Questions for YouTube. From Ottawa, the latest from podnews.net with Soundstack, offering hosting companies more value for your podcasters. "RSS is very important and I think it's a tool that simplifies delivery of content to the platform."
Last week we spoke with Spotify's Maya Prokhovnik. This week it's the turn of YouTube's Sandy Wilhelm to answer questions like "What is a podcast?", "Do I have to do video now?" and "How important is RSS to YouTube?" You can read the full answers in our link in our show notes in our newsletter at podnews.net or listen to the Podnews Weekly Review this week. Podcast Addict was removed from Google Play again, this time for apparently violating the
violent extremism policy. It seems to have been restored, though the app's AdMob account is yet to be reactivated. The app is one of the most popular for Android and has a history of being blocked and restored from Google's App Store. Earlier this year it was blocked for having an alarm clock. There are some good opportunities for marketing in family and kids' podcasts, according to new data from Realm and Story Pirates released yesterday. 82% of kids listen with their
parents, says the data. The 50th annual Gracie Awards are open for entry. For half a century, the Gracies have celebrated the exceptional contributions of women in media, honouring outstanding content created by, for and about women across television, radio, streaming and digital platforms. Magellan AI can now give reporting based on zip code or DMA, making it easier to optimise campaigns based on where they perform best. WonderCraft has added a director
mode, allowing you to get more control over the service's AI voices. And after a list of AI generated podcasts using Notebook LM was published by Listen Notes, John Spurlock has analysed the podcast hosts being used to publish them. You'll never guess who's number one. This is a lie,
of course, because you'll probably guess. And in podcast news, it's National Coming Out Day today in the US and Seasons of Stuck recently did an episode with Ash Beckham, author, inclusion activist and speaker behind the viral TEDx talk Coming Out of Your Closet, which expands the definition of coming out of the closet to something we can all relate to.
Absolute Radio cancelled Frank Skinner's radio show, but the Frank Skinner podcast is now returning as a twice-weekly podcast with the same team, Frank, Emily and Pierre, and in the same podcast feed as the old Absolute show. The first show is today. The Heartless Poet launched yesterday, a brand new podcast that delves into the untold stories behind some of the most emotionally, creatively and technically challenging songs ever written. It's hosted by
Kieran Banerjee. And Fortress Europe is new. It's an in-depth documentary series on what it says is the European Union's increasingly hostile policies towards migrants. You'll find more details of that and more podcasts in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. And this podcast is sponsored by Soundstack. If you're a podcast hosting platform and you want to offer your podcasters more value, adding monetization, delivery and more from Soundstack is super simple.
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