Podnews Weekly Review
The last word in podcasting news.
Every Friday, James Cridland and Sam Sethi review the week's top stories from Podnews; and interview some of the biggest names making the news from across the podcast industry.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 256
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Scoop Queen Ashley Carman joins us. Apple announces Podcasts Delegated Delivery. No Anchor or Megaphone. Are you team Spotify or team Apple? RØDECaster Pro II leaked. Curiocaster and Podverse support tag.
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…
00:56:55 |
Sat 21 May 2022
It Sounds Interesting now that Tom Webster has announced he is joining Sounds Profitable.
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…
00:59:04 |
Thu 12 May 2022
Down Anchor, Goodbye Facebook, Au Revoir Michael Mignano & Tom Webster. Hello Squadcast!
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 Ma…
00:55:05 |
Thu 05 May 2022
Will video help make the next podcasting star? Anchor, Substack and YouTube think so. We talk to Tom Billington about the London Podcast Show and Neil Mody about Headliner, Disco and Eddy.
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:
- Sp…
01:30:54 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Hello to Spotify's new curation and moderation policies. Goodbye to Spotify's Greenroom creator fund and Facebook's podcasts.
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 fo…
00:59:27 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Internationalise in order to profitise or use swap promos but never ever plagiarise.
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 inter…
01:11:42 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Acast you're still spamming your competition? BBC you're still losing your talent? YouTube you're still making us wait? Apple you're still not providing us transcripts? Why O Why!?
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
01:08:24 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
Like London buses, you wait ages for one new podcast app and three come along at the same time. We talk with Chris Messina about NEW YouTube, Spotify and Twitter podcast apps coming soon.
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…
01:15:20 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Podland on tour in LA with Alban Brooke at Podcast Movement talking about the Podnews Report Card, The Ambies, the Infinite Dial 2022 and YouTube's no show.
Special Guest
- Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout
News:
- Kai Chuk from YouTube presented but said nothing about their future plans
00:44:27 |
Sat 26 Mar 2022
Acast spam, spam multiple platform updates, spam, Gumball, spam, Websub, spam but no chapters, no transcriptions just lightning comments.
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 t…
01:11:33 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
"Will Video Kill The Podcast Star?" - We interview James O. Boggs and Andy Bowers from Spooler Media the "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system. Amazon released Amp, a “live radio app”. YouTube offers podcasters up to $50k to switch.
GUESTS:
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 Refr…
00:58:30 |
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Is Youtube the best place for podcasting now? Is Twitter the next place for podcasting?Is interactive podcasting the future of podcasting?
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 …
01:15:54 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
This week's report card: ACast very bad, GoodPods bad, ActivityPub very good and Super Listener Wayne Cheong dies, very sad.
GUEST:
- John Spurlock talking about implementing ActivityPub/Co-Comments
LINKS:
NEWS:
- Anyone can claim to be a creator of any podcast within the GoodPods a…
01:14:19 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Crowd Network launches in Manchester, James launches 'Podnews Report Cards', Facebook launches audio rooms, Podping launches live notifications and Sam launches The Crafty Tug?
SPECIAL GUEST:
NEWS:
- Spotify has acquired Podsights and Chartable
- Spotify has published an interview with Sean Creeley from Podsights
- Apple has just published a guide to gettin…
00:56:26 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Pay Attention, Cash is King, Bitcoin is the native currency of the Internet and it's raining Sat's on Fountain.
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…
01:25:01 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
Captivate CEO Mark Asquith talks about the global acquisition and their future. Castos CEO Craig Hewitt talks about supporting Value4Value and why it's a better model than advertising for podcasters
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 fou…
01:29:05 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
Scott Waxman tells us why books and podcasts fit together? Hala Taha tells us why promoting your podcast with an audiogram maybe a waste of time? Amazon buys exclusive rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ podcast. Libsyn5 is live to all users.
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 You…
01:16:29 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
Brad Mielke tells us what he learnt from 1,000 daily podcasts? Effy Kang tells us about podcasting in China. Celebs tell us about their favourite podcasts on Apple. Helipad tells us how many SAT's we've earned in real-time and Podping tells us first!
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:
01:10:13 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Spotify launch call-to-actions cards, ratings but still no Hifi? What's a GUID and a ULID? Cash app now supports Lightning payments. Facebook mutes podcasts, not as big as they think. India the biggest podcast market by 2023? Sam talks about Podcasting3?
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 a…
00:55:03 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Jonas Woost, Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content, predicts the near future of podcasting in 2022
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 S…
00:37:02 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
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