From Sydney Airport, the latest from podnews.net with CoHost's Advanced Audience Demographics. Just days after Spotify's video announcement YouTube has announced that it's to run an online Q&A session on December the 12th. Kai Chuck global head of podcasting and Steve McClendon podcast product lead will be "spilling the tea" on platform updates and answering your burning questions. The session's free: they'll be joined by Stephanie Chan, a strategic
partner manager for YouTube podcasts. Ashley Carman got an interview with Gustav Söderström at Spotify's Now Playing event last week. In her newsletter she managed to prize a little more information from him about how the revenue for videos will work, though much is still under wraps and she notes the tension from some publishers with the announcement. In Russia, Apple podcast has removed a number of Russian language shows including a BBC podcast and shows
from the insider and echoes of Moscow. It's also removed some apps including the US's Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Podnews is unavailable in Russia otherwise we would ask whether people there can get the shows putting the RSS feed directly into Apple podcasts - would be curious to know. iHeart's Inside Radio reports that iHeart's Triton Digital is to launch its Demos Plus product in the Netherlands. It's the first time the product has
launched in the EU which has significantly enhanced privacy laws. Audioboom released a trading update suggesting that the company should make an EBITDA profit of 2.8 million rather than the 2.5 million they were previously forecasting. Kast Media's bankruptcy continues to roll on if you're curious what contracts in the podcast industry often look like. Recent court filings have included Jim Cornette's podcaster contract and X1T's affiliate contract, a
company that bought cast a set of smaller shows. Wanted something more tangible than our screenshot of an email on Friday that Samsung Podcasts is closing down on December the 1st? Well it's all we had at the time, but there's now a link at the top of a Samsung page we link to from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net - and Sounds Profitable are hosting a webinar this
Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, called Videos Rise in Podcasting. It's a Monday so time for some tech stuff and Cleanfeed has made a number of improvements to the core audio quality of its remote audio tool. We use this tool every week in the Podnews Weekly Review, and advantages for podcasting over tools like Riverside and Squadcast are significantly lower latency and what you hear is what you record, rather than hoping that a local audio recording will
be okay. Cleanfeed are a long-term supporter of pod news but, you know, we'd recommend them anyway to be honest. Transistor has added a lookup feature for podcast guests that grabs details from BlueSky, Mastodon, GitHub and X. It puts the detail on podcast RSS feeds; and Alby appears to be shutting down its remaining lightning wallets, pushing people towards Alby Hub. Meanwhile, Proton's Proton wallet is now rolling out to existing customers but that
doesn't yet support lightning. In people news, Greg Wasserman is no longer head of relationships at Cast Magic - he was employee number four at the company and led partnerships, sales, training, community building and advocacy. A podcast coach and consultant and extremely active on LinkedIn he's looking for a fabulous next role. And in podcast news "Today in History with the Retrospectors" will release their 1,000th episode today. It produces 10 minute daily episodes
bringing you curious moments from this day in history. The founder of Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, is to leave the BFFs podcast. He says he's uninterested in the topics and becoming too old and there's been some other drama that we assume some people care about but you can read about it if you click the link. The Podnews Weekly Review has reached episode 100 at the end of last week. Matt Campion from Spirit Studios joins us to talk about the company's IP 360 strategy
while I talk about Spotify's push to video with Sam Sethi. Tenderfoot TV and Audacy today release an investigative series which revisits a 1995 murder after uncovering a box of forgotten VHS tapes and police reports it's called the Lords of Death. And Smartless presents Clueless it's an
all-new bite-sized brain teaser podcast. Emmy-winning writer Elliot Kalin guides listeners through different puzzles brain teasers and conundrums to see if they're faster than this season's permanent contestant Smartless co-host Shaun Hayes. And this podcast is sponsored by CoHost. Get in-depth insights into who your podcast audience is including income, family members, social media habits, age and more with co-hosts advanced audience
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