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Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi as they discuss podcast piracy, theft, content moderation and licensing.GUESTS:- 🎙 Jake Warren 🎧 - CEO Message Heard- Will Page - author of Tarzan Economics- Dave Jones - Lead Developer Podcast IndexNEWS:- Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, Channels and Affiliations launched- Spotify announces offline music, playlists and podcast downloads on Apple Watch- Spotify is about to get into audiobooks- Anchor is hosting pirate podcasts; such as Message Heard’s 'Finding Natasha'- Jason Calacanis says Podclips is one of a new set of podcast apps stealing audio clips from his podcast shows- The podcast:license tag is now finalised.- podping․cloud is now being used in production at PodcastIndex.It’s a distributed service using the Hive blockchain.- Twitter’s getting ready for the launch of Ticketed Spaces. The company is partnering with Stripe to handle payments.- Google Reader lives?! Google Chrome is testing a 'follow’ button in the browser,#podland.Join us on Twitter Spaces Friday 28th 9am (UK) & 6pm (Australia) to discuss all of the issues raised in this podcast.  We will be hosting a Twitter Spaces every Friday after the podcast. 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 deep dive into .SPECIAL GUESTS: Lindsay Tjepkema, CEO & Co-Founder at CastedAdrian Spataru, CEO & Co-Founder at  Cleanvoice.aiIN THIS PODCAST:The Ambies, the first podcast awards from The Podcast Academy. The podcast of the year went to Wondery’s Dying For Sex. The awards seemed to be a streaming success, too, with 25,000 people watching at peak. For the full list of winners, Amazon’s Wondery was the winning studio of the night, with five awards announced; Crooked Media getting four, and QCODE with three. The podcast with the biggest award haul was Wind of Change, with three separate wins.You can watch the show again online, or use this Podchaser list from Evo Terra to go and listen.Apple and Amazon have joined Spotify by announcing lossless audio for their music streaming services. We look at what’s been announced and what it might mean for podcasting - and whether anyone will actually notice.Clubhouse is in significant decline, says WARC. Downloads are down 90% from February. It’s now rolling out on Android globally.Spotify is hiring for a new podcast boss.Podcast Day 24 has confirmed a number of new speakers for their 24-hour podcast conference on June 7, including an in-person event in Sydney NSW, Australia. PNEWSDAY21 for a discount. We’d love to see you!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 deep dive into subscription services.SPECIAL GUESTS: Brandon Blackburn, POD TVIN THIS PODCAST:Spotify is adding a way to share timestamps when you share a podcast - a way to share a particular point to start listening.Links work on desktop, iOS and Android: here’s a link to economist Will Page’s interview on Podland to see how it works.Despite a shrinking economy, the IAB and PwC say that US podcast ad revenues grew to $842m in 2020, up from $708m.  Chartable has launched Chartable for Brands. Marketers can now find out exactly which companies are listening to their branded podcastSpotify has purchased Armchair Expert with Dax Shephard and Monica Padman. Amazon’s Wondery+ is to join Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.The Apple Podcasts app is being tweaked in the next version of iOS, 14.6. “Mark all as played” makes a welcome return, and a new feature, “Remove Downloads”, might help give you some space back.Web-browser Brave has added a 'playlist’ feature in their iOS app, which allows users to save and access audio and video, including podcasts.Use Chrome or Brave? Podnews’s podcast search might save you some time. In the address bar, type podnews, hit the TAB button, and then type the podcast you’re looking for. We search Apple, the Podcast Index and (if you want) Spotify.Clubhouse is now available on AndroidSend 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 deep dive into subscription services.SPECIAL GUESTS: - Will Page - Author of Tarzan Economics, Visiting Fellow at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Former Chief Economist at Spotify and PRS for Music.- Charles Van Winkle - Former Senior Computer Scientist II at Adobe Systems and now Senior Software Engineer at Descript IN THIS PODCAST: Twitter Spaces is now available to (almost) everyone, on iOS and Android, if you have more than 600 followers. Apple’s Podcasts Connect still isn’t allowing new podcasts from some users.Apple Podcasts iOS 14.5.1 app has changed the way it displays episode notes, it no longer supports HTML links.  The new iOS 14.5.1 Apple Podcasts app now takes hours to deliver new episodes to your listeners. Spotify’s recently-acquired Clubhouse-like service, Locker Room, is to be called Spotify Greenroom. Headliner has integrated with “Megaphone by Spotify”.Cleanvoice is a new service promising to automatically remove all those “uhhhh” words from your recordings. It’s $3 a shot, but could save quite some time in editing. Ximalaya has filed for a US IPO. The largest online audio platform in China (with spoken-word and music content), it has 250m monthly users, and 5.2m active content creators. JustPod’s Yi Yang newsletter about podcasting in China, is also available in English.Free editing software Audacity has '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 thought-provoking show about Spotify's new subscription service.NEWS:Spotify has announced their Paid Subscriptions service, which is hosted on Anchor. Spotify’s Paid Subscriptions tool sounds nice when compared with Apple - who can argue with free. But it isn’t quite as straightforward as that. Or, even, free.It’s not actually free. Standard payment processing fees still apply. Stripe charge 2.9% +30¢, and I’d expect Spotify’s pricing to be similar. Apple’s fees include payment processing. It’s US-only for now, as all Anchor monetisation has been. The company is hoping to expand “in the coming months”. Apple Podcasts Subscriptions are available in 170 countries and regions.Facebook is to add a podcast player in its app, powered by Spotify. It’s being rolled out to 27 markets, none in Europe.Riverside․fm has announced a further $9.5m in funding. The company has also debuted its “magic editor” feature, to automate recording, editing and uploading.SiriusXM has bought 99% Invisible Inc. The company, owned by Roman Mars.Acast claims the future of podcasting is Dynamic RSS.Buzzsprout now integrates with Canva Headliner 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 on this week's jam-packed show about Apple subscriptions and Facebook's entry into podcasting with the help of Spotify. NEWSApple Podcasts is adding paid Podcasts Subscriptions in May. As a podcaster, you can set your own price for your own show.Apple Podcasts will take a 30% commission of the subscription price for a subscriber’s first year, dropping to 15% for additional years. Podcasters can set pricing, and availability, by country. Apple Podcasts is available in 170 territories.Paid podcasts are hosted by Apple, not by your podcast host. Apple Podcasts will not give you access to any personal data about your paid subscribers, like their emails or names.The launch of the new Apple Podcasts Connect tool has been plagued with bugs and technical issues; and has impacted other apps. We would recommend NOT logging in at this time.Many podcasters say their shows have completely gone missing within Apple Podcasts and third-party apps that use Apple’s API.Our theory: All shows transferred to the new system appear to automatically have their RSS feed removed from Apple’s public API. One way for third-party apps to continue operating is to use PodcastIndex.Apple Podcasts Connect also changes your categories, too.Within the next few months, the Facebook app will include a podcast player, as part of an upcoming set of “social audio experiences”. The podcast player will work in the background, and offer live captioning; “RSS” wasn’t mentioned in the release ---MORE: Previous Episodes: 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 Sam Sethi and Matt Deegan on this week's jam packed & informative showINTERVIEWS: - Elsie Escobar - Libsyn talking about Libsyn 5 beta 1 - Juliana Meyer - Supapass - one website and app for your content, community and paywall.NEWS - Google Podcasts has hit 100m installations on Android. - Amazon Podcasts launched to more than 1.5bn potential listeners in France, Italy, Spain and India. - Libsyn has acquired Glow, Inc - VOX Media buys Cafe Studios - Podcast Index now has 2.7m shows in its index - PLINK has switched to using Podcast Index  - Poductivity, a method of offering interaction and engagement for podcasts, has launched an early alpha - Buzzsprout now has 100,000 active podcasts - Facebook is testing Hotline, a Clubhouse-like service  - RØDE Microphones has released RØDE Connect - Patreon has raised $155m in a new funding roundEVENTS - Podcast Day 24 - www.podcastday24.com - She Podcasts - October 14th - 17th - www.shepodcasts.com---MORE: Previous Episodes: https://www.podland.newsQuestions: questions@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

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Join Sam Sethi and Matt Deegan on this week's highly informative showNEWS:James Cridland launches his new project the PodClockThe British Podcast Awards has closed entries for this year. Organiser Matt Deegan says it was the best ever year, with entries up a third since 2020.Last week we talked about how podcasting had hit 2 million shows in Apple PodcastSpotify is to hold a new round of Sound Up programs: a global program that gives under-represented podcasters the tools to boost their platforms and build their own shows. The website lists shows from previous Sound Up alumni and the full details about where they are taking part.The first to announce is the Australia Sound Up Program, aimed at Indigenous or Torres Strait Islander podcasters. If that’s you, you’ve until April 19 to enter.The company has also launched Behind The Mic, a new apprenticeship program coming later this year to support aspiring Black podcast producers. Three apprentices will become permanent Spotify employees as a result.Happy sixth anniversary to Podcasts in Color Spotify has bought Locker Room, an iOS-only live sports audio app. Like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces, it will let anyone host audio conversations. It’s to rebrand under a new name, and Gustav Söderström, chief R&D officer at Spotify, hints at integration with Anchor and Spotify’s podcastsVoting is now open for The Ambies. Any Podcast Academy member can now vote - log in at The Podcast Academy’s website and follow the prompts.The Podcast Index now lists over 2m podcasts. It doesn’t automatically pull new shows from Apple Podcasts, but even so, has now 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 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