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 From our free daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with

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 Spots Now.

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 We start with an exclusive for you today.

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 Daylight Media has signed Bill Maher's Club Random.

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 It becomes the latest show to join the network in a period of

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 fast growth.

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 Daylight will work with Club Random on sales and distribution.

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 Nine other shows have recently joined the platform.

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 Consumers simply don't have the attention span they once had.

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 Writing for PodNews today, DAXUS' Brian Conlon suggests this is

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 a myth waiting to trip up the unwary marketer.

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 And in fact, the data points to consumers just making choices on

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 where to direct their attention.

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 A podcast app that removes advertising, Zero Ads, has measured

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 the ads in 60,000 episodes submitted by their users.

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 The median, the company says, is 4.3 minutes of ads per episode.

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 That's 10.2% ads.

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 But some shows are significantly more.

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 iHeart's Handle on the Law is 44% ads, apparently.

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 iHeart's Covino and Rich is 36%.

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 iHeart's Dear Chelsea is also 36%.

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 And iHeart's The Ben Maller Show is 35%.

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 Something linking all four of those.

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 I can't think what it is.

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 Data in Podscribe and our own test suggests that Zero Ads is

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 significantly overestimating the number of ads in podcasts.

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 That's unsurprising given it's trying to promote its product.

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 But even Podscribe suggests that those four shows consist of

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 more than 20% ads.

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 Megaphone switches to using Spotify ad server from Friday.

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 Since we reported on this in early May, the company appears to

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 have changed the maximum allowable duration to 90 seconds rather

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 than 60.

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 Vast tags are no longer supported.

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 Got an archive clip you want to use, but somebody's mixed music

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 underneath it.

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 I can't stand people mixing music underneath things.

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 Anyway, a new tool from lalal.ai has been released that could

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 help with that.

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 Links is trained to separate speech from background music, crowd

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 noise, interference or environmental noise.

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 We have a few examples you'll find linked from our show notes

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 and our newsletter at podnews.net.

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 In an email to users, one of 11 since early June, Good Pods is

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 celebrating more than 2,000 connections with its Earshot podcast

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 guest service.

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 The email comes from Santi, CEO, Good Pods.

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 But Santi Garza has confirmed to Pod News that he hasn't worked

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 at Good Pods since April.

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 The MPN Awards take place on July the 30th in a live stream from

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 London.

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 They recognise marketing podcasts around the world.

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 And the New Zealand Podcast Awards 2026 has been announced.

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 Entries for that open in early August.

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 Prism Clip is a new tool that helps podcast producers or

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 listeners quickly search and clip long-form audio or video,

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 describe the moment in ordinary language, and the tool will

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 render short clips to share on social media.

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 There's a free tier for you to upload up to 60 minutes.

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 Buzzcast, the official podcast from Buzzsprout, the third

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 largest podcast host in the world, has added its show back to

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 Spotify.

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 In the latest episode, Kevin Finn explains why the company had

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 made the choice to remove its show from the platform in the

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 first place.

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 It sounds as if Spotify is fixing the lock-in issue that we

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 highlighted in May, that the company is now more open about

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 podcasting as a whole,

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 and that Buzzsprout's team are keen to use as many platforms as

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 possible.

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 PodTrack has updated its certification to version 2.2 of the IAB

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 podcast measurement guidelines,

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 and there's a new company listed as compliant, Red Seed Ventures.

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 Red Seed Ventures itself doesn't own any podcast hosting

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 companies yet, apart from Supercast.

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 And horror folk audio drama Beck's End is at the end of a crowdfunding

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 round,

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 just £4,000 or US$5,300 away from the target.

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 The atmospheric show will be set in a remote English village,

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 where something ancient stirs beneath the water.

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 It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.

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 Xero Ads, which we mentioned above, operates similarly to other

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 ad-blocking services,

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 taking one download, then caching an ad-free version on their

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 service,

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 so total downloads are completely hidden from the creator.

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 Download requests come from an IP address that we've published

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 today,

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 using hosting run by Latitude, a service built for AI tools.

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 And as is probably as expected, the downloads are spoofing a

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 version of Chrome from May 2024.

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 We gave it a recent issue of this show.

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 It hacked the first 2 minutes 10 seconds off the front,

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 and a further 1 minute and 5 seconds from the end.

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 It thinks 57% of this show is ads.

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 In reality, as you know, the ad read only totals about 14% of

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 the episode.

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 After Amazon and iHeart announced upcoming support for the

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 alternate enclosure earlier this year

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 to enable both apps to be able to show video podcasts,

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 Buzzsprout appears to be testing it.

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 It's visible in Buzzcast, the company's podcast.

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 Speechify AI's Simba 3.2, an artificial voice tool,

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 has hit the top of the artificial analysis chart.

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 The chart measures voice quality marked by humans.

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 The appearance is interesting, given that it's also the cheapest

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 model in the top 20.

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 11 laps is 10 times the price.

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 And looking for a quick and simple way to grab a milestone card

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 to promote your show,

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 RSS.com has added a tool to help for its own podcasters.

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 And in podcast news, Tom Holland was interviewed by Tom Holland.

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 For the rest is history.

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 Tom Holland isn't a podcast host and appears with Tom Holland,

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 who isn't an actor.

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 Holland talked to Holland about Christopher Nolan's forthcoming

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 epic Odyssey,

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 which Tom Holland doesn't star in, although Tom Holland does.

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 Holland, not that one, has recently been criticised by Elon Musk

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 for apparently liking the movie which stars Holland, not that

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 one.

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 Joe Marlowe will see you now, has Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex,

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 on his podcast later today.

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 To mark exactly one year to go till the Invictus Games

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 Birmingham 2027,

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 the Duke is joining Joe and co-host Jake Bardwaj alongside his

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 close friend,

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 former Invictus competitor and broadcaster JJ Chalmers.

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