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Podland supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastappsSpecial Guests:Todd CochraneAlban BrookeShow Notes & Links:Spotify is cancelling eleven of its original shows. Those cancelled represent less than 2% of Spotify’s more than 500 original podcasts; but it’s likely to result in “less than 5% of Spotify’s staff on original podcasts” being laid off. The Gimlet Union and Parcast Union have tweeted a statement about the 38 layoffs across Spotify. They say that some shows lost as much as three-quarters of their audience when going exclusive; and that employees were given as little as an hour to close out their work and leave. Steven Goldstein suggests that the podcast business is being “right-sized”Spotify has acquired platform safety company Kinzen. Spotify’s Podsights ad measurement service has launched in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.Podcast·ai has made a show where Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs.Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central Podcast turns 18 years old this week. The first episode of the show was recorded on Oct 9 2004. It was one of the first shows to launch using the word “podcast”, and is up to episode 1,628.Phase 6 of the new podcast namespace proposes a number of new tags.podcast:events allows for real-time communication back to the podcasterpodcast:txt is for freeforSend 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

We support both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastappsSpecial GuestSkye Pillsbury - The Squeeze The Squeeze Newsletter Article What Does "Big Money Podcasting" Look Like?Show Notes + Links: Joe Rogan is no longer #1 in Podnews’s Ranker Anchor continues to lose market shareFive editorial people from Spotify’s podcast team were laid off this month, reports Ashley CarmanCadence13 may be up for saleThe RSS feed to Kara Swisher’s former podcast Sway has been repurposed by the New York Times to be used by tech show Hard Fork. Swisher is annoyed, Walt Mossberg is upsetThe winners of the International Women’s Podcast Awards were announcedSpotify released a Fan Study for podcast creators … Nick Hilton digs deep into Spotify’s new podcast researchPodcast host Castopod has added support for premium podcastsSATurn, the Alby view into boostagrams, Send James & Sam a messageBuzzsproutStart podcasting - keep podcasting!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support 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:Morten Strunge - PodimoJohn Spurlock  - OP3.devSHOW NOTES & LINKS:Podcast companies are buying short podcast plays within mobile game apps, causing official downloads of shows no one may be playing longer than twenty seconds according to Bloomberg's Ashley Carman. Time has also published the story outside a paywall.Players get game tokens if they listen to a podcast for just twenty seconds. (Carman posts a graphic). But, because more than 60 seconds of audio are downloaded by the player, as demonstrated in this article in Sounds Profitable, these plays count as an IAB-certified download from podcast hosts and in prefix services like Podtrac. That allows podcasts promoted in this way to charge for the ads delivered in the show, and for that traffic to be counted in rankersHow many downloads per episode is “good”? Omny Studio publish their data.Podcast episodes are getting shorter, says Rephonic.September 15, 2022: Podimo, the European subscription podcast service, has raised €58.6m ($58.5m) in funding. It had previously raised more than $116m. The Open Podcast Prefix Project has been quietly launched by John Spurlock. It’s a prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy; and places listener data in the open. It could power trending and popularity data; or give independently-verified stats to advertisers.Open podcast analytics prefix service OP3 has added trailing wildcards to its API.SomSend 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

Sponsors:Buzzsprout Ads can now Monetize Your Back Catalog, by finding insertion points in your entire back catalogue automatically. SquadCast invites you to join their new Slack channel, DM @SquadCastFM if you want to join.Notes & Links: Spotify has launched audiobooks (in the US only). Audiobooks are an extra cost and you’ll be taken to a website to purchase them.Spotify has signed a deal with Wattpad to bring Indonesian and Filipino webnovel authors to podcasting.Spotify’s video podcasting service is apparently being used to pirate moviesSpotify’s Chartable, an analytics and attribution service, is to lower its prices by 50%Acast is to lay off around 70 people (15% of its staff)The Open Podcast Prefix Project has been launched by John Spurlock. INTERVIEW: JOHN SPURLOCK NEXT WEEKTransistor now supports the Open Podcast Prefix project Apple Podcasts wants a website link for your podcastPodimo, the European subscription podcast service, has raised €58.6m ($58.5m) in funding. It had previously raised more than $116m.INTERVIEW: MORTEN CEO PODIMO NEXT WEEKIvy.fm now supports transcripts, soundbites, and location from the Podcast Index namespace!Captivate has just announced v2 of their dynamic content and monetisation engine AMIERSS Blue has added support for Alby and Fountain dSend 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: Dino Sofos  - Founder and CEO, Persephonica Eric Nuzum - Co-founder, Magnificent Noise Mike Kadin - Founder and CEO at RedCircleSend 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

Guest Interviews:Eric Nuzum - Magnificent NoiseAlex Newall - Rusty Quill LtdShow Notes:1. SpotifySpotify is the top podcast network in the US based on reach, according to new data from Edison Research. Spotify now has separate home feeds for Music and Podcasts & Shows! Audiobooks are coming to Spotify “reasonably soon”, according to CFO Paul Vogel.2. AlbyAlby has launched an analytics website for Value 4 Value, the podcast funding method from the Podcast Index. The website, called SATurn, gives a full view of payments made on the Value 4 Value system and interfaces with your Alby wallet. It's free to use, and includes a live feed much like Helipad. Now everyone with an Alby #Lightning Address can get their very own 'My Alby Page'. Sam Page: https://getalby.com/p/samJames Page: https://getalby.com/p/jamesAlby also brought #bitcoin to Linktree in their latest release. 3. OtherBalcao claims it is a new decentralised podcast platformPodcast Index’s websites are no longer going to store any user’s email address. Emails will be stored hashed in future, according to Dave JonesiOS16 - new support for a useragent in AppleCoreMedia.  Podcast images are much larger on the lockscreen, including support for embedded chapter images.Gramrphone, a live music startup, has announced integration with TikTok. Podcast discovery tool Goodpods has launched a websiteHappy Birthday to Buzzsprout, which 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

Guest InterviewsIan Forrester - BBC R&D - Adaptive PodcastingRene Aaron - Alby - New DashboardShow NotesThe BBC Global News Podcast's presenter Jackie Leonard, and producer Karen Martin, spoke at Radiodays Asia in Malaysia. The show, which is also recording a special edition at the event, is one of the top-rated shows in many Asian countries, with 33m downloads a month.In collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union and partners, BBC R&D has developed an open-source platform that allows the production of 'adaptive' podcasts. Is podcast search broken? Justin Jackson took a tweet from Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta as inspiration to test the search facilities in podcast apps.Podnews did some research on what podcast search engines actually index.Alby is a micropayment wallet that uses the lightning network.  They are working on a new Dashboard and their new WP plugin. Link: https://saturn.fly.devAugust’s platform data for BuzzsproutPodverse, a podcast app, has launched searchable transcripts. Here’s an example from the Podland podcast.Wavvy – new web-based audio editor based on AudacityTrebble has launched an online audio editor Podnews podcast pages now support the podcast:person tagPod The North, a Canadian podcast newsletter, launches today. Run by Kattie LaurRadio France podcasts will be available on Amazon MusicSend 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

 James Cridland and Sam Sethi return for this week's showNEWS: Adam Curry, the “podfather”, spoke with Dave Jones at Podcast Movement 2022, explaining the history of open podcasting, the Podcast Index and the features available with the new podcast namespaceEdison Research and Sounds Profitable issued reports at Podcast Movement, Dallas The Podcast Broker, a new service for buying and selling podcasts, was launched at Podcast Movement.  The service is the brainchild of TrueNativeMedia’s Heather OsgoodYouTube has been rolling out YouTube Podcasts in the US. James broke the story of YouTube’s podcast ambitions in March.  Kai Chuk, YouTube’s Director of Podcasting, spoke at Podcast Movement on ThursdayYouTuber (and podcaster) Bandrew Scott looks at YouTube’s entrance to podcastingPodcasts are coming to Twitter and Substack has added a podcast preview featureSpotify has put the company’s new podcast ad experience live in their app. Chris Messina has captured and posted what it looks likeApple Podcasts has announced a number of changes to the platform’s RSS feed requirements “in 2023”Alby has unveiled an API. The product is a simple-to-use Bitcoin wallet, used as a browser extension.  Alby has also unveiled a partnership with PodverseSend 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

We're sponsored by Buzzsprout and SquadCast.James Cridland joined Todd Cochrane from Blubrry, Rob Greenlee from Libsyn, Tangia Estrada from BIPOC Podcast Creators, and Heather Osgood from The Podcast Broker and True Native Media. This week, the show is from the New Media Show, live on stage at Podcast Movement. This version has been lightly edited from the original. You can find the New Media Show in your favourite podcast app.Want to watch? Here's the show as originally recorded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6JAh25hIT0Send 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

This week's stories discussed by James Cridland and Sam SethiThe UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against Huel and The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett.We asked Paul Chantler, one of the UK’s media law experts,  how should you keep your host-read podcast ad legal? Oprah Winfrey’s company has filed a lawsuit against fan podcast Oprahdemics from Radiotopia. Libsyn is expanding to Europe by acquiring German podcast company Julep Media.The Latino Podcast Listener Report 2022 was published by Edison Research and Elsie Escobar.Spotify is adding additional filter tabs in its app .Podcast hosting company Disctopia has launched its own mobile app.Spotify is testing a method of recording voice comments about a playlist.Edison Research has shared some data suggesting that a quarter of all podcasts are listened to between 6am-10 amIn Sounds Profitable with Podsights this week, Tom Webster looks at the problem of churn.Listen Notes is to start its own free podcast host.Podverse mobile lets you connect your Alby wallet and send a boostagram diSend 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