Podnews Weekly Review

James is joined this week by Courtney Kocak, while Sam Sethi goes skiing.Links for this week's show at https://podnews.net/archive 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:  Jordan Blair  - Buzzcast Co-Host and Producer Show Notes: Anchor is now called Spotify for Podcasters. The new podcast hosting service includes automated ads (US-only, invite-only), and podcast subscriptions (in 34 markets). Spotify will allows any podcaster to use Q&A and polls - wherever they’re hosted.Spotify also announced an expanded video podcasts lineup.Spotify revealed their latest interface, a vertically-scrolling way to discover new shows Spotify has also added Autoplay for Podcasts Spotify is also partnering with Patreon.Spotify Hi-fi, announced in February 2021, has still not been launchedPodcast host RSS.​com is the first podcast host to have released fully free automatic transcripts for all its customers. The transcripts appear on episode pages on the RSS websitePodcast listening has hit record highs, according to The Infinite Dial® from Edison ResearchCaptivate just released a massive range of RSS enhancements, powered by Podcasting 2.0, for free to all Captivate Podcasters. A proposal has been made for the podcast namespace’s author tag.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:Steve Pratt - Founder / Attention Strategist at The Creativity BusinessThe News:  (All links are from Podnews.net)YouTube Music adds podcasts and will support RSS uploads. See our full report. YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan, has written a blog post on the company's 2023 priorities. There's a paragraph about podcasting, which reflects the announcement made last week. You can now embed YouTube videos in Transistor website pages. The Podnews Daily podcast playlist appears visible on YouTube. Outgoing Spotify/Parcast exec Max Cutler has posted his predictions for the industry. 🎶 Spotify hits 200mn subscribersSpotify Live - costs $9.99Open podcast analytics service OP3 has released show stats pages, with download data, podcast platforms, countries and more. The Ambies are March 7th! Podnews Weekly Review Live (Podcast Movement) Thursday, March 9, 2023 12:00 PMPodnews Live (Manchester/London) tickets - podnews.net/liveAdam Curry says 'Podspeeding' frazzles your brain and you shouldn’t do it!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: Nayeema Raza - talks about ON with Kara Swisher/Vox Media  - Podcast ExtraMitch Downey - NEW Podverse v4.12.1 with LIT, Video and Value4Value streaming SATs.  Jake Chudnow - Podimo enters the UK podcast market with more than twenty new shows. Show Notes: Apple finally removed the AppleCoreMedia user agent from Apple Podcasts.(Jonas Woost) Listen Time & (Steve Pratt) Earned Value ... finally no downloads to measure?  Bumper is suggesting Listen Time is the right metric and the company has published a detailed method of calculating it. I think Bumper is the other side of the coin for what I am doing.  I'm focused on how to Earn Attention and Listen Time is about measuring time and attention that has been earned.  - Steve Pratt.The Podcast Index website now shows Cross-App comments for individual podcast episodes. The Podcasting 2.0 podcast is a good place to see them.Nathan Gathright launched his early preview of http://Steno.fmJoin us at Podcast Movement on March 9 at 12pm for a live Podnews Weekly Review recording. Podnews Live - Tickets for Salford, Manchester are on sale now.   All the best podcasters are filling in the Podnews Report Card. 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 Mottes - CEO at Hindenburg SystemsHindenburg announced this week Hindenburg PRO v2, a new version of the editor with new features including transcription. Podnews has an exclusive review of the new version. Here are the Hindenburg team demonstrating the new Hindenburg PRO v2.Dovydas Joksas - CEO RSS Blue RSS Blue now support keysend protocol and .well-known lookup scheme which means you will be able to fetch wallet details from any provider that supports it.  Show NotesVox Media Podcast Network’ is raising $100 million from Penske Media who will own about 20% of Vox Media, making it the largest shareholder of the company.Spotify has a new investor. San Francisco-based hedge fund ValueAct Capital Management.Acast published its year-end financial report. In Q4/22, Acast claims 1.3bn listens (up 22% y/y). Net sales for the quarter were up 35% y/y to SEK454mn (US $43.7mn). They are on track towards profitability in 2024.Descript has made a number of changes to its redesignPodimo is to enter the UK podcast market with more than twenty new shows.RSS.com now supports Podcast.Txt for ownership verification. Publisher Podcast Awards night in London on Wednesday April 26th 2023. 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: Tom RossiSean GlynnJordan Harbinger Show NotesGoogle 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 serverHindenburg 2.0 is launching shortly.Podverse (New Version) supports value-for-value streaming for videos.Podnews Live - Manchester 13th June -  Save the Day! (0:00) 10 Feb(1:16) Google and podcasts(7:37) Interview: Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout(20:57) Interview: Sean Glynn from Novel(32:40) Trailers(36:32) What makes a #1?(38:35) Interview: Jordan Harbinger(43:25) YouTube and Freakonomics(45:29) People News(46:57) The Tech Stuff(1:05:14) Announcing Podnews Live(1:07:07) Boostagram Corner(1:10:30) Sam and James's weekSend 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

Guests: Leo Laporte - Twit.TVTodd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value", a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to natively support value4value. Brett Spencer & Sandy Warr - City, University of London has announced the UK’s first dedicated MA in Podcasting and a Centre of Podcasting ExcellenceNews:Spotify released the company's Q4/22 financial update. In an earnings call, Daniel Ek admitted "In hindsight, I probably got a little carried away." We carry a longer quote from Ek about podcasting below. You can hear this clip in Podnews Extra 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. Exclusive: Podnews today starts a series of articles about podcasting in East and South East Asia. Alby has released details about its partnership with Blubrry.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: Jack Davenport - Managing Director at Goalhanger PodcastsSpotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off. Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff is to leave the company; "Alex [Norström] will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward".The number of new podcasts has dramatically dropped by 80% in two years, according to data reported this week. Except… as we explore today in a deep-dive article, that data point doesn’t tell the whole story. In fact, podcasting is in a much better place.Buzzsprout has announced a podcast subscription tool. You can choose from recurring support, or premium content only available to your supporters; the company takes a fee of 15%. The Podnews Weekly Review has added the opportunity to become a PoWeR supporter if you’d like to see it at work.(0:00:00) Jan 27(0:01:04) She's Offstroff - Spotify changes(0:21:30) Is podcasting really down by 80%?(0:28:04) Buzzsprout launches subscriptions(0:34:13) Quake Media launches(0:35:59) Global's news podcast report(0:37:41) Interview: Jack Davenport(0:55:40) People News(0:57:16) THe Tech Stuff(1:03:20) Around the world(1:05:54) Events(1:07:49) Boostagram Corner(1:11:42) Sam and James's weekSend 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 Interviews:Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about "A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time"Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting.Top News StoriesExclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search.  Now, a Google search for a podcast no longer shows any play buttons linking to the service or any links to Google Podcasts.Open podcast analytics service OP3 has published its method of calculating downloads, including links to code.Cloudflare has launched Wildebeest, an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server. 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

Show notes come soon!Spotify chapters workaround...(0:00) Fri 13 Jan(0:53) Apple launches Delegated Delivery(4:54) Amazon almost do a deal but don't(7:31) A new Audible podcast(9:57) Google Podcasts Creator Program goes(16:05) Spotify loses shows(23:33) People news(25:43) The Tech Stuff(41:05) Awards and events(43:02) Boostagram Corner(47:59) Sam reveals his funding(50:09) James's old blog postsSend 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