From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with Sounds Good from CBC. Will 2025 be videos year? The Podnews Weekly Review this week focuses on predictions from the podcast supporters for 2025. Video is one of the more divisive subjects.
Spotify and YouTube will continue their battle for supremacy with podcasters and consumers being
I think a lot of people are going to try the video thing. People are going to think this doesn't actually work as well as I thought it would and then
We've been promised so much about video from YouTube and Spotify. My guess is maybe July of next year, you're going to hear a
I love video content. I get it and I know it's where the future is, but I don't like the use of word podcast when it's just someone with a microphone in view
This coming year is going to be more about audio
Open web or wild garden. Video or audio. What is a podcast? Great content will always find
You can read and listen to all the predictions in a link you'll find in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. Triton Digital's Sounder has launched a new audio insights overview page, giving a new view for publishers of their content. Fresh from closing Google podcasts earlier this year, Google has broken another thing. This time it's when you ask your Android
phone to play the latest news. Well, that used to be a way to get Podnews to play, but now thanks to Gemini, a bad voice reads out of date news headlines badly. Our podnews reader James Hart has blogged on how to fix that and a Nest speaker continues to work until presumably Google breaks that as well. Mind you, Apple has also broken 'play the news from Podnews'. Our iPhone now tells us that we don't have Apple Podcasts installed, but we do
and our Mac plays something on Apple music that is not me. The Verge has devoted an article to visual trends in podcasting, highlighting wooden slats on walls, multiple long microphone stands and televisions with podcast logos on them. Podcasting in China is the subject of a report from mobile app analysis firm Moonfox. Podcast app Himalaya has 300 million registered
users, it says. It's also got numbers for the other large platforms there, though only 171 branded podcasts appear to exist in the country. A Louis Vuitton show has 44,000 listeners. Sport Social Podcast Network publishes its predictions for 2025. The company's boss, Jim Salveson, predicts that Spotify won't woo video creators. And our favourite prediction from somebody else, "there will be further developments in the podcast
advertising space". You don't say, Sherlock! And in podcast news, the December the 18th edition of BFFs with Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards and Brianna Chickenfry saved a fan's life. According to the always accurate Daily Mail, it was Portnoy's last show. He felt he was getting too old. Do not touch the art. This is for your own safety. The Godfrey Audio Guide posts its two-part finale today. The award-winning audio drama blends horror, sci-fi and art history, both real and imagined,
in the guise of a museum audio tour. It's part of the Fable & Folly Network, created, written and produced by Nicole Knudsen. And, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian writer Anthony Del Col, the audio drama Don't Listen To This is new today in the BBC's Limelight series. The five-episode series is set in the world of esports and the death of a top esports athlete and his former team psychologist's
journey to uncover the truth behind it. This podcast is sponsored by CBC and from the staff at CBC Podcasts, Sounds Good is our bi-weekly newsletter that offers the latest in news events and industry buzz from podcast creators and producers. There's a link to subscribe in our show notes and that's the latest from our newsletter. To read all the stories and subscribe, we're at podnews.net.