From Sydney Airport, the latest from podnews.net with CoHost's Advanced
Audience Demographics. Just days after Spotify's video announcement YouTube has
announced that it's to run an online Q&A session on December the 12th. Kai Chuck
global head of podcasting and Steve McClendon podcast product lead will be
"spilling the tea" on platform updates and answering your burning
questions. The session's free: they'll be joined by Stephanie Chan, a strategic
partner manager for YouTube podcasts. Ashley Carman got an interview with
Gustav Söderström at Spotify's Now Playing event last week. In her
newsletter she managed to prize a little more information from him about how the
revenue for videos will work, though much is still under wraps and she notes the
tension from some publishers with the announcement. In Russia, Apple podcast has
removed a number of Russian language shows including a BBC podcast and shows
from the insider and echoes of Moscow. It's also removed some apps including
the US's Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Podnews is unavailable in
Russia otherwise we would ask whether people there can get the shows putting
the RSS feed directly into Apple podcasts - would be curious to know.
iHeart's Inside Radio reports that iHeart's Triton Digital is to launch its
Demos Plus product in the Netherlands. It's the first time the product has
launched in the EU which has significantly enhanced privacy laws. Audioboom
released a trading update suggesting that the company should make an EBITDA
profit of 2.8 million rather than the 2.5 million they were previously
forecasting. Kast Media's bankruptcy continues to roll on if you're curious
what contracts in the podcast industry often look like. Recent court filings
have included Jim Cornette's podcaster contract and X1T's affiliate contract, a
company that bought cast a set of smaller shows. Wanted something more
tangible than our screenshot of an email on Friday that Samsung Podcasts is
closing down on December the 1st? Well it's all we had at the time, but there's
now a link at the top of a Samsung page we link to from our show notes and our
newsletter at podnews.net - and Sounds Profitable are hosting a webinar this
Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, called Videos Rise in Podcasting. It's a Monday
so time for some tech stuff and Cleanfeed has made a number of improvements
to the core audio quality of its remote audio tool. We use this tool every week
in the Podnews Weekly Review, and advantages for podcasting over tools
like Riverside and Squadcast are significantly lower latency and what you
hear is what you record, rather than hoping that a local audio recording will
be okay. Cleanfeed are a long-term supporter of pod news but, you know, we'd
recommend them anyway to be honest. Transistor has added a lookup feature
for podcast guests that grabs details from BlueSky, Mastodon, GitHub and X. It
puts the detail on podcast RSS feeds; and Alby appears to be shutting down its
remaining lightning wallets, pushing people towards Alby Hub. Meanwhile,
Proton's Proton wallet is now rolling out to existing customers but that
doesn't yet support lightning. In people news, Greg Wasserman is no longer head of
relationships at Cast Magic - he was employee number four at the company and
led partnerships, sales, training, community building and advocacy. A podcast coach
and consultant and extremely active on LinkedIn he's looking for a fabulous
next role. And in podcast news "Today in History with the Retrospectors" will
release their 1,000th episode today. It produces 10 minute daily episodes
bringing you curious moments from this day in history. The founder of Barstool
Sports, Dave Portnoy, is to leave the BFFs podcast. He says he's uninterested in the
topics and becoming too old and there's been some other drama that we assume
some people care about but you can read about it if you click the link. The Podnews
Weekly Review has reached episode 100 at the end of last week. Matt Campion
from Spirit Studios joins us to talk about the company's IP 360 strategy
while I talk about Spotify's push to video with Sam Sethi. Tenderfoot TV and
Audacy today release an investigative series which revisits a
1995 murder after uncovering a box of forgotten VHS tapes and police reports
it's called the Lords of Death. And Smartless presents Clueless it's an
all-new bite-sized brain teaser podcast. Emmy-winning writer Elliot Kalin guides
listeners through different puzzles brain teasers and conundrums to see if
they're faster than this season's permanent contestant
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