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•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
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