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- Jun 30: Thanks to Ryan Pownall, a Canadian social media influencer, who - after launching a podcast on Buzzsprout and getting his adult-themed podcast listed on all the platforms, promptly hired an “AI-powered anti-piracy service” called Ceartas DMCA which sent a takedown notice about us to Google because we had automatically listed his grubby podcast. We’ve appealed the copyright strike with Google, since this is literally how open podcasts are supposed to work.
- Jun 16: Did OP3 go down at the end of last week, during the Big Google Outage that appeared to knock almost everything off the internet? John Spurlock would like us to know that no, it didn’t.
- Jun 6: Huxe is a new AI-powered audio briefing app that will connect to your email, calendar and other personal feeds, to give you an audio update. Business Insider reports that it’s from some of the original Google NotebookLM team.
- May 30: Sports betting website FanDuel was the #1 podcast advertiser in April, says Magellan AI. Corporate advertising for Google makes it to #13, the highest spend increase last month.
- May 26: If you have a show on Google News’s audio briefings service, know that Google is delivering you hundreds of thousands of automated downloads which aren’t being listened-to, and they don’t know why (in this deeply technical post, our Editor notes that we were seeing more than 40,000 a day). We know many senior people in Google read Podnews; but we can’t find anyone responsible for this service. Probably for the best.
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