Happy New Year - update this bit in your podcast feed

Happy New Year! Take a note to update your podcast feed's copyright notice to say "2026" rather than "2025" when you next publish an episode. (You don't have to use a date, but if it's there, you probably want it to be correct, and in our experience, most people forget it's there in the first place.)

In November, Third Coast, which organises a podcast festival and competition, announced that it had transitioned to being a voluntary organisation, after financial pressure. It sent out an update yesterday, confirming that the competition will take place in 2026, and that the archive will be maintained.

As you might expect, Podnews can't afford a Getty account for images. Nor, it seems, can Spotify - which published an episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast with a watermarked image from the Getty Images website. Spotify has since found the $375 for the picture they wanted. The company made US $1.5bn profit in Q3/25 alone.