WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:04.950 From our free daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with 00:00:04.950 --> 00:00:05.920 Spots Now. 00:00:07.300 --> 00:00:11.220 The world's funniest podcast festival returns this October. 00:00:11.780 --> 00:00:14.910 Cheerful Earful will be in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, 00:00:14.910 --> 00:00:16.980 Melbourne, Dublin and New York 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:20.910 from September the 28th to October the 28th with the largest 00:00:20.910 --> 00:00:22.580 line-up in the festival's history. 00:00:23.020 --> 00:00:25.730 We link to all of the details from our show notes and our 00:00:25.730 --> 00:00:27.560 newsletter at podnews.net. 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:31.280 We also link to a new article from Losh Moodaley. 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:34.760 Is video the future for podcasting? 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.230 Well, it depends, she says, in a story about the hidden 00:00:39.230 --> 00:00:41.800 economics of the price of visibility, 00:00:42.340 --> 00:00:45.660 which mean you might consider calculating your own video 00:00:45.660 --> 00:00:46.680 threshold. 00:00:47.140 --> 00:00:50.420 When does it make sense to add video so that it starts funding 00:00:50.420 --> 00:00:51.160 itself? 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.520 Professor Thomas Seyfried. 00:00:57.360 --> 00:00:59.520 What is it that you've committed your life to doing, Thomas? 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:04.340 In December 2024, the BBC World Service ran an investigation on 00:01:04.340 --> 00:01:06.560 harmful health misinformation 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:11.300 on Stephen Bartlett's podcast, Diary of a CEO, focusing on 00:01:11.300 --> 00:01:13.780 claims by Thomas Seyfried. 00:01:14.380 --> 00:01:17.830 Private Eye reports that Flight Stories' Diary of a CEO has 00:01:17.830 --> 00:01:20.060 welcomed Thomas Seyfried back 00:01:20.060 --> 00:01:23.960 in an episode released on July the 16th, which also acts as a 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:26.260 fundraiser for Seyfried's work. 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:30.270 Seyfried claims that chemotherapy and radiotherapy are little 00:01:30.270 --> 00:01:32.260 better than medieval quackery 00:01:32.780 --> 00:01:37.060 and the real way to beat cancer is a ketogenic diet. 00:01:37.220 --> 00:01:40.700 Claims that have no scientific evidence and that could 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:43.620 significantly harm listeners if they followed 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:46.240 them without real medical advice. 00:01:46.420 --> 00:01:50.400 Now, Bartlett quietly announced on-screen fact-checking in 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.380 November 2025, but these notes are invisible 00:01:54.380 --> 00:01:58.000 to audio listeners and there's no link to any document in the 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:59.700 podcast episode notes. 00:02:00.100 --> 00:02:03.650 In the YouTube video, there is a link marked Independent Fact 00:02:03.650 --> 00:02:06.940 Check, but it's truncated and doesn't work. 00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:11.110 An article in the Sunday Times yesterday noted that his show is 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:13.440 nearing the size of Joe Rogan's. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:18.370 Flight Stories' PR company told us that Stephen Bartlett's Diary 00:02:18.370 --> 00:02:21.860 of a CEO recorded 86 million views in May, 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:26.530 roughly three times the 35 million logged by Joe Rogan's podcast 00:02:26.530 --> 00:02:28.060 in the same period. 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:32.570 Diary of a CEO also added over a million new subscribers during 00:02:32.570 --> 00:02:35.620 that window while Rogan stayed flat. 00:02:35.780 --> 00:02:40.520 There's also a paid article today by Nick Hilton in today's iPaper 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.820 titled How Stephen Bartlett Fooled the World, 00:02:44.260 --> 00:02:47.180 which highlights recent guests, queries his continued 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:48.720 establishment approval, 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.190 and notes that Bartlett has curiously turned comments off for 00:02:53.190 --> 00:02:55.140 his podcast on Spotify. 00:02:56.220 --> 00:02:59.510 The APAs from Audio UK have announced that they've teamed up 00:02:59.510 --> 00:03:00.960 with Amazon Music 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.850 to offer free or discounted entry to the awards for those who 00:03:04.850 --> 00:03:06.780 would otherwise be unable to take part 00:03:06.780 --> 00:03:08.440 due to financial constraints. 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.000 Fountain has added support for Apple Podcasts Video. 00:03:12.540 --> 00:03:16.300 The podcast hosting company also supports the Alternate Enclosure, 00:03:16.760 --> 00:03:20.720 so other podcast apps can also access your video, including Fountain's 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:21.240 app. 00:03:21.660 --> 00:03:23.320 Spotify and YouTube are coming soon. 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.700 The ProPlan adds video at no extra cost. 00:03:27.260 --> 00:03:29.840 Looking for a decent teleprompter for your Mac? 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.480 There are plenty which attract monthly fees or require access to 00:03:33.480 --> 00:03:35.380 your microphone or something, 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:40.240 but Eyes Forward is a simple tool with a one-off payment of $1.99. 00:03:40.580 --> 00:03:42.320 You can buy it in the Mac App Store. 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:47.590 Audioflux has opened Circuit 8, looking for bite-sized audio 00:03:47.590 --> 00:03:50.280 stories about unexpected conversations, 00:03:50.580 --> 00:03:53.910 close-to-home discoveries, and the people who quietly shape our 00:03:53.910 --> 00:03:54.520 lives. 00:03:54.640 --> 00:03:56.020 The theme is confection. 00:03:56.220 --> 00:03:59.720 It's free to enter, and your work could be shared at Transom, 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:01.780 Transmitter Audio Art Festival, 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:03.880 and Resonate in Richmond, Virginia. 00:04:04.660 --> 00:04:07.450 The UK's Goalhanger has made a short documentary about the 00:04:07.450 --> 00:04:08.700 company's history 00:04:08.700 --> 00:04:12.020 and the filming of The Rest is Football in New York, 00:04:12.380 --> 00:04:16.480 and Blubrry's Mike Dell writes about 21 years of podcasting 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:17.360 and, quote, 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.640 the thing I don't want us to lose. 00:04:20.140 --> 00:04:23.160 In it, he comments on the AMP Accords, saying, 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.880 better analytics could certainly be useful, but requiring 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:31.480 podcast applications to provide increasingly detailed client-side 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:32.260 listener information 00:04:32.260 --> 00:04:36.320 changes the relationship between podcasters and their audiences. 00:04:38.020 --> 00:04:40.900 It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff, and after a gap of 00:04:40.900 --> 00:04:41.980 almost nine years, 00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:47.700 the LAME project, which encodes MP3s, is now up to version 4.0. 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:50.500 There's a technical reason for the bump to version 4, though, 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:52.300 and it's not a major release. 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:57.400 After it reached 3.100, the version number was too long to fit 00:04:57.400 --> 00:04:58.960 in an ID.3 tag. 00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:02.570 Still, the software continues being updated, and 4.1 is 00:05:02.570 --> 00:05:04.140 currently being worked on. 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.350 Want your podcast to sound as if it's been recorded on a 00:05:07.350 --> 00:05:09.940 cassette with hiss and wow and flutter? 00:05:10.460 --> 00:05:14.560 A cassette simulation works with FFmpeg to do just that. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.960 It's loaded up with a number of cassette profiles, including 00:05:17.960 --> 00:05:24.340 1978's Sony CHF-90 and even a Soviet MK60 tape. 00:05:25.180 --> 00:05:29.010 The co-inventor of podcasts, Dave Winer, is busy inventing a 00:05:29.010 --> 00:05:29.280 new, 00:05:29.400 --> 00:05:31.760 social network using RSS. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.800 We'll link to rss.chat today. 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.940 It's an invite-only server that shows off the tool, which uses RSS 00:05:38.940 --> 00:05:40.320 under the hood. 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:43.980 It's this, the cross-app comment system that we've been looking 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:45.720 for for podcast apps, too. 00:05:46.140 --> 00:05:48.420 We'll link to the installation details today. 00:05:49.320 --> 00:05:53.310 And the image format, Avif, A-V-I-F, is now baseline widely 00:05:53.310 --> 00:05:54.460 available, 00:05:54.640 --> 00:05:57.680 having been available in all major browsers for 30 months. 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.150 We'd not recommend it for your podcast artwork quite yet, or for 00:06:01.150 --> 00:06:02.120 email, sadly. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.460 But for websites, it'll save you considerable bandwidth. 00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:07.340 And we're switching over to it. 00:06:08.620 --> 00:06:11.650 In People News, Matt Kellogg has joined Surfer Network, a 00:06:11.650 --> 00:06:13.840 premium audio advertising marketplace. 00:06:14.260 --> 00:06:17.290 As the company's SVP of North American Strategy, he joins from 00:06:17.290 --> 00:06:18.040 Soundstack. 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.190 And at the BBC, Thomas Curry will become the Creative 00:06:21.190 --> 00:06:25.020 Development Director of Podcasts for BBC Studios Audio. 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:27.680 Ian Tate will be Head of Production. 00:06:28.140 --> 00:06:31.070 Curry will be expanding BBC Studios' network of co-productions 00:06:31.070 --> 00:06:32.880 and production partnerships, 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:36.020 working closely with the company's commercial and editorial 00:06:36.020 --> 00:06:36.560 teams. 00:06:37.380 --> 00:06:41.210 And in podcast news, with Airwave, the box of oddities delves 00:06:41.210 --> 00:06:44.440 into the strange and mysterious aspects of our world, 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:48.830 exploring topics ranging from bizarre medical conditions to unsolved 00:06:48.830 --> 00:06:49.780 mysteries. 00:06:50.200 --> 00:06:55.620 Today, could an ordinary clay pot be the oldest recording device 00:06:55.620 --> 00:06:57.500 in human history? 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