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The Ambies nominees announced, Will Spotify overtake Apple?, Interview with Kal Amin Sounder, Women's History Month

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEW: - Kal Amin - co-founder and CEO of Sounder.FM, a podcast management and monetisation platform, has raised $2.15m in a seed round . They've raised $4m in the past 14 months --- NEWS: The nominees for The Ambies , the awards for excellence in audio, are to be announced today at 12pm, New York Time. Podnews.net have a full list with analysis tomorrow: if you’re a Podcast Academy member , you’ll get a vote to choose the winne...

Mar 04, 2021•37 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast

Spotify StreamOn Analysis, Interview with Spotify's Mike Mignano and Podcast Movement the winners and losers.

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEW: - Michael Mignano - Co-Founder, Anchor / Head of Podcaster Mission, Spotify - talks about all the new announcements from this weeks StreamOn --- NEWS: Extended Spotify analysis by James and Sam Buzzsprout , Podbean , Spreaker and Captivate were all subject to a denial-of-service attack. The same attackers appear to have been involved. We were wondering why they've targeted podcast hosts: so we talked to the group behind t...

Feb 25, 2021•47 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast

iHeartMedia buy Triton Digital, Songs For Podcasters, Interview with Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show INTERVIEWS: - Kirt Debique the CEO & CTO from SyncFloor talks about their Songs For Podcasters music service. - Tom Rossi the co-founder of Buzzsprout talks about their support of Podcast Index and the new 'person' and 'location' tags coming soon. He also talked about Dynamic Content Insertion, possible uses for the proposed 'Alternative Enclosure Tag', the pros and cons of downloads v streaming and Auto...

Feb 18, 2021•49 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast

Clubhouse, SoundClub or Fireside? Music Fair Usage, New Spotify Play Book and Maps.FM

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show Interviews with: Jonas Leijonhufvud , the co-author of a new book " The Spotify Play " out this week, about how CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the race for audio dominance. Wayne Parker the co-founder of MapsFM , about the value and context of combining location with podcasts to create a new form of discovery. Jaime Ng , the CEO of MatchCast , about SoundClub the Taiwanese version of Clubhouse that ...

Feb 11, 2021•55 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast

Anchor's redesign; podcast consumption in Denmark; Sounds Profitable's clever ad-tech, New People and Location Tags

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : Anna Sian - Head of Marketing, Spotify & Anchor FM - talks about their redesign. Bryan Barletta - Sounds Profitable - talks about 'Dynamic Content Insertion' Peter Niegl and Rasmus Kidde - DR’s research department - talk about podcasting in Denmark. Mark asks a question about the value of 'Categories' in 2021 News: SquadCast released v3 of their remote recording tool . The headline: you can now recor...

Feb 04, 2021•40 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast

How fast is podcasting growing? Plus: Africa Podfest, Podcast Radio, and news of a new, 24-hour global podcast conference

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : Melissa Mbugua from Africa Podfest Gerard Edwards from Podcast Radio Matt Deegan from Podcast Day 24 News: Podcasting is growing fast, according to LiveXLive CEO Robert Ellin. Speaking on Fox Business alongside Adam Carolla , the PodcastOne owner reckons the future for podcasting is in video and told Stuart Varney that podcasting “will be $5-10bn in the next 5-7 years”. Spotify has announced that Spotify Podcast Ads, using ...

Jan 28, 2021•43 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast

Apple's new subscriptions? Spotify's failing strategy? Does Clubhouse need moderating? Interviews with Podpage, MatchCasts, Podchaser and A Million Ads

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. We talk about Apple's proposed new subscription service and what it means for podcasters? And has Spotify's foray into podcasting failed? Citi Research said "The only thing podcasting seems to have influenced is Spotify’s valuation.” They suggest that clients sell the stock. We'll discuss whether we think they are right or premature. Also, we ponder if Clubhouse needs better room moderation to prevent hate speech and...

Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast

Clubcasting, TwitterSpaces, Dynamic Content Insertion and Interviews with, Buzzsprout, Adelicious.FM and BBC World Service.

James and Sam talk about the possibility of using Clubhouse to conduct interviews with a live audience and record the room to use later for podcasting. Could " Clubcasting " be the future of podcasting? Sam talks with Wayne Cheong from PodFest Asia in Clubhouse, to workout how to record a room. (pl ease note : recording a room without the participant's knowledge is against the TOS and could get you banned .) James and Sam also talk about the forthcoming Twitterspaces and which pla...

Jan 14, 2021•42 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast

Apple and Spotify privacy issues. Interview with Rob Greenlee about changes at The Podcast Academy.

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. Interviews : News: Previous Episodes: https://podland.news Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. 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 Podne...

Jan 08, 2021•46 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

Podcast Predictions for 2021 with Steve Pratt, Partner at Pacific Content.

Dec 27, 2020•21 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

The pros and cons of closed Spotify v open distributed podcasting. Interview with The Podfather Adam Curry & Dave Jones from podcastindex.org about Podcast 2.0

James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk on this weeks show about the open independent podcast ecosystem versus the closed ecosystems. Will 2021 be a good year for podcasting or will we see the big players dominate such Amazon, Spotify and Apple by swallowing up all the independent podcast producers? We talk about whether Spotify is good or bad for the industry and discuss programmatic advertising versus Spotify's streaming advertising. We ask if Netflix will enter the podcasting marketplace now i...

Dec 24, 2020•41 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

Podcast Misinformation, Podcast Taxonomy, Interview with Kate Bradley Chernis, CEO Lately.AI about atomizing your podcast into hundreds of mini-movie trailers.

James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the report in the Guardian by the journalist Ariel Bogle. She's also an analyst at the Australian strategic policy Institute and she researches online disinformation. She was questioning whether podcasts are becoming. The new dangerous content space and should be regulated or fined like social networks. James spoke with Galen Beebe, Bello Collective's co-editor who has just published its 100 outstanding podcasts from 2020 , their fifth annual lis...

Dec 18, 2020•46 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

New podcast:location tag, interview with Sam Liang, CEO of Otter.AI, about live notes.

James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the new Podcast 2.0 location tag which James has been working on. They also talk about PodLP providing podcast translations and Audible offering $10k for new podcast ideas. Then they are joined by Sam Liang, the CEO of Otter.ai who tells us about how Otter Live Notes & Captions can be used on Zoom calls. He also tells us about Live Translations coming in 2021. Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: Thi...

Dec 11, 2020•41 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Does Amazon want to buy Wondery? Interview with Mark Asquith, CEO Captivate, about private feeds.

James and Sam talk about if Wondery’s new owner will be Amazon? What's the difference between and Apple and Spotify's podcast lists for 2020. They also talk about Elastic Pod's new searchable transcriptions. Then they are joined by Mark Asquith, CEO of Captivate, who tells us about why they are launching Private Feeds. Send James & Sam a message Buzzsprout Start podcasting - keep podcasting! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive ...

Dec 03, 2020•33 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast

The Podnews Weekly Review - the last word in podcast news

Every week, the Podnews Weekly Review is the last word in podcasting news - with a look back at the most important news in podcasting, and interviews with the people that matter. Hear from James Cridland, the Editor of Podnews; Sam Sethi, the CEO of Podfans; and interviews with the people that matter. The Podnews Weekly Review. With Buzzsprout - podcast hosting made easy. Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @...

Nov 28, 2020•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast