Special Guests Chris Mottes - CEO at Hindenburg Systems Hindenburg announced this week Hindenburg PRO v2 , a new version of the editor with new features including transcription. Podnews has an exclusive review of the new version . Here are the Hindenburg team demonstrating the new Hindenburg PRO v2 . Dovydas Joksas - CEO RSS Blue RSS Blue now support keysend protocol and .well-known lookup scheme which means you will be able to fetch wallet details from any provider that supports it. Show Notes ...
Feb 17, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Special Guests: Tom Rossi Sean Glynn Jordan Harbinger Show Notes Google tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are being replaced with a new feature. Over a thousand Buzzsprout podcasts are using the subscriptions feature, according to Buzzcast . It was announced in late January. UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round . The investment will be used to accelerate growth with...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Guests: Leo Laporte - Twit.TV Todd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value" , a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to natively support value4value. Brett Spencer & Sandy Warr - City, University of London has announced the UK’s first dedicated MA in Podcastin...
Feb 03, 2023•2 hr 51 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Special Guest: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger Podcasts Spotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off . Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff is to leave the company; "Alex [ Norström ] will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward". The number of new podcasts has dramatically dropped by 80% in two years, according to data reported this week. Except… as we explore today...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Special Guest Interviews: Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about " A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time " Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting . Top News Stories Exclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search. Now, a Google search for a podcast no longer shows any play buttons linking to the service or any links to Google Podcasts. Open podcast analytics ...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Show notes come soon! Spotify chapters workaround... (0:00) Fri 13 Jan (0:53) Apple launches Delegated Delivery (4:54) Amazon almost do a deal but don't (7:31) A new Audible podcast (9:57) Google Podcasts Creator Program goes (16:05) Spotify loses shows (23:33) People news (25:43) The Tech Stuff (41:05) Awards and events (43:02) Boostagram Corner (47:59) Sam reveals his funding (50:09) James's old blog posts Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: weekly...
Jan 13, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about: PRX adds V4V using Web Monetisation Spotify says its road to profitability is video Spotify adds Chapters, Transcripts and Polls - all proprietary OP3 starts testing a new stats page Chapters (hello, Spotify!) (00:00:00) Podnews Weekly Review (00:10:30) Laura Mayer sells an RSS feed (00:12:38) Podcast One to spin off (00:14:32) Is the podcast industry in market correction? (00:18:27) Spotify adds new things (00:21:25) And Spotify adds better cha...
Jan 06, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This Week's Special Guests talk about their podcasting highlights for 2022 and their predictions for 2023. Mark Asquith - Captivate/Global - 2022: News Agents Hits 10m downloads - 2023: Higher Rate CPM’s Benjamin Bellamy- Adures/Castopod - 2022: Federated Social Networks - 2023: AI for podcasting (Stability.AI) Interview : Ad Aures support for OP3 and Castopod updates on ActivityPub plus Cross-Comments. Alban Brooke - Buzzsprout - 2022: Funny Buzzsprout Video - 2023: Podcasters Go Independe...
Dec 16, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Show Notes & Links Buzzsprout has posted its network statistics for November Spotify’s Anchor continues to lose market share: it was down to 21.6% of all new podcast episodes in November SXM Media is, once more, #1 for podcasts according to Edison Pocket Casts has raised its annual subscription price RadioPublic Pro is to discontinue Podnews have updated their list of podcast hosting companies Spotify has launched 2022 Podcaster Wrapped Podping.cloud 2.0 is live Dave Winer published an updat...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Special Guests: Dan Misener - co-founder Bumper Dan Misener has looked at the new topics that Apple Podcasts is automatically allocating to shows (see our coverage on Nov 15 , including our topics viewer ). He's produced a number of network maps, designed to show links between different shows; and produced episode topic maps for every category in Apple Podcasts . Trevor Bell - Podcast Producer at The Iron Fist Velvet Glove Podcast Trevor argues that Value4Value is good for podcasting but re...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 4
News & Links Audiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. They'd launched in the US in September Spotify Updates Notifications Spotify’s Anchor has added “audio enhancement” to its app Spotify has signed another exclusive: Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain Spotify announced the expansion of NextGen Dan Misener at Bumper has looked at the new topics that Apple Podcasts and he’s produced a number of network maps, designed to show links between d...
Nov 25, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Special Guests: Chris Messina - co-author of ActivityStrea.ms - Full interview in NEW podcast Podnews Extra . The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ ActivityStreams ] format used by Mastodon and Castopod. It provides a client-to-server API for creating, updating and deleting content and a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content. It is also used for cross-commenting in the Podcasting namespace. Jay LeBoeuf - Descript...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to EP 1 of Podnews Weekly with James Cridland and Sam Sethi. Podnews supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Sponsored By: Buzzsprout - brilliant video from Alban Brooke . I want this guy to do a video on Value4Value! - said Adam Curry Special Guest: Nic Ivanov - CEO Vizzy.fm Vizzy, a web-based podcast enrichment platform, is looking for early adopters to use its tool . Images, chapters and links can be added...
Nov 11, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guests: Adam Curry (Podfather) & Dave Jones (Podsage) talk about: How the podcast namespace started? Why it will never be called Podcast 3.0? Why Value4Value has already jumped the ‘Chasm of Adoption’? What new tags are Adam/Dave most excited about in Phase 6 of the namespace? Show Notes & Links: Goodbye to Evo Terra's Podcast Pontifications and hel...
Nov 04, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guests: Dylan Pugh - The Sports Podcast Awards 2023 are now open for entry . There are 23 categories and close in mid-November. Show Notes & Links Spotify has reported its Q3/22 earnings . It has 456m monthly active users (up 20% y-on-y). Ad revenue, led by podcasting, is up 19% y-on-y and 7% q-on-q, at €385m (12.8% of the company’s total revenue). The compa...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guests: Neal Vigelio - Podknows Benjamin Bellamy - Ad Aures Yassine Doghri - Ad Aures Show Notes & Links After 3+ years, it's OFFICIAL … SquadCast.FM has been awarded a US patent for our Recording Engine with Progressive Uploads Social media app TikTok is preparing to launch a podcast app. TikTok’s parent company also owns Resso , a music streaming serv...
Oct 20, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guests: Todd Cochrane Alban Brooke Show Notes & Links: Spotify is cancelling eleven of its original shows . Those cancelled represent less than 2% of Spotify’s more than 500 original podcasts; but it’s likely to result in “less than 5% of Spotify’s staff on original podcasts” being laid off. The Gimlet Union and Parcast Union have tweeted a statement about t...
Oct 14, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 97
We support both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps Special Guest Skye Pillsbury - The Squeeze The Squeeze Newsletter Article What Does "Big Money Podcasting" Look Like? Show Notes + Links: Joe Rogan is no longer #1 in Podnews’s Ranker Anchor continues to lose market share Five editorial people from Spotify’s podcast team were laid off this month , reports Ashley Carman Cadence13 may be up for sale The RSS feed to Ka...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 96
SPECIAL GUESTS: Morten Strunge - Podimo John Spurlock - OP3.dev SHOW NOTES & LINKS: Podcast companies are buying short podcast plays within mobile game apps , causing official downloads of shows no one may be playing longer than twenty seconds according to Bloomberg 's Ashley Carman. Time has also published the story outside a paywall . Players get game tokens if they listen to a podcast for just twenty seconds. (Carman posts a graphic ). But, because more than 60 seconds of audio are d...
Sep 30, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Sponsors: Buzzsprout Ads can now Monetize Your Back Catalog, by finding insertion points in your entire back catalogue automatically. SquadCast invites you to join their new Slack channel, DM @SquadCastFM if you want to join. Notes & Links: Spotify has launched audiobooks (in the US only). Audiobooks are an extra cost and you’ll be taken to a website to purchase them. Spotify has signed a deal with Wattpad to bring Indonesian and Filipino webnovel authors to podcasting. Spotify’s video podca...
Sep 23, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Special Guests: Dino Sofos - Founder and CEO, Persephonica Eric Nuzum - Co-founder, Magnificent Noise Mike Kadin - Founder and CEO at RedCircle 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...
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Guest Interviews: Eric Nuzum - Magnificent Noise Alex Newall - Rusty Quill Ltd Show Notes: 1. Spotify Spotify is the top podcast network in the US based on reach , according to new data from Edison Research. Spotify now has separate home feeds for Music and Podcasts & Shows! Audiobooks are coming to Spotify “reasonably soon” , according to CFO Paul Vogel. 2. Alby Alby has launched an analytics website for Value 4 Value , the podcast funding method from the Podcast Index. The website, called ...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Guest Interviews Ian Forrester - BBC R&D - Adaptive Podcasting Rene Aaron - Alby - New Dashboard Show Notes The BBC Global News Podcast 's presenter Jackie Leonard, and producer Karen Martin, spoke at Radiodays Asia in Malaysia. The show, which is also recording a special edition at the event, is one of the top-rated shows in many Asian countries, with 33m downloads a month. In collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union and partners, BBC R&D has developed an open-source plat...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 91
James Cridland and Sam Sethi return for this week's show NEWS: Adam Curry , the “podfather”, spoke with Dave Jones at Podcast Movement 2022, explaining the history of open podcasting, the Podcast Index and the features available with the new podcast namespace Edison Research and Sounds Profitable issued reports at Podcast Movement, Dallas The Podcast Broker, a new service for buying and selling podcasts , was launched at Podcast Movement. The service is the brainchild of TrueNativeMedia’s H...
Sep 01, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 90
We're sponsored by Buzzsprout and SquadCast. James Cridland joined Todd Cochrane from Blubrry, Rob Greenlee from Libsyn, Tangia Estrada from BIPOC Podcast Creators, and Heather Osgood from The Podcast Broker and True Native Media. This week, the show is from the New Media Show, live on stage at Podcast Movement. This version has been lightly edited from the original. You can find the New Media Show in your favourite podcast app. Want to watch? Here's the show as originally recorded. ht...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 89
This week's stories discussed by James Cridland and Sam Sethi The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against Huel and The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett . We asked Paul Chantler , one of the UK’s media law experts, how should you keep your host-read podcast ad legal ? Oprah Winfrey’s company has filed a lawsuit against fan podcast Oprahdemics from Radiotopia. Libsyn is expanding to Europe by acquiring German podcast company Julep Media . The Latino Podcast List...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Evo Terra joins James Cridland this week, while Sam drinks wine in Europe somewhere. Evo's podcast is at podcast pontifications and he runs simpler.media Special Guest: Dan Misener co-founder of Bumper . Podcast guests are paying up to $50,000 to appear on popular shows, and the podcasts don’t disclose it, according to a piece from Ashley Carman in Bloomberg. It quotes a number of podcasts who charge more than $30,000 per interview… and they only added a full disclosure (an FTC requirement)...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Guest Interviews John Spurlock - Thread.land Matt Medeiros - Castos Show Notes Acast has released the company’s Q2/22 financial report . The Swedish company now hosts 66,000 podcasts (a record growth last quarter); the number of listens in the quarter increased 41% year-on-year. The company lost $11m in the quarter, though now expects to make EBITDA profit in 2024, earlier than previously expected. “The heavy investment phase is now over, " says CEO Ross Adams, noting that the advertising m...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Guest Interview Alberto Betella - CTO RSS.com Show Notes Podcast host RSS.com is to announce integration with Alby this week: enabling value 4 value for thousands of podcasts. You’ll be able to activate and link your Alby account with your podcast in RSS.com’s dashboard . RSS has produced a video showing how it works on their platform Monetize your @CastosHQ podcast with @getAlby and @PodcastindexOrg value4value tag! Castos has produced a video showing how it works on their platform Full List of...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Special Guests Moritz Kaminski - Alby Ross Adams - Acast Bradley Davis - Podchaser Show Notes Acast is to acquire Podchaser , the “world’s most comprehensive and authoritative podcast database” in a deal worth $34m . Podchaser , which is expected to make a profit next year, will continue to operate as a separate brand: it contains data of more than 4.5m million podcasts, including advertising information. The integration will bring additional data to Acast’s advertisers. The podcast landscape is...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 84
