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 40: Has Google given up on podcasting? Are subscriptions better than ads? Amazon, Spotify and Twitter double down on live social audio. Does podcasting need policing for lies and defamation?


Listen to episode 40 with James Cridland and Sam Sethi

NEWS HEADLINES: - https://podnews.net/

  • Has Google given up on podcasting?
    The founder of Google Podcasts, Zack Reneau-Wedeen, has left Google.  Gabe Bender, Google Podcasts’ product lead, left in April...


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 September 2, 2021  39m
 
 

episode 42: In our opinion, we need better listener tools - Clips, Comments and Content moderation. Oscar Merry talks about Fountain App, Alex Jacobi talks about the Open Podcast Analytics Format and will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?

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GUESTS

  • Oscar Merry - talks about Fountain App (clips, boostergrams and chapters)
  • Alex Jacobi - talks about OPAF (Open Podcast Analytics Format)

 SHOW NOTES 

  • In a client note, Richard Kramer, an analyst from Arete Research has criticised Spotify...


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 September 16, 2021  1h12m
 
 

episode 43: Research, research everywhere but who is right? Nielsen says podcasting is still growing. eMarketer says Spotify has overtaken Apple Podcasts and Arete Research says Spotify's management needs to change!


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GUESTS:
- Richard Kramer - Arete Research
- Bruce Supovitz - Nielsen
- Arica McKinnon - Nielsen

SHOW NOTES:

1. Edison Research - whilst podcast listening has grown, 44% of US Latinos haven’t yet listened to a podcast.

2. Triton Digital - US Podcasting Report for August. Downloads are up 11% from July, as the Apple bugfix rolled out. Stitcher is #1 for podcasts...


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 September 23, 2021  1h11m
 
 

episode 44: Open RSS rated good by Acast. Closed Apple Podcast app rated bad by its users. #Discuss


Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they celebrate 'International Podcast Day'. 

GUESTS:: Ross Adams and Johan Billgren from Acast

NEWS: 

1. Twitter has launched crypto-tipping using the lightning network: the same tool used by Podcasting 2.0 Value4Value apps. The tool uses the Strike API. It’s “rolling out” on iOS.

2...


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 September 30, 2021  1h2m
 
 

episode 45: Chris Messina talks about Spotify Ads, the history of open formats on the social web and how ActivityPub could impact the future of Podcasting?

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Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk to Chris Messina about his work on OpenWeb Standards such as ActivityStreams that became ActivityPub.  He wrote this seminal post on Medium about ActivityStreams and ActivityPub in 2008

GUEST: Chris Messina is the inventor of the hashtag as it is currently used on social media platforms...


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 October 7, 2021  1h16m
 
 

episode 46: Dr Brian of London talks Web 3, Podping, Hive and Dairy Cows? James now speaks fluent Spanish thanks to Veritone MARVEL․ai and Genevieve Hassan's podcast takes off with 5M Virgin Atlantic passengers.


Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi they talk to  
 
GUESTS: 

  •  Dr Brian of London about his work on Podping and Hive. 
  • Genevieve Hassan about her podcast Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did

NEWS: 

  • Sounds Profitable en Español starts today, as Bryan Barletta explains in Sounds Profitable with Podsights...


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 October 14, 2021  2h15m
 
 

episode 47: Bryan Barletta sits in for Sam - Apple's downloads and Spotify's ad sales. Interview with Adam Bowie about podcast trends


James is recording in a forest. Proof: https://twitter.com/JamesCridland/status/1451002189049040905

Bryan Barletta runs https://soundsprofitable.com - go subscribe!

Apple Podcasts explains how podcasts work: https://podnews.net/update/apple-podcast-downloads-explanation

Spotify to hire hundreds of adsales staff: https://podnews...


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 October 21, 2021  41m
 
 

episode 48: Spotify tells us they're sort of No1. Benjamin Bellamy tells us about the new Recommendation, Medium and Gateway RSS 2.0 namespace tags to make your podcast more discoverable. Bailey Drake tells us how to record live audio apps and transcribe them.


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GUESTS: 

  • Bailey Drake - Back Stage by Headliner
  • Benjamin Bellamy - CEO Ad Aures

NEWS: 

  • Spotify released its Q3/21 results. It has 3.2m podcasts on its platform (subtext: beating Apple). Earnings were buoyed by growth in podcast advertising

  • Spotify is to add video podcasts, but probably not as you know them...


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 October 28, 2021  1h30m
 
 

episode 49: Why's everyone going proprietary? Is it time to change the name podcast? Is James really one in a billion? And what's the secret sauce for creating a hit podcast?


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GUESTS: 

  • Dino Sofos - Founder and CEO, Persephonica. Recently departed Editor of BBC News Podcasts. Creator of the award-winning Brexitcast, Americast and the daily Newscast.

NEWS: 

  • Spotify's proprietary video podcasts system is "a dumpster fire", says Drew Linsalata, the host of The Anxious Truth...


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 November 4, 2021  55m
 
 

episode 51: Podcast listening is growing globally, Spotify advertising and subscriptions are expanding internationally but why is no one checking the content is factual, not breaking copyright and has a license to use it?


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GUEST:
Sean Li - Clever.FM

NEWS: 

  • Spotify expands Podcast Subscriptions globally and now includes 20 price points from $0.50 to $150 and a way for creators to download subscribers' contact info  —  Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets...


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 November 18, 2021  1h6m