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SponsorsBuzzsprout - last week, 3,210 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.Special GuestDave Jones - Pod Sage from Podcast Index talks about ...Value 4 Value Lightning NetworkWebLNAlby Hive's PodpingPodcast Index new tags <podcast:liveItem> and <podcast:block>Show Notes & LinksOne of podcasting’s largest hosting companies, Megaphone, was down for more than nine hours. All the Spotify-owned company’s audio and RSS feeds disappeared at 8pm Eastern on Monday after a certificate expired. Spotify is conducting research within its app on new features. The company appears to be testing the ability to pay to promote your show, as well as automatically place ads in shows to earn revenue.Descript now supports new workflows that will let you jump to editing in Descript with one click - when recording in @RiversidedotFM or @SquadCastFM, live streaming in @Restreamio, or hosting in @CaptivateAudio EditEddy was launched on Product Hunt. The service makes audio editing simple - upload your spoken-word audio, get a transcript, and then edit your audio by editing the text. Here’s a video demo.Podverse enables searchable transcripts.  #podcasting 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

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SponsorsBuzzsprout - last week, 3,282 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.Special GuestAshley Carman  - BloombergShow Notes & LinksJames Cridland Radio Days Europe - RoundupSelling paid subscriptions through Apple Podcasts? Until now, you’ve had to upload that audio separately to Apple; but Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery was announced yesterday, allowing creators to upload and manage that audio through selected podcast hosting companies when this feature launches in Q3.A number of initial podcast hosting companies have been announced including RSS·com, Libsyn and Buzzsprout; but if you run a podcast hosting company and wish to participate in Delegated Delivery, you’re encouraged to fill out this form.  (Memo to Apple: here’s a list)."Interesting that both of Spotify's hosting platforms, megaphone and anchor, arent participating at launch."- Ashley C"Spotify works with third parties to support its subscription offering, too. the only overlap is acast, at least according to the initial partner list. curious if this means there's now additional stratification in podcast world: team Spotify or team Apple "- Ashley CiOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, and macOS 12.4 were made available yesterday. This brings annual paid subscriptions within the Apple Podcasts app. We told you last month; you can add an annual plan now.With the new iOS, the Apple Podcasts app has had a welcome tweak for automatic download settings, with per-show customisation. You’ll find the new settings in your Settings app on iPhone and iPad. The app will now also recommend removing old downloads when necessary.And one more thing - 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

SponsorsBuzzsprout - last week, 3,437 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.Special GuestTom Webster -  Sounds ProfitableShow Notes & LinksTom Webster has announced he is to join Sounds Profitable as Partner.  Writing in Sounds Profitable, he outlines the future for Sounds Profitable - to share content, research,  run events and advisory services to help set the course for the future of the audio business. Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central hits episode 1,600 this week. One of the first podcasts in the world, its first episode was Oct 9, 2004 - just a few weeks after the word “podcast” began to be used. This was the first podcast Tom Webster listened to.  Wondery is streaming some shows in Dolby Atmos. You’ll need to be a Wondery+ subscriber to listen because there aren’t any standard podcast apps that playback the format yet.The sixth annual IAB US Podcast Advertising Revenue study was published. It shows US podcast ad revenue growth increasing dramatically during 2021, hitting $1.4bn. Revenues are forecast to hit $4.2bn in 2024.iHeartMedia’s podcast business brought in $69m during the first quarter - 12% of total revenue; its radio business brought in $416m. The company posted a net loss of $48.7m, though, for the quarter. Spotify is to close Spotify Stations, a lean-back music radio experience.Spotify is testing a new homepage layout that allows a toggle between music and podcasts. h/t Chris Messina.Spotify has published its 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

SponsorsBuzzsprout - last week, 3,549 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout NEW: Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser: and, using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.Special GuestSteve Jones -  Content Director at Crowd NetworkShow Notes & Links: Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and will close the service starting Jun 3. The company will stop creators adding podcasts to the service this week. They don’t plan to communicate the closure to Facebook users.Facebook was responsible for just 0.3% of all podcast downloads last month, says Buzzsprout. It had reached 0.5% in February, making it the 17th largest podcast app.More than a quarter of new podcast episodes published in April were on Anchor, according to data from John Spurlock: The world’s largest podcast host, Anchor was down for much of yesterdaySpotify is hiring for a podcast moderation team in Dublin Ireland.Michael Mignano is to leave Spotify. He’s said to have given his resignation last week and leaves at the end of June. Chartable has clarified its future, in an email to users. In the UK, The Radio Academy’s ARIAS took place last night. Headliner has added an integration with Hindenburg (build 2434).  They've also added export to LinkedIn.Tom Webster has announced he is to leave Edison Research.  He is our guest on next week's show. FountSend 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

SponsorBuzzsprout - last week, 3,448 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout GuestsTom Billington - Content Director for The Podcast ShowNeil Mody - CEO & Co-Founder Headliner Show Notes & Links: Spotify’s Anchor has rolled out proprietary video podcasts to all Anchor users in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. Paid subscriptions will be available for these shows, too; additionally, Anchor has integrated with Riverside.Remote recording tool Riverside has just raised $35m in Series B funding.A better future alternative (perhaps) is to support the alternateEnclosure tag. Podbean appears to be seeing a large number of migrations away from the service.Spotify has just released its financial results for Q1/22. Spotify stock reached its lowest point ever! Spotify is launching a fund to support open source software. Apple has launched three new Apple Podcast Collections, Apple Podcasts has also launched new listening reports for paid subscriptions.Fountain is giving away free money for podcast listeners. The Lightning-enabled podcast app is giving every new user 1,000 sats in their account - for them to share with podcasts they enjoy  Quick NewsTwitter has beeSend 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

SponsorBuzzsprout - last week, 3,684 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Notes & Links: 1. Spotify Selling Vapourware Again!?In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the communities they build and the experiences they create”, as part of the launch of Spotify Greenroom. However, the fund never launched; and yesterday, Spotify emailed applicants, admitting that the program had been cancelled.2. Gaming the Spotify Algorithm?There’s a new global #1 - the Brazilian artist Anitta’s Envolver. How did Anitta do it? By apparently asking her fans to game the Spotify algorithms  - https://charts.spotify.com3.  Spotify Moderation ?Spotify has quietly rolled-out a new misinformation policy that says it may hide shows, or in their words “restrict content’s discoverability”. NiemanLab has discovered the company’s new rules, which Spotify have yet to announce: and nor have they added them to their public Platform Rules page.The Brookings Institution has written a new document that highlights current platform policies, describes how Spotify and Apple allow listeners to report shows, and suggests areas that policy-makers might focus on.4.  Spotify Curation?How do the Spotify team decide which podcasts to promote? Spotify for Podcasters describes what you can do to be considered.Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, is to leave Spotify, says Ashley Carman at Bloomberg5. Goodbye Facebook Podcasts?A year after 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

SponsorBuzzsprout - last week, 3,686 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special GuestLauren Passell - CEO TinkMedia talks about why she has launched a podcast swap database for podcasters interested in setting up a promo swap for their podcast.Notes & Links: An Anchor podcast called Soldier of Misfortune has been accused of being a shameless rip-off by Brendan I Koerner, a journalist for The Atlantic . He accuses the podcaster, Jesse Rapaport, of knowingly stealing his work. Spotify says that they’ll continue losing money from their podcast acquisitions in 2022, but podcasting should begin to make a profit at a time “not too far away”.Podcast host Anchor’s creator interface is now available in 35 different languages. Of the top five podcast hosts, Omny Studio is in six languages, Spreaker is available in four; Buzzsprout and Libsyn only offer English, though YouTube is in 82 different languagesApple Podcasts has now added follower metrics for all your shows in Apple Podcasts ConnectAdvertisers should move money away from podcasts that don’t provide transcripts, says Bryan Barletta in Sounds Profitable SpoSend 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

SponsorBuzzsprout - last week, 3,847 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special GuestHarry Duran talks about how he found a sponsor for his new podcast, raising $9k before launching  SubStackSubstack is moving into podcasting - “but better”. The platform also lets you podcast for freeYouTubeYouTube is the third most popular podcast platform in AmericaShould your podcast be on YouTube? Rephonic crunch the data: revealing that for English-language shows, it could well be worthwhile. The Podfather thinks it's a waste of time.Dan Misener analyses the different types of podcast on YouTubeJeff Vidler from Signal Hill Insights calls YouTube “the elephant in the podcasting room"AcastAcast published its annual report. The company saw net ad sales grow by 73%; while it almost doubled the loss of last yearAlberto Betella has suggested a podcast:verify tag, designed to removed the need for podcasters to expose/spam their email addresses in RSS feeds.BBCThe hosts of one of the UK’s biggest podcasts, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are to take their film review podcast to Sony Music EntertainmentWorth Reading Is talent in control - Matt DeeganOtherPodmachine has been launched - a tool to grow and edit your podcast for youHeadliner has launched EddyDave Jones writes 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:  Chris Messina NEWS: YouTube:Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts.  Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk, at Podcast Movement Evolutions last weekYouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube.com/podcasts (a URL that doesn’t work, yet) Spotify: Spotify is working on a brand new podcast interface. Spotted by Chris Messina, who posted a screen recording archived by Podnews here, the new interface adds a dedicated Podcasts tab, vertical scrolling, and live captions for all shows. Want to play with the new Spotify interface for podcasting? It’s already on your phone. On an iPhone or iPad, open Safari, visit spotify:internal:podcastclips and you’ll go straight there. /via @chrismessinaSiriusXM:Freakonomics Radio is to become a radio station on SiriusXM. RØDE has launched its first-ever set of headphones. i.e the NTH-100s Podimo has bought Dag en Nacht, the largest podcast publisher in the Netherlands. Sonnant has launched new AI-powered tools for audio and video monetisation. Dave Jones from the Podcast Index has posted about WebSub, and why “it doesn’t scale well”. The Podcast Index is using a system called PodPing.There has been an update to the socialInteract tag.RSS.com have proposed a new <verification> tag to remove the need for the iTunes: email tag used to spam poSend 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