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Treble has launched a new reliable AI editing tool. It's called
DeepCut.
The tool can be personalized to specific podcasts and can be
given natural language instructions.
An optional upgrade, SafeCut, can be used to automatically make
edits that sound natural.
The company, which is more than 12 years old, has also had a
makeover, a new logo and a website.
Edison Research released the top 50 podcasts in the US for
quarter three 2025 from Edison Podcast Metrics.
The survey-based data lists all shows and was continuously
collected in July, August and September.
The Charlie Kirk Show jumped to number 17, while the Midas Touch
podcast also entered the top 20 for the first time.
The Black Podcasting Awards celebrated its 2025 winners in a
first-ever in-person ceremony.
Anna Deshawn earned four honours.
Lisa Woolfolk, Dominic Lawson and the We Sound Crazy podcast got
three.
We've a full list linked from our show notes and our newsletter
at podnews.net.
Everyone's watching the kids on YouTube, but Flight Path's Sean
Howard highlights that many are business owners building empires
and suggests in an article for Pod News that calling creators
kids is how legacy media lost the plot.
You'll find it linked from our newsletter today.
Resonate 2025 celebrates the storytellers at the heart of
podcasting.
And what better to do that than a set of Podcast Hero trading
cards.
There are 18 cards per pack and will either be available for
pickup at Resonate 2025 in early November or will ship the
following week.
On social media, many users have claimed that Spotify is running
ads for ICE and have called for people to cancel subscriptions.
Fact-checking platform Snopes says that ads for ICE recruitment
are confirmed to be appearing on Spotify and also on Google.
The content doesn't violate Spotify's advertising policies,
according to a Spotify spokesperson.
They go on to say that users can mark any ad with a thumbs up or
thumbs down to help manage their ad's preferences.
UK podcast production company Chalk & Blade is to close.
The 10-year-old company is winding down with some launches still
to come.
It will have closed by the end of March.
And in Saudi Arabia, the General Authority of Media Regulation
has suspended a YouTube podcast.
The host of Mireya, Mohammed Al-Sayed, appeared on the opposite
end of a couch shared by actress Rana Gibran.
And they were both covered by separate blankets.
But that was deemed inconsistent with public taste and media
guidelines, according to a Times of India report, quoting a
story in Al Ain News.
YouTube hosts have to apply for a license in the country.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And Pod News podcast episode list pages now support the podcast
location tag for creators.
One example of that is the episode list for this show, which
shows various recording locations, as you'll be aware.
Being a regular listener, we were in Sydney last week and in
Canada and the UK a couple of weeks ago.
We support version 2025 tags with OpenStreetMap IDs.
And we'd love to support the rel equals subject part of the spec.
If you know of a podcast that's already using that, please do
get in touch.
And rss.com has full support for version 2025 location tags for
both creator and subject.
And you can now edit Pod News' podcast pages.
Editing is, right now, limited to adding YouTube podcast links.
If you're logged in, and we don't have a link for that show, you'll
be asked to add them.
Although right now, parts of Amazon web services have fallen
over, so it probably won't work very well.
And in podcast news, a show about the collapse of the EMI record
label, Music, Money & Mayhem,
finally launched from BBC Studios on September the 29th.
The show, made by Novel, was promoted on the front cover of A
Supplement of the Times as launching on July the 7th.
In tea tales and tomes this week, things are getting spooky,
with Halloween specials bringing spine-tingling magic to every
age.
And in the 1980s and the 1990s, Satan and his followers were
accused of brainwashing children,
sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a
massive scale.
Yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be
found.
In The Devil You Know, you can explore the tangled web of the
satanic panic.
The believers, the sceptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully
convicted.
The stories of these eyewitnesses point us towards the real
underlying problems.
Was the fault with Satanists?
Or with ourselves?
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