Special Guests: Mitch Downey - Podverse Mike Mignano - Angel Investor and ex-Spotify Show Notes: Michael Mignano , has written a piece about what he calls The Standards Innovation Paradox. In response, James Cridland wrote a long article that basically points out that Apple took the RSS standard and enhanced it. The thing that Mike Mignano says is impossible. Adam Curry said: Spotify is the shitcoin of podcasting . Spotify is expanding the ability to post video podcasts for creators in six new c...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Special Guests Harry Duran - Full Cast Oscar Merry - Fountain App Show Notes Podverse adds support for LIT and Video Support . Podcast Host Ranking from John Spurlock Fountain rewards users for listening to podcasts Blubrry has launched 'podcast media kits’ that update daily Libsyn Studio Anchor podcast fraud . Here’s a link with details on how to report them Alby, a browser extension for cryptocurrency, has added its own podcaster wallet . The service allows you to earn from your listeners...
Jul 08, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Special Guests Tom Webster - Sounds Profitable Zachariah Moreno & Rock Felder - Squadcast Sophie Hind & Jim Salveson - VoiceWorks Show Notes Sounds Profitable released The Creators , a study of the people who create podcasts. Tom Webster revealed that US podcast creators are more diverse than the US population, but are significantly younger and more male. Most own both Android and iOS devices, though more than four in ten podcast creators have been listening to podcasts for under a year....
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Special Guests Carlos Diaz - Uncut.fm is a new podcast platform that lets you "mint, share and sell your content as NFTs". Jake Warren - UK podcast production company Message Heard has signed with CAA Show Notes Breaking: Acast+ has announced an integration with Facebook. It allows Acast+ subscribers to offer members-only Facebook groups, as a launch partner of new Facebook functionality . Fountain is now rewarding people for listening to shows with Bitcoin , which they can then share ...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Special Guest Ken Miller - CTO Fathom New podcast app Fathom, designed for better podcast discovery, has been launched on iOS and in-browser. It promises you can “ask any question and hear answers from your favourite podcasters and their guests.” https://fathom.fm/podcast/podland-news Show Notes Breaking: Apple Podcasts has published details of how search in its app works. The post includes clarification that ratings and reviews aren’t factored into search results; and that the search function s...
Jun 16, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Special Guest Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout. Buzzsprout the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads , letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue). We’re using them - automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads. Show Notes & Links Spotify had an Investor Day last Wednesday . “Spotify share price slid 55% this year. Daniel Ek said Spotify would grow beyond music, increasing creator tools and moving ...
Jun 10, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,210 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Dave Jones - Pod Sage from Podcast Index talks about ... Value 4 Value Lightning Network WebLN Alby Hive's Podping Podcast Index new tags <podcast:liveItem> and <podcast:block> Show Notes & Links One of podcasting’s largest hosting...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Show notes are coming soon for this episode. Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: [email protected] Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected] Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net...
May 26, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,282 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Ashley Carman - Bloomberg Show Notes & Links James Cridland Radio Days Europe - Roundup Selling paid subscriptions through Apple Podcasts? Until now, you’ve had to upload that audio separately to Apple; but Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery was ann...
May 21, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,437 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Tom Webster - Sounds Profitable Show Notes & Links Tom Webster has announced he is to join Sounds Profitable as Partner . Writing in Sounds Profitable, he outlines the future for Sounds Profitable - to share content, research, run events and adviso...
May 12, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,549 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout NEW: Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser: and, using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Steve Jones - Content Director at Crowd Network Show Notes & Links: Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and will close the service starting Jun 3 . The company will stop creators adding podcasts to the service this week. They don’t plan to c...
May 05, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,448 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Guests Tom Billington - Content Director for The Podcast Show Neil Mody - CEO & Co-Founder Headliner Show Notes & Links: Spotify’s Anchor has rolled out proprietary video podcasts to all Anchor users in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK . Paid subscriptions will be available for these shows, too; additionally, Anchor has integrated with Riverside . Remote recording tool Riverside has just rais...
Apr 28, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,684 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Notes & Links: 1. Spotify Selling Vapourware Again!? In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the communities they build and the experiences they create”, as part of the launch of Spotify Greenroom . However, the fund never launched; and yesterday, Spotify emailed applicants, admitting that the program had been cancelled . 2. Gaming the ...
Apr 21, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,686 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special Guest Lauren Passell - CEO TinkMedia talks about why she has launched a podcast swap database for podcasters interested in setting up a promo swap for their podcast. Notes & Links: An Anchor podcast called Soldier of Misfortune has been accused of being a shameless rip-off by Brendan I Koerner, a journalist for The Atlantic . He accuses the podcaster, Jesse Rapaport , of knowingly stealing his work. Spotif...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,847 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special Guest Harry Duran talks about how he found a sponsor for his new podcast, raising $9k before launching SubStack Substack is moving into podcasting - “but better” . The platform also lets you podcast for free YouTube YouTube is the third most popular podcast platform in America Should your podcast be on YouTube? Rephonic crunch the data: revealing that for English-language shows, it could well be worthwhile. Th...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 69
SPECIAL GUEST: Chris Messina NEWS: YouTube: Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts. Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk, at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week YouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube.com/podcasts (a URL that doesn’t work, yet) Spotify: Spotify is working on a brand new podcast interface. Spotted by Chris Messina , who posted ...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Special Guest Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout News: Kai Chuk from YouTube presented but said nothing about their future plans Matt Deegan writes more about podcasters using video in his newsletter By the end of the year, it’s going to be essential that podcasters are creating proper video versions of their shows. - Matt Deegan It’s also why nearly 20% of podcast listeners regard YouTube as their main podcast app . - Tom Webster Tom Webster from Edison Research, warns podcasters to...
Mar 26, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 67
MONTY PYTHON: Spam Sketch SPECIAL GUEST: Marty Michael - CEO & Co-Founder Gumball Gumball has raised $10 million to expand its podcasting host-read advertising platform . The company was built by the team behind the Headgum Podcast Network. NEWS: Podcast host Acast is still spamming podcasters, even co-founders of rival podcast networks , or hosts of shows that ended three years ago . Libsyn's Rob Walch correctly notes "Friends don't send emails starting 'hello friend&apo...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 66
GUESTS: James O. Boggs Andy Bowers NEWS: Spooler's "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system launched last week . According to an analysis by John Spurlock , on its first day, Spooler helped The Refresh from Insider to produce five editions of their podcast. A new podcast platform, Spooler, has launched . It's founded by a who's who of podcasting, including CEO James O. Boggs, formerly Head of Podcasts at Apple; CCO Andy Bowers, co-founder of Slate Audio and Megaphone...
Mar 10, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Special Guest: Laura Ivey - Director of Research at Edison Research News: Will we see a podcast player in Twitter? Alessandro Paluzzi has spotted a podcasts option in the latest Twitter code, and Jane Manchun Wong has also unearthed a Podcasts tab . Nathan Gathright has brainstormed some ideas about what he hopes Twitter is up to - let’s hope it’s not just reruns of Twitter Spaces. A new podcast platform, Spooler, has launched . It’s founded by a who’s who of podcasting, including CEO James O. B...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 64
GUEST: John Spurlock talking about implementing ActivityPub/Co-Comments LINKS: https://podcastsocial.org https://minipub.dev/ NEWS: Anyone can claim to be a creator of any podcast within the GoodPods app, without any proof or validation, we’ve discovered. Acast has been been “spamming podcasters”, says competitor Buzzsprout , which has published an unsolicited email from Acast sent to many of Buzzsprout’s customers; we’re aware they’ve also been sent to Anchor users too. “Email marketing is one ...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 63
SPECIAL GUEST: Mike Carr . - Crowd Network NEWS: Spotify has acquired Podsights and Chartable Spotify has published an interview with Sean Creeley from Podsights Apple has just published a guide to getting promotion for your podcast from Apple Podcasts Breakit, a Swedish news website, has published an article ( translated ) that alleges downloads are being bought on Spotify iHeartRadio in the US has signed with Sounder to offer advertisers brand safety tools. The company is a seed investor in So...
Feb 18, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 62
GUESTS: Gigi - Closing the Loop - The Future of Value Oscar Merry - Fountain Podcaster Wallet Evo Terra - Hall of Fame Induction Stewart Townsend - Podcast Hawk NEWS: Lightning Network is now available on Cash App . It's the fastest, free way to pay anyone in bitcoin. The Lightning Network is a new way to send BTC/SAT that's faster and free!!! Some legend gave 100 million sats (1 bitcoin) to Cinemuck, the people behind the movie "Human B" - Gigi #Value4Value Podcast app Fount...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 61
GUESTS: Mark Asquith co-founder and MD of Captivate.FM talks about their acquisition by Global and what's next for Captivate and how the line between radio and podcasting has blurred? Craig Hewitt founder and CEO of Castos talks about the latest version of their platform and their upcoming support for Value4Value and why advertising is not the future for podcast monetisation. NEWS: Google is randomly switching podcasts in its app to point to pirated copies with ads . Jason Calcanis noticed ...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 60
GUESTS: SCOTT WAXMAN // HALA TAHA NEWS: Spotify takes Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s podcast ‘into its own hands’ after the couple produced NO content for a YEAR. Spotify picks Joe Rogan over Neil Young Stephen Fry has launched a new podcast exploring the brain . The podcast is exclusively on Audible. Amazon Buys Exclusive Rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ Podcast. Amazon Music and Wondery will offer new episodes of the podcasts for a week before they are available on other services. Libsyn has p...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 59
GUESTS: Brad Mielke - Host/Managing Editor, "Start Here" Podcast at ABC News Effy Kang - Head of Capital Markets at Lizhi - the first podcast app that Apple promoted in the Chinese app store NEWS: Apple Podcasts has launched “Listen With” , a podcast playlist service to help listeners discover new shows. The first podcast guide is Jay Shetty. Creators can request to be included using this form . The flagship podcast from ABC News, Start Here , marks 1,000 episodes today. Since its laun...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 58
NEWS: Spotify has launched clickable call-to-action cards , - described as ad banners for podcasts. Currently limited to Spotify Originals and Exclusives, US only. Spotify’s new CTA cards aren’t new and aren’t open. The new JSON-based chapter specification from Podcast Index also allows graphical banners and clickthroughs which can be timed with audio. Spotify has added star ratings to its app for podcasts . Could you please rate us? Spotify added 1.2m new podcasts to Spotify’s catalogue in 2021...
Jan 13, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 57
James Cridland talks with Jonas Woost Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content about his podcast predictions for 2022. They talk about ... Who is Pacific Content? Is Podcasting still open in 2022? Paid Subscriptions? Legacy media buys into podcasting What does that mean for indies? The rise of fiction podcasting Are celebrity podcasts dead? It’s been another remarkable year for many in podcasting with some tremendous growth in our industry. As 2021 nears its end, it’s time to ask, ‘What’s Next?’ ...
Jan 04, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 56
GUEST: Larry Rosin, the co-founder and President of Edison Research Spotify buys Whooshkaa ! Congratulations Rob Loewenthal. A great guy and a great team. SiriusXM is being sued for failing to provide podcast transcripts for deaf users by the National Association for the Deaf and the Disability Rights Advocates. As we researched in June 2020, transcripts can offer significant SEO benefits . The podcast:transcript tag is an open standard, supported by a number of podcasts and offers both static t...
Dec 16, 2021•2 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 55
HOSTS: Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Jeff Price CEO - Word Collections Spotify has pulled a number of comedy albums from its service, after claims they weren’t licensed correctly . Jeff Price has announced a $3.5m investment round for his Word Collections company, which “focuses on getting comedians and other spoken-word performers paid for the use of their works for the first time”. NEWS: The Infinite Dial 2021 for the UK was released last week. The headline was 41% of the UK po...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 54
