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.
Winner, "Best Podcasting Podcast", 2025 Ear Worthy Awards
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 256
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Will YouTube podcasting earn your time & attention? Podnews Live in Vegas, Manchester and London.
Special Guest:
- Steve Pratt - Founder / Attention Strategist at The Creativity Business
The News: (All links are from Podnews.net)
- YouTube Music adds podcasts and will support RSS uploads. See our full …
YouTube get into podcasting; Apple removes AppleCoreMedia, Podimo launches in the UK, and The Podcast Index shows cross-app comments working
Special Guests:
- Nayeema Raza - talks about ON with Kara Swisher/Vox Media - Podcast Extra
- Mitch Downey - NEW Podverse v4.12.1 with LIT, Video and Value4Value streaming SATs.
- Jake Chudnow - Podimo en…
Vox Media & Spotify raise significant new funding. Acast reports strong 2022 growth and seeks profitability by 2024. Podimo enters the UK market. Interviews with Hindenburg and RSS Blue
Special Guests
- Chris Mottes - CEO at Hindenburg Systems
Hindenburg announced this week Hindenburg PRO v2, a new version of the editor with new features including transcription.
Podnews has an exclusiv…
Google removes/adds podcasts; Tom Rossi on Buzzsprout subscriptions; Sean Glynn on Novel; Jordan Harbinger
Special Guests:
- Tom Rossi
- Sean Glynn
- Jordan Harbinger
Show Notes
- Google tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are be…
Spotify's financials; Leo Laporte, chief TWiT; Todd Cochrane; and an MA in Podcasting
Guests:
- Leo Laporte - Twit.TV
- Todd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value", a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Cast…
Dawn of a new age at Spotify. Become a supporter of this podcast thanks to Buzzsprout NEW subscriptions. Are new podcasts really 80% down?
Special Guest: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger Podcasts
- Spotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off. Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Da…
Forget downloads, "Listen Time" maybe a better way to measure podcast success.
Special Guest Interviews:
- Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about "A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time"
- Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to …
Apple launches Delegated Delivery, and a look back at Google Podcasts in 2022
Show notes come soon!
Spotify chapters workaround...
(0:00) Fri 13 Jan
(0:53) Apple launches Delegated Delivery
(4:54) Amazon almost do a deal but don't
(7:31) A new Audible podcast
(9:57) Google Podcasts …
Show Me The Value? Web Monetisation or SATS? Sell your RSS feed or start a video? What's best in 2023?
This week James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about:
- PRX adds V4V using Web Monetisation
- Spotify says its road to profitability is video
- Spotify adds Chapters, Transcripts and Polls - all proprietary
- OP3 …
12 Podcast experts give their 2022 highlights and 2023 predictions. Benjamin Bellamy talks OP3, ActivityPub, Cross Comments. Dave Jones talks about NEW PodPing 2.0
This Week's Special Guests talk about their podcasting highlights for 2022 and their predictions for 2023.
- Mark Asquith - Captivate/Global
- 2022: News Agents Hits 10m downloads
- 2023: Higher Rate CP…
Data everywhere but whose number 1?
Show Notes & Links
- Buzzsprout has posted its network statistics for November
- Spotify’s Anchor continues to lose market share: it was down to 21.6% of all new podcast episodes in November
- SXM Media is, …
Why are Apple putting metadata topics inside podcast pages? Bumper's Dan Misener tells us what he thinks. Are Satoshis the best way to reward podcasters? Trevor Bell argues there are better ways.
Special Guests:
Dan Misener- co-founder Bumper
- Dan Misener has looked at the new topics that Apple Podcasts is automatically allocating to shows (see our coverage on Nov 15, including our topics viewe…
Spotify launches audiobooks globally. Anchor is still alive but Libsyn Studio is dead.
News & Links
- Audiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. They'd launched in the US in September
- Spotify Updates Notifications
- Spotify’s Anchor has added “audio…
Is now the right time for ActivityPub? Is now the right time for Video Podcasting? If not now then when?
- Chris Messina - co-author of ActivityStrea.ms - Full interview in NEW podcast Podnews Extra.
Financial results for Acast, Audacy and iHeart; Vizzy enriches podcasts; and Sam goes to the pub
Welcome to EP 1 of Podnews Weekly with James Cridland and Sam Sethi.
Podnews supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps
Spon…
It's goodbye to Podland and hello to Podnews Weekly Review. It's goodbye to email and hello to Podcast:txt. It's goodbye to Twitter verified and hello to Amazon Music & Podcasts ad free.
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps
Special Guests:
- Adam Curry (Podfather) & Dave Jones (Podsage) talk about:…
Stop the downloads - measure the listens. The Sports Podcast Awards, and Q3 results: Spotify and ABC Australia are up but the BBC is not
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps
Special Guests:
- Dylan Pugh - The Sports Podcast Awards 2023 are now open …
To edit or not to edit that is the question? Castopod v1.0 launches, Squadcast awarded US Patent, Is podcasting coming to TikTok? YouTube advertising for podcasters?
Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps
Special Guests:
- Neal Vigelio - Podknows
- Benjamin Bellamy - Ad Aures
- Yassine…
Spotify layoffs, it's just business? Todd Cochrane 1,628 not out! Podcast.ai brings back Steve Jobs? Phase 6 of Podcast Index announced!
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Special Guests:
Show Notes & Links:
Skye Pillsbury from newsletter 'The Squeeze' talks about 'What Does "Big Money Podcasting" Look Like?' both now and in the future, as layoffs continue and shows are cut.
We support both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps
Special Guest
- Skye Pillsbury - The Squeeze
- The Squeeze Newsletter Article What …