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Sep 1, 2025 • 5min
Live podcast events are “surreal” says Alastair Campbell
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Alastair Campbell, former UK government communications and strategy director and now host of The Rest Is Politics, found it “absolutely surreal” to be performing a podcast on stage at a sell-out O2 Arena. “We had something like 15,000 people there,” he said. “It was very, very odd.”
Campbell revealed this while being interviewed by Count Binface, a man with a garbage bin on his head who has stood three times for election as a British Member of Parliament despite being from the planet Sigma IX. (Don’t worry: this is quite a normal thing for UK politics.)
“I went on one of the biggest podcasts in the world”, says one author, “and it didn’t sell any books.” Amie McNee went on Jay Shetty’s show - and adds that she is developing a theory that “Artists have been taught that success comes from external forces,” she says, before adding that success doesn’t come that way: it comes from word of mouth. Her book, by the way, is called We Need Your Art. Stop Messing About And Make Something..
Talks.co, a platform connecting podcasters and guests, has launched free speaker pages to help hosts find guests. The page comes with an easy-to-use URL to help promote it.
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Aug 29, 2025 • 5min
WTF is a book
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When WTF with Marc Maron goes away, what will you have to remember the show by? How about the official graphic novel? The book will be launched on Sep 4 on Kickstarter: it’s already fully funded.
Triton Digital released its Canada Podcast Ranker for July. With no change in the top 5, CBC’s Front Burner remains #1; CBC/Radio-Canada remains the #1 network.
In Good Tape, Dane Cardiel posts Building Castles in the Sky, asking “Will Sounds Profitable and Podcast Movement deliver on their promises?” It builds on a LinkedIn post from Twila Dang last week.
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Aug 28, 2025 • 5min
Learn how podcast advertising works
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Acast has launched the Acast Ads Academy - two courses to gain certification on how podcast advertising works. Those who pass the final exam of either course receive a certification that validates their expertise. The company hopes to train thousands in its first year.
Exclusive: Chartable is going away. We know, you’ve heard this before - but this time, it’s going away for Megaphone customers, who still have access to it. If you’re with Megaphone, you’ll get an email today saying that a) Chartable is to be fully sunset on Dec 8, 2025; b) links are now available to publishers directly in Megaphone. (If you’re still using Chartable SmartLinks, you need to remove them.) There’s a blog post here about links, accompanied by what the landing page looks like (a massive Spotify button, tiny icons for the others), and what the analytics looks like.
Apple’s six radio stations - until now, only available in Apple Music - are to be available on TuneIn (and, by extension, almost every connected device that uses the TuneIn catalog). The on-demand programming appears in Apple Music when searching for artists, and is one of the differentiators of Apple Music vs Spotify and other services.
How brilliant would it be if a search for, say, Taylor Swift in Apple Music also brought up a direct link over to Apple Podcasts to “that” episode of New Heights?
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Aug 27, 2025 • 5min
More data about your podcast, in one place
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Exclusive: To help with the tedious job of manually getting consumption data from lots of different platforms, Podstock has launched “Episode 360”, a tool that matches your short-form clips to their parent episodes, to let you easily calculate total reach for your shows, including those social media clips. The tool also pulls listener retention data across Apple, Spotify and YouTube.
Almost half of YouTube podcast users listen to podcasts on YouTube more than they watch them there. That’s one of the surprising pieces of data from The Podcast Landscape, new research by Sounds Profitable (here’s a link to sign up to the webinar). And - while video is comparatively new in Spotify, almost a third of people there say that they watch podcasts on the platform more than listen. “If you are doing a video podcast specifically for YouTube, it better work as an audio podcast,” says Tom Webster: who might have got one of our stickers at Podcast Movement, defining a podcast as “something for your ears when your eyes are busy”.
A new book will be released on Sep 16. The Podcast Pantheon features 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen, it’s by Sean Malin. You can pre-order from your local independent bookstore.
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Aug 26, 2025 • 3min
No Emmy Awards for podcasts
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In Variety, we learn that video podcasts aren’t eligible to win an Emmy. “Podcasts are not eligible if it’s a straight video recording of the audio podcast,” according to a spokesperson. (The Golden Globes have a new podcast award, however).
Spotify has released data on Gen Z’s use of podcasts on the platform. There’s an increase of listening to podcast streams in schoolday mornings from students; and they switch to podcast categories like science and business/tech.
Podcast hosting company Castos has added a new embedded player, including oEmbed support.
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Aug 25, 2025 • 5min
Now, Golden Mike Awards for podcasts
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The “Golden Mike Awards” for broadcast radio and TV news have opened the awards program to independent podcast producers from around the US. One of the most prestigious and difficult to win awards, you’ve from Sep 1 to Oct 3 to enter.
AdLarge, the fwd. network, and NumberEight have partnered to produce what they dub “privacy-first audience targeting”. The tool uses AI to “leverage anonymized first-party listening signals and rich content metadata to match brands with high-value audiences”.
In Australia, SBS has opened its new podcast pitching call, looking for podcast ideas that inform, educate and entertain all Australians, and in doing so, reflect Australia’s multicultural society. Podcasts are in English and other languages.
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Aug 22, 2025 • 3min
Captivate announces monetisation, remote recording
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Growth-oriented podcast host Captivate has announced a significant set of new product launches later this year. Products include a saleable feed drop platform; Captivate Ads, an ad marketplace that scales with your podcast (including access to the DAX marketplace); and Captivate Studio, its own remote recording tool, able to record up to seven participants which is integrated into Captivate’s existing guest booking and interview management toolset.
John Wordock hosted a panel on The Secrets of YouTube Success - with panelists including a representative from YouTube itself. He’s posted a full writeup of the session on his blog.
Odeeo and Wondercraft announced a partnership - Wondercraft will power instant, multilingual in-game audio advertising for Odeeo, cutting creative timelines from weeks to minutes, the company says.
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Aug 21, 2025 • 4min
Now, books get visual additions too
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As podcasts grapple with what visuals means to our audio-first experience, it’s the turn of books. “As part of Spotify’s broader ambition to reimagine audiobooks as a multisensory format, we’ve expanded our Follow-Along feature, which is an immersive experience that syncs time-stamped illustrations, graphics, and media with audio narration. Think of it as bringing the visual richness of a physical book into the digital age.” Or, think of it as the chapter art that is supported in some podcast apps. Anyway, the psychological thriller Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger, is one of the first fiction titles with the product. He calls it a “new frontier in audiobooks”.
Bryan Barletta posts more information about the Podcast Movement and Sounds Profitable merger. Details include the enhancements to Podcast Movement events, including: “James Cridland of Podnews will be Podcast Movement’s first Editorial Director, bringing his immense event experience and highlighting his dedication to supporting creators and the independent nature of podcasting. He will oversee the Creator track at events, with an emphasis on growth, education, and diversity of voices.”
Triton Digital released the Australian Podcast Ranker for May. It appears the ranker no longer lists top publishers and sales houses. In a separate release, ARN’s iHeart claims it reaches over 7mn listeners and 24.7mn downloads - we’d suspect that still means it’s #1.
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Aug 20, 2025 • 3min
Podcast listeners are listening longer
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Podcast listeners are listening longer, according to new data shared at Podcast Movement yesterday. Weekly listeners consume 6.3 hours of podcasts a week on average, according to the latest data from The Podcast Landscape - 5% higher than the previous year. The full data will be released in a free webinar on Thursday Sep 4 at 2pm Eastern.
The 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time were published by Left Of Dial Media. The product of votes from more than 300 audio creators, the list succeeds in containing both some of the shows you’d expect, but also containing shows from different countries and languages. Attendees to Podcast Movement were given a glossy printed version of the list.
Congratulations to predictive analytics platform Flightpath, which is celebrating its fourth anniversary.
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Aug 19, 2025 • 3min
Wonda launches: a creation-by-conversation tool
A groundbreaking AI tool, Wonda, is launched, revolutionizing audio and video creation through simple conversation. Key insights from the Podcast Movement in Dallas reveal the much-anticipated list of the 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time, with The Joe Rogan Experience making the cut. Learn about the excitement surrounding the event and how missed sessions will be available online for free, ensuring that everyone can access valuable industry insights. It's an exciting time for podcast enthusiasts!


