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Who knew premature publishing was a thing ;-)Join James Cridland and Sam SethiINTERVIEWS: James Bishop  - One Fine PlayMartin Mouritzen -  PodFriendNEWS: At Podcast Movement, Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi spoke about their new storytelling platform Fireside Chat. Cuban described podcasting as being “old, tired and beat up,” adding “…there’s only one way to monetize - by lying your ass off to secure sponsorships.” The app is available now on iOS.Edison Research’s Tom Webster said:"Cuban is right that podcasting isn’t an interactive platform. Podcasters don’t get immediate feedback in the way that participants on Fireside or Clubhouse do. Neither do actors or radio DJs or morticians. Nevertheless they persist. But that doesn’t make social audio platforms “podcasting 2.0.” Transistor’s Justin Jackson said: "People keep talking about podcasting’s “discovery problem;” but the people I know, who listen to podcasts regularly, seem to have no problems in finding new shows to listen to. If anything, they have the opposite problem: too many good shows to listen to."Using Podcasting 2.0 apps like CurioCaster or Podfriend, listeners can share small amounts of cryptocurrency with the podcasts they listen to. Now, so-called “Boostagrams”, like those seen above, allow listeners to send messages to podcasters, too, along with a tip. Here’s how to get started with accepting cryptocurrency for your podcastAs mentioned above, Boostagrams - little messages from listeners when sending cryptocurrency tips in 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

Join James Cridland and Sam SethiAll the links are at Podnews at https://podnews.net/podcast/i5hv21.  Spotify’s podcast ad revenue has jumped 627% year-on-year, according to their revenue announcement.2.  Apple has confirmed a download bug has been fixed in iOS 14.7.3. There are now at least 1,000 paid shows in Apple PodcastsJust six weeks after the feature was publicly launched. We’ve discovered more than 500 different channels in Apple Podcasts and more than 30% of those channels are paid-for.How does that compare with Podcast Index and their value 4 value cryptocurrency thing?There are also now just over 1,000 value4value-enabled podcasts earning Bitcoin, too.Benjamin Bellamy (CEO at Ad Aures) is talking about Value 4 Value at Podcast Movement  “Podcast Index: How to unleash your value thanks to the Podcast Namespace” It is already online and available here:4. Acast suggests it’s the #3 podcast network in the US in a blog from their COO5.  Who are the Most Powerful People in Podcasting?Inside Radio has unveiled The Most Powerful People In Podcasting 2021: #1 is Conal Byrne, the CEO of iHeart’s Digital Audio Group. Inside Radio is owned by iHeartMedia, a fact you won’t find disclosed on either company’s website.6. QR codes for podcasts are getting more popular: but where to link them to, so they work for everyone on every app? The Podcast Namespace team kicked some ideas round last week, and have settled on:https://(a podcast page)#fastfollow-podcast:(a guid)USend 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

Sharon Taylor is Managing Director of Triton Digital, and looks after Omny Studio, an enterprise podcast host. Find out more at https://omnystudio.com/learnOur guest is Ron Baetiong, founder and CEO of Podcast Network Asia. He's at https://podcastnetwork.asia/We're sponsored by Buzzsprout - they're at buzzsprout.com and will be at Podcast Movement next week ... and by Riverside FM, which has a new Riverside FM 2.0 coming out shortly.All the links for the stories are at https://podnews.net/go-subscribe/podland and you should go and subscribe to Podnews today, it's free!Sam Sethi is back next week; when we'll talk to Rob Greenlee at Podcast Movement.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

Rachel Corbett joins James Cridland to talk fiction podcasts; dynamic ad insertion; whether we're in a slowdown or not; GoodPods and indie podcasting; social audio networks; and the benefits of a podcast network. All the links are in the latest updates from Podnews, at https://podnews.netWe're sponsored by Riverside, who make excellent software to remote-record your podcast (in video too), and by Buzzsprout, who are hosting this podcast and a great way to get podcasting yourself, like more than 100,000 other podcasters.Rachel runs the NOVA Entertainment Podcast Network: https://www.novafm.com.au/podcasts/ and runs PodSchool: https://podschool.com.au/James runs Podnews: https://podnews.net/go-subscribe/podland and a radio  newsletter too: https://james.crid.land/go-subscribe/podlandHere is the Radiodays Africa session that James talks about: https://youtu.be/Pn2ODPJM2JM - it's all about the future of radio.Sam Sethi was away this week.Warning: this podcast also contains a small section of a National Tiles ad. Helloooo.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

Join James Cridland and Sam SethiWith Special Interviews: Nick Hilton, CEO Podot with NEW Podcast " The Town That Knew Too Much" Zach Moreno & Rock Felder Co-Founders of  Squadcast.FMJemily Rime, BBC R&D (jir506@york.ac.uk)Podland News1.  Exclusive: Do podcast apps use your podcast’s description to help people find new shows? Should you put your guest’s name in your episode title? Which apps search which bits of your RSS feed? Three weeks in the making, Mark Steadman from podcast studio Origin has catalogued what every big podcast app indexes, and how to help listeners find your podcast.2.  The winners were announced for the British Podcast Awards 2021. We have a full list: Fearne Cotton won the Podcast Champion award for her efforts to open up the mental health conversation, and the Podcast of the Year was awarded to VENT Documentaries.3. 3. Podnews has implemented the Podchaser API on our podcast pages, bringing back ratings and creators.4. Netflix has hired its first Head of Podcasts, N’Jeri Eaton. She had been Head of Content, Apple Podcasts for a year; and prior to that spent four years at NPR5. The Podcasting 2.0 team this week have been working on cross-platform comments for podcast episodesSend 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

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi With Special Interviews:- Jim Ballas, LaunchpadOnePodland News1. Audacity, an open-source audio editor, is to share limited analytics data with their company in Kaliningrad in Russia, it has announced. The data shared, which you don’t appear to be able to opt-out of, includes your IP address but doesn’t include your name, address or email. The app was “acquired” by Muse Group, a company based in Cyprus,Audacity has posted “a quick statement to address the concerns around our new Privacy Policy”. “We do understand that unclear phrasing of the Privacy Policy and lack of context regarding introduction has led to major concerns about how we use and store the very limited data we collect. 2. First look: PodcastOne has launched LaunchpadOne, a new, free podcast host. The platform includes PayPal donations, a learning centre and the opportunity to get discovered by PodcastOne.3. Libsyn shows can now be added to JioSaavn, India’s largest music streaming service with more than 100m monthly users.4. RSS is the only way to reach everyone, and the only way to make money everywhere, according to Acast CEO Ross Adams, giving five reasons why you need an RSS feed for your show.  5.  How much do people in podcasting earn money? Misha Euceph writes a Twitter thread that tells you.6. For the first time, all major podcast apps display episode notes in the same way. As Podnews testing now reveals, in the <description> field, all major podcast apps now support <a href links, <p> paragraphs, <ul><li> bullet points, and make URLs clickable automatically. You should keep episode notes beloSend 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

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk about Why Amazon Podcasting bought Art 19. With Special Interviews:- Arielle Nissenblatt - Podcast Taxonomy- Don MacKinnon - Hark Audio- Hannah Blake - EntaleThis Weeks News Headlines from Podland:1. Amazon has bought enterprise podcast hosting and adsales company ART19, Inc.. This gives Amazon access to podcast hosting technology and a monetisation platform for dynamically-inserted advertising. Kintan Brahmbhatt, GM of Amazon Podcasts says that the company is hiring. Podnews has been predicting the purchase since Amazon bought Wondery in December2. Amazon has bought the distribution and adsales rights for the SmartLess podcast for between $60-80 million. The show will not be exclusive, but will be published one week early on Amazon Music and Wondery+.3. Amazon Podcasts has launched in Australia and New Zealand, nine months after launching in the US and UK. 4. Spotify has just announced it has made the Spotify Audience Network advertising marketplace available to advertisers and Megaphone publishers in Australia, Canada and the UK.5. Spotify has launched Sound Up in India, a training, mentoring and support program for women podcast creators. 6. @Podjobs, Podnews’ jobs board, has integrated Podcast Taxonomy role descriptions into the service.7. Podcast Addict now supports the 'alternateEnclosure' tag and has also integrated privacy information for podcasts.8. Facebook is making a new podcast: 'Boz To The Future' available on Facebook itself (if you’re in the US, you’re running the latest app, and Facebook have let you use the podcast feature). Or it’s on Buzzsprout for everyone else.Previous Episodes:- https://www.podland.newsSponsored by:- 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

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they talk about Facebook Podcasting. It's alive but why can't you actually play them yet? SPECIAL GUESTS:- David Markowitz, Netflix- Niklas Hildebrand, AudryWE TALKED ABOUT:- Facebook launched its in-app podcast experience. To get listed, you need an invite directly from Facebook: and they’ll only play in the US?- Facebook’s Clubhouse clone, Live Audio Rooms has also launched: again for the US only, and live rooms are only available on iOS. “Later this summer, we’ll roll out additional features, like captions and the ability to create and share short clips of a podcast,” says Fidji Simo, Head of Facebook App.- Will Apple deprecate podcasts with adverts in favour of podcasts with subscriptions.- The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 was released, it gives podcast consumption figures for 20 countries in a comparable manner, and says 31% of people (302 million) accessed a podcast in the last month. It also says that the platform mix is changing, with Spotify overtaking Apple in some markets.- Nielsen suggest that “light podcast listeners”, who listen three times or less per month, now make up half of all podcast listeners.- The Podcast Index hit 4 million podcasts with 640,240 active in the last 60 days.- The Apple Podcasts app has a thing called “Stations”.- Ariel Helwani has announced an exclusive show for Spotify’s The Ringer within Spotify Greenroom. “We’ll do a live show, with callers and taking your questions, and it’ll be made available as a podcast”: this sounds like the first announcement of Greenroom being used as a podcast source.- Squadcast launched v4. The remote recording service adds integration with Dolby․io, spatial audio, 1-click audio mastering, up to ten people in a session, screen sharing, an updated green room and plenty more.- Spotify has bought Podz, a podcast discovery platform Previous Episodes:- https://www.podland.newsSponsored by: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

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they ask: Is Podcast hosting no longer a USP? It's fast becoming free. So how can podcast hosts survive? Should they go vertical with more paid features or simply be acquired by the big boys? #fightorflight.Special Guest:- 🎧 Mark Asquith - CEO, Captivate FM talking about Captivate v2.0 new platform and features.News Headlines:- Apple Podcasts launched Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and Channels.- New EU copyright rules went into law on June 7, they affect podcast hosting companies. The new law “shifts responsibility for any copyright infringement' by any podcast shared onto the host.- Anchor will no longer submit new podcasts to Apple Podcasts.- Spotify has released the Spotify Greenroom app. The app, similar to Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces, includes recording capabilities. It's available on iOS and Android.- The podcast:guid tag has been finalised. This is a simple method for a webscale ID for every podcast- Podpage has released v2.0 of their podcast website tool.- Facebook is launching podcasts next week.Previous Episodes:- https://www.podland.newsNew Competition:1 week left to enter RØDE Microphones Cast! 2 weeks to make a 2-minute podcast? https://lnkd.in/d4tp4GTPlease Donate:Podland $3 link: https://lnkd.in/dJNAEV5#podcast #podlandSponsored By: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

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they discuss monetising podcasts through channels. Special Guest:Neil Mody - CEO HeadlinerVideoNews Headlines:Apple has set the launch date for Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and Channels June 15;  subscriptions best practices.Podcast Day 24 a 24-hour conference about podcasting, from Australia, UK and North America. Adam Bowie, Business Development Manager at the BBC World Service, has published a transcript of his talk made at Podcast Day 24 - the top 10 podcast trends in 10 minutes. It’s excellent. Also, read a writeup of the full 24 hours at RedTech, James Cridland was hosting the conference in Sydney, looked after a monetisation panelPodcast host Captivate has unveiled what it calls Captivate 2.0Ben Thompson from Stratechery has released Passport?Podnews now supports the podcast: Alternate EnclosureThe licence tag is now formalised.The 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