Podnews Weekly Review

Special Guests: 

• Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/Megaphone
• Sharon Taylor - Triton Digital
• Darby Dorras - Listen
• Tom Billington  - The Podcast Show

News: 

• Acast released Q1/23 financials.  Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began...

Special Guests: 

• Chris Quamme Rhoden on Acast's work in the Podcast Standards Project.
• Nick Hilton talks about host reads.

News: 

• Spotify for Podcasters posted its second-highest share of new episodes, growing 13% since January. 
• Spotify for Podcasters is rolling out the company’s monetisation programs, Automated Ads and Ambassador Ads, to more countries...

Special Guests

• Ami Thakkar  - The Podcast Academy, Board Member
• Staffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-Founder

News: 

• YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now. 
• Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report. Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%...

Special Guests: 

• Steven Bell
• Elisa Shearer

• Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet shows
• Starting on June 1, Chartable will no longer provide confirmed plays and episode consumption data from Apple Podcasts
• Spotify has also announced it’s closing Heardle
• Spotify has struck a deal with Jellysmack, the creator company that works with stars like MrBeast and...

Special Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids Listen

News: 

• Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week.  You can sign up for free here
  
  
• Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools...

Special Guests: 

• Lizzy Pollott  -  SVP Marketing, Communications & Brand
• Nina Robinson - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions 

News:

• Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast. Shows were previously with Spotify.
  
  
• Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month! 
  
  
• Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23...

Special Guests: Justin Jackson and Charles Wilchin.

• A new grassroots industry coalition, the Podcast Standards Project, has been launched to advocate for open podcasting. The group includes podcast hosting companies like RSS.com, Buzzsprout, Red Circle, Captivate and Acast; and podcast players like Pocket Casts and Podverse. 
• Remote recording tool Riverside has unveiled a significant update adding text-based editing and AI transcription features...

Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global)

News: 

• YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!”
• YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metrics
• Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups
• LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six month incubator pilot for nineteen shows
• Spotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post...

James is joined this week by Courtney Kocak, while Sam Sethi goes skiing.

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Special Guest:  Jordan Blair  - Buzzcast Co-Host and Producer

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...