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Edison Research released the top 50 podcasts in the US for
quarter one 2025.
Rotten Mango makes its debut in the top 10.
The Mel Robbins podcast makes the top 50 for the first time at
number 15.
Pod News' list, which we link to today from our show notes and
our newsletter at podnews.net,
also includes our hosting companies, Megaphone hosting 22 and
Simplecast hosting 12.
Registrations are now open for the Women Who Podcast Awards.
The awards are run by a magazine, Women Who Podcast, which is up
to issue 17.
President Trump signed an executive order aiming to eliminate
federal funding for NPR and PBS.
Public funding for radio and TV costs the American taxpayer $1.60
a year.
said New York Public Radio in a statement.
In the US, Apple lost a court case and has allowed developers to
link to external purchase mechanisms.
Spotify was among one of the first to make a change to their app.
The ruling may make it easier for podcast app developers to link
to purchases
without having to pay Apple's 30% app tax.
Patreon has said it will also make changes to its app.
It only applies to the US for now, though we can expect the EU
to take a keen interest.
And the second annual Sports Podcast Festival returns to Raleigh
in North Carolina in mid-August.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And a new version of the podcast location tag has been included
in the podcast namespace,
popularly known as Podcasting 2.0.
The tag now lets podcasters mark where they are, as well as what
a podcast is about.
It also supports OpenStreetMap place IDs, allowing rich
discovery.
There's a full specification and implementation guide and an
example tag generator,
which we link to today from our show notes and our newsletter at
podnews.net.
It's a rich, fully featured tag and worth ensuring you support
it in full.
Oh, and this podcast also contains that podcast location tag.
And 90.5% of the podcast downloads for the Pod News Daily, that's
this podcast,
comes from Malaysia or Indonesia.
We've tracked them back to Google News 65 days since they
started.
I've dug a little deeper into the downloads on my personal blog
with more proof that they're kicked off by Google services.
In People News, the CTO of Libsyn, Greg Barrett, has left the
company.
He'd been with Libsyn since 2012.
And in podcast news, Uncomfy features stories from guests who
dared to get uncomfortable
in a moment that changed their world view.
Go and find out is a narrative podcast about travel, risk and
personal transformation.
And the world, the universe and us is new today from the new
scientist,
from the evolution of intelligent life to the mysteries of
consciousness,
from the threat of the climate crisis to the search for dark
matter.
The world, the universe and us is your essential weekly dose of
science and wonder in an uncertain world.
It's with Airwave and we thank them for their support this month.
And this podcast is sponsored by Red Circle.
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