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
To subscribe or not to subscribe that is the question. Interviews with Sean Glynn from Novel, Rob Loewenthal from Whooshkaa, Jess Kupferman from She Podcasts and Agnes Kozera from Podcorn
Apologies some of the sound recordings on Sam's interviews were not clear due to a broken mic.
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INTERVIEWS:
- Sean Glynn - Novel
- Rob Loewenthal - Who…
The Ambies nominees announced, Will Spotify overtake Apple?, Interview with Kal Amin Sounder, Women's History Month
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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…
Spotify StreamOn Analysis, Interview with Spotify's Mike Mignano and Podcast Movement the winners and losers.
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INTERVIEW:
- Michael Mignano - Co-Founder, Anchor / Head of Podcaster Mission, Spotify - talks about all the new announcements from this weeks St…
iHeartMedia buy Triton Digital, Songs For Podcasters, Interview with Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout
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INTERVIEWS:
- Kirt Debique the CEO & CTO from SyncFloor talks about their Songs For Podcasters music service.
Clubhouse, SoundClub or Fireside? Music Fair Usage, New Spotify Play Book and Maps.FM
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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, …
Anchor's redesign; podcast consumption in Denmark; Sounds Profitable's clever ad-tech, New People and Location Tags
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Interviews:
- Anna Sian - Head of Marketing, Spotify & Anchor FM - talks about their redesign.
- Bryan Barletta - Sounds Profitable - talks about 'D…
How fast is podcasting growing? Plus: Africa Podfest, Podcast Radio, and news of a new, 24-hour global podcast conference
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- Podcasting is growing fast, acc…
Apple's new subscriptions? Spotify's failing strategy? Does Clubhouse need moderating? Interviews with Podpage, MatchCasts, Podchaser and A Million Ads
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We talk about Apple's proposed new subscription service and what it means for podcasters?
And has Spotify's foray into podcasting failed? Citi Re…
Clubcasting, TwitterSpaces, Dynamic Content Insertion and Interviews with, Buzzsprout, Adelicious.FM and BBC World Service.
Apple and Spotify privacy issues. Interview with Rob Greenlee about changes at The Podcast Academy.
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Podcast Predictions for 2021 with Steve Pratt, Partner at Pacific Content.
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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 …
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 disinfor…
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 …
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 transcr…
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.
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