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•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast 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: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net...
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Mitch Downey - Podverse Mike Mignano - Angel Investor and ex-Spotify Show Notes: Michael Mignano , has written a piece about what he calls The Standards Innovation Paradox. In response, James Cridland wrote a long article that basically points out that Apple took the RSS standard and enhanced it. The thing that Mike Mignano says is impossible. Adam Curry said: Spotify is the shitcoin of podcasting . Spotify is expanding the ability to post video podcasts for creators in six new c...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests Harry Duran - Full Cast Oscar Merry - Fountain App Show Notes Podverse adds support for LIT and Video Support . Podcast Host Ranking from John Spurlock Fountain rewards users for listening to podcasts Blubrry has launched 'podcast media kits’ that update daily Libsyn Studio Anchor podcast fraud . Here’s a link with details on how to report them Alby, a browser extension for cryptocurrency, has added its own podcaster wallet . The service allows you to earn from your listeners...
Jul 08, 2022•46 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests Tom Webster - Sounds Profitable Zachariah Moreno & Rock Felder - Squadcast Sophie Hind & Jim Salveson - VoiceWorks Show Notes Sounds Profitable released The Creators , a study of the people who create podcasts. Tom Webster revealed that US podcast creators are more diverse than the US population, but are significantly younger and more male. Most own both Android and iOS devices, though more than four in ten podcast creators have been listening to podcasts for under a year....
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests Carlos Diaz - Uncut.fm is a new podcast platform that lets you "mint, share and sell your content as NFTs". Jake Warren - UK podcast production company Message Heard has signed with CAA Show Notes Breaking: Acast+ has announced an integration with Facebook. It allows Acast+ subscribers to offer members-only Facebook groups, as a launch partner of new Facebook functionality . Fountain is now rewarding people for listening to shows with Bitcoin , which they can then share ...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest Ken Miller - CTO Fathom New podcast app Fathom, designed for better podcast discovery, has been launched on iOS and in-browser. It promises you can “ask any question and hear answers from your favourite podcasters and their guests.” https://fathom.fm/podcast/podland-news Show Notes Breaking: Apple Podcasts has published details of how search in its app works. The post includes clarification that ratings and reviews aren’t factored into search results; and that the search function s...
Jun 16, 2022•59 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout. Buzzsprout the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads , letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue). We’re using them - automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads. Show Notes & Links Spotify had an Investor Day last Wednesday . “Spotify share price slid 55% this year. Daniel Ek said Spotify would grow beyond music, increasing creator tools and moving ...
Jun 10, 2022•48 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,210 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 Dave Jones - Pod Sage from Podcast Index talks about ... Value 4 Value Lightning Network WebLN Alby Hive's Podping Podcast Index new tags <podcast:liveItem> and <podcast:block> Show Notes & Links One of podcasting’s largest hosting...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes are coming soon for this episode. 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...
May 26, 2022•57 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,282 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 Ashley Carman - Bloomberg Show Notes & Links James Cridland Radio Days Europe - Roundup Selling paid subscriptions through Apple Podcasts? Until now, you’ve had to upload that audio separately to Apple; but Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery was ann...
May 21, 2022•57 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast 
