Podnews Weekly Review

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show INTERVIEWS:Donald Albright, Chair, The Podcast AcademyCorey Layton, Head of Digital Audio, Australian Radio Network and iHeart Podcast NetworkNadav Keyson, CEO& Co-Founder, Riverside.FM --- NEWS: We just hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcasts, according to Daniel J Lewis's Podcast Industry Insights tool. Overnight, the total number of shows hit 2,004,462. He says that 37.29% are "active" (published at least one episode in the last 90 days)Podcasts are now available on TV. PodTV is now available on TCL Smart TV channel 1048, or on Roku, or free on their website.The IAB has published its Annual Report, predicting that “in 2021, [US] podcasting will be a $1 billion market”. The organisation had $33.2m of revenue in 2020; $6.4m of that is from the IAB Tech Lab, who work on the podcast measurement standards.Hypercatcher now supports the Podcast Index funding tag. The Breez Lightning client has added a native podcast player on their iOS app. Using the Podcasting 2.0 podcast:value system, listeners can opt to share cryptocurrency with the shows they listen to. A good day for podcast accessibility: Google has enabled automatic subtitles inside the Chrome browser, adding closed captions to any web-based podcast player as well as other audio. Visit chrome://settings/accessibility in your browser and turn on Live Caption. 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 on this week's jam-packed showINTERVIEWS:Jake Warren  - Message HeardBenjamin Bellamy - Ad AuresNorma Jean Belenky - PodBean --- NEWS:Next week, Podbean is to run a Finance Podcast Week: a week-long livestream and podcast event focused on finance podcasts (with many podcasters lined-up to speak). A full pass is normally $39, but use the code PODNEWS and you can get in free.Podcast Movement has announced the dates and venues for their in-person events in 2022. Podcast Movement Evolutions will be in Los Angeles CA from March 23-26. Podcast Movement 2022 will be in Dallas TX from August 23-26. Podnews aim to be at both.Use Chartable or Podsights to measure your traffic? Overcast will no longer appear in your data: Marco Arment, the developer, has decided to skip those redirects entirely, after they have, he claims, become increasingly affected by ad-blocking DNS servers. Marco Arment from Overcast reversed his experiment of skipping some analytics prefixes when played in the app, within a few hours of our publication yesterday.Is there an opportunity for Incognito Mode for Podcast Apps? Our Editor, James Cridland, writes a proposal that would avoid interference from ad-blockers, ensure IPv6 compatibility, allow users to control attribution of their behaviour as well as allow podcast publishers to retain control. Your feedback would be welcome.Play just one second of a podcast on Spotify, and you’ve downloaded over 90 seconds of audio - enough to count as an IAB certified podcast download. Writing in Sounds Profitable this 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

Apologies some of the sound recordings on Sam's interviews were not clear due to a broken mic.  Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's showINTERVIEWS:Sean Glynn - NovelRob Loewenthal  - WhooshkaaJess Kupferman  - She PodcastsAgnes Kozera - Podcorn --- NEWS:Entercom has acquired Podcorn, valuing the company at $22.5m. Entercom, a US radio broadcaster, owns Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios. Podcorn gives advertisers access to podcasters. In 2016 Google purchased the founders’ previous company, FameBit, for $36m.Playing with the beta, it appears the new Apple Podcasts app will not automatically download new episodes when you follow a new show: bringing it into line with Spotify and Google Podcasts.The clubhouse has added an option for higher quality audio, and recurring “clubs”. (Just update the app). Clubhouse has rewritten its terms of service to now allow recording with “the express consent of all the speakers involved”. It previously required written consent. (h/t Daniel J Lewis)Twitter says it will let people record Twitter Spaces in future. And scheduled Spaces are coming.Spotify has announced a new focus on women creators. Called EQUAL, it includes a set of new playlists and content, and also establishes an EQUAL Board, offering a grant to fifteen organisations across the world to work on making the audio industry more equitable for women creators.ART19's “Director of Data”, Chad Hollowed, says that we’re now seeing 72,000 neSend 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 on this week's showINTERVIEW:-  Kal Amin - co-founder and CEO of Sounder.FM, a podcast management and monetisation platform, has raised $2.15m in a seed round.  They've raised $4m in the past 14 months---NEWS:The nominees for The Ambies, the awards for excellence in audio, are to be announced today at 12pm, New York Time. Podnews.net have a full list with analysis tomorrow: if you’re a Podcast Academy member, you’ll get a vote to choose the winners.eMarketer claims that Spotify will overtake Apple Podcasts by US total listeners (if not downloads) this year. No methodology or source for this data is given, though. Meanwhile, The Hustle publishes “Spotify’s plan to monetize podcasts, explained”.Who owns who in podcasting? Evo Terra and Anne Baird have published a list.Google has unveiled a new audio codec, called Lyra, which the company describe as a “high quality, very low bitrate speech codec”. How low is “very low”? Just 3kbps. There are some examples to listen to; the company plans to make it open source.The Podcast Index is now publishing their full podcast database index on IPFS, updated every 24 hours. (Listing 1.3m podcasts, today’s dump is a 192MB .tgz file, which expands to 647MB. You can use DB Browser for SQLite to examine it).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 on this week's showINTERVIEW:-  Michael Mignano  - Co-Founder, Anchor / Head of Podcaster Mission, Spotify - talks about all the new announcements from this weeks StreamOn---NEWS:Extended Spotify analysis by James and SamBuzzsprout, Podbean, Spreaker and Captivate were all subject to a denial-of-service attack. The same attackers appear to have been involved. We were wondering why they've targeted podcast hosts: so we talked to the group behind the attacks. Podnews has launched new, live data today showing podcast host migrations. A first for the industry, it shows the small amount of individual shows that have switched podcast hosting company - where they came from, and where they went. It's updated daily!Podcast Index 2.0 - Categories and Value for Value fundingPrevious Episodes: https://www.podland.newsSend 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 on this week's showINTERVIEWS:-  Kirt Debique the CEO & CTO from SyncFloor talks about their Songs For Podcasters music service. - Tom Rossi the co-founder of Buzzsprout talks about their support of Podcast Index and the new 'person' and 'location' tags coming soon. He also talked about Dynamic Content Insertion, possible uses for the proposed 'Alternative Enclosure Tag', the pros and cons of downloads v streaming and Automatic Audio Optimisation.   https://www.buzzsprout.com/help/163 - Harry Morton from Lower Street asked a question about further uses of AI in podcasting.  ---NEWS: -  iHeartMedia bought Triton Digital for $230m from KSHB / KMCI / The EW Scripps Company. - Spotify makes a big announcement on Monday 22nd about podcasting and possibly subscriptions.  We have Spotify on the show next week to talk all about it. - Apple and Amazon are looking for new people to join their podcast teams. It appears that Amazon will be launching its podcast services in Spain and Italy soon. Details on https://podjobs.net/- A new pressure group, 'Podcasters Declare', is calling for a new climate category in Apple Podcasts.  - https://www.podcastersdeclare.com/ Previous Episodes: https://www.podland.newsSend 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 on this week's showInterviews with:Jonas Leijonhufvud, the co-author of a new book "The Spotify Play" out this week, about how CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the race for audio dominance. Wayne Parker the co-founder of MapsFM, about the value and context of combining location with podcasts to create a new form of discovery.Jaime Ng, the CEO of MatchCast, about SoundClub the Taiwanese version of Clubhouse that News:how to use commercial music in podcasts mainly says the words "No, you can't" in a variety of different ways. However, the people who wrote the book (literally) on 'fair use' respectfully disagree.Spotify has been hosting anti-semitic content, according to Joseph Cohen, writing in the Jewish Chronicle.iOS 14.5 may allow you to choose your default podcast app, according to beta testers.Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi are co-founding a “next-gen podcast platform” where hosts can talk to fans live and monetise their conversations, reports The Verge - it’s said to be similar to Clubhouse but with the ability to record conversations. The app is reportedly to be called Fireside, which comes as news to the five year-old 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 on this week's show.Interviews:Anna Sian -  Head of Marketing,  Spotify & Anchor FM  - talks about their redesign.Bryan Barletta - Sounds Profitable - talks about 'Dynamic Content Insertion' Peter Niegl and Rasmus Kidde -  DR’s research department - talk about podcasting in Denmark. Mark asks a question about the value of 'Categories' in 2021News:SquadCast released v3 of their remote recording tool. The headline: you can now record quality HD video as well as audio with your guests. 25% of the 345m monthly active Spotify users now use the app to listen to podcasts, up from 22% the previous quarter. Speaking on the company’s Q4 2020 earnings call, Daniel Ek said he’s “reasonably confident” that he can see benefits in user growth and retention from podcasts.In Denmark, 27% of adults (15+) listen to podcasts every week. That is 3 percentage points up from last year, according to new data from DR. Sounds Profitable now has a podcast. The show uses dynamic ad insertion from Whooshkaa in a number of different ways, and Bryan Barletta describes in depth some of the ways he’s using it. You should subscribe to the newsletter (and to the podcast)Spotify’s consumer podcast host, Anchor, has had a redesign. A new 'wave’ logo, a new typeface (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 on this week's show.Interviews:Melissa Mbugua from Africa PodfestGerard Edwards from Podcast RadioMatt Deegan from Podcast Day 24News:Podcasting is growing fast, according to LiveXLive CEO Robert Ellin. Speaking on Fox Business alongside Adam Carolla, the PodcastOne owner reckons the future for podcasting is in video and told Stuart Varney that podcasting “will be $5-10bn in the next 5-7 years”.Spotify has announced that Spotify Podcast Ads, using Streaming Ad Insertion, is now available in the UK and in Germany. BT Sport, a UK television channel, was the first to use it: advertising in the Joe Rogan Experience; while LinkedIn and MediaCom were first to use it in Germany. Unlike normal podcast ads, Streaming Ad Insertion lets advertisers know how many of their ads were heard, and by who.Spotify’s consumer podcast host, Anchor, has had a redesign. A new 'wave’ logo, a new typeface (Maax), and a new direction in photography: “less about podcasting, more about podcasters”. Anna Sian, Head of Marketing at Anchor, will be on the Podland in early February.Jordan Harbinger is spending almost $40,000 every month on host-read ads for his podcast, according to Sounds Profitable, Podnews’s ad-tech newsletter. Bryan Barletta describes how Harbinger does it: and what he looks for from 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

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's show. We talk about Apple's proposed new subscription service and what it means for podcasters?And has Spotify's foray into podcasting failed? Citi Research said "The only thing podcasting seems to have influenced is Spotify’s valuation.” They suggest that clients sell the stock.We'll discuss whether we think they are right or premature.Also, we ponder if Clubhouse needs better room moderation to prevent hate speech and misogyny? Also on this weeks show:Brenden Mulligan, CEO Podpage talks about how podcasters can make a google SEO optimised webpage in less than 5 mins.Bradley Davis, CEO Podchaser, the IMdB of podcasting, talks about their new $4m funding round from Greycroft, and what they plan to do with the money.Jaime Ng, CEO MatchCasts talks about being the first Asian podcasting ad platform and also her thoughts on the Tencent acquisition of Lazy Audio and what it means for Himalaya.Sam Crowther, Executive Creative Director at A Million Ads talks about their use of data to create personalized advertising and how this can work for both Radio and Podcasters who use dynamic ad insertion.We also talk about how they plan to use Descript's Overdub voice synthesis service to create a million ads.Previous Episodes: https://podland.news#podlandnews #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