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Pocket Casts has opened its web player to everyone.
You don't need an account to listen.
We've linked to our daily podcast to try it out today.
You'll find that linked in our show notes and our newsletter at
podnews.net.
You can also download Mac and Windows desktop apps too.
And if you sign in, you can rate shows and store your favourites
and keep tabs of what you've listened to, which syncs to the app
as well.
Up until now, it was behind a paywall and only available to
PocketCasts Plus users.
The company's press release includes significant promotion of
the benefits of Open RSS.
"The future of podcasting shouldn't be locked behind walled
gardens."
it says,
"podcasts belong to the people, not corporations,"
adding that:
"Podcasting is one of the last open corners of the internet.
And we're here to keep it that way."
Well, we're linking to the PocketCasts web player from our
podcast pages.
One way to link programmatically is to use the Apple iTunes ID.
More details in our show notes.
That'll also open the PocketCasts app if it's installed on
mobile.
The PocketCasts web player isn't yet optimised for mobile and
doesn't show transcripts.
An Apple Podcasts web player was launched last year.
And while it too doesn't show transcripts, it works flawlessly
on mobile,
especially when installed as an app on Android.
"My voice was made with Podcastle."
Elsewhere, as the number of podcasters, producers and students
from across higher education get involved in podcasting,
the Higher Ed PodCon has been announced in the podcast
conference capital of Chicago
at the University of Illinois campus in the city on July the 12th.
Already confirmed as a speaker is Matt Abrahams from ThinkFast,
TalkSmart.
Magellan AI now lets advertisers measure podcast ad reach
against their own first-party and third-party audience data.
Magellan AI ingests advertiser-supplied hashed email lists of
their audience segments, says the company.
We match them against podcast ad exposure for insights on reach,
audience overlap, and targeting effectiveness.
Triton Digital's Sounder announced that it will be implemented
by Audioboom.
The podcast network will get brand suitability guidance and
advanced contextual targeting.
Spotify published its annual music economics report.
For 2024, the company paid out $10 billion to the music industry
last year.
And audio versus video, 2025's fiercest fight is its most
pointless one, claims Nick Hilton in a long read today, which we'll
link to.
Turning a video, he says, into a podcast is as easy as closing
your eyes.
But turning a podcast into a video requires several hours of
outsourced labour.
In People News, Jason Kalin has joined Frequency as chief
commercial officer.
Most recently, Jason served as the chief business officer at Nativo,
a top native ad exchange and creative ad platform for brands and
publishers.
And in podcast news, section 230, the law that made the internet
a lush garden of user content.
Democrats and Republicans want it gone.
But what's the real story?
Tech journalist Mike Masnick explores this in the new series,
Otherwise Objectionable.
The immersive docuseries features experts who witnessed the
birth of the web, the congressman who wrote section 230,
and the tech pioneers who couldn't have succeeded without it.
Self-improvement show The Art of Manliness has partnered with
Backyard Ventures to expand its brand and increase its
visibility.
The 15-year-old show's host, Brett McKay, says that the new
partnership will allow them to continue producing the quality
show their listeners have come to expect,
while partnering with brands that resonate with their audience.
The Moonshot podcast launched this week and at an event in South
by Southwest.
The show focuses on Google X, the innovation lab within Google
Owner's Alphabet.
Good news for DIYers everywhere.
This old house radio hour has been announced by LAist Studios
and American Public Media and starts airing on March the 22nd.
And the business owner's journey returns for season two today,
with insightful conversations with top entrepreneurs and
business strategists.
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