(This description produced by Buzzsprout's CoHost AI tool) Guess what? Podcasting is celebrating its 20th anniversary and I have the honor of discussing this milestone with none other than Rob Greenlee, one of the first podcasters in the world! Rob shares his views on the journey of podcasting, the role of commercialization and the significance of major companies in the industry. And there's more - we also get nostalgic about the genesis of podcasting with the pioneer himself, Christop...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast (This produced by Buzzsprout's CoHost AI tool) Leave a comment about this episode: https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi/110673314068746651 Ever wonder how the world of podcasting is being reshaped by tech and AI? Join us as we dive into the intricacies of the podcasting industry, dissecting intriguing data from OP3 that highlights the dominance of Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Apple Core Media. We'll also discuss an astonishing revelation from an Acast study: 79% of podcast listeners a...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast (This description mostly by Buzzsprout's CoHost AI) Are you ready to get the inside scoop on the world of podcasting? We're shedding light on the closure of Stitcher, a pioneering podcast app, and its ripple effects, particularly on listeners outside the US. We're venturing back to the app's beginnings, and its unique user experience. Sirius XM's future plans for the Stitcher brand also feature in our conversation. In the same breath, we turn our sights to the evolution ...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Ever wondered how Facebook fares in the podcast platform rankings? This week's episode is packed with the latest podcasting news, featuring discussions on Spotify's new Supremium tier, the redesigned desktop app, and their controversial partnership with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Join me, James Cridland, the editor of Pod News, and my co-host, Sam Sethi, CEO of Podfans, as we unravel the mysteries of podcast consumer behavior, explore Apple's enhanced search, and dive deep in...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast (The below is AI generated) What if you could access exclusive insights on the latest podcasting developments, straight from the industry's experts? Join us this week as we sit down with Skye Pillsbury, creator of the Squeeze newsletter, to uncover the most recent news in the podcasting world, including Spotify's exciting new Ad Analytics platform and a closer look at WNYC's recent challenges. Together with Skye, we explore podcast monetization with a focus on Spotify's effor...
Jun 16, 2023•56 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast What if you had insider access to the latest in podcasting news, trends, and expert insights? Look no further! This week, we bring you an action-packed episode featuring exclusive interviews with Mukul Devichand from the New York Times, Bradley Davis of PodChaser, Josh Adley of Listen, and Staffan Rossell of PodX. Together, we dissect the impact of Spotify's job cuts, their exclusive content strategy, and explore the future of podcasting. Curious about how artificial intelligence is revolut...
Jun 09, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast (The title, description and transcript are by Buzzsprout's AI tools. The chapter marks were manual - J) Are you ready to tackle the controversial topic of gaslighting in the podcast industry? This week, we discuss the actions of major players like Google, Apple, and Spotify, and examine their lack of support for the wider podcast community. We also share our thoughts on the recent Podcast Show in London and the disappointment surrounding YouTube's RSS ingest trial. We don't shy aw...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Special guest: the audience Live from The Podcast Show, Sam and James look back at the week's podcasting news. 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, 2023•40 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Mark Asquith - Captivate Oscar Merry - Fountain Martin Mouritzen - Podfriend News: The New York Times released its standalone Audio app Spotify’s AI DJ launches in UK and Ireland The US podcast ad market is now worth $1.8bn, according to new data from the IAB and PWC . The IAB predicts the market will be $3.9bn by 2025. Buzzsprout has enlarged its podcast advertising tool to allow ads from products and businesses . The Diary Of A CEO is now streaming on BBC iPlayer! Good Tape is ...
May 19, 2023•2 hr 28 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/Megaphone Sharon Taylor - Triton Digital Darby Dorras - Listen Tom Billington - The Podcast Show News: Acast released Q1/23 financials . Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began. Amazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platf...
May 12, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Chris Quamme Rhoden on Acast's work in the Podcast Standards Project. Nick Hilton talks about host reads. News: Spotify for Podcasters posted its second-highest share of new episodes , growing 13% since January. Spotify for Podcasters is rolling out the company’s monetisation programs, Automated Ads and Ambassador Ads , to more countries. Podcast ad spending grew by 32% last year in the UK , according to the IAB. Let’s change the standard for host-read advertising , says Nic...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests Ami Thakkar - The Podcast Academy, Board Member Staffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-Founder News: YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now . Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report . Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%. The Podcast Survey 2023 has been released by Ofcom, the UK media regulat...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Steven Bell Elisa Shearer News: Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet shows Starting on June 1, Chartable will no longer provide confirmed plays and episode consumption data from Apple Podcasts Spotify has also announced it’s closing Heardle Spotify has struck a deal with Jellysmack , the creator company that works with stars like MrBeast and Bailey Sarian, that will see some of Jellysmack’s top creators uploading weekly video episodes to Spotify Author ...
Apr 22, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids Listen News: Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week. You can sign up for free here Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools . Building on its acquisition of Whooshkaa in Dec 2021 Lemonada Media and Apple Books have launched an audio book club Independent podcast networks say they aren’t pivoting to video , reports...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Lizzy Pollott - SVP Marketing, Communications & Brand Nina Robinson - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions News: Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast . Shows were previously with Spotify. Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month! Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episodes Spotify is claiming the company now has 5.3m podcasts Spotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live on April 30, 2023 A new library c...
Apr 07, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Justin Jackson and Charles Wilchin. A new grassroots industry coalition, the Podcast Standards Project , has been launched to advocate for open podcasting. The group includes podcast hosting companies like RSS.com, Buzzsprout, Red Circle, Captivate and Acast; and podcast players like Pocket Casts and Podverse. Remote recording tool Riverside has unveiled a significant update adding text-based editing and AI transcription features. At Radiodays Europe, it was announced that UK dai...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global) News: YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!” YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metrics Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy , a six month incubator pilot for nineteen shows Spotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership focused on dive...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast James is joined this week by Courtney Kocak, while Sam Sethi goes skiing. Links for this week's show at https://podnews.net/archive 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...
Mar 17, 2023•54 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest: Jordan Blair - Buzzcast Co-Host and Producer Show Notes: Anchor is now called Spotify for Podcasters . The new podcast hosting service includes automated ads (US-only, invite-only), and podcast subscriptions (in 34 markets). Spotify will allows any podcaster to use Q&A and polls - wherever they’re hosted. Spotify also announced an expanded video podcasts lineup . Spotify revealed their latest interface , a vertically-scrolling way to discover new shows Spotify has also added A...
Mar 10, 2023•42 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest: Steve Pratt - Founder / Attention Strategist at The Creativity Business The News: ( All links are from Podnews.net ) YouTube Music adds podcasts and will support RSS uploads. See our full report. YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan , has written a blog post on the company's 2023 priorities . There's a paragraph about podcasting, which reflects the announcement made last week . You can now embed YouTube videos in Transistor website pages . The Podnews Daily podcast playlis...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Nayeema Raza - talks about ON with Kara Swisher/Vox Media - Podcast Extra Mitch Downey - NEW Podverse v4.12.1 with LIT, Video and Value4Value streaming SATs. Jake Chudnow - Podimo enters the UK podcast market with more than twenty new shows . Show Notes: Apple finally removed the AppleCoreMedia user agent from Apple Podcasts. ( Jonas Woost ) Listen Time & ( Steve Pratt ) Earned Value ... finally no downloads to measure? Bumper is suggesting Listen Time is the right metric and...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests Chris Mottes - CEO at Hindenburg Systems Hindenburg announced this week Hindenburg PRO v2 , a new version of the editor with new features including transcription. Podnews has an exclusive review of the new version . Here are the Hindenburg team demonstrating the new Hindenburg PRO v2 . Dovydas Joksas - CEO RSS Blue RSS Blue now support keysend protocol and .well-known lookup scheme which means you will be able to fetch wallet details from any provider that supports it. Show Notes ...
Feb 17, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guests: Tom Rossi Sean Glynn Jordan Harbinger Show Notes Google tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are being replaced with a new feature. Over a thousand Buzzsprout podcasts are using the subscriptions feature, according to Buzzcast . It was announced in late January. UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round . The investment will be used to accelerate growth with...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Guests: Leo Laporte - Twit.TV Todd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value" , a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to natively support value4value. Brett Spencer & Sandy Warr - City, University of London has announced the UK’s first dedicated MA in Podcastin...
Feb 03, 2023•2 hr 51 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger Podcasts Spotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off . Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff is to leave the company; "Alex [ Norström ] will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward". The number of new podcasts has dramatically dropped by 80% in two years, according to data reported this week. Except… as we explore today...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Special Guest Interviews: Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about " A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time " Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting . Top News Stories Exclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search. Now, a Google search for a podcast no longer shows any play buttons linking to the service or any links to Google Podcasts. Open podcast analytics ...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes come soon! Spotify chapters workaround... (0:00) Fri 13 Jan (0:53) Apple launches Delegated Delivery (4:54) Amazon almost do a deal but don't (7:31) A new Audible podcast (9:57) Google Podcasts Creator Program goes (16:05) Spotify loses shows (23:33) People news (25:43) The Tech Stuff (41:05) Awards and events (43:02) Boostagram Corner (47:59) Sam reveals his funding (50:09) James's old blog posts Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: weekly...
Jan 13, 2023•56 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast This week James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about: PRX adds V4V using Web Monetisation Spotify says its road to profitability is video Spotify adds Chapters, Transcripts and Polls - all proprietary OP3 starts testing a new stats page Chapters (hello, Spotify!) (00:00:00) Podnews Weekly Review (00:10:30) Laura Mayer sells an RSS feed (00:12:38) Podcast One to spin off (00:14:32) Is the podcast industry in market correction? (00:18:27) Spotify adds new things (00:21:25) And Spotify adds better cha...
Jan 06, 2023•58 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast This Week's Special Guests talk about their podcasting highlights for 2022 and their predictions for 2023. Mark Asquith - Captivate/Global - 2022: News Agents Hits 10m downloads - 2023: Higher Rate CPM’s Benjamin Bellamy- Adures/Castopod - 2022: Federated Social Networks - 2023: AI for podcasting (Stability.AI) Interview : Ad Aures support for OP3 and Castopod updates on ActivityPub plus Cross-Comments. Alban Brooke - Buzzsprout - 2022: Funny Buzzsprout Video - 2023: Podcasters Go Independe...
Dec 16, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes & Links Buzzsprout has posted its network statistics for November Spotify’s Anchor continues to lose market share: it was down to 21.6% of all new podcast episodes in November SXM Media is, once more, #1 for podcasts according to Edison Pocket Casts has raised its annual subscription price RadioPublic Pro is to discontinue Podnews have updated their list of podcast hosting companies Spotify has launched 2022 Podcaster Wrapped Podping.cloud 2.0 is live Dave Winer published an updat...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 
