Podnews Weekly Review

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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episode 16: Spotify drops Anchor but streams on with new TikTok UI for podcast discoverability. RSS.com provides Automatic Transcripts for free


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...


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 March 10, 2023  42m
 
 

episode 15: Will YouTube podcasting earn your time & attention? Podnews Live in Vegas, Manchester and London.

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Special Guest:

  • Steve Pratt - Founder / Attention Strategist at The Creativity Business

The News:  (All links are from Podnews.net)

  • YouTube Music adds podcasts and will support RSS uploads. See our full report. 
  • YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan, has written a blog post on the company's 2023 priorities. There's a paragraph about podcasting, which reflects the announcement made last week...


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 March 3, 2023  1h26m
 
 

episode 14: YouTube get into podcasting; Apple removes AppleCoreMedia, Podimo launches in the UK, and The Podcast Index shows cross-app comments working

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Special Guests: 

  • Nayeema Raza - talks about ON with Kara Swisher/Vox Media  - Podcast Extra
  • Mitch Downey - NEW Podverse v4.12.1 with LIT, Video and Value4Value streaming SATs.  
  • Jake Chudnow - Podimo enters the UK podcast market with more than twenty new shows. 

Show Notes: 

  • Apple finally removed the AppleCoreMedia user agent from Apple Podcasts...


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 February 24, 2023  1h29m
 
 

episode 13: Vox Media & Spotify raise significant new funding. Acast reports strong 2022 growth and seeks profitability by 2024. Podimo enters the UK market. Interviews with Hindenburg and RSS Blue

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Special Guests 

  • Chris Mottes - CEO at Hindenburg Systems

Hindenburg announced this week Hindenburg PRO v2, a new version of the editor with new features including transcription.

Podnews has an exclusive review of the new version.
Here are the Hindenburg team demonstrating the new Hindenburg PRO v2.

  • Dovydas Joksas - CEO RSS Blue 

RSS Blue now support keysend protocol and ...


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 February 17, 2023  1h30m
 
 

episode 12: Google removes/adds podcasts; Tom Rossi on Buzzsprout subscriptions; Sean Glynn on Novel; Jordan Harbinger

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Special Guests: 

  • Tom Rossi
  • Sean Glynn
  • Jordan Harbinger 

Show Notes

  • Google tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are being replaced with a new feature. 

  • Over a thousand Buzzsprout podcasts are using the subscriptions feature, according to Buzzcast. It was announced in late January...


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 February 10, 2023  1h15m
 
 

episode 11: Spotify's financials; Leo Laporte, chief TWiT; Todd Cochrane; and an MA in Podcasting

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Guests: 

  • Leo Laporte - Twit.TV

  • Todd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value", a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to natively support value4value...


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 February 3, 2023  1h51m
 
 

episode 10: Dawn of a new age at Spotify. Become a supporter of this podcast thanks to Buzzsprout NEW subscriptions. Are new podcasts really 80% down?

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Special Guest: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger Podcasts

  • Spotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off. Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff is to leave the company; "Alex [Norström] will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward"...


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 January 27, 2023  1h16m
 
 

episode 9: Forget downloads, "Listen Time" maybe a better way to measure podcast success.

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Special Guest Interviews:

  • Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about "A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time"

  • Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting.

Top News Stories

  • Exclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search...


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 January 20, 2023  1h18m
 
 

episode 8: Apple launches Delegated Delivery, and a look back at Google Podcasts in 2022

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Show notes come soon!


Spotify chapters workaround.....


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 January 13, 2023  56m
 
 

episode 7: Show Me The Value? Web Monetisation or SATS? Sell your RSS feed or start a video? What's best in 2023?

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This week James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about: 

  • PRX adds V4V using Web Monetisation
  • Spotify says its road to profitability is video
  • Spotify adds Chapters, Transcripts and Polls - all proprietary
  • OP3 starts testing a new stats page 


Chapters (hello, Spotify!)

(00:00:00) Podnews Weekly Review
(00:10:30) Laura Mayer sells an RSS feed
(00:12:38) Podcast One to spin off
(00:14:32) Is the...


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 January 6, 2023  58m