Visit https://podnews.net/update/castro-to-close for all the links, and to get our newsletter.
Classifieds - your job or ad here
Swell AI: AI writer for networks & agencies ????✍ — Manage multiple shows in one account. Create custom show note templates. Write social posts, newsletters, articles & more for clients. Integrates will Google Drive, Dropbox & more. Sign up for free.
How Huberman Lab & Pod Save America make ???? — The world’s highest-earning pods partner with Supercast to offer subscriptions on their terms, under their brand. Our top 10 podcasts gross $18M+ in subscription revenue. ???? ✉️: hello@supercast.com
Attract and Engage NEW Podcast Listeners! ???? — Grow your podcast with Trailergram, an ad solution from Amaze Media Labs. Using advanced AI targeting, Trailergram reaches your ideal audience, drives listens, and sends push notifications. Try it!
Serious about growing your podcast? — Then be serious about trying out new ideas that you've probably never considered. Just look at Podcaster's Kit this week and see all the stuff that would be great to know. Available this week only.
Thank you to Courtney Reimer (who was the EP of Archetypes with Meghan Markle) for becoming our latest personal supporter. Listed at the bottom of our email, they're super-important to us, since they allow us to lessen our dependence on advertising, and thus increase our independence. You can be like Courtney.
More on Auddia's ad-skipping technology, after the latest podcast news...
Podcast NewsTake your team to new heights with The 28th Annual Webby Awards. Last chance to enter next week Friday December 15th, 2023.
Entering The Webby Awards is a great way to recognize your team's achievements. Just by participating, you show your team that their work deserves global recognition. It also signals to the industry that your team is one to watch, and work with. This is great for talent retention and attracting the best people in audio.
Enter the 28th Annual Webby Awards by the Final Entry Deadline of December 15th, 2023.
Feedback on Auddia's faidrYesterday, we covered Auddia's plans to launch a product that automatically skips ads in podcasts for $5.99 a month. The company said it didn't need any agreements with podcasters to do that; that it will share revenue with creators in future; and that there's no need for creators to opt-out: "Why opt-out if no harm is being done?"
We've never had so much reader feedback to a story. Here's a selection...
This company is totally wrong here. OF COURSE HARM IS BEING DONE. The advertisers are being screwed. And one may say that's fine because the podcaster is still getting paid, but in the long term if our shows' ads aren't creating a positive ROI for the advertisers they will stop advertising or attempt to negotiate a lower rate. SO long term this clearly does harm the podcaster. Taking money from my business partner (my advertisers, who I actually care about) and putting it in your pocket is not OK and no podcaster should want to be a part of this scheme Auddia is proposing. It hurts the whole industry if advertisers are systematically being screwed. They will just go somewhere else with higher ROI.
While I don't agree with the notion that EVERY creator has a divine right to get paid for their content (especially if nobody asked them for it) I do feel that actively helping freeloaders circumnavigate a thing that helps people get compensated for their work when it's deserved is a nope.
Perhaps a member of the legal profession will notify them of a curiously non-AI concept called “copyright.”
The listener doesn't necessarily know when an ad is coming, so they hear the first second or so of an ad before they have time to hit the skip ahead button, which means there is an opportunity to capture their attention with that ad and keep them from skipping ahead. Auddia's technology does not allow this. Anyway, if publishers wanted to offer their content ad-free, almost all podcasting hosting sites offer the ability to create an ad-free RSS feed. Auddia should not be forcing them into that without proper agreements in place.
We're grateful for your comments: and yes, we read them when you hit reply.
We have been told, however, that the public email address on Auddia's website doesn't work. We have reported that to the company.
Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, Mowpod, Mamamia, audioBoom, SALT, Simplecast, Cohost, Resound, Steve Lack: Audio, RedCircle, Podvine, Riverside.fm, Spreaker, Jar Audio, Podchaser, Awesound, Acast, Disctopia, The Roost, Podpage websites, Libsyn, We Edit Podcasts, Evergreen Podcasts, Knucklehead Media Group
Silver supporters: Storic Media, Bumper, Magellan AI, Podfans, Voxtopica, Podium , Storyboard, Frequency, ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Aust, The Podcast Haven, Cloud10, Gilded Audio, Capsho, Huberman Lab, Gumball, Jonekiri, Terra Firma Audio, Message Heard, Podscribe, Health Podcast Network, Julep Hosting, Wondery, matchmaker.fm, Heartcast Media50, Jam Street Media, Podcastpage, Oxford Road, Headliner, Castos, Blubrry, Double Elvis Productions, Podcast Taxi, Ossa Collective, Zvook, Maps.fm, Diversion Podcasts, Sonic Influencer Marketing, Rephonic, Rhapsody Voices, Transistor, Lemonada Media, Optimal Living Daily, Podcast Partnership, StreamGuys, Ad Results Media, Content10x, Hear.Here.Singapore, She Podcasts, Cleanfeed, Adopter Media, Revolver Podcasts, Sonix, Lower Street, Podcast Movement, School of Podcasting, Podigy, Edison Research, Signal Hill Insights
Our personal supporters: Amy Woods, Jessica Alpert Silber, John, Armel, Mikel Ellcessor, Gene Monterastelli, Neil Mody, David Lloyd, Matt Wade, Steven Goldstein, Matthieu Beauval, Mirko Lagonegro, Andy Maher, Jason DeFillippo, Kara Silverman, The Virtual Couch, Eric Hunley, Liz Covart, Ed Sullivan, Justin Jackson, Jack Rhysider, Karen Jackson, Lindsay Graham, Oh God, What Now, CESLIE Armstrong, Søren Hugger Møller, Patrick K. Walsh, Mike Rapin, Michael Dell, Owen Grover, Benjamin Masse, Eric Nuzum, Brett Johnson, Steve Stewart, Pete Morgan, ShEvo (Sheila Dee & Evo Terra), Joe Stone, Jody Avirgan, James Atkinson, Lewis, Erin Harper, Buzz Knight, Helene Pawlitzki, Bjørn Barfoed Vestergaard, Graeme Klass, Stephanie Arakelian, Kerry Donahue, George Mocharko, Rekha Murthy, Jeremy McCarter, EarBuds Podcast Collective, Alan Haburchak, Mary Dooe, Dave Beasing, Mohammad Ali, Meggan Ellingboe, Stew Redwine, Alicia Mackey Huber, Paul Vogelzang, Vanessa Harris, Andy Bowers, Tony Garcia, We Are Libertarians, Suzanne Schultz, Niall Mackay, Joanne Phillips, Courtney Reimer, Brandon Schexnayder
Support Podnews, and our industry
Support us - this feed for You
Image: eli armas