Podnews Weekly Review

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guests: Chris Quamme Rhoden on Acast's work in the Podcast Standards Project.Nick Hilton talks about host reads.News: Spotify for Podcasters posted its second-highest share of new episodes, growing 13% since January. Spotify for Podcasters is rolling out the company’s monetisation programs, Automated Ads and Ambassador Ads, to more countries.Podcast ad spending grew by 32% last year in the UK, according to the IAB.Let’s change the standard for host-read advertising, says Nick Hilton in a blog post. He argues we’re undervaluing the medium: echoing Dan Granger’s thoughts in the Podcast Business Journal last Friday.The Podcast Academy has announced the association’s 2023-2024 Officers. The winners of The Publisher Podcast Awards were announced. The Podcast of the Year went to Hot Money from the Financial Times.Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial GuestsAmi Thakkar  - The Podcast Academy, Board MemberStaffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-FounderNews: YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now. Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report. Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%.The Podcast Survey 2023 has been released by Ofcom, the UK media regulator. Ofcom just publishes the raw tables of data;  It suggests that the number of Brits listening to podcasts hasn’t changed in the last twelve months.Our podcasts in Asia series goes to Indonesia.The latest version of Hindenburg PRO 2 (build 2522) now exports SRT files.Podverse has added speaker names to transcripts on its web player. Podfriend v2 will support the 'podfollow' feature.The podcast:valueTimeSplit tag has been proposed by Alex Gates.Ausha has announced it has added AI to its platform.  Nathan Gathright has written a blog post called “Examining Update Frequency.Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guests: Steven BellElisa ShearerNews:Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet showsStarting on June 1, Chartable will no longer provide confirmed plays and episode consumption data from Apple PodcastsSpotify has also announced it’s closing HeardleSpotify has struck a deal with Jellysmack, the creator company that works with stars like MrBeast and Bailey Sarian, that will see some of Jellysmack’s top creators uploading weekly video episodes to SpotifyAuthor and activist Cory Doctorow has criticised Spotify, the BBC and Apple for operating walled gardens instead of open podcastingRØDE has launched a number of new products at the NAB Show in Las VegasThe Podcast Academy Board Finally Announced! Buzzsprout has added automated midrolls to their dynamic audio insertion toolPocket Casts has added episode searchThe proposed podroll tag is now being supported by PodfansSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids ListenNews: Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week.  You can sign up for free hereSpotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools. Building on its acquisition of Whooshkaa in Dec 2021Lemonada Media and Apple Books have launched an audio book clubIndependent podcast networks say they aren’t pivoting to video, reports Ashley CarmanPodcast app Podcast Guru appears to now support live episodes in its new beta releaseCurioCaster's Alby Integration is now live The podcast:podroll element has been proposed - a way to signal to podcast apps a list of other shows that this podcaster wishes to recommendPodnews now supports the 'podroll' tag on our podcast pagesYou can now search Podnews for GUIDsPodcast Index API allows for a GUID lookup https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/podcasts/byguidWe gave the Adthos AI-generated audio ads service a goSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guests: Lizzy Pollott  -  SVP Marketing, Communications & BrandNina Robinson - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions News:Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast. Shows were previously with Spotify.Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month! Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episodesSpotify is claiming the company now has 5.3m podcastsSpotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live on April 30, 2023 A new library called Transcriptator has been publishedMartin Mouritzen is also hinting at a new version of Podfriends coming out soonRSSBlue is looking to add Podping support Why support alternateEnclosures? Because if you do, podcast hosts, you could save up to 87.5% of your bandwidth billsCross-app comments are now available on the Podcast Index website. Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guests: Justin Jackson and Charles Wilchin.A new grassroots industry coalition, the Podcast Standards Project, has been launched to advocate for open podcasting. The group includes podcast hosting companies like RSS.com, Buzzsprout, Red Circle, Captivate and Acast; and podcast players like Pocket Casts and Podverse. Remote recording tool Riverside has unveiled a significant update adding text-based editing and AI transcription features.At Radiodays Europe, it was announced that UK daily news podcast The News Agents had reached 24 million downloads since launching seven months ago. The show is hosted by Captivate.Libsyn’s Glow has unveiled integration with Spotify Open Access. Gumball has expanded its host-read podcast advertising marketplace to YouTube.Audacy’s auction of its radio·com domain name has been reset for another 90 days.Slate is the latest publisher to partner with YouTube to bring its podcasts to the platform.Podcast history: from Oct 13, 2003 - the rediscovered source code for Adam Curry’s iPod AppleScript was the first tool that would automagically update your iPod with any new mp3's that are downloaded to your “Radio UserLand” enclosures folder Blubrry has removed email addresses from RSS feeds by default (and the latest version of PowerPress also does so). Audible has announced the launch of Dolby Atmos on the platform.Podnews Live in Barcelona (September) and Mexico City (November)Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global)News: YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!”YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metricsFacebook is shutting its audio channels in groupsLinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six month incubator pilot for nineteen showsSpotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership focused on diversification and discoverability”Audiobooks are now available to Spotify users in CanadaSpotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity FundPodX Group expands further in Europe by acquiring Suomen Podcastmedia, Finland’s largest podcast company10 million accounts on MastodonCuriocaster adds support for Alby WalletDave Jones has started work on the #guidresolver: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolverKevin Finn from Buzzsprout talked about adding a simple PodRollWordPress.com acquires an ActivityPub pluginOver the last 90 days, podcasters have received at least $35,548 in “value4value” streaming sats and boosts.Reid Hoffman’s new podcast Possible.  - www.possible.fm Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailJames is joined this week by Courtney Kocak, while Sam Sethi goes skiing.Links for this week's show at https://podnews.net/archive Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guest:  Jordan Blair  - Buzzcast Co-Host and Producer Show Notes: Anchor is now called Spotify for Podcasters. The new podcast hosting service includes automated ads (US-only, invite-only), and podcast subscriptions (in 34 markets). Spotify will allows any podcaster to use Q&A and polls - wherever they’re hosted.Spotify also announced an expanded video podcasts lineup.Spotify revealed their latest interface, a vertically-scrolling way to discover new shows Spotify has also added Autoplay for Podcasts Spotify is also partnering with Patreon.Spotify Hi-fi, announced in February 2021, has still not been launchedPodcast host RSS.​com is the first podcast host to have released fully free automatic transcripts for all its customers. The transcripts appear on episode pages on the RSS websitePodcast listening has hit record highs, according to The Infinite Dial® from Edison ResearchCaptivate just released a massive range of RSS enhancements, powered by Podcasting 2.0, for free to all Captivate Podcasters. A proposal has been made for the podcast namespace’s author tag.Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net

Send James and Sam a message or voicemailSpecial Guest:Steve Pratt - Founder / Attention Strategist at The Creativity BusinessThe News:  (All links are from Podnews.net)YouTube Music adds podcasts and will support RSS uploads. See our full report. YouTube's new CEO, Neal Mohan, has written a blog post on the company's 2023 priorities. There's a paragraph about podcasting, which reflects the announcement made last week. You can now embed YouTube videos in Transistor website pages. The Podnews Daily podcast playlist appears visible on YouTube. Outgoing Spotify/Parcast exec Max Cutler has posted his predictions for the industry. 🎶 Spotify hits 200mn subscribersSpotify Live - costs $9.99Open podcast analytics service OP3 has released show stats pages, with download data, podcast platforms, countries and more. The Ambies are March 7th! Podnews Weekly Review Live (Podcast Movement) Thursday, March 9, 2023 12:00 PMPodnews Live (Manchester/London) tickets - podnews.net/liveAdam Curry says 'Podspeeding' frazzles your brain and you shouldn’t do it!Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net