Google removes/adds podcasts; Tom Rossi on Buzzsprout subscriptions; Sean Glynn on Novel; Jordan Harbinger

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.

UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round. The investment will be used to accelerate growth with strategic partners, and to establish the company’s own network of originals.

Dan Misener from Bumper says, 54% of the Apple Podcasts top 200 had trailers, and 50% of the Spotify top 200 did too.

What makes a chart-topping podcast? Rephonic says that top shows tend to be weekly; tend to skew male in audience.

Dave Jones has added a new Podcast Index API output of feed and episode value blocks.

Cloudflare announced Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server

Hindenburg 2.0 is launching shortly.

Podverse (New Version) supports value-for-value streaming for videos.

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