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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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 1h9m. Bisher sind 178 Folge(n) erschienen. Dieser Podcast erscheint wöchentlich.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 13 hours 35 minutes

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 February 18, 2022  57m
 
 

episode 63: This week's report card: ACast very bad, GoodPods bad, ActivityPub very good and Super Listener Wayne Cheong dies, very sad.


GUEST:

  • John Spurlock talking about implementing ActivityPub/Co-Comments  

LINKS: 

  • https://podcastsocial.org
  • https://minipub.dev/

NEWS: 

  • Anyone can claim to be a creator of any podcast within the GoodPods app, without any proof or validation, we’ve discovered...


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 February 25, 2022  1h14m
 
 

episode 64: Is Youtube the best place for podcasting now? Is Twitter the next place for podcasting?Is interactive podcasting the future of podcasting?

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Special Guest: 

  • Laura Ivey - Director of Research at Edison Research

News:

  • Will we see a podcast player in Twitter? Alessandro Paluzzi has spotted a podcasts option in the latest Twitter code, and Jane Manchun Wong has also unearthed a Podcasts tab. Nathan Gathright has brainstormed some ideas about what he hopes Twitter is up to - let’s hope it’s not just reruns of Twitter Spaces...


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 March 3, 2022  1h16m
 
 

episode 65: "Will Video Kill The Podcast Star?" - We interview James O. Boggs and Andy Bowers from Spooler Media the "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system. Amazon released Amp, a “live radio app”. YouTube offers podcasters up to $50k to switch.


GUESTS:  

  • James O. Boggs
  • Andy Bowers

NEWS: 

  • Spooler's "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system launched last week. According to an analysis by John Spurlock, on its first day, Spooler helped The Refresh from Insider to produce five editions of their podcast. 

  • A new podcast platform, Spooler, has launched. It's founded by a who's who of podcasting, including CEO James O...


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 March 10, 2022  59m
 
 

episode 66: Acast spam, spam multiple platform updates, spam, Gumball, spam, Websub, spam but no chapters, no transcriptions just lightning comments.


MONTY PYTHON: Spam Sketch

SPECIAL GUEST:

Marty Michael - CEO & Co-Founder Gumball 

  • Gumball has raised $10 million to expand its podcasting host-read advertising platform. The company was built by the team behind the Headgum Podcast Network. 

NEWS: 

  • Podcast host Acast is still spamming podcasters, even co-founders of rival podcast networks, or hosts of shows that ended three years ago...


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 March 17, 2022  1h12m
 
 

episode 67: Podland on tour in LA with Alban Brooke at Podcast Movement talking about the Podnews Report Card, The Ambies, the Infinite Dial 2022 and YouTube's no show.

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Special Guest

  • Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout

News: 

  • Kai Chuk from YouTube presented but said nothing about their future plans

    • Matt Deegan writes more about podcasters using video in his newsletter

    • By the end of the year, it’s going to be essential that podcasters are creating proper video versions of their shows...


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 March 26, 2022  45m
 
 

episode 68: Like London buses, you wait ages for one new podcast app and three come along at the same time. We talk with Chris Messina about NEW YouTube, Spotify and Twitter podcast apps coming soon.

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SPECIAL GUEST:  Chris Messina

NEWS:

YouTube:

  • Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts.  Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk, at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week

  • YouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube...


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 March 31, 2022  1h15m
 
 

episode 69: Acast you're still spamming your competition? BBC you're still losing your talent? YouTube you're still making us wait? Apple you're still not providing us transcripts? Why O Why!?

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Sponsor

  • Buzzsprout - last week, 3,847 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout 

Special Guest

  • Harry Duran talks about how he found a sponsor for his new podcast, raising $9k before launching  

SubStack

  • Substack is moving into podcasting - “but better”...


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 April 8, 2022  1h9m
 
 

episode 70: Internationalise in order to profitise or use swap promos but never ever plagiarise.

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Sponsor

  • Buzzsprout - last week, 3,686 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout 

Special Guest

  • Lauren Passell - CEO TinkMedia talks about why she has launched a podcast swap database for podcasters interested in setting up a promo swap for their podcast...


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 April 14, 2022  1h12m
 
 

episode 71: Hello to Spotify's new curation and moderation policies. Goodbye to Spotify's Greenroom creator fund and Facebook's podcasts.

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Sponsor

  • Buzzsprout - last week, 3,684 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout 

Notes & Links: 

1. Spotify Selling Vapourware Again!?

  • In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the communities they build and the experiences they create”, as part of the launch of Spotify Greenroom...


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 April 21, 2022  1h0m