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Buzzsprout is the best podcast hosting company, says TechRadar,
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special credit to Podbean, Libsyn, Captivate and Transistor.
Kamala Harris' podcast strategy fell way short of Trump, says
Ashley Carman. Harris didn't
appear to focus on a cohesive list of shows which didn't share
similar audiences, making
it hard to hit the same talking points. The article is in the
latest edition of her Bloomberg
newsletter, Soundbite. Well, to support podcast journalism, Podnews
has snagged a deal on Ashley
Carman's Soundbite newsletter. You can grab Bloomberg's tech
newsletter bundle at a 25%
discount for the first year, which includes Soundbite and others.
You'll find a link in
our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. The IAB
suggests in its 2025 Outlook study of ad
buyers that growth of podcast ad spend will slow this year and
its market share will drop. Total
advertising is set to grow by 7.3%. Podcasting will just beat
that at 7.4%. And in a surprise,
S&P Global Market Intelligence suggests that the US podcast
industry won't top $2 billion in revenue
until 2032. The IAB suggests it hit $1.9 billion in 2023. Now
here's a mystery. Reruns of the Ricky
Gervais show are reports the times at the top of Apple Podcasts
UK comedy charts, 18 years after their
release. But nobody seems to know why. Not the Guardian, whose
podcast it is, or Gervais himself.
The show is being hosted on Spotify for creators. Podcast
hosting platform Adelicious has partnered
with publisher Immediate to bring its shows to the Adelicious
network. Immediate saw 3.5 million
downloads a month last year to its 16 shows. Looking at the
schedule for the IAB's 2025 Annual Leadership
meeting, Acast's Greg Glenday has posted that he's, quote,
"disappointed that podcasting barely
registers a footnote, even in the shadow of the podcast election.
This is one of the fastest growing
parts of the creator economy,"" he says, "and it's still undervalued
and misunderstood." We'll link to his
post in our show notes and our newsletter today at podnews.net.
And also this, while TuneIn's CEO,
Richard Stern wouldn't talk to PodNews after we revealed in
December the company's layoffs and
the removal of a way to submit podcasts on the platform, he did
talk to iHeart, which carries a
full interview. He complains that there's no revenue in adding a
podcast to TuneIn, says they get no or very
little listening anyway, given 96% of listening on TuneIn is to
live audio, and confirms that the company is
"not updating our podcast directory for anything other than our
partners' podcasts". One of those
partners is iHeart. And the article claims 2024 was TuneIn's
fifth consecutive year in the black,
but in an interview in Radio World in 2022, Stern claimed, we
just finished our first full year of
profitable operations in the company's 20-year history in 2021.
Well, both can't be right,
so we've asked him. Let's see if he talks to us again. It's a
Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
Podcast Vibes is a piece of research work from Yuri Vishnevsky,
using AI to extract subjects and
emotions from individual shows. It's an interesting use of the
technology. Could emotion be a useful
addition to just raw transcripts when working out brand suitability
scores? And Dave Jones from the
Podcast Index is looking for your help. Firstly, to stop the docker
logs from,
quotes, eating all the disk space. And secondly, to read live
stream metadata from Shoutcast streams.
There's more in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week, if you can
help.
In People News, Stephen TVO-Hallgren has joined Bumper as the
company's full-time chief technology
officer. He was working for the company as a fractional CTO.
Ryan Morrison, a former BBC News
journalist, is now working as a content editor at Eleven Labs.
And Gary Krantz has died. Recently,
he was the managing partner for Podcast Radio US. He also worked
with Podnews on our acquisition of
the Podcast Business Journal. He had a long history of being in
the radio business. He was 65.
And in podcast news... "We've got about 150 to 200 protesters
that have rushed into office now."
Cop City, a new police training facility in Atlanta, Georgia, is
nearly open in spite of protests that
led to the death of one activist. We Came to the Forest from Wondery
and Campside Media is new today with
details, facts and perspectives about the events that led to the
death. It's hosted by Campside co-founder
and Atlanta resident Matthew Shaer. The Lex Friedman podcast is
apparently going to feature Matt
Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress and owner of Pocket Casts,
in a future episode. He's raised
eyebrows recently after, quote, going through a bunch of drama.
And Friedman is keen to nudge him to admit
mistakes. Wonder how that's going to go on. Fascinated by the
future of humanity beyond Earth,
Entropy Rising has started gaining traction with its first
milestone of 100 followers and over 500
episode downloads. The podcast explores out-of-this-world topics
from what it takes to live
in space to the possibilities of mining asteroids. And Never
Miss a Monday launches today, a podcast that
makes the case for the power of Mondays. And this podcast is
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