WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.560 Is it good by Google Podcasts? The latest from PodNews.net with Magellan, AI now analyzing Spanish 00:07.560 --> 00:08.720 podcasts. 00:08.720 --> 00:17.200 We start with an exclusive today, Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search. Back 00:17.200 --> 00:22.720 in April 2018, Google started showing individual podcast episodes and play buttons in Google 00:22.720 --> 00:29.280 Search, which opened a Google Podcasts branded player. Now, a Google Search for a podcast, 00:29.280 --> 00:35.080 no longer shows any play buttons linking to the service or any links to Google Podcasts 00:35.080 --> 00:36.080 itself. 00:36.080 --> 00:41.920 A Google spokesperson tells us that this is as intended, adding, we're constantly experimenting 00:41.920 --> 00:46.000 with ways to improve the experience for our users. Well, the Google Podcasts app has had 00:46.000 --> 00:51.440 no feature updates for the last 18 months. The Google Podcasts creators program closed 00:51.440 --> 00:56.480 this month, and now with a removal of the product from Google Search, we asked if Google 00:56.480 --> 01:04.720 Podcasts is to close. The answer was revealing. They said, YouTube and Google Podcasts serve 01:04.720 --> 01:11.840 different needs, both serve podcast listeners today, and we are not changing this right now. 01:11.840 --> 01:15.080 We have nothing more to share at this time. 01:15.080 --> 01:19.560 Sounds profitable has announced new research and content partners and their presence at South 01:19.560 --> 01:25.240 by Southwest and podcast movement evolutions. Magellan, AI has added support for analyzing 01:25.240 --> 01:30.440 Spanish language podcasts in the U.S. and Mexico. The product is already monitoring more 01:30.440 --> 01:33.200 than 2,000 advertisers. 01:33.200 --> 01:37.280 Sounder and Urban One have just announced that they've partnered to research improved 01:37.280 --> 01:42.680 brand safety tools for BIPOC audio content, which the company's recognizes currently 01:42.680 --> 01:48.440 limited. Sounder will work with Radio One and the Urban One podcast network. 01:48.440 --> 01:52.760 Lips in has launched Lips in Connect, a browser-based remote recording tool willing to 01:52.760 --> 01:56.960 the support documents if you'd like to have a peek. It's free for every Lips in customer 01:56.960 --> 02:03.920 until February the 7th, and will be available for any customer on a $20 or more plan. 02:03.920 --> 02:08.560 Lips in's advertised cast has signed an exclusive advertising partnership with Aaron 02:08.560 --> 02:13.280 Manke's Law, including Lips in's also ads solution. 02:13.280 --> 02:18.120 The Australian podcast ranker for December was released by Trident Digital, Southern Cross 02:18.120 --> 02:22.560 Australia's Hamish and Andy lost their top spot, but then again, they didn't release a 02:22.560 --> 02:24.640 single show in December. 02:24.640 --> 02:30.280 The number one is now Case File True Crime, produced by audio boom, and represented by 02:30.280 --> 02:35.800 ARN's iHeart podcast network Australia, which remains the top publisher, while listener 02:35.800 --> 02:41.400 remains the top sales house, both claimed their number one in press releases. And in further 02:41.400 --> 02:46.520 reading, we linked to Matthew McLean, who's written why video can't and won't replace 02:46.520 --> 02:52.520 audio in podcasting, and Jonas Woost at Bumpa, who's written on a better way to measure 02:52.520 --> 02:56.600 podcast success, listen time. 02:56.600 --> 03:01.960 In people news, Manuela Bedoya has been made head of operations at sounds profitable. 03:01.960 --> 03:08.880 She was with LWC Studios, and in podcast news, Wakanda Forever, the official Black Panther 03:08.880 --> 03:14.280 podcast drops today, an intimate look at the making of Black Panther Wakanda Forever. 03:14.280 --> 03:19.280 The podcast is a production of proximity media in collaboration with Marvel Studios and 03:19.280 --> 03:25.600 Marvel Entertainment, un-reformed the story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children 03:25.600 --> 03:32.040 is new from iHeart Today. The school was a so-called reform school outside of Montgomery 03:32.040 --> 03:38.560 in Alabama, which was, as several former students called it, a slave camp. The podcast 03:38.560 --> 03:45.000 is an eight-part investigative series hosted by journalist Josie Duffy Rice. And what our 03:45.000 --> 03:50.400 business is doing to protect our future and what more can be done? Cafe Direct's building 03:50.400 --> 03:56.440 better business returns for a second series today, aiming to empower people to become part 03:56.440 --> 04:02.040 of a positive movement for change through their consumer choice. It's produced by this 04:02.040 --> 04:04.040 is distorted. 04:04.040 --> 04:09.240 This podcast is sponsored by Magellan AI, and as you heard earlier, Magellan AI has 04:09.240 --> 04:15.600 added support for analyzing Spanish language podcasts in the US, and Mexico, the product 04:15.600 --> 04:22.800 is already monitoring more than 2,000 advertisers. You can get a demo today at Magellan.ai 04:22.800 --> 04:27.880 slash Spanish. And that's the latest from our newsletter to read all the stories and subscribe 04:27.880 --> 04:35.200 where at PodNews.NET.