Podnews Weekly Review

Special guest: the audienceLive from The Podcast Show, Sam and James look back at the week's podcasting news.Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special Guests:Mark Asquith -  Captivate Oscar Merry - FountainMartin Mouritzen  - Podfriend News:  The New York Times released its standalone Audio appSpotify’s AI DJ launches in UK and IrelandThe US podcast ad market is now worth $1.8bn, according to new data from the IAB and PWC. The IAB predicts the market will be $3.9bn by 2025.Buzzsprout has enlarged its podcast advertising tool to allow ads from products and businesses.The Diary Of A CEO is now streaming on BBC iPlayer!Good Tape is a new print magazine from Dane Cardiel VP, Gumball. Sign upShreya Sharma has unveiled Audio Currents, a newsletter for global audio news, creator interviews and releasesA group of media and investment veterans are launching a new podcast company called DWNLOAD MediaRAJAR released the Spring 2023 MIDAS ReportThe Podcast Namespace is working on closing Phase 6 - June 1st. The Podnews Weekly Review - the last word in podcasting news - will also be the last word on The Amplify Theatre stage at The Podcast Show in London next week. Watch the show, live, with Sam Sethi and James Cridland, with guests and a look back at the news: Thursday May 25 at 4.15pm. Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special Guests: Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/MegaphoneSharon Taylor - Triton DigitalDarby Dorras - ListenTom Billington  - The Podcast ShowNews: Acast released Q1/23 financials.  Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began.Amazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platform. Amazon quietly acquired Snackable, an AI platform.The Podcast Show 2023. You can still buy tickets for the event - the code PODNEWS will get you a discount.Bumper looks at ways to look at Listen Time as a method to measure your audience’s engagement with your podcast. Podcasting on YouTube is a flop so far, reports Ashley Carman in her newsletter.NewsGuard, a “news reliability data service”, has announced its entry into podcasting today. Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special Guests: Chris Quamme Rhoden on Acast's work in the Podcast Standards Project.Nick Hilton talks about host reads.News: Spotify for Podcasters posted its second-highest share of new episodes, growing 13% since January. Spotify for Podcasters is rolling out the company’s monetisation programs, Automated Ads and Ambassador Ads, to more countries.Podcast ad spending grew by 32% last year in the UK, according to the IAB.Let’s change the standard for host-read advertising, says Nick Hilton in a blog post. He argues we’re undervaluing the medium: echoing Dan Granger’s thoughts in the Podcast Business Journal last Friday.The Podcast Academy has announced the association’s 2023-2024 Officers. The winners of The Publisher Podcast Awards were announced. The Podcast of the Year went to Hot Money from the Financial Times.Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special GuestsAmi Thakkar  - The Podcast Academy, Board MemberStaffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-FounderNews: YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now. Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report. Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%.The Podcast Survey 2023 has been released by Ofcom, the UK media regulator. Ofcom just publishes the raw tables of data;  It suggests that the number of Brits listening to podcasts hasn’t changed in the last twelve months.Our podcasts in Asia series goes to Indonesia.The latest version of Hindenburg PRO 2 (build 2522) now exports SRT files.Podverse has added speaker names to transcripts on its web player. Podfriend v2 will support the 'podfollow' feature.The podcast:valueTimeSplit tag has been proposed by Alex Gates.Ausha has announced it has added AI to its platform.  Nathan Gathright has written a blog post called “Examining Update Frequency.Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special Guests: Steven BellElisa ShearerNews:Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet showsStarting on June 1, Chartable will no longer provide confirmed plays and episode consumption data from Apple PodcastsSpotify has also announced it’s closing HeardleSpotify has struck a deal with Jellysmack, the creator company that works with stars like MrBeast and Bailey Sarian, that will see some of Jellysmack’s top creators uploading weekly video episodes to SpotifyAuthor and activist Cory Doctorow has criticised Spotify, the BBC and Apple for operating walled gardens instead of open podcastingRØDE has launched a number of new products at the NAB Show in Las VegasThe Podcast Academy Board Finally Announced! Buzzsprout has added automated midrolls to their dynamic audio insertion toolPocket Casts has added episode searchThe proposed podroll tag is now being supported by PodfansSend James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids ListenNews: Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week.  You can sign up for free hereSpotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools. Building on its acquisition of Whooshkaa in Dec 2021Lemonada Media and Apple Books have launched an audio book clubIndependent podcast networks say they aren’t pivoting to video, reports Ashley CarmanPodcast app Podcast Guru appears to now support live episodes in its new beta releaseCurioCaster's Alby Integration is now live The podcast:podroll element has been proposed - a way to signal to podcast apps a list of other shows that this podcaster wishes to recommendPodnews now supports the 'podroll' tag on our podcast pagesYou can now search Podnews for GUIDsPodcast Index API allows for a GUID lookup https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/podcasts/byguidWe gave the Adthos AI-generated audio ads service a goSend James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

Special Guests: Lizzy Pollott  -  SVP Marketing, Communications & BrandNina 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 23.1% of all new episodesSpotify is claiming the company now has 5.3m podcastsSpotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live on April 30, 2023 A new library called Transcriptator has been publishedMartin Mouritzen is also hinting at a new version of Podfriends coming out soonRSSBlue is looking to add Podping support Why support alternateEnclosures? Because if you do, podcast hosts, you could save up to 87.5% of your bandwidth billsCross-app comments are now available on the Podcast Index website. Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

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.At Radiodays Europe, it was announced that UK daily news podcast The News Agents had reached 24 million downloads since launching seven months ago. The show is hosted by Captivate.Libsyn’s Glow has unveiled integration with Spotify Open Access. Gumball has expanded its host-read podcast advertising marketplace to YouTube.Audacy’s auction of its radio·com domain name has been reset for another 90 days.Slate is the latest publisher to partner with YouTube to bring its podcasts to the platform.Podcast history: from Oct 13, 2003 - the rediscovered source code for Adam Curry’s iPod AppleScript was the first tool that would automagically update your iPod with any new mp3's that are downloaded to your “Radio UserLand” enclosures folder Blubrry has removed email addresses from RSS feeds by default (and the latest version of PowerPress also does so). Audible has announced the launch of Dolby Atmos on the platform.Podnews Live in Barcelona (September) and Mexico City (November)Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

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 metricsFacebook is shutting its audio channels in groupsLinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six month incubator pilot for nineteen showsSpotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership focused on diversification and discoverability”Audiobooks are now available to Spotify users in CanadaSpotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity FundPodX Group expands further in Europe by acquiring Suomen Podcastmedia, Finland’s largest podcast company10 million accounts on MastodonCuriocaster adds support for Alby WalletDave Jones has started work on the #guidresolver: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolverKevin Finn from Buzzsprout talked about adding a simple PodRollWordPress.com acquires an ActivityPub pluginOver the last 90 days, podcasters have received at least $35,548 in “value4value” streaming sats and boosts.Reid Hoffman’s new podcast Possible.  - www.possible.fm Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net