From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with Uncover from CBC. Chartable is switched off today. Now among the many things the company offered was analytics, which it achieved with a prefix looking a bit like chtbl.com or chrt.fm in your RSS feeds enclosure section, which counted your total downloads. Now you've got to remove that Chartable prefix today, otherwise your podcast may not play at all in the future. Smart links and smart feeds will no longer work.
As of Saturday evening, the Chartable prefix was still in 21,500 shows, not including those in Megaphone. We know many have since been removed automatically by podcast companies, but if you're unsure, contact your host's support team and ask. Users of Spotify's Megaphone, though, need to do nothing. Just make sure that the Megaphone integration in Chartable is set up in order to access the Chartable platform starting tomorrow, we link to more information on that.
And don't panic, prefixes won't stop working immediately, we understand, but they will stop working at some point in the future, so it's important to remove them today. The closure of Chartable will have a big impact on download numbers. Changing an audio URL in your RSS feed, as you'll do when removing Chartable prefixes, causes every Spotify listeners app to automatically redownload every episode that may recently have been played, or that's been downloaded for future playback.
Spotify is built to immediately replace audio if it changes, even in a listener's cache, since record companies require that functionality for legal reasons, so if you see bazillions of downloads for some reason today, that will be why. Ausha has launched Ausha Charts, a chart tracking service that also covers subcategories in all countries for Apple and Spotify. The tool is currently a chart and category browser and doesn't let you search your show.
Podfollow has launched Podfollow Charts, a chart tracking service. Their service is free and allows podcasters to search for their show to see its Apple and Spotify chart positions and of their competitors. It launches with five English-speaking countries. In other news, Apple Podcasts has unveiled new features in iOS 18.2, which is out today. The app now gives categories within your library, as well as more personalized recommendations.
The company says that podcast creators should make sure their primary category is accurate to ensure their show is correctly surfaced across show and category recommendations. Libsyn and Sounds Profitable unveiled the 2024 True Crime Podcast Listener Landscape Report. True crime is number one with women in the U.S. with 37% of female podcast consumers listening in the past month, the data says.
Daily Wire has just received IAB version 2.2 certification for download and listener, which is a bit weird 'cause they're currently hosted with Simplecast, which is only at version 2.1. Video creators can now launch promotional campaigns on Spotify for video content using Spotify's self-serve advertising platform Spotify Ads Manager. Spotify has upgraded its podcast streams objective tool to cover video, it's lost the podcast name as a result.
Podcasters using it have seen increases in listeners of 13%, the company says. Audioboom issued a trading update. It now expects an increased adjusted EBITDA profit of at least $3.1 million. Of not, it also says that the iOS 17 update last year from Apple cost the company $15 million.
The sixth annual podcast editing industry survey will be revealed in a live stream today at 3 p.m. in Eastern time, Mark Deal and Steve Stewart who run the Podcast Editor Academy will share what podcast editors charge for editing audio, what editing software is used the most and what impacts their effective rate. PodTube is an interesting new service that lets you subscribe to your favorite YouTube channel in a podcast app.
We wish them good luck with their presumed forthcoming legal battle. And the podcast middle class will continue to shrink suggests Alex Sujong Laughlin slightly depressingly in Neiman Lab. The Rogans and Coopers of the world will float in their opulent pools, she says, while the rest of us fight for greedy sips of what's left. We bet she's fun at parties. In people news, Martijn Gerrits has been hired as sales director for Acast in the Netherlands.
Gerrits is Acast's first hire in the region. He joins from Spotify, Azerion, Media House in the Netherlands and Dentsu. And AMA has a new CEO, Paul Kelly. He was AMA's CRO and joined in 2021. He succeeds Steve Dunlop who founded the company nine years ago. After thoughtful consideration, Steve has decided to step down as CEO, said the chairman Kip Meek. Dunlop describes the nine years as being a blast on his own LinkedIn, though isn't quoted in the release.
And in podcast news, goal hangers, the rest is history. He gets a profile in the Wall Street Journal. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are described as irreverent historians. The show is in the top 10 charts in many countries. Persefonica's Miss Me is to have a live show in March. It's the first for the Sheffield based podcast producer. The show is hosted by Lily Allen and Makita Oliver and is made for the BBC.
Sherlock Holmes' Short Stories launches today from Noiser to Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Holmes mysteries, read in their original masterful form by Hugh Bonneville, who you might know from Downton Abbey and W1A. Expect iconic stories like The Adventures of the Speckled Band, The Red Headed League and The Man with the Twisted Lip.
And new from Wondery today to open RSS is Hollywood and Crime, looking at the greed, lies and betrayals that led to the murder of variety show producer Roy Radin. The show has been available in Wondery Plus for the last month, but it gets its debut on other podcast apps today. And this bumper edition of the podcast is sponsored by CBC.
From CBC Uncover brings listeners explosive high-calibre investigations and true crime series and CBC is currently accepting pitches from independents and publishers to be part of this successful podcast. You'll find a link on how to do that in the show notes. And that's the latest from our newsletter to read all the stories and subscribe. We're at podnews.net and I'm off for a lie down.