James Cridland: It's a total eclipse of the local sports podcast. The latest from podnews.net with
Podcastle, create, edit, publish and grow. Vox Media's SB Nation has closed its local
sports podcasts, even locking some podcasters out of posting final episodes. A long post
by Kyle Scott Laskowski, which we link to today, give some potential reasons. Apple
Podcasts has added transcripts to its Mac OS app. Transcripts look nice, we link to what
they look like today. To get to them, hit the dot dot dot menu button next to any episode
or the player and choose View Transcript. Unlike the iOS app though, they don't display
in real time, nor can you use them to navigate the show, but they are searchable. We link
to how they work as well in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
The TWiT studios in Petaluma in California will no longer be open to visitors to watch
live recordings after the end of this month. According to Lisa Laporte, it's part of
a club TWiT revamp. Headliner celebrated its sixth birthday by sharing statistics. So far,
more than 138 years of content has been created with Headliner. The company is also looking
to expand its list of paid podcast promotion companies. If you're in that business but
you're not listed, you should let them know. reVolver Podcast and Cisneros Media Distribution
are making five of Cisneros' titles available in podcast form. The Cost Per Thousand model of
advertising does not and will not ever work to sustain podcasting. That's the view of
Mia Lobel, formerly Head of Content at Pushkin Industries. Podcast app Castro has released
an update, including a set of bug fixes. The app is under new ownership. Podcast monitoring
service Podscan has received funding a six-figure amount, according to founder Arvid Kahl. The
winners of the India Audio Summit and Awards 2024 were announced, and we link to what Google
Podcast looks like now inside the US, where it's closed - even the web app. It still works
everywhere else, though, and we have no date for its closure in other countries.
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and to enhance our service to everyone. We truly appreciate it, and you can support us
too at podnews.net/support. In People News, in Australia, the ABC has appointed
Tim Roxborough as EP of True Crime Podcasts, Rachel Brown as Development Executive of True
Crime, and Joel Werner as Executive Producer in Audio Studios, returning from Gimlet. An
Audioboom is to expand its sales division with the appointment of Molly Harvey as VP
of Brand Sales, joining from SiriusXM and CBS Radio, and Shaun Wilson as Vice President
of UK Sales, returning from Spotify and Sony Music.
Time for some tech stuff, and a way to list publisher feeds is under consideration for
the new podcast namespace. It would allow podcast apps to show other podcasts from this
publisher, as well as provide some verification that it's an official podcast, it's open
for comment. And Andrew Grumet has built a free lookup tool to find podcast GUIDs from
RSS feeds and the other way around. A GUID stays with the podcast forever, even if it
moves hosts, and we support GUIDs in our podcast pages too. They're useful for things like
podrolls.
And in Podcast News, just ending its season, Trumped is the story of Donald Trump's controversial
golf development in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, Greenlit, despite high-profile protests from
locals, planners, and environmentalists, it's from BBC Scotland.
Canardian is a brand new podcast from Pod The North, talking to famous podcasters from across
Canada about their hometowns. A podcast about podcasts, but not about podcasts themselves.
The 12-episode season starts with Jess Schmidt from Rooked, the cheater's gambit.
Chill on This was new yesterday, and invites you to critically examine everything you know
about food and nutrition, as the show delves into expert insights and practical advice.
It's hosted by Amal Wakim, the CEO of a nutrition app called Equalution, and Kyle and Jackie O,
the biggest and richest radio personalities in Sydney, are to start broadcasting in Melbourne
soon. Game Changers: Melbourne Radio Wars is watching how they do and what the other radio
stations will do to compete. I'm part of the first episode, looking at what effect it'll
have, and whether they'll be number one by the end of the year.
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