Podnews Weekly Review

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 revolutionizing podcast discovery? Learn how Podchaser's Collections+ leverages AI and machine learning to help listeners find their perfect podcast match. We also dive into Apple's latest updates to their podcast app, enhancing user experience and setting new records for podcast downloads. But wait, there's more! Discover how PodX's acquisition of Listen, a London-based audio production company, is shaking up the podcasting industry. Hear from Josh and Steffan on the specifics of the deal, their mission to empower podcast creators, and the future of podcast production. Don't miss this opportunity to stay in the know on the ever-evolving world of podcasting. Tune in now! Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

(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 away from discussing the inadequate financial support provided by big names like Apple and Spotify. Join us as we question Apple's secretive approach to supporting events and their reluctance to provide API access for content creators. We also dive into the role of the Podcast Standards Group and their lack of action in challenging these issues and promoting diversity within the industry. Finally, we explore the transformative potential of AI in podcasting, with a focus on Ausha's AI-powered platform and Buzzsprout's Co-host AI feature. Learn about the benefits of AI-generated titles, descriptions, and chapter markers, as well as the importance of partnering with third-party companies for these services. Don't miss this insightful episode as we navigate the complex landscape of the podcast industry and share our thoughts on these pressing issues. Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special guest: the audience Live from The Podcast Show, Sam and James look back at the week's podcasting news. Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: Captivate News: The New York TimesThe US podcast ad market is now worth $1.8bn, according to new data from the IAB and PWCallow ads from products and businessesSign upAudio CurrentsDWNLOAD MediaRAJAR released the Spring 2023 MIDAS ReportPhase 6 Podnews Weekly ReviewThe Podcast ShowThursday May 25 at 4.15pm. Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/MegaphoneSharon Taylor - Triton DigitalDarby Dorras - ListenTom Billington - The Podcast ShowNews: Acast released Q1/23 financialsAmazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platformAmazon quietly acquired Snackable, an AI platformbuy ticketsa method to measure your audience’s engagement with your podcastPodcasting on YouTube is a flop so farNewsGuard, a “news reliability data service”, has announced its entry into podcasting todaySupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: News: Spotify for Podcasters posted its second-highest share of new episodesSpotify for PodcastersAutomated AdsAmbassador AdsPodcast ad spending grew by 32% last year in the UKLet’s change the standard for host-read advertisingDan Granger’s thoughts in the Podcast Business JournalThe Podcast Academy has announced the association’s 2023-2024 OfficersThe winners of The Publisher Podcast AwardsHot MoneySupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests Ami ThakkarStaffan RosellNews: on the website version only for nowSpotify released its Q1/23 financial reportdatapodcasts in Asiaadded speaker names to transcriptsPodfriend v2 will support the 'podfollow' featureThe podcast:valueTimeSplit tag has been proposed by Alex Gates Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: News: Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet showsSpotify has also announced it’s closing HeardleJellysmackRØDE has launched a number of new products at the NAB Show in Las VegasBuzzsprout has added automated midrolls to their dynamic audio insertion toolPocket Casts has added episode searchproposedPodfansSupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids Listen News: Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journalsign up for free here Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology toolsDec 2021 Lemonada Media and Apple Books have launched an audio book club Independent podcast networks say they aren’t pivoting to video Podcast app Podcast Guru appears to now support live episodes The podcast:podroll element has been proposed https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/podcasts/byguidAdthos AI-generated audio ads serviceSupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: Lizzy PollottNina RobinsonNews: Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month! Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episodes the company now has 5.3m podcasts Spotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live new library called Transcriptator has been published could save up to 87.5% of your bandwidth bills Cross-app comments are now availableSupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: Justin Jackson and Charles Wilchin. A new grassroots industry coalition, the Podcast Standards ProjectRiverside has unveiled a significant updateThe News Agents had reached 24 million downloads since launching seven months agoLibsyn’s Glow has unveiled integration with Spotify Open AccessGumball has expanded its host-read podcast advertising marketplace to YouTube. has been reset for another 90 daysSlate is the latest publisher to partner with YouTuberediscovered source code for Adam Curry’s iPod AppleScriptautomagically update your iPod with any new mp3's that are downloaded to your “Radio UserLand” enclosures folderAudible has announced the launch of Dolby Atmos on the platform Podnews Live in Barcelona (September) and Mexico City (November) Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

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 metricsFacebook is shutting its audio channels in groupsLinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academyare “forging a new partnership focused on diversification and discoverability”Dave Jones#guidresolverhttps://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolverKevin FinnReid Hoffman’swww.possible.fm Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

James is joined this week by Courtney Kocak, while Sam Sethi goes skiing. Links for this week's show at https://podnews.net/archive Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guest: Jordan Blair - Buzzcast Co-Host and Producer Show Notes: Spotify for Podcastersan expanded video podcasts lineupSpotify revealed their latest interfaceSpotify is also partnering with Patreonannounced in February 2021Podcast host RSS.​com is the first podcast host to have released fully free automatic transcripts for all its customersPodcast listening has hit record highs, according to The Infinite Dial® from Edison ResearchA proposal has been made for the podcast namespace’s author tagSupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guest: Steve PrattThe News: (All links are from Podnews.net) See our full report.Neal Mohanwritten a blog post on the company's 2023 prioritiesthe announcement made last weekembed YouTube videos in Transistor website pages appears visibleMax Cutler has posted his predictions for the industryPodnews Weekly Review LivePodnews Livepodnews.net/liveSupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: Nayeema RazaPodcast ExtraMitch DowneyJake ChudnowPodimo enters the UK podcast market with more than twenty new showsShow Notes: the AppleCoreMedia user agent Jonas WoostSteve Pratt Listen Timethe company has published a detailed method of calculating it Steve Pratt.Podcasting 2.0 Nathan Gathright http://Steno.fm March 9 at 12pm Podnews LiveTickets Podnews Report Card. Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests Chris MottesHindenburg SystemsHindenburg 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. RSS BlueRSS 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 PodcastSpotify has a new investorValueAct Capital ManagementAcast published its year-end financial reportDescript has made a number of changes to its redesignPodimo is to enter the UK podcast market with more than twenty new showsPublisher Podcast AwardsSupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guests: Show Notes go away Buzzcastannounced UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round 54% of the Apple Podcasts top 200 had trailers, and 50% of the Spotify top 200 did too What makes a chart-topping podcast? Dave Jones has added a new Podcast Index API output Wildebeest Podnews Live - Manchester 13th June - Save the Day! (0:00) 10 Feb (1:16) Google and podcasts (7:37) Interview: Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout (20:57) Interview: Sean Glynn from Novel (32:40) Trailers (36:32) What makes a #1? (38:35) Interview: Jordan Harbinger (43:25) YouTube and Freakonomics (45:29) People News (46:57) The Tech Stuff (1:05:14) Announcing Podnews Live (1:07:07) Boostagram Corner (1:10:30) Sam and James's week Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Guests: Leo Laporte Todd CochraneBlubrry has released support for "value4value" Brett Spencer & Sandy Warr the UK’s first dedicated MA in Podcasting and a Centre of Podcasting ExcellenceNews: Spotify released the company's Q4/22 financial updatean earnings callDaniel Ek Podnews Extra UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round a series of articles about podcasting in East and South East Asia Alby has released details about its partnership with BlubrrySupport the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)

Special Guest: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger Podcasts announcedalmost 600 people (6%) will be laid offDaniel Ek announced in a memoNorström dropped by 80%explore today in a deep-dive article Buzzsprout has announced a podcast subscription toolThe Podnews Weekly Review has added the opportunity to become a PoWeR supporter(0:00:00) Jan 27 (0:01:04) She's Offstroff - Spotify changes (0:21:30) Is podcasting really down by 80%? (0:28:04) Buzzsprout launches subscriptions (0:34:13) Quake Media launches (0:35:59) Global's news podcast report (0:37:41) Interview: Jack Davenport (0:55:40) People News (0:57:16) THe Tech Stuff (1:03:20) Around the world (1:05:54) Events (1:07:49) Boostagram Corner (1:11:42) Sam and James's week Support the showConnect With Us: weekly@podnews.net@jamescridland@podnews@samsethi@samtalkstech⚡james@crid.land⚡sam@getalby.comwww.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportpodnews.net NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!)