James Cridland: "Hot Pod" is on hiatus. The latest from podnews.net with Podcastle. Create, edit, publish and grow.
"Hot Pod", one of the longest-running newsletters about podcasting, is to suspend publishing.
Lead reporter Ariel Shapiro has announced that her last week, with its owner,
the Verge, will be next week. Deputy Editor Jake Kastrenakes adds,
"We won't have a new writer in place by next week, so we're planning to put 'Hot Pod'
on hiatus while we figure out the next steps." The publication's writers, Ariel Shapiro,
Ashley Carman and Nick Quah, have been a vital part of the industry since 2014,
and inspired podnews to produce this daily newsletter in 2017. We hope the publication's back soon.
Christiana Brenton: "So in October last year, Steven posted on LinkedIn that he had ambitions to launch a podcast network,
which was really an open call for anyone to contact him that felt they could add value to
the podcast media industry, and I think it was about 1am that Georgie and I saw it,
and we just WhatsApp'd one another, and we pulled together an email that I guess summarised a little
bit about us, and then you can imagine our surprise when a couple of days later, because we included a
hyperlink to schedule a meeting yourself, and a couple of days later, I was in a co-working
space with Georgie and I must say I screamed."
James Cridland: The Podnews Weekly Review this week has an
interview with Georgie Holt and Christiana Brenton of Steven Bartlett's new company Flight Studio,
plus an Indian podcast app and a news sales company based in New York. You'll find the
Podnews Weekly Review wherever you found this podcast. The Podcast Standards Project met
recently in Los Angeles. Sam Sethi was made Chief Evangelist. The group has been meeting regularly
since its launch. Podnews will help with press coverage, but won't be in the group to allow
discussions to be made without the press being present, because who wants that? Your paid for
Substack podcast is now available to listeners using Spotify, the companies have announced. It's
part of Spotify Open Access, which brings premium podcast content from across the web to Spotify
users. At an awards event last night in a foggy Toronto, Quill was one of the winners of the
Canadian Business Innovation Awards 2024. Congratulations to Fatima and her team. The
awards celebrate trailblazing companies that are pushing their industries forward and challenging
the status quo. Details of the 2024 IAB podcast upfront have been released. The invite-only event
is in New York and online on May 9. The shortlist for the publisher podcast awards have been
announced. Winners will be announced on June 12 in London, and in a good idea, each award category
has a playlist to listen to the nominations. Acast has posted four takeaways from Podcast
Movement Evolutions, and can you help a study for the University of Amsterdam? Chance Dorland
is investigating how users perceive the features of different social audio platforms for an academic
paper on how such features lead to distinct user experiences. He's looking for about an hour of
your time. There's a link in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. And in podcast news,
We Disrupt This Podcast is a new show from the Peabody Awards in partnership with the Centre for
Media and Social Impact, focusing on industry disruption through some of today's most powerful
and compelling television narratives and talking to the critically acclaimed creatives who are
reimagining the world and tackling the big issues that move us forward. And the apple and the tree
is a brand new podcast series launched today celebrating the universal truths, secrets, joys,
and pain between a parent and their child. Each episode invites listeners into the hearts and
homes of a different family as they sit down to discuss something they've rarely, if ever,
approached before. It's hosted by Vogue Williams and is a DMG media production.
Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast called New Podcast Trailers,
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