HOSTS: Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Winslow Bright - Executive Producer at Premier Music Group NEWS: Apple Podcasts announced its Best of 2021 . A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar from Pushkin Industries was chosen as Best Show of the Year. The chart also gives us some understanding of the performance of Apple Podcasts Paid Subscriptions - Bad Blood: The Final Chapter is #1 in the list, and said in September that they had 6,000 subscribers . (That was $16,000 a month in ...
Dec 02, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Lisa Laporte - CEO - TWiT.tv Franco Solerio - Founder & Developer - Castamatic NEWS: Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding . The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows and plans to move into new markets. $78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding Spotify CFO Paul Vogel says the company has $3.5bn in cash for acquisitions . Speak...
Nov 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUEST: Sean Li - Clever.FM NEWS: Spotify expands Podcast Subscriptions globally and now includes 20 price points from $0.50 to $150 and a way for creators to download subscribers' contact info — Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets. There are now more than 1,000 channels in Apple Podcasts. Podnews has discovered 293 paid subscrip...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi "INTEROPERABILITY IS THE KEY" - says Dave Jones Apple Podcasts has brought back the 'refresh feed’ button. While Apple seem confident that new episodes and other changes in your podcast feed are now seen within 'a few hours’ On Friday, the Apple Podcasts Connect system was checking Podnews’s RSS feed every eight minutes . Podping - decentralised push notifications for podcasting , means that new episodes can appear in podcast apps within...
Nov 11, 2021•58 min
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUESTS: Dino Sofos - Founder and CEO, Persephonica. Recently departed Editor of BBC News Podcasts. Creator of the award-winning Brexitcast, Americast and the daily Newscast. NEWS: Spotify's proprietary video podcasts system is "a dumpster fire" , says Drew Linsalata, the host of The Anxious Truth . Even though Anchor gave this podcaster early access, it took six days for his podcast's episode to be correctly available on Spotify, during ...
Nov 04, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUESTS: Bailey Drake - Back Stage by Headliner Benjamin Bellamy - CEO Ad Aures NEWS: Spotify released its Q3/21 results . It has 3.2m podcasts on its platform (subtext: beating Apple ). Earnings were buoyed by growth in podcast advertising Spotify is to add video podcasts , but probably not as you know them. You can only upload them via Anchor - there’s a waitlist to join - and you can only watch the videos on Spotify Facebook’s Chelsea White and Irena Lam ...
Oct 28, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 48
James is recording in a forest. Proof: https://twitter.com/JamesCridland/status/1451002189049040905 Bryan Barletta runs https://soundsprofitable.com - go subscribe! Apple Podcasts explains how podcasts work: https://podnews.net/update/apple-podcast-downloads-explanation Spotify to hire hundreds of adsales staff: https://podnews.net/update/nms-facebook-podcasting#:~:text=Spotify%20is%20hiring%20hundreds%20of%20ad%20staff Adam Bowie: trends to watch for in podcasting. https://www.adambowie.com/blo...
Oct 21, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi they talk to GUESTS: Dr Brian of London about his work on Podping and Hive . Genevieve Hassan about her podcast Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did NEWS: Sounds Profitable en Español starts today, as Bryan Barletta explains in Sounds Profitable with Podsights . The podcast adtech newsletter will be translated and produced using technology from Veritone MARVEL․ai: and so will the Sounds Profitable en Español podcast, with Bryan sounding as if he ...
Oct 14, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk to Chris Messina about his work on OpenWeb Standards such as ActivityStreams that became ActivityPub. He wrote this seminal post on Medium about ActivityStreams and ActivityPub in 2008 GUEST : Chris Messina is the inventor of the hashtag as it is currently used on social media platforms. In a 2007 tweet, Messina proposed vertical/associational grouping of messages, trends, and events on Twitter by the means of hashtags. NEWS : Spotify has made ...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they celebrate 'International Podcast Day'. GUESTS:: Ross Adams and Johan Billgren from Acast NEWS: 1. Twitter has launched crypto-tipping using the lightning network: the same tool used by Podcasting 2.0 Value4Value apps . The tool uses the Strike API. It’s “rolling out” on iOS. 2. iOS 15's “ Private Relay ” has gone live: but what effect will it have on your podcast stats, and on ad-tech? There’s also a new 1.25x playback speed control i...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUESTS : - Richard Kramer - Arete Research - Bruce Supovitz - Nielsen - Arica McKinnon - Nielsen SHOW NOTES : 1. Edison Research - whilst podcast listening has grown, 44% of US Latinos haven’t yet listened to a podcast. 2. Triton Digital - US Podcasting Report for August. Downloads are up 11% from July, as the Apple bugfix rolled out. Stitcher is #1 for podcasts. 3. The New York Times - Cuban podcasts are booming 4. Interview: Nielsen released their 'P...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUESTS Oscar Merry - talks about Fountain App (clips, boostergrams and chapters) Alex Jacobi - talks about OPAF (Open Podcast Analytics Format) SHOW NOTES In a client note, Richard Kramer , an analyst from Arete Research has criticised Spotify. Our Editor asked Spotify for all his personal data, to discover Spotify knows what kind of car he drives, and what length podcast he prefers - and why Spotify will never know as much as Apple or Google. Meanwhile, 9t...
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi GUESTS: Valerie Wirtschafter - The Brookings Institution Andrew Craissati - Auddy NEWS HEADLINES: Podcasting is " an ideal tool to inject false or misleading information into mainstream discourse while going undetected ", according to research from Valerie Wirtschafter The Australian High Court found that, by running the Facebook pages, the media groups participated in communicating defamatory material posted by third parties and were therefore re...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Listen to episode 40 with James Cridland and Sam Sethi NEWS HEADLINES: - https://podnews.net/ Has Google given up on podcasting? The founder of Google Podcasts , Zack Reneau-Wedeen , has left Google. Gabe Bender , Google Podcasts’ product lead, left in April. Amazon is copying Clubhouse Clubhouse adds spatial audio Spotify adds another show to Greenroom Twitter adds an API for Spaces Does podcasting need policing? The dangers of defamation and bullying in podcasting every host should know India&...
Sep 02, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi INTERVIEW: Evo Terra - Podcast Pontifications - he lists his helpful commandments here . PODNEWS HEADLINES: How’s podcasting doing for Spotify? Internal Spotify podcast consumption data has been leaked to Business Insider . If Spotify Isn't getting much value from Gimlet, that feeling’s mutual Matt Deegan writes more about the figures and the strategy of exclusives Spotify has expanded “Music and Talk” shows to fifteen more countries Spotify will let all US...
Aug 26, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi INTERVIEW: Bryan Barletta - Sounds Profitable NEWS HEADLINES: “Nearly one in five weekly listeners say that YouTube is their primary service for podcasts. This is why I twitch a little every time I hear a podcast tell listeners to 'subscribe or follow us wherever you get your podcasts.' Are you sure? ” - in his latest newsletter, Tom Webster shares some data that might convince you to get your podcast onto YouTube . James has written how to auto-publis...
Aug 19, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Who knew premature publishing was a thing ;-) Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi INTERVIEWS: James Bishop - One Fine Play Martin Mouritzen - PodFriend NEWS: At Podcast Movement, Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi spoke about their new storytelling platform Fireside Chat . Cuban described podcasting as being “old, tired and beat up,” adding “…there’s only one way to monetize - by lying your ass off to secure sponsorships.” The app is available now on iOS. Edison Research’s Tom Webster said: "Cuban i...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi All the links are at Podnews at https://podnews.net/podcast/i5hv2 1. Spotify’s podcast ad revenue has jumped 627% year-on-year , according to their revenue announcement. 2. Apple has confirmed a download bug has been fixed in iOS 14.7 . 3. There are now at least 1,000 paid shows in Apple Podcasts Just six weeks after the feature was publicly launched. We’ve discovered more than 500 different channels in Apple Podcasts and more than 30% of those channels are paid...
Aug 05, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Sharon Taylor is Managing Director of Triton Digital, and looks after Omny Studio, an enterprise podcast host. Find out more at https://omnystudio.com/learn Our guest is Ron Baetiong, founder and CEO of Podcast Network Asia. He's at https://podcastnetwork.asia/ We're sponsored by Buzzsprout - they're at buzzsprout.com and will be at Podcast Movement next week ... and by Riverside FM, which has a new Riverside FM 2.0 coming out shortly. All the links for the stories are at https://...
Jul 29, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Rachel Corbett joins James Cridland to talk fiction podcasts; dynamic ad insertion; whether we're in a slowdown or not; GoodPods and indie podcasting; social audio networks; and the benefits of a podcast network. All the links are in the latest updates from Podnews, at https://podnews.net We're sponsored by Riverside, who make excellent software to remote-record your podcast (in video too), and by Buzzsprout, who are hosting this podcast and a great way to get podcasting yourself, like...
Jul 22, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi With Special Interviews: Nick Hilton , CEO Podot with NEW Podcast " The Town That Knew Too Much" Zach Moreno & Rock Felder Co-Founders of Squadcast.FM Jemily Rime, BBC R&D ( [email protected] ) Podland News 1. Exclusive: Do podcast apps use your podcast’s description to help people find new shows? Should you put your guest’s name in your episode title? Which apps search which bits of your RSS feed? Three weeks in the making, Mark Steadman from ...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi With Special Interviews: - Jim Ballas, LaunchpadOne Podland News 1. Audacity, an open-source audio editor, is to share limited analytics data with their company in Kaliningrad in Russia , it has announced. The data shared, which you don’t appear to be able to opt-out of, includes your IP address but doesn’t include your name, address or email. The app was “acquired” by Muse Group , a company based in Cyprus, Audacity has posted “a quick statement to address the ...
Jul 08, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk about Why Amazon Podcasting bought Art 19. With Special Interviews: - Arielle Nissenblatt - Podcast Taxonomy - Don MacKinnon - Hark Audio - Hannah Blake - Entale This Weeks News Headlines from Podland: 1. Amazon has bought enterprise podcast hosting and adsales company ART19, Inc. . This gives Amazon access to podcast hosting technology and a monetisation platform for dynamically-inserted advertising. Kintan Brahmbhatt , GM of Amazon Podcasts says t...
Jul 01, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk about Facebook Podcasting. It's alive but why can't you actually play them yet? SPECIAL GUESTS: - David Markowitz , Netflix - Niklas Hildebrand , Audry WE TALKED ABOUT: - Facebook launched its in-app podcast experience. To get listed, you need an invite directly from Facebook: and they’ll only play in the US? - Facebook’s Clubhouse clone, Live Audio Rooms has also launched: again for the US only, and live rooms are only available on iOS. “...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they ask: Is Podcast hosting no longer a USP? It's fast becoming free. So how can podcast hosts survive? Should they go vertical with more paid features or simply be acquired by the big boys? #fightorflight . Special Guest: - 🎧 Mark Asquith - CEO, Captivate FM talking about Captivate v2.0 new platform and features. News Headlines: - Apple Podcasts launched Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and Channels. - New EU copyright rules went into law on June 7, they ...
Jun 18, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they discuss monetising podcasts through channels. Special Guest: Neil Mody - CEO HeadlinerVideo News Headlines: Apple has set the launch date for Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and Channels June 15; subscriptions best practices . Podcast Day 24 a 24-hour conference about podcasting, from Australia, UK and North America. Adam Bowie, Business Development Manager at the BBC World Service, has published a transcript of his talk made at Podcast Day 24 - the top 10 ...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they discuss monetising podcasts through channels. NEWS: Title: Spacecasts v Apple Channels. Full Episode: https://www.podland.news NEWS: - Space Casts v Apple Channels v Spotify Lists - - Podchaser launched a new API - Bradley Davis - British Podcast Awards - Matt Deegan - Irish podcast The 2 Johnnies goes exclusive on Spotify from 14th June - James Cator - Stripe now lets you sell online without a website. Podland $3 link: https://lnkd.in/dJNAEV5 EVENTS: Th...
Jun 03, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they discuss podcast piracy, theft, content moderation and licensing. GUESTS: - 🎙 Jake Warren 🎧 - CEO Message Heard - Will Page - author of Tarzan Economics - Dave Jones - Lead Developer Podcast Index NEWS: - Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, Channels and Affiliations launched - Spotify announces offline music, playlists and podcast downloads on Apple Watch - Spotify is about to get into audiobooks - Anchor is hosting pirate podcasts; such as Message Heard’s &a...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's deep dive into . SPECIAL GUESTS: Lindsay Tjepkema , CEO & Co-Founder at Casted Adrian Spataru, CEO & Co-Founder at Cleanvoice.ai IN THIS PODCAST: The Ambies, the first podcast awards from The Podcast Academy. The podcast of the year went to Wondery’s Dying For Sex . The awards seemed to be a streaming success, too, with 25,000 people watching at peak. For the full list of winners , Amazon’s Wondery was the winning studio of the night,...
May 20, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's deep dive into subscription services. SPECIAL GUESTS: Brandon Blackburn, POD TV IN THIS PODCAST: Spotify is adding a way to share timestamps when you share a podcast - a way to share a particular point to start listening. Links work on desktop, iOS and Android: here’s a link to economist Will Page’s interview on Podland to see how it works. Despite a shrinking economy, the IAB and PwC say that US podcast ad revenues grew to $842m in 2020 , up...
May 14, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 24
