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.
Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts. Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk, at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week
YouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube.com/podcasts (a URL that doesn’t work, yet)
Spotify:
Spotify is working on a brand new podcast interface. Spotted by Chris Messina, who posted a screen recording archived by Podnews here, the new interface adds a dedicated Podcasts tab, vertical scrolling, and live captions for all shows.
Want to play with the new Spotify interface for podcasting? It’s already on your phone. On an iPhone or iPad, open Safari, visit spotify:internal:podcastclips and you’ll go straight there. /via @chrismessina
SiriusXM:
Freakonomics Radio is to become a radio station on SiriusXM.
RØDE has launched its first-ever set of headphones. i.e the NTH-100s
Podimo has bought Dag en Nacht, the largest podcast publisher in the Netherlands.
Sonnant has launched new AI-powered tools for audio and video monetisation.
Dave Jones from the Podcast
Buzzcast Keep up to date on the latest podcasting tech & news with the folks at Buzzsprout!
Listen on: Apple Podcasts
Buzzsprout Podcast hosting and a whole lot more
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
Support the show
Connect With Us:
Email: weekly@podnews.net
Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @joinpodfans
Lightning/NOSTR: ⚡james@crid.land and ⚡sam@getalby.com
Mastodon: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social