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Adam Curry returns to Podcast Movement
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Podcast Movement announced the first set of confirmed sessions for the event in Dallas next month. And - Podnews can add news of one more speaker: none other than the “podfather”, Adam Curry, who is returning to Podcast Movement thanks to SoundStack. The co-inventor of podcasting, the Podcast Index and Podcasting 2.0 will be on the company’s stage on August 19th. You get a discount on selected Podcas...Buzzsprout Magic Mastering adds more magic
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Buzzsprout has, ah, added some sort of new tools to, er, its Magic Mastering tool. The tool now has “filler killer”, a tool that “cautiously detects and removes filler words”, and “power clean”, a tool you can manually turn on when required that can remove complex noises like chatter, wind, traffic, or reverb. We gave it a copy of the Podnews Weekly Review, which Buzzsprout sponsor, and turned on “f...Funding feature brings new opportunities to podcasting
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NPR has recently added support for the funding tag across its shows - it’s a Podcasting 2.0 feature in RSS that enables a link to help directly support a show. Supporting Cast notes in a blog today that use of the feature continues to grow, now it’s supported by apps like Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict and AntennaPod. Here’s the guide on podcasting2.org, including some screen...Spotify ensures podlink’s future
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In a welcome move, Spotify has returned podcast linking tool pod.link to its original developer, Nathan Gathright. Podlink, which offers one simple link to a podcast on all platforms, launched in Aug 2018, and was purchased by Podsights in Feb 2021, which in turn was acquired by Spotify in Feb 2022. Gathright left Spotify in 2023. The move will make sure that over 1.7 million links to Podlink on the web will...Crossed Wires podcast festival gets Python exclusive
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In what is probably the biggest podcast festival in the world, the second edition of the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival took place over the weekend in Sheffield, UK. Michael Palin performed never-heard-before Monty Python material on stage in his hometown to a packed audience, in a chat hosted by long-time fan Greg James. Palin recited the deleted end scene of Life of Brian. The second day saw...A new improv kids comedy adventure
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Tales from the Cloud Sea might be the first 100% improvised comedy adventure podcast for kids and families. Every episode's adventure is created by kids who call in to tell the characters where The Skytanic goes next. We’re told early feedback has been positive. The NYC Web Fest is now accepting podcasts as an official category in its twelfth annual celebration of indie storytelling. The festival has also an...Fewer podcast episodes published in June
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The total number of new podcast episodes published in June was 4.7% fewer than in May on a normalised basis, says Livewire. Spotify for Creators saw a small decrease, but still retained its leading market share of 26.6% of new episodes. Spreaker (at 15%) and Buzzsprout (at 8.7%) saw increases in share, as did Podbean and Libsyn. Amazon Cloudfront still serves the majority of podcast episodes (now 60.79% of them). Buzzsprout’s monthly st...Comedy podcast festival expands to the US
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A comedy podcast festival is to expand into the US - and to return to London and Melbourne. Cheerful Earful plans 15 days of live podcast shows across the globe, including a new event in New York City. Presented in partnership with headline sponsor Adelicious, the festival continues its mission to be “global but grassroots,” with comedy at the heart. Tickets are now on sale. New York Public Radio, the...Advertisers love podcast ads more than ever
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Advertisers say they’ve never been more interested in podcast advertising - and never used it more. That’s the results of the eleventh year of the Advertiser Perceptions study by Westwood One and Cumulus Media. However, the study suggests, brands are just “sticking their toe in the water” in terms of budgets; and suggests that it’s time that brands invested 5% of their overall spend in podcasting. Could open...French podcasters join demand for podcast recognition
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Audacy to close Pineapple Street
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Spotify’s free ad money for video creators
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Podcasting bigger than radio; women listen more than men
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Apple Podcasts adds new artwork requirements
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A new CEO for Acast
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“Another 374,000 flights” - the cost of adding video
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Podcasts now mainstream in US, UK… and Australia
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People “don’t want to just listen”: YouTube’s Mohan
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News podcast consumption examined
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Classy new San Diego sports doc
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Spotify loses Trevor Noah to SiriusXM
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Spotify supporting Podcasting 2.0 for transcripts
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“Overblown”: YouTube is not dominating podcasting
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Apple’s announcements include more for podcasting
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Promo codes: do they work?
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True Crime Awards winners
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The True Crime Awards took place last night, including nine podcast awards. The winner of podcast of the year went to Kill List from Wondery and Novel. We’ve a list of the podcast winners. Podtrac published its top podcasts, publishers and networks for May. All of the top global networks saw lower consumption, month-on-month. Huxe is a new AI-powered audio briefing app th...Taking the show on the road
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The Fracture to Flourish podcast, a podcast focusing on foster youth aging out of the system, is taking its show on the road, literally, with a wrapped trailer journeying 1,800 miles across the US. We’ve more pictures from along Route 66, including Nashville, and the road to Amarillo. Sounds Profitable released its latest research into the advertising landscape, focusing on attention and trust. The re...A legal threat to a podcast app for using open RSS
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Exclusive: A lawyer acting on behalf of Canadian broadcaster Radio-Canada is threatening podcast apps that use its podcast feeds. Our investigation today discovers that in the overly-broad legal threat, the lawyer is confused about how podcasting works, and even who his client actually is. Host-read ad marketplace Gumball has launched contextually-relevant “adaptive ads”. The tool “considers the similarities between a show’s audience and bran...A new dawn: Kast Media out of bankruptcy
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Spotify adds podcast discovery to the home screen
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Spotify launched enhanced podcast discovery tools to its app, including recommendations on the home screen “for users who love podcasts”. It’s unclear how the recommendations are chosen. The company has also added a threaded view to its proprietary comments, and a new “following” view within the app. Sports betting website FanDuel was the #1 podcast advertiser in April, says Magellan AI. Corporate advertising for Google makes it to #13, the highest spend increase last month. The I...Acast’s Smart Recommendations launched for ad buyers
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Acast has launched its first AI-powered tool (that’s Acast Intelligence to you): Smart Recommendations, an AI-powered podcast ad planner. The tool takes natural language to allow advertisers to turn a desire to reach, for example, “men living in capital cities in Australia interested in craft beer” into a curated set of podcasts to advertise in. In the UK, the BBC has announced a partnership with the Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield, to run a weekend of free sh...Podcast ad recall: totally balanced
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Podcasts are highly unusual: podcast advertising is recalled just as much by female listeners as male listeners, according to a study released today by Sounds Profitable. That’s not the case in TV, radio, or even Reddit, where there is significant male bias in recall. “[Podcasting’s] gender parity in recall isn't just a fun statistical oddity,” says Tom Webster, “it's a window into something genuinely unique: a medium where your message is equally likely to break through regardless of which half of the population...Is better video podcasting coming to open RSS?
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Is better video podcasting coming to independent podcast apps? In a post on LinkedIn, The Podcast Standards Project says that it’s been discussing a better solution for supporting video using open RSS. The solution overcomes many of the issues highlighted by our Editor in a personal blog post last year; it might even allow dynamically-inserted video advertising, too, and it can also provide better consumption data, while being significantly cheaper to serve than existing examples. Apple had charts for video podcasts back in...New York Festivals 2025 winners announced
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The New York Festivals Radio Award winners were announced for 2025., which include podcasts as well as radio shows. Broadcaster of the year was CBC/Radio-Canada. The Lever’s investigative podcast Master Plan was awarded the prestigious National Press Club Award. Nick Quah chats with YouTube’s Tim Katz (“a vice-president who oversees partnerships across different sectors — news, civics, health, education, kids’ content — including, now, podcasts.”). Katz describes a podcast on the platform as “listenable content — so, co...Apple Podcasts paints the town purple
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The team from Apple Podcasts spoke at The Podcast Show yesterday - the first ever time that Apple Podcasts has spoken at a podcasting event. The talk, by Jake Shapiro and Susie Warhurst, was well received by the audience, who learnt that 2024 was Apple Podcasts’ best year ever for listeners, hours, and premium podcast subscribers. The chimneys at the iconic Battersea Power Station, where Apple’s UK operations are based, turned Apple Podcasts purple in celebration of the podcast creator commun...Podcasts go mainstream in the UK
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Podcast listening has moved into the mainstream in the UK, according to the Edison Research Infinite Dial UK, which was released yesterday at The Podcast Show. The data gives a new high for monthly listening for podcasts of 51%. There’s a webinar later in the month to learn more. Also released in London was the Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q1/25 from Edison Podcast Metrics. There’s no change in the top three shows (Rogan, TRIP, Diary of a...The Podcast Show 2025 kicks off in London
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The Podcast Show in London is underway, with record numbers of attendees registered to attend. Christiane Amanpour and Emily Maitlis – two veteran female journalists – have been confirmed for a ‘Behind The Headlines’ session; and Apple Podcasts will deliver a session for the first time. Spotify’s share of downloads is down year-on-year in the UK, according to OP3 data. Our Editor, James Cridland, speaking this morning at The Podcast Show London, compared data from a typical week in April...What are your Essential Listens?
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What five podcasts have impacted you the most? Left of Media is creating The Essential Listening Poll - a list of the 100 most influential podcasts of all time to be published in August at Podcast Movement in Dallas: and as a Podnews reader, you’re invited to submit your five shows here. You’ve until the end of this month - please say you’re a Podnews reader when you submit yours. Among our five would...The Ambies give awards to Steven Bartlett and Podnews
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The Podcast Academy has announced two, new, international awards will be handed out at The Podcast Show in London this week. The International Governor’s Award goes to Steven Bartlett from FlightStory’s chart-topping Diary of a CEO, which has “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”, said Christy Mirabal, the chairperson of TPA. The International Impact Award goes to James Cridland, the Editor of Podnews, who Mirabal said has been “a global voice for the podcast industry, tirelessly...
