The last word in podcasting news. Every Friday James Cridland (⚡james@crid.land ) and Sam Sethi (⚡sam@getalby.com) review and analyse the week's top podcasting news as covered on Podnews. We also interview some of the biggest names in podcasting making the news. Support the show at https://weekly.podnews.net - or hit the boost button! Sponsored by Buzzsprout: podcast hosting made easy.
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Show Notes:
Anchor is now called Spotify for Podcasters. The new podcast hosting service includes automated ads (US-only, invite-only), and podcast subscriptions (in 34 markets).
Spotify will allows any podcaster to use Q&A and polls - wherever they’re hosted.
Spotify also announced an expanded video podcasts lineup.
Spotify revealed their latest interface, a vertically-scrolling way to discover new shows
Spotify has also added Autoplay for Podcasts
Spotify is also partnering with Patreon.
Spotify Hi-fi, announced in February 2021, has still not been launched
Podcast host RSS.com is the first podcast host to have released fully free automatic transcripts for all its customers. The transcripts appear on episode pages on the RSS website
Podcast listening has hit record highs, according to The Infinite Dial® from Edison Research
Captivate just released a massive range of RSS enhancements, powered by Podcasting 2.0, for free to all Captivate Podcasters.
A proposal has been made for the podcast namespace’s author tag.
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