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- Jan 1: Spotted in Brooklyn NY, USA, by Podnews reader Arielle ("by my favorite taco spot in Gowanus"), a hand-drawn ad for this science fiction podcast (we assume, looking at the lovely artwork). Except, the real artwork for The Old Man and the Three is very different, and features Cam Johnson as the host. And it's not science fiction, it's something to do with the NBA, and yes I suppose on second look it's clearly a basketball on the artwork. Anyway, on looking at Google Maps, it seems this ad has been there since Nov 2024 and probably earlier since JJ Redick did their last show in July 2024 (indeed, it has a date of 2023 on it), but even then, the show appears to have never used this artwork and... anyway, we're overthinking it aren't we? Tacos. Yum.
- Dec 24, 2025: Google appears to have comprehensively broken its voice assistant for playing podcasts.
- Dec 15, 2025: If you produce post-campaign analysis for your advertisers manually, Podscribe has added a tool that automatically produces client-ready Google Slides presentations, directly from the dashboard. The company has also added lookalike audience discovery, to check on show overlap and increase frequency for advertisers.
- Dec 1, 2025: Chances are that your podcast uses the open, free software ffmpeg during its publish process. The ffmpeg team are volunteers, but are being pressured by an AI tool run by Google that spots obscure security bugs and demands that they’re fixed within 90 days. Google, which now has a market cap bigger than Microsoft, pays nothing for ffmpeg’s upkeep.
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