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
Fake it until you make it, unless you buy it. Spotify's Megaphone buys Whooshkaa but still no date for exclusive podcasts, HiFi sound or transcriptions? SiriusXM we can't read you? Comments are live on Podverse and Buzzsprout supports the Person Tag.
GUEST: Larry Rosin, the co-founder and President of Edison Research
Spotify buys Whooshkaa! Congratulations Rob Loewenthal. A great guy and a great team.
SiriusXM is being sued for failing to prov…
Spotify may owe millions from missing licenses and may have gained millions from missing podcasts?
HOSTS:
- Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
- Jeff Price CEO - Word Collections
Spotify has pulled a number of comedy albums from its service, after claims they weren’t licensed correctly. J…
Winslow Bright talks about licensing music for your podcast. Hint: there is no fair usage. It's the start of the podcast awards season. Facebook podcasting is growing but it's clearly not ready for primetime and Spotify is testing sponsorship?
HOSTS:
- Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
- Winslow Bright - Executive Producer at Premier Music Group
NEWS:
Happy 1st birthday to us! What will Spotify do with its big M&A war chest, Castamatic 8 supports Value4Value and Lisa Laporte CEO of TWiT tells us how to run a successful podcast network.
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GUEST:
- Lisa Laporte - CEO - TWiT.tv
- Franco Solerio - Founder & Developer - Castamatic
NEWS:
- Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78…
Podcast listening is growing globally, Spotify advertising and subscriptions are expanding internationally but why is no one checking the content is factual, not breaking copyright and has a license to use it?
Podcasting 2.0 is all about an open 'Interoperable' ecosystem of apps using RSS that create shared value, not closed ecosystems from old SAGA apps - (Spotify, Apple, Google and Amazon).
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"INTEROPERABILITY IS THE KEY" - says Dave Jones
- Apple Podcasts has brought back the 'refresh feed’ button. While Apple seem confident that new episodes and oth…
Why's everyone going proprietary? Is it time to change the name podcast? Is James really one in a billion? And what's the secret sauce for creating a hit podcast?
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GUESTS:
- Dino Sofos - Founder and CEO, Persephonica. Recently departed Editor of BBC News Podcasts. Creator of the award-winning Brexitcast, Americast and the…
Spotify tells us they're sort of No1. Benjamin Bellamy tells us about the new Recommendation, Medium and Gateway RSS 2.0 namespace tags to make your podcast more discoverable. Bailey Drake tells us how to record live audio apps and transcribe them.
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GUESTS:
NEWS:
- Spotify released its Q3/21 results. It has 3.2m podcasts on its platform (…
Bryan Barletta sits in for Sam - Apple's downloads and Spotify's ad sales. Interview with Adam Bowie about podcast trends
James is recording in a forest. Proof: https://twitter.com/JamesCridland/status/1451002189049040905
Bryan Barletta runs https://soundsprofitable.com - go subscribe!
Apple Podcasts explains how podcasts…
Dr Brian of London talks Web 3, Podping, Hive and Dairy Cows? James now speaks fluent Spanish thanks to Veritone MARVEL․ai and Genevieve Hassan's podcast takes off with 5M Virgin Atlantic passengers.
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GUESTS:
- Dr Brian of London about his work on Podping and Hive.
- Genevieve Hassan about her podcast Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Di…
Chris Messina talks about Spotify Ads, the history of open formats on the social web and how ActivityPub could impact the future of Podcasting?
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk to Chris Messina about his work on OpenWeb Standards such as ActivityStreams that became ActivityPub. He wrote this seminal post on Medium about A…
Open RSS rated good by Acast. Closed Apple Podcast app rated bad by its users. #Discuss
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they celebrate 'International Podcast Day'.
GUESTS:: Ross Adams and Johan Billgren from Acast
NEWS:
1. Twitter has launched crypto-tipping using the lightning…
Research, research everywhere but who is right? Nielsen says podcasting is still growing. eMarketer says Spotify has overtaken Apple Podcasts and Arete Research says Spotify's management needs to change!
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GUESTS:
- Richard Kramer - Arete Research
- Bruce Supovitz - Nielsen
- Arica McKinnon - Nielsen
SHOW NOTES:
1. Edison Research - whilst podcast listening has grown, …
In our opinion, we need better listener tools - Clips, Comments and Content moderation. Oscar Merry talks about Fountain App, Alex Jacobi talks about the Open Podcast Analytics Format and will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?
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GUESTS
- Oscar Merry - talks about Fountain App (clips, boostergrams and chapters)
- Alex Jacobi - talks about OPAF (Open Podcast Analytics Format)
SHOW NOTES
- In a cli…
Passing the RSS buck! Is unmoderated podcasting spreading misinformation? Do podcasting apps need better content moderation reporting tools? Twitter to support Value4Value boosts.
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GUESTS:
- Valerie Wirtschafter - The Brookings Institution
- Andrew Craissati - Auddy
NEWS HEADLINES:
- Podcasting is "an ideal tool to inject false or misleading info…
Has Google given up on podcasting? Are subscriptions better than ads? Amazon, Spotify and Twitter double down on live social audio. Does podcasting need policing for lies and defamation?
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NEWS HEADLINES: - https://podnews.net/
- Has Google given up on podcasting?
The founder of Google Podcasts, Zack Reneau-Wedeen, has left Google. Ga…
Apple: The Internet Explorer of podcast apps? Evo Terra on why podcast apps suck. How's Spotify doing and multiple new ways to discover podcasts.
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INTERVIEW:
- Evo Terra - Podcast Pontifications - he lists his helpful commandments here.
PODNEWS HEADLINES:
- How’s podcasting doing for Spotify? Internal Spotify podcast …
What happens to podcast downloads if IP addresses go away? Interview: Bryan Barletta, plus automating YouTube for podcasting.
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INTERVIEW:
NEWS HEADLINES:
- “Nearly one in five weekly listeners say that YouTube is their primary service for podcasts. This is why I…
Mark Cuban lies his ass off. We interview Martin Mouritzen, PodFriend about Cross-App commenting and Boostagrams.
Who knew premature publishing was a thing ;-)
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INTERVIEWS:
NEWS:
- At Podcast Movement, Mark Cuban and Falon Fat…
Sam's back! Spotify's revenue, Apple's bugfix, and a new value4value app
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All the links are at Podnews at https://podnews.net/podcast/i5hv2
1. Spotify’s podcast ad revenue has jumped 627% year-on-year, according to their revenue announcemen…