Podnews Weekly Review
The last word in podcasting news. Every Friday James Cridland (⚡james@crid.land ) and Sam Sethi (⚡sam@getalby.com) review and analyse the week's top podcasting news as covered on Podnews. We also interview some of the biggest names in podcasting making the news. Support the show at https://weekly.podnews.net - or hit the boost button! Sponsored by Buzzsprout: podcast hosting made easy.
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James talks with Micah Engle-Eshleman, who is building an adblocking podcast app that supports the podcast creators. Good thing? Dreadful idea? We'd be interested in your comments, via fanmail or a boostagram.
Plus, Manan Bhalodia from SuperProducer.ai talks to us about "Quickie", his company's AI-generated newsaggregation podcast, and what the future mig...
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Unlock the secrets to smart podcasting as we explore game-changing developments in the industry! Get ready for a deep dive into Libsyn's leadership shake-up, the buzz around Lemonada Media's possible sale, and Overcast's latest update. PRS UK's groundbreaking podcast music license is also on the agenda, promising to streamline music usage for creators. Gordon Fire...
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This week, James is joined by Neal Veglio from Podknows Podcasting - https://podknowspodcasting.co.uk/
We speak with Pary Bell from https://www.thepodcastexchange.ca/ and talk about YouTube being #1 (is it?) and Spotify's new Comments feature.
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The latest news and trends in the podcasting industry. In this episode, we discuss Spotify's growing video podcast platform, Buzzsprout's website redesign, the debate around the future of free podcasts, and the podcast landscape in Egypt as explored by guest Kim Fox, the "Podcast Professor" at the American University in Cairo. We also touch on developments in podc...
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In this episode, hosts James Cridland and Sam Sethi discuss Buzzsprout's new Android app, the New York Times putting podcasts behind a paywall, the fate of Google Podcasts, and YouTube adding a podcasts page. They also interview Alban Brooke from Buzzsprout about the company's podcast hosting platform and new shows, and Russell Harrower from PodToo. Additionally, the hosts ...
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Libsyn's integrated with YouTube's API - what does that mean? Plus, Kendall from Riverside spills the beans on the new features, and interviews with Theo Gadd from PodLife Events and Nathan Gathright from episodes.fm
Longer interviews are in the Podnews Extra podcast feed, if you want to learn more.
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We speak with Kevin Y Brown and Jon Savage about the podcast landscape in Africa. Those interviews are in full in the Podnews Extra feed. Also, Spotify's video ambitions, and Alby's removal of support for users in the US causes some concern for the future of streaming sats.
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From an airport lounge in New York, we hear about Descript's new version, and rumours in the industry...
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We interview Ellie from Pocket Casts on the future direction of the podcast app; Matthew from Platform Media on why the company was acquired by PodX; and talk about the closure of Pacific Content.
We're trying something new this week: trying to bring down the duration of this podcast to 45 minutes. Haven't quite succeeded yet, but we're on the way; that means ...
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Interviews with Canadaland and Wavlake. Details about Spotify’s new consumption data. An exclusive of Canadaland’s new podcast brand. Boosts, fan mail and more.
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Our first week with Buzzsprout's new fanmail product was surprisingly good. We look into that, as well as the latest news - including the IAB numbers out of the US.
We've chapters in all standards-supporting podcast players.
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Including Kevin Finn from Buzzsprout and Mark Asquith from Captivate.
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We chat with Kathryn Musilek from Shark Party Media about podcast guesting; with Acast's CEO, Ross Adams, about Acast's tenth birthday, and wonder whether Spotify's exist from the IAB (and IAB certification) is a mistake.
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We speak to Georgie and Christiana from Flight Studio, Steven Bartlett’s modest entry into the podcast space; James Allen of Media Disco and the dynamic Anu Bhardwaj of SHEQONOMI.
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Sam and James also talk mowPod and plenty of other bits about the week's news.
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We're live in Los Angeles - and we interview Gautam Raj Anand from Hubhopper about podcasting in India.
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We interview Blubrry's Todd Cochrane about his new Vid2Pod tool; and chat with RedCircle's Mike Kadin about OpenRAP. Plus, the BBC's podcast strategy.
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We interview Evan Prodromou on ActivityPub - and catch up with Gretchen Smith from Ad Results Media about ARM Pro.
James also helpfully wades into the "preloading audio" argument that's consumed podcastindex.social over the last week.
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