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• Companies like Spotify and Amazon are "ultimately bad for podcasting," according to "Chief TWiT" and longtime podcaster Leo Laporte. Speaking in today's Podnews Weekly Review, he says: "Their complete model is to get you to listen in their app so that they know everything about you. They know exactly what you listen to, when you listen to it, how many times you listen to it, and which ads are listened to, and they want to sell that information ... Advertisers foolishly, I think, want that information." You can hear his interview in full.
• SiriusXM released its financial results for 2022. Off-platform ad revenue was up 34% to $475mn for the year, "with podcasting driving most of this growth". Overall results for the company were mixed; Pandora saw 9% fewer monthly active users.
• The Podnews Report Card is back for 2023, with your chance to be heard. We present and share this feedback to the large platforms, and it helps all of us improve. Please join your colleagues and fill in the Podnews Report Card today.

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• Libsyn has signed a Canadian comedy podcast network and an NHL show to Libsyn's AdvertiseCast.
• Headliner points us to modified YouTube rules on effing swearing, after some flipping great feedback from platform creators.
• The BBC's trial of making some shows exclusive to BBC Sounds for the first 28 days, announced more than a year ago, is still underway. We're told to expect an update later this Spring.
• Data: How many podcasts have trailers in their feeds? Podnews looked at 362,324 podcasts feeds in our sample over the last three months: just 50,096 of them (14%) have a trailer marked in their feed. Trailers are given special promotion within many podcast apps, and can be an ideal way to help potential listeners understand what your show is about. Here's some advice from Apple Podcasts and from Pacific Content: your podcast host has a special setting for one.

• Need numbers to show people how big podcasting is really? Help yourself to our slide deck.

• In a distant future, long after the apocalypse was forgotten and the history of civilization lost, three adventurers embark on a quest that could save the world. Created by Michael Freiberg, Intra Quest launches today: a "quirky fantasy-adventure scripted fiction podcast". It's made in 3D audio, and is a production of iHeartRadio and Astrum Media.
• False Profits: Hillsong is new today from Storyglass and iHeartPodcasts, looking at Hillsong, the global megachurch favoured by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, among many others. The podcast focuses on the rise and fall of the church's founder, the many scandals of the church, and stories of submission, exploitation, and discrimination.
• On Being with Krista Tippett returns for a new season - exploring the transmuting of high conflict to good conflict, the birthright of creativity and the science of awe. The show's first guest is actor Nick Offerman.

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