Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's deep dive into subscription services. SPECIAL GUESTS: - Will Page - Author of Tarzan Economics, Visiting Fellow at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Former Chief Economist at Spotify and PRS for Music . - Charles Van Winkle - Former Senior Computer Scientist II at Adobe Systems and now Senior Software Engineer at Descript IN THIS PODCAST: Twitter Spaces is now available to (almost) everyone, on iOS and Android , i...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's thought-provoking show about Spotify's new subscription service. NEWS: Spotify has announced their Paid Subscriptions service , which is hosted on Anchor . Spotify’s Paid Subscriptions tool sounds nice when compared with Apple - who can argue with free. But it isn’t quite as straightforward as that. Or, even, free. It’s not actually free . Standard payment processing fees still apply. Stripe charge 2.9% +30¢ , and I’d expect Spotify’s pr...
Apr 29, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show about Apple subscriptions and Facebook's entry into podcasting with the help of Spotify. NEWS Apple Podcasts is adding paid Podcasts Subscriptions in May. As a podcaster, you can set your own price for your own show. Apple Podcasts will take a 30% commission of the subscription price for a subscriber’s first year, dropping to 15% for additional years. Podcasters can set pricing, and availability, by country. Apple Podcast...
Apr 22, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Join Sam Sethi and Matt Deegan on this week's jam packed & informative show INTERVIEWS: - Elsie Escobar - Libsyn talking about Libsyn 5 beta 1 - Juliana Meyer - Supapass - one website and app for your content, community and paywall. NEWS - Google Podcasts has hit 100m installations on Android. - Amazon Podcasts launched to more than 1.5bn potential listeners in France, Italy, Spain and India. - Libsyn has acquired Glow, Inc - VOX Media buys Cafe Studios - Podcast Index now has 2.7m show...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Full episode notes coming soon, and chapter marks and all of that. 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...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Join Sam Sethi and Matt Deegan on this week's highly informative show NEWS: James Cridland launches his new project the PodClock The British Podcast Awards has closed entries for this year. Organiser Matt Deegan says it was the best ever year, with entries up a third since 2020 . Last week we talked about how podcasting had hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcast Spotify is to hold a new round of Sound Up programs : a global program that gives under-represented podcasters the tools to boost th...
Apr 01, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show INTERVIEWS: Donald Albright , Chair, The Podcast Academy Corey Layton , Head of Digital Audio, Australian Radio Network and iHeart Podcast Network Nadav Keyson , CEO& Co-Founder, Riverside.FM --- NEWS: We just hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcasts , according to Daniel J Lewis's Podcast Industry Insights tool. Overnight, the total number of shows hit 2,004,462. He says that 37.29% are "active" (published at ...
Mar 25, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show INTERVIEWS: Jake Warren - Message Heard Benjamin Bellamy - Ad Aures Norma Jean Belenky - PodBean --- NEWS: Next week, Podbean is to run a Finance Podcast Week : a week-long livestream and podcast event focused on finance podcasts (with many podcasters lined-up to speak). A full pass is normally $39, but use the code PODNEWS and you can get in free. Podcast Movement has announced the dates and venues for their in-person events ...
Mar 18, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Apologies some of the sound recordings on Sam's interviews were not clear due to a broken mic. Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEWS: Sean Glynn - Novel Rob Loewenthal - Whooshkaa Jess Kupferman - She Podcasts Agnes Kozera - Podcorn --- NEWS: Entercom has acquired Podcorn , valuing the company at $22.5m. Entercom, a US radio broadcaster, owns Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios. Podcorn gives advertisers access to podcasters. In 2016 Google purchased the f...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEW: - Kal Amin - co-founder and CEO of Sounder.FM, a podcast management and monetisation platform, has raised $2.15m in a seed round . They've raised $4m in the past 14 months --- NEWS: The nominees for The Ambies , the awards for excellence in audio, are to be announced today at 12pm, New York Time. Podnews.net have a full list with analysis tomorrow: if you’re a Podcast Academy member , you’ll get a vote to choose the winne...
Mar 04, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEW: - Michael Mignano - Co-Founder, Anchor / Head of Podcaster Mission, Spotify - talks about all the new announcements from this weeks StreamOn --- NEWS: Extended Spotify analysis by James and Sam Buzzsprout , Podbean , Spreaker and Captivate were all subject to a denial-of-service attack. The same attackers appear to have been involved. We were wondering why they've targeted podcast hosts: so we talked to the group behind t...
Feb 25, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEWS: - Kirt Debique the CEO & CTO from SyncFloor talks about their Songs For Podcasters music service. - Tom Rossi the co-founder of Buzzsprout talks about their support of Podcast Index and the new 'person' and 'location' tags coming soon. He also talked about Dynamic Content Insertion, possible uses for the proposed 'Alternative Enclosure Tag', the pros and cons of downloads v streaming and Auto...
Feb 18, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show Interviews with: Jonas Leijonhufvud , the co-author of a new book " The Spotify Play " out this week, about how CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the race for audio dominance. Wayne Parker the co-founder of MapsFM , about the value and context of combining location with podcasts to create a new form of discovery. Jaime Ng , the CEO of MatchCast , about SoundClub the Taiwanese version of Clubhouse that ...
Feb 11, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : Anna Sian - Head of Marketing, Spotify & Anchor FM - talks about their redesign. Bryan Barletta - Sounds Profitable - talks about 'Dynamic Content Insertion' Peter Niegl and Rasmus Kidde - DR’s research department - talk about podcasting in Denmark. Mark asks a question about the value of 'Categories' in 2021 News: SquadCast released v3 of their remote recording tool . The headline: you can now recor...
Feb 04, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : Melissa Mbugua from Africa Podfest Gerard Edwards from Podcast Radio Matt Deegan from Podcast Day 24 News: Podcasting is growing fast, according to LiveXLive CEO Robert Ellin. Speaking on Fox Business alongside Adam Carolla , the PodcastOne owner reckons the future for podcasting is in video and told Stuart Varney that podcasting “will be $5-10bn in the next 5-7 years”. Spotify has announced that Spotify Podcast Ads, using ...
Jan 28, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. We talk about Apple's proposed new subscription service and what it means for podcasters? And has Spotify's foray into podcasting failed? Citi Research said "The only thing podcasting seems to have influenced is Spotify’s valuation.” They suggest that clients sell the stock. We'll discuss whether we think they are right or premature. Also, we ponder if Clubhouse needs better room moderation to prevent hate speech and...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 8
James and Sam talk about the possibility of using Clubhouse to conduct interviews with a live audience and record the room to use later for podcasting. Could " Clubcasting " be the future of podcasting? Sam talks with Wayne Cheong from PodFest Asia in Clubhouse, to workout how to record a room. (pl ease note : recording a room without the participant's knowledge is against the TOS and could get you banned .) James and Sam also talk about the forthcoming Twitterspaces and which pla...
Jan 14, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : News: Previous Episodes: https://podland.news Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Connect With Us: Email: [email protected] Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected] Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podne...
Jan 08, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : News: Previous Episodes: https://podland.news Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Connect With Us: Email: [email protected] Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected] Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podne...
Dec 27, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 5
James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk on this weeks show about the open independent podcast ecosystem versus the closed ecosystems. Will 2021 be a good year for podcasting or will we see the big players dominate such Amazon, Spotify and Apple by swallowing up all the independent podcast producers? We talk about whether Spotify is good or bad for the industry and discuss programmatic advertising versus Spotify's streaming advertising. We ask if Netflix will enter the podcasting marketplace now i...
Dec 24, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 4
James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the report in the Guardian by the journalist Ariel Bogle. She's also an analyst at the Australian strategic policy Institute and she researches online disinformation. She was questioning whether podcasts are becoming. The new dangerous content space and should be regulated or fined like social networks. James spoke with Galen Beebe, Bello Collective's co-editor who has just published its 100 outstanding podcasts from 2020 , their fifth annual lis...
Dec 18, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 3
James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the new Podcast 2.0 location tag which James has been working on. They also talk about PodLP providing podcast translations and Audible offering $10k for new podcast ideas. Then they are joined by Sam Liang, the CEO of Otter.ai who tells us about how Otter Live Notes & Captions can be used on Zoom calls. He also tells us about Live Translations coming in 2021. Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: Thi...
Dec 11, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 2
James and Sam talk about if Wondery’s new owner will be Amazon? What's the difference between and Apple and Spotify's podcast lists for 2020. They also talk about Elastic Pod's new searchable transcriptions. Then they are joined by Mark Asquith, CEO of Captivate, who tells us about why they are launching Private Feeds. Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive ...
Dec 03, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Every week, the Podnews Weekly Review is the last word in podcasting news - with a look back at the most important news in podcasting, and interviews with the people that matter. Hear from James Cridland, the Editor of Podnews; Sam Sethi, the CEO of Podfans; and interviews with the people that matter. The Podnews Weekly Review. With Buzzsprout - podcast hosting made easy. Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: [email protected] Fediverse: @[email protected] and @...
Nov 28, 2020•1 min0
