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with Sounds Good from CBC.
Happy Christmas. Nick Quah has posted the top 10 moments that
define podcasting in 2024.
In the list, Haliey Hawk Tuah Welch, Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg
and others too.
Podcasters using affiliate marketing to earn revenue should know
about PayPal's Honey browser extension,
which is rewriting your affiliate codes to theirs.
So even if you successfully promote a product, if Honey is
installed on a user's machine, PayPal gets the commission, not
you.
Justin Baldoni's Man Enough podcast has lost Liz Plank, the show's
co-host,
who has announced she is to step away from the show in a
statement.
Baldoni has been accused of sexual harassment and a smear
campaign, by Blake Lively.
The show, which started in 2021, is additionally co-hosted by
Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamie Heath,
who's also named in Lively's complaint.
And how many podcasts still have the Chartable prefix in them?
As of last weekend, there were still 14,000 shows.
Omni Studio has the most at 1,600, and that's down by only 15%
since December 1st.
Libsyn is second, although they've more than halved their shows
using it.
And Simplecast is third.
Chartable prefixes still work, but they won't for much longer.
And they say Christmas is a time for joy and happiness, but if
things become too much today,
there are plenty of people who can help.
And yes, they are working over Christmas.
A problem shared is often a problem helped.
And we link to a list of helpful numbers and online chat
services in our show notes and our newsletter today.
And in podcast news, audio fiction is hard to produce as an
always-on podcast, with all the benefits that brings.
But Josie's Lonely Hearts Club has succeeded, publishing an
episode a week in 2024.
It's partially done by making the show a hybrid of scripted and
improvised,
giving the show both narrative arcs, but also what the makers
call the electric energy of live comedy.
It's a neat method of making a show, and it must work because it's
just picked up an award.
And some names for beer are so ridiculous, they would make a
good movie.
But the show Beer Me That Movie finds silly beer names and makes
movies from them.
And to keep the feed alive over the holiday period, well, here's
a clever idea of theirs.
They're getting Google Notebook LM to analyse past episodes.
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