Podnews Weekly Review

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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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...

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 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...