery (4:54) Amazon almost do a deal but don't (7:31) A new Audible podcast (9:57) Google Podcasts Creator Program goes (16:05) Spotify loses shows (23:33) People news (25:43) The Tech Stuff (41:05) Awards and events (43:02) Boostagram Corner (47:...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail This week James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about:  PRX adds V4V using Web Monetisation Spotify says its road to profitability is video Spotify adds Chapters, Transcripts and Polls - all proprietary OP3 starts testing a new stats page  Chapters (hello, Spotify!) (00:00:00) Podnews Weekly Review (00:10:30) Laura Mayer sells an RSS feed (00:12:38) Podcast On...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail This Week's Special Guests talk about their podcasting highlights for 2022 and their predictions for 2023. Mark Asquith - Captivate/Global - 2022: News Agents Hits 10m downloads - 2023: Higher Rate CPM’s Benjamin Bellamy- Adures/Castopod - 2022: Federated Social Networks - 2023: AI for podcasting (Stability. AI) Interview : Ad Aures support for OP3 an...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Show Notes & Links Buzzsprout has posted its network statistics for November  Spotify’s Anchor continues to lose market share: it was down to 21.6% of all new podcast episodes in November SXM Media is, once more, #1 for podcasts according to Edison Pocket Casts has raised its annual subscription price RadioPublic Pro is to discontinue Podnews have upda...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests: Dan Misener - co-founder Bumper Dan Misener has looked at the new topics that Apple Podcasts is automatically allocating to shows (see our coverage on Nov 15 , including our topics viewer ). He's produced a number of network maps, designed to show links between different shows; and produced episode topic maps for every category in Appl...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail News & Links Audiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. They'd launched in the US in September Spotify Updates Notifications Spotify’s Anchor has added “audio enhancement” to its app Spotify has signed another exclusive: Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain Spotify announced the expansion of NextGen Dan M...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Special Guests:  Chris Messina - co-author of ActivityStrea.ms - Full interview in NEW podcast Podnews Extra .  The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ ActivityStreams ] format used by Mastodon and Castopod. It provides a client-to-server API for creating, updating and deleting content and a federated server-...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Welcome to EP 1 of Podnews Weekly with James Cridland and Sam Sethi. Podnews supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Sponsored By:   Buzzsprout - brilliant video from Alban Brooke . I want this guy to do a video on Value4Value! - said Adam Curry   Special Guest:  Nic Ivanov - C...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guests: Adam Curry (Podfather) & Dave Jones (Podsage) talk about:  How the podcast namespace started? Why it will never be called Podcast 3.0? Why Value4Value has already jumped the ‘Chasm of Adoption’? What new tags a...

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guests: Dylan Pugh - The Sports Podcast Awards 2023 are now open for entry . There are 23 categories and close in mid-November. Show Notes & Links Spotify has reported its Q3/22 earnings . It has 456m monthly active us...