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•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ( jir506@york.ac.uk ) 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•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Full episode notes coming soon, and chapter marks and all of that. Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast 
