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Understood from CBC.
We start with an exclusive today.
A company in Italy is sending invoices for more than $7,300 to
multiple podcast directories
and apps for listing six Italian podcasts.
In a special report today, Podnews examines what Licensync is
doing and suggests it's
another reason why podcasting could benefit from a trade
association to help protect our
industry.
You can read the article in full in our show notes and our
newsletter at podnews.net.
A BBC World Service investigation has suggested that one of the
world's biggest podcasts,
Diary of a CEO with Stephen Bartlett, has been accused of
spreading fringe theories
and harmful health information, including that cancer can be
treated by following a
keto diet rather than proven treatments and that gluten intake
causes autism.
Dr David Grimes: If you were a cancer patient who took some of this advice and
maybe changed your dietary
patterns when you were undergoing treatment, you could get very,
very sick and have a much
worse health outcome than if you followed recommended advice
from your oncologist.
Prof Heidi Larson: They're giving something that feels like it's tangible, it's not
going to hurt, but they're
way overstretching what the potential value of it is and the
worrisome thing to me is
that it sends people away from evidence-based medicine.
James Cridland: You can watch the investigation in full from a link in our show
notes and our newsletter
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The company that makes the show, Flight Studio, suggests it's
merely freedom of expression.
Podcasthon is less than 100 days away in March next year.
Doug Downs shares a little more about what the charity event is
about and how your podcast
can take part in an article we link to today.
CoHost has published 28 expert podcast predictions for 2025.
The rise of video, always-on podcasts and narrative formats are
all highlighted.
Podcasting Made Simple Live is a virtual event taking place on
January 9th.
It's focused on helping podcasts, guests and hosts improve their
craft.
Tickets are $97 but we've got a secret link today for free
access from Podnews.
You can find that in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
Hosting service PodToo has announced a partnership with Kobo,
enabling PodToo's audiobook publishers
to offer their audiobooks directly to Kobo Books.
The company has also launched Secure RSS, a method of securely
selling audiobooks through
RSS feeds.
On LinkedIn, Jay Clouse publishes an impressive graph showing
growth of a show on YouTube.
He also links to advice and a $199 course to learn how to do the
same.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
Is there a technically simple way to show comments for podcast
episodes?
In a podcast app, the podcast's Social Interact tag should allow
comments for podcast episodes
across a wide variety of apps, but it's never achieved the kind
of take-up that's
been desired.
Is there a simpler way to achieve this with entirely standards-compliant
RSS?
Our editor has a new idea to link to today.
Worth taking a look at PodToo's release about Secure RSS, the
technology is described as
a new way to discover content securely via RSS while protecting
the content owners, and
the Podcasting 2.0 podcast was the last for the year, among
other things it talks about
a PWA being confusing for Americans, who are used to the word "progressive"
being used
to describe political parties.
And in podcast news from CBC, Understood is an anthology podcast
that takes you out of
the daily news cycle and inside the events, people and cultural
moments you want to know
more about, from crypto, to the Prime Minister of India, to Celine
Dion, and CBC is currently
accepting pitches for the show, you'll find a link in our show
notes.
A new podcast aimed at demystifying healthcare, Wealth of Health,
has been launched.
The podcast aims to address common health concerns, provide
accurate information on
prevention and treatment options, and challenge misinformation.
And the Podnews Weekly Review this week talked with Shira
Atkins of Wonder Media Network
about their acquisition by Acast, Rob Greenlee about the Podcast
Hall of Fame, and Daniel
J Lewis about Podgagement.
And this podcast is sponsored by CBC.
From CBC, Understood goes deep on the current events, people and
cultural moments shaping
society.
The seasons span four episodes hosted by journalists with an
existing expertise on the story and
CBC is now accepting pitches for seasons of the show.
You can find the link in our show notes and that's the latest
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