Podnews Weekly Review

Every Thursday in Podland, James Cridland, the editor of Podnews and Sam Sethi, the editor of Sam Talks Technology, analyse the news from the world of podcasting and interview some of the biggest names that matter in Podland.

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...

James and Sam talk about if Wondery’s new owner will be Amazon? What's the difference between and Apple and Spotify's podcast lists for 2020. They also talk about Elastic Pod's new searchable transcriptions. 

Then they are joined by Mark Asquith, CEO of Captivate, who tells us about why they are launching Private Feeds...

James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the new Podcast 2.0 location tag which James has been working on.  They also talk about PodLP providing podcast translations and Audible offering $10k for new podcast ideas.

Then they are joined by Sam Liang, the CEO of Otter.ai who tells us about how Otter Live Notes & Captions can be used on Zoom calls.  He also tells us about Live Translations coming in 2021...

James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk about the report in the Guardian by the journalist Ariel Bogle. She's also an analyst at the Australian strategic policy Institute and she researches online disinformation. She was questioning whether podcasts are becoming. The new dangerous content space and should be regulated or fined like social networks...

James Cridland and Sam Sethi talk on this weeks show about the open independent podcast ecosystem versus the closed ecosystems. 

Will 2021 be a good year for podcasting or will we see the big players dominate such Amazon, Spotify and Apple by swallowing up all the independent podcast producers? 

We talk about whether Spotify is good or bad for the industry and discuss programmatic advertising versus Spotify's streaming advertising...

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show.

Interviews:

News:

Previous Episodes: https://podland.news

Connect With Us:

• Email: weekly@podnews...

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show.

Interviews:

News:

Previous Episodes: https://podland.news

Listen on: Apple Podcasts  

James and Sam talk about the possibility of using Clubhouse to conduct interviews with a live audience and record the room to use later for podcasting.  Could "Clubcasting" be the future of podcasting?

Sam talks with Wayne Cheong from PodFest Asia in Clubhouse, to workout how to record a room. (please note: recording a room without the participant's knowledge is against the TOS and could get you banned...

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show.

We talk about Apple's proposed new subscription service and what it means for podcasters?

And has Spotify's foray into podcasting failed? Citi Research said "The only thing podcasting seems to have influenced is Spotify’s valuation.” They suggest that clients sell the stock.

We'll discuss whether we think they are right or premature...

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show.

Interviews:

• Melissa Mbugua from Africa Podfest
• Gerard Edwards from Podcast Radio
• Matt Deegan from Podcast Day 24

News:

• Podcasting is growing fast, according to LiveXLive CEO Robert Ellin...