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The inductees for the 2025 Podcast Hall of Fame
have been announced.
Those recognised include Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster.
She podcasts Jessica Kupferman
and Libsyn co-founder Dave Mansueto.
The ceremony is on January the 17th in Orlando in Florida.
So far, every inductee has been from the US.
Fiction podcast "The Program"
has released its year in review for 2024.
The article contains how the show was marketed,
how Spotify's comments have been really helpful,
download numbers, revenue, and even some choir music.
On November the 29th, Podnews highlighted
the Spotify exec who is ignoring video on Spotify,
preferring to upload video directly to YouTube.
Good news, Bill Simmons, who is currently Spotify's head
of podcast monetization and innovation,
has today uploaded a video to Spotify.
Here are the first three seconds.
- This is Bill Simmons.
I am thrilled to announce our newest YouTube channel.
It's called Ringer Movies.
- Oh, seems like that memo hasn't entirely sunk in then.
That new YouTube channel contains "The Rewatchables"
and "The Big Picture," two podcasts which are unavailable
in video on Spotify, but available on YouTube.
Blubrry has released its AI tools for all podcasters,
not just those using Blubrry for hosting.
There are a set of AI tools around pre-planning,
transcripts, episode art, and social promotion.
Research company Kantar has focused on
how effective podcast advertising is.
The data isn't paid for by a podcast ad sales company.
It's independent, helpful, and mostly positive.
It's worth a read.
Sirius XM has launched the Women's Empowerment Network,
starting with two new shows.
Co-hosts rolled out an improved
B2B podcast analytics feature,
with new features for improving listener
and lead identification,
and measuring the ROI for podcast initiatives.
A new browser-based video editing tool
called Your.mov has launched.
Of specific interest to podcasters,
if you upload podcast audio,
Your.mov creates engaging visuals and animations
alongside text commentary.
And the old joke, if you want to keep something a secret,
put it in a podcast after the mid-roll.
Might have some truth to it after all.
The Times of London reports about an interview
with the director general of MI5,
the UK's domestic security agency,
spilling secrets in a podcast made for the UK Civil Service.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff,
and Dave Winer, the co-inventor of podcasting,
has posted a concern that we are losing the word podcast,
and giving the idea of a listening list feature
for podcast apps.
We think it's quite close to the podroll,
which is already implemented in Podcasting 2.0.
A $140 microphone can sound like one costing $3,500,
with just one small change to one internal capacitor.
That's according to the Aftermath website,
which has modded an AKG perception
to make it sound just like a Neumann U87.
Our posts on Blue Sky look nicer now.
You can find us on Blue Sky as podnews.net, of course.
True Fans, a website and podcast app,
has launched a Superfans chart.
If you're a particular podcast's superfan,
you share in 1% of all of the payments
that go to that podcast.
The app now also includes music, artist pages,
and radio feeds, and the Podcasting 2.0 board meeting
last week discussed the switch from streaming payments
to use LN address, and Godcaster, Adam Curry's new project
for faith-based radio stations and podcasts.
And in podcast news, wrongful conviction
has made it to episode 500 today.
Today's episode tells the story of Stacey Larson,
who maintains that he was wrongly convicted
of second-degree murder.
For 34 years, he's languished behind bars
despite having an alibi and a complete lack
of physical evidence linking him to the crime.
The show is from Lava for Good
and distributed by iHeart Podcasts.
And Fire Escape is released on open RSS today from Wondery,
telling the remarkable story of someone who was sentenced
to almost 10 years in one of the largest women's prisons
in the world and her identity shifting work
as an incarcerated first responder.
The show is a Wondery and KQED's Snap Studios production.
And this podcast is sponsored by CBC.
From CBC, Uncover brings listeners explosive
high-cannibal investigations and true crime series.
CBC is currently accepting pitches from independents
and publishers to be part of this successful podcast.
You can find a link in the show notes
and a trailer for Uncover coming today only.
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I was trying to protect him
from this Jerry Springer reality.
And who's the dad now?
And it's just like, better to know.
That's why I wanted to get the test.
You know, she doesn't recall any kind of significant moment
that would lead her to believe
it's either one of us in particular.
And she's very early stages pregnancy,
not showing or anything like that.
What do you do?
What is it?
It's a paternity test.
Paternity test.
They all needed a paternity test.
For some, a pregnancy was good news.
For others, that was less certain.
But what they had in common was a single question.
Who's the dad?
One by one, they went looking for the answer.
Just look up, is it possible to do a DNA test
before a baby's born?
And bingo.
We find this company that will do a prenatal DNA test.
I search prenatal paternity test near me,
and then this ViGuard Accumetrics shows up.
The same company, hit after hit.
Thank you for calling our award-winning laboratory testing
and research center.
For a few hundred bucks, some blood from the mom,
a sample from the potential dads,
ViGuard Accumetrics promised accuracy.
You're receiving the definitive answer
on the question of paternity of the fetus.
Clinically precise, accurate, and economical.
People relied on these tests.
They needed this clarity.
As soon as I saw those test results,
it was like a line in the sand.
Everything I did was now geared towards building a future
for this child.
And they needed certainty.
You know, like it's obviously legit.
It's a DNA company.
I trusted those results.
But instead, the company delivered chaos.
Called Accumetrics, sobbing, like what's going on here?
There's something wrong.
She doesn't look like the baby you told me I was gonna have.
It's devastating.
That's just some fucked up nightmare.
And you're the company that's supposed
to provide me with results.
I was pissed.
From CBC News Podcasts, I'm Rachel Houlihan.
And I'm Jorge Barrera.
We're journalists with the CBC News Investigative Unit.
This is the story of people who put their faith
in a small Canadian company with an explosive secret,
a pattern of naming the wrong dads.
He's not the dad.
And I remember I couldn't breathe.
I'm like, what?
What do you mean he's not my son?
So was it just bad luck?
Like are there other people?
Am I the only one?
How could I be that unlucky?
Or was it something else?
Like one mistake is unfortunate, but constant errors?
There's no one who can listen to what I'm saying
and say, no, it is legitimate.
They're just making mistakes.
This is the story of our investigation into this company.
Dr. Harvey Tenenbaum, we've talked to like dozens of people
whose lives been upended by your laboratory's
prenatal paternity tests.
The tests were never flawed.
The tests are accurate.
How is it that a year ago,
I'm 99.97% a match to this human?
And now here we are a year later and I'm 0%?
Who's to blame here?
From CBC News, listen to Uncover, Bad Results,
everywhere you get your podcasts.
My story is true.
And my story should never happen to anyone else.
This is a CBC podcast.
For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca/podcasts.