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Will 2025 be videos year? The Podnews Weekly Review this week
focuses
on predictions from the podcast supporters for 2025. Video is
one of the more divisive subjects.
Mike Hamilton: Spotify and YouTube will continue their battle for supremacy
with podcasters and consumers being
the losers. Rachel Corbett: I think a lot of people are going to try the video
thing. People are going to think this
doesn't actually work as well as I thought it would and then
they'll pull back.Dave Jackson: We've been promised so
much about video from YouTube and Spotify. My guess is maybe
July of next year, you're going to hear a
lot of people go, hey, this isn't working.Si Jobling: I love video content.
I get it and I know it's where the
future is, but I don't like the use of word podcast when it's
just someone with a microphone in view
on a camera.Neal Veglio: This coming year is going to be more about audio
again.Rockie Thomas: Open web or wild garden. Video
or audio. What is a podcast? Great content will always find
the audience.James Cridland: You can read and listen
to all the predictions in a link you'll find in our show notes
and our newsletter at podnews.net.
Triton Digital's Sounder has launched a new audio insights
overview page, giving a new view for
publishers of their content. Fresh from closing Google podcasts
earlier this year, Google has
broken another thing. This time it's when you ask your Android
phone to play the latest news. Well,
that used to be a way to get Podnews to play, but now thanks to
Gemini, a bad voice reads out of date
news headlines badly. Our podnews reader James Hart has blogged
on how to fix that and a Nest speaker
continues to work until presumably Google breaks that as well.
Mind you, Apple has also broken 'play
the news from Podnews'. Our iPhone now tells us that we don't
have Apple Podcasts installed, but we do
and our Mac plays something on Apple music that is not me. The
Verge has devoted an article to visual
trends in podcasting, highlighting wooden slats on walls,
multiple long microphone stands and televisions
with podcast logos on them. Podcasting in China is the subject
of a report from mobile app analysis
firm Moonfox. Podcast app Himalaya has 300 million registered
users, it says. It's also got numbers for
the other large platforms there, though only 171 branded
podcasts appear to exist in the country.
A Louis Vuitton show has 44,000 listeners. Sport Social Podcast
Network publishes its predictions
for 2025. The company's boss, Jim Salveson, predicts that
Spotify won't woo video creators.
And our favourite prediction from somebody else, "there will be
further developments in the podcast
advertising space". You don't say, Sherlock! And in podcast news,
the December the 18th edition of
BFFs with Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards and Brianna Chickenfry
saved a fan's life. According to the
always accurate Daily Mail, it was Portnoy's last show. He felt
he was getting too old.
Do not touch the art. This is for your own safety. The Godfrey
Audio Guide posts its two-part finale
today. The award-winning audio drama blends horror, sci-fi and
art history, both real and imagined,
in the guise of a museum audio tour. It's part of the Fable & Folly
Network, created, written and
produced by Nicole Knudsen. And, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning
Canadian writer Anthony Del Col,
the audio drama Don't Listen To This is new today in the BBC's
Limelight series. The five-episode series
is set in the world of esports and the death of a top esports
athlete and his former team psychologist's
journey to uncover the truth behind it. This podcast is
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