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Gaslighting the Industry: Big Names Support, AI Transformations, and RSS Feed Frustrations S2/E28 Jun 2 2023
Live at The Podcast Show: YouTube RSS plans and the Edison Podcast Ranker S2/E27 May 26 2023
New Releases and MD Interviews: Oscar Merry (Fountain 0.7), Martin Mouritzen (Podfriend 2.0) and Mark Asquith (Captivate Creator Suite). S2/E26 May 19 2023
Broadcast to Podcast; plus, a look ahead at The Podcast Show S2/E25 May 12 2023
Good news! Plus, Chris Quamme Rhoden from Acast, and Nick Hilton on host reads S2/E24 May 5 2023
Spotify reach 500m MAU's. Podcasts appear in YouTube Music, Ofcom says the number of Brits listening to podcasts has flatlined. S2/E23 Apr 28 2023
Spotify strikes a deal with Jellysmack for video. RØDE Podcaster Duo & Streamer X launch at NAB. The Podcast Academy board announced. S2/E22 Apr 22 2023
Podnews buys Podcast Business Journal. Kids Listen releases survey on kids podcasts. New 'Podroll' tag is rolled out on Podnews. Podcast Guru is LIT. S2/E21 Apr 14 2023
Acast's SVP Marketing, Comms and Brand, Lizzy Pollott talks Interchangeable Ad Slots, Keyword and Conversational Ad Targeting and The Obamas join Acast. Plus it's Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month! S2/E20 Apr 7 2023
Ahoj Jamesi! Podcast Standards Project launches, iOS 16.4 launches and Podnews Live in Barcelona/Mexico launches. S2/E19 Mar 31 2023
Podcasts are go (on YouTube) (kind of); and interview with Captivate's Mark Asquith S2/E18 Mar 24 2023
The iHeartPodcast Awards; Podcast Mania; Norma-Jean Belenky on Podcast Movement; Apple is #1 S2/E17 Mar 17 2023
Spotify drops Anchor but streams on with new TikTok UI for podcast discoverability. RSS.com provides Automatic Transcripts for free S2/E16 Mar 10 2023
Will YouTube podcasting earn your time & attention? Podnews Live in Vegas, Manchester and London. S2/E15 Mar 3 2023
YouTube get into podcasting; Apple removes AppleCoreMedia, Podimo launches in the UK, and The Podcast Index shows cross-app comments working S2/E14 Feb 24 2023
Vox Media & Spotify raise significant new funding. Acast reports strong 2022 growth and seeks profitability by 2024. Podimo enters the UK market. Interviews with Hindenburg and RSS Blue S2/E13 Feb 17 2023
Google removes/adds podcasts; Tom Rossi on Buzzsprout subscriptions; Sean Glynn on Novel; Jordan Harbinger S2/E12 Feb 10 2023
Spotify's financials; Leo Laporte, chief TWiT; Todd Cochrane; and an MA in Podcasting S2/E11 Feb 3 2023
Dawn of a new age at Spotify. Become a supporter of this podcast thanks to Buzzsprout NEW subscriptions. Are new podcasts really 80% down? (link not available) S2/E10 Jan 27 2023
Forget downloads, "Listen Time" maybe a better way to measure podcast success. S2/E9 Jan 20 2023
Apple launches Delegated Delivery, and a look back at Google Podcasts in 2022 S2/E8 Jan 13 2023
Show Me The Value? Web Monetisation or SATS? Sell your RSS feed or start a video? What's best in 2023? S2/E7 Jan 6 2023
12 Podcast experts give their 2022 highlights and 2023 predictions. Benjamin Bellamy talks OP3, ActivityPub, Cross Comments. Dave Jones talks about NEW PodPing 2.0 S2/E6 Dec 16 2022
Data everywhere but whose number 1? S2/E5 Dec 9 2022
Why are Apple putting metadata topics inside podcast pages? Bumper's Dan Misener tells us what he thinks. Are Satoshis the best way to reward podcasters? Trevor Bell argues there are better ways. S2/E4 Dec 2 2022
Spotify launches audiobooks globally. Anchor is still alive but Libsyn Studio is dead. S2/E3 Nov 25 2022
Is now the right time for ActivityPub? Is now the right time for Video Podcasting? If not now then when? S2/E2 Nov 18 2022
Financial results for Acast, Audacy and iHeart; Vizzy enriches podcasts; and Sam goes to the pub S2/E1 Nov 11 2022
It's goodbye to Podland and hello to Podnews Weekly Review. It's goodbye to email and hello to Podcast:txt. It's goodbye to Twitter verified and hello to Amazon Music & Podcasts ad free. S1/E100 Nov 4 2022
Stop the downloads - measure the listens. The Sports Podcast Awards, and Q3 results: Spotify and ABC Australia are up but the BBC is not S1/E99 Oct 28 2022
To edit or not to edit that is the question? Castopod v1.0 launches, Squadcast awarded US Patent, Is podcasting coming to TikTok? YouTube advertising for podcasters? S1/E98 Oct 20 2022
Spotify layoffs, it's just business? Todd Cochrane 1,628 not out! Podcast.ai brings back Steve Jobs? Phase 6 of Podcast Index announced! S1/E97 Oct 14 2022
Skye Pillsbury from newsletter 'The Squeeze' talks about 'What Does "Big Money Podcasting" Look Like?' both now and in the future, as layoffs continue and shows are cut. S1/E96 Oct 7 2022
iHeartMedia purchased podcast plays to game their download numbers and the IAB says it's ok!? John Spurlock talks OP3.dev and how it could help filter this bad practice. S1/E95 Sep 30 2022
Spotify launch audiobooks, it costs extra. Acast layoff 15% seeking profitability. Transistor.fm supports the Open Podcast Prefix Project. Ivy.fm supports multiple Podcast Index Namespace tags. RSS Blue supports Alby and Fountain digital wallets. S1/E94 Sep 23 2022
Podland Extra Interviews: with Dino Sofos, Eric Nuzum and Mike Kadin bonus S1/E93 Sep 18 2022
Happy 20th birthday RSS, Alby launches profile pages. Spotify rolls out new Podcast UI and 'reasonably soon' will add Audiobooks. S1/E92 Sep 16 2022
"Keep Calm and Carry On". BBC R&D launch 'Adaptive Podcasting' and Alby launch a new SAT's dashboard. S1/E91 Sep 9 2022
You're everywhere or you're no where baby!? Podcasts are coming to YouTube and Twitter should you be on them? Spotify now have ads, transcriptions and maybe comments soon? S1/E90 Sep 1 2022
Live from Dallas: open podcasting, what to do with Spotify, and where the medium is going S1/E89 Aug 26 2022
Podverse mobile supports Alby. Libsyn expands to Europe and Canada. Spotify filters music from podcasts. Podnews launches podcastnamespace.org. Oprah protects her trademark and ASA fines Steven Bartlett. S1/E88 Aug 18 2022
Podcast neighbourhoods, paying to be a guest, and podcast:verify. Evo Terra sits in for Sam Sethi. S1/E87 Aug 11 2022
Who should pay to play? Should guests pay hosts or should listeners pay hosts? #value4value #transparency #trust. Is Thread.land the best place to leave your comments? S1/E86 Aug 4 2022
Good Morning Podcasters! Alby Wallet API delivers Value 4 Value. Hosts RSS.com and Castos deliver integrated wallets. Podchaser API delivers transcripts. Podcast Index delivers descriptions and Spotify delivers Q2 financial results. S1/E85 Jul 29 2022
Acast buys Podchaser: we talk to both CEOs (and ask about spam); plus, Alby, the simple cryptowallet for podcasters S1/E84 Jul 21 2022
Hint: It's Really Simple to extend Standards S1/E83 Jul 14 2022
Podverse supports LIT and Video. Fountain rewards users for listening to podcasts. Alby, a browser extension for cryptocurrency, adds its own podcaster wallet. S1/E82 Jul 8 2022
Tom Webster tells us that "creators" are mainly white men under 45 but where are the women? Bloomberg say Spotify's podcast strategy is failing!? Squadcast launch all new v5 and Voiceworks partners with Crowd Network on the Sports Network. S1/E81 Jul 1 2022
Acast and GoodPods are building 'Community' by enabling comments. Fountain and UnCut are building 'Community' by rewarding your time & attention? And Spotify are building 'Community' by sharing your music listening with friends but not your podcasts? S1/E80 Jun 23 2022
Interview with Ken Miller from Fathom; Spotify buys an AI voice service, Google Podcasts slips up in Pride Month, Sam looks different to what Adam Curry thinks S1/E79 Jun 16 2022
Buzzsprout's Alban Brooke tells us all about their new mid-roll ads platform. Spotify describe RSS as “outdated technology." while claiming they will reach one billion listeners by 2030 and generate US$100 billion in revenue. S1/E78 Jun 10 2022
Dave Jones the Pod Sage talks Value4Value, Sats, Lightning Network, WebLN, Alby and using Hive's Podping to build a new Decentralised Cross App Notifications messaging bus. S1/E77 Jun 2 2022
From the Podcast Show 2022 - Jason Carter on the show; Alberto Betella on dodgy podcasters; Jessica Cordova-Kramer on audio reality S1/E76 May 26 2022
Scoop Queen Ashley Carman joins us. Apple announces Podcasts Delegated Delivery. No Anchor or Megaphone. Are you team Spotify or team Apple? RØDECaster Pro II leaked. Curiocaster and Podverse support tag. S1/E75 May 21 2022
It Sounds Interesting now that Tom Webster has announced he is joining Sounds Profitable. S1/E74 May 12 2022
Down Anchor, Goodbye Facebook, Au Revoir Michael Mignano & Tom Webster. Hello Squadcast! S1/E73 May 5 2022
Will video help make the next podcasting star? Anchor, Substack and YouTube think so. We talk to Tom Billington about the London Podcast Show and Neil Mody about Headliner, Disco and Eddy. S1/E72 Apr 28 2022
Hello to Spotify's new curation and moderation policies. Goodbye to Spotify's Greenroom creator fund and Facebook's podcasts. S1/E71 Apr 21 2022
Internationalise in order to profitise or use swap promos but never ever plagiarise. S1/E70 Apr 14 2022
Acast you're still spamming your competition? BBC you're still losing your talent? YouTube you're still making us wait? Apple you're still not providing us transcripts? Why O Why!? S1/E69 Apr 7 2022
Like London buses, you wait ages for one new podcast app and three come along at the same time. We talk with Chris Messina about NEW YouTube, Spotify and Twitter podcast apps coming soon. S1/E68 Mar 31 2022
Podland on tour in LA with Alban Brooke at Podcast Movement talking about the Podnews Report Card, The Ambies, the Infinite Dial 2022 and YouTube's no show. S1/E67 Mar 26 2022
Acast spam, spam multiple platform updates, spam, Gumball, spam, Websub, spam but no chapters, no transcriptions just lightning comments. S1/E66 Mar 17 2022
"Will Video Kill The Podcast Star?" - We interview James O. Boggs and Andy Bowers from Spooler Media the "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system. Amazon released Amp, a “live radio app”. YouTube offers podcasters up to $50k to switch. S1/E65 Mar 10 2022
Is Youtube the best place for podcasting now? Is Twitter the next place for podcasting?Is interactive podcasting the future of podcasting? S1/E64 Mar 3 2022
This week's report card: ACast very bad, GoodPods bad, ActivityPub very good and Super Listener Wayne Cheong dies, very sad. S1/E63 Feb 25 2022
Crowd Network launches in Manchester, James launches 'Podnews Report Cards', Facebook launches audio rooms, Podping launches live notifications and Sam launches The Crafty Tug? S1/E62 Feb 18 2022
Pay Attention, Cash is King, Bitcoin is the native currency of the Internet and it's raining Sat's on Fountain. S1/E61 Feb 11 2022
Captivate CEO Mark Asquith talks about the global acquisition and their future. Castos CEO Craig Hewitt talks about supporting Value4Value and why it's a better model than advertising for podcasters S1/E60 Feb 3 2022
Scott Waxman tells us why books and podcasts fit together? Hala Taha tells us why promoting your podcast with an audiogram maybe a waste of time? Amazon buys exclusive rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ podcast. Libsyn5 is live to all users. S1/E59 Jan 27 2022
Brad Mielke tells us what he learnt from 1,000 daily podcasts? Effy Kang tells us about podcasting in China. Celebs tell us about their favourite podcasts on Apple. Helipad tells us how many SAT's we've earned in real-time and Podping tells us first! S1/E58 Jan 20 2022
Spotify launch call-to-actions cards, ratings but still no Hifi? What's a GUID and a ULID? Cash app now supports Lightning payments. Facebook mutes podcasts, not as big as they think. India the biggest podcast market by 2023? Sam talks about Podcasting3? S1/E57 Jan 13 2022
Jonas Woost, Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content, predicts the near future of podcasting in 2022 S1/E56 Jan 4 2022
Fake it until you make it, unless you buy it. Spotify's Megaphone buys Whooshkaa but still no date for exclusive podcasts, HiFi sound or transcriptions? SiriusXM we can't read you? Comments are live on Podverse and Buzzsprout supports the Person Tag. S1/E55 Dec 16 2021
Spotify may owe millions from missing licenses and may have gained millions from missing podcasts? S1/E54 Dec 9 2021
Winslow Bright talks about licensing music for your podcast. Hint: there is no fair usage. It's the start of the podcast awards season. Facebook podcasting is growing but it's clearly not ready for primetime and Spotify is testing sponsorship? S1/E53 Dec 2 2021
Happy 1st birthday to us! What will Spotify do with its big M&A war chest, Castamatic 8 supports Value4Value and Lisa Laporte CEO of TWiT tells us how to run a successful podcast network. S1/E52 Nov 25 2021
Podcast listening is growing globally, Spotify advertising and subscriptions are expanding internationally but why is no one checking the content is factual, not breaking copyright and has a license to use it? S1/E51 Nov 18 2021
Podcasting 2.0 is all about an open 'Interoperable' ecosystem of apps using RSS that create shared value, not closed ecosystems from old SAGA apps - (Spotify, Apple, Google and Amazon).Nov 11 2021
Why's everyone going proprietary? Is it time to change the name podcast? Is James really one in a billion? And what's the secret sauce for creating a hit podcast? S1/E49 Nov 4 2021
Spotify tells us they're sort of No1. Benjamin Bellamy tells us about the new Recommendation, Medium and Gateway RSS 2.0 namespace tags to make your podcast more discoverable. Bailey Drake tells us how to record live audio apps and transcribe them. S1/E48 Oct 28 2021
Bryan Barletta sits in for Sam - Apple's downloads and Spotify's ad sales. Interview with Adam Bowie about podcast trends S1/E47 Oct 21 2021
Dr Brian of London talks Web 3, Podping, Hive and Dairy Cows? James now speaks fluent Spanish thanks to Veritone MARVEL․ai and Genevieve Hassan's podcast takes off with 5M Virgin Atlantic passengers. S1/E46 Oct 14 2021
Chris Messina talks about Spotify Ads, the history of open formats on the social web and how ActivityPub could impact the future of Podcasting? S1/E45 Oct 7 2021
Open RSS rated good by Acast. Closed Apple Podcast app rated bad by its users. #Discuss S1/E44 Sep 30 2021
Research, research everywhere but who is right? Nielsen says podcasting is still growing. eMarketer says Spotify has overtaken Apple Podcasts and Arete Research says Spotify's management needs to change! S1/E43 Sep 23 2021
In our opinion, we need better listener tools - Clips, Comments and Content moderation. Oscar Merry talks about Fountain App, Alex Jacobi talks about the Open Podcast Analytics Format and will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star? S1/E42 Sep 16 2021
Passing the RSS buck! Is unmoderated podcasting spreading misinformation? Do podcasting apps need better content moderation reporting tools? Twitter to support Value4Value boosts.Sep 9 2021
Has Google given up on podcasting? Are subscriptions better than ads? Amazon, Spotify and Twitter double down on live social audio. Does podcasting need policing for lies and defamation? S1/E40 Sep 2 2021
Apple: The Internet Explorer of podcast apps? Evo Terra on why podcast apps suck. How's Spotify doing and multiple new ways to discover podcasts. S1/E39 Aug 26 2021
What happens to podcast downloads if IP addresses go away? Interview: Bryan Barletta, plus automating YouTube for podcasting. S1/E38 Aug 19 2021
Mark Cuban lies his ass off. We interview Martin Mouritzen, PodFriend about Cross-App commenting and Boostagrams. S1/E37 Aug 12 2021
Sam's back! Spotify's revenue, Apple's bugfix, and a new value4value app S1/E36 Aug 5 2021
Podcasting in South East Asia; Sharon Taylor co-hosts; Spotify paid podcasting and more S1/E35 Jul 29 2021
Dynamic ads and podcast networks - Rachel Corbett co-hosts; Mignon Fogarty is our guest S1/E34 Jul 22 2021
Podcast SEO: stuff the title and forget the description, it's only a B medium anyway!? S1/E33 Jul 16 2021
Apple iOS 14.6, is it a bug or a feature exposing the dirty download secret? Ross Adams CEO, ACast explains 5 reasons why we need RSS, Is Audacity dangerous now it's Russian owned. Podcasts finally agree on episode notes. Interview with Jim Ballas, CTO, S1/E32 Jul 8 2021
Why Amazon podcasts start to splash the cash and bought Art19 and Smartless? We interview Arielle Nissenblatt from the Podcast Taxonomy board and we interview Don MacKinnon (Hark) and Hannah Blake (Entale) both help with podcast discovery S1/E31 Jul 1 2021
Facebook Podcasting. It's alive but why can't you actually play them yet? We interview David Markowitz, Netflix amd Niklas Hildebrand, Audry. S1/E30 Jun 24 2021
Apple channels finally arrive. Facebook podcasts launch next week and who is in the Spotify Green Room? Our special guest is Mark Asquith CEO Captivate. And do we need a GUID for every podcast? S1/E29 Jun 18 2021
Apple Subscriptions and Channels are finally coming! With special guest Neil Mody the CEO Headliner. S1/E28 Jun 10 2021
Space Casts v Apple Casts: Monetising podcasts through feeds and channels S1/E27 Jun 3 2021
Podcast piracy or defamation, should podcast hosts monitor the content or could a new podcast license be the simple fix to the problem? S1/E26 May 27 2021
I'm at a loss, will anyone notice the difference? Lossless audio comes to Apple, Spotify and Amazon for free. S1/E25 May 20 2021
Whether it's firmographic enrichment or psychographically targeting, everyone is saying podcasting is getting bigger, while Apple is learning to crawl podland faster but it's not podping speed just yet? S1/E24 May 14 2021
Will Superfans pay extra to come into a Spotify Green Room or Twitter Space? Should Apple buy Clubhouse? Interviews with Will Page, Author of Tarzan Economics and Charles Van Winkle, Senior Software Engineer, Descript. S1/E23 May 6 2021
Like London buses, you wait years for a subscription service to turn up and two come along at the same time. James and Sam analyse Spotify's new subscription service and compare it with Apple's alternative subscription service. S1/E22 Apr 29 2021
Podcasts, Podcasts everywhere but not a mention of RSS anywhere! We discuss Apple's podcast subscriptions, Facebook's podcasting app and Google recommendations S1/E21 Apr 22 2021
It's all about the numbers! Google 100m, Amazon 1.5bn, Podcast Index 2.7m plus interviews with Juliana Meyer CEO Supapass and Elsie Escobar Libsyn. S1/E20 Apr 15 2021
James and Sam are joined by Alban Brooke from Buzzsprout, and talk stats and sats S1/E19 Apr 8 2021
Organiser of The British Podcast Awards Matt Deegan joins as co-host. Spotify launch 'Sound Up' and buy Locker Room. Voting for the Ambies is now open. You can now download the Podclock. S1/E18 Apr 1 2021
It's now 2 million podcasts, Interviews: Chair - Podcast Academy, CEO - Riverside FM, Head of Digital Audio - iHeart Podcast Network S1/E17 Mar 25 2021
Is Apple no longer free? Is podcast streaming a myth? PodBean Live or Clubhouse? Why was Message Heard in the NY Times? The NEW Recommendation Tag and Where's James? . S1/E16 Mar 18 2021
To subscribe or not to subscribe that is the question. Interviews with Sean Glynn from Novel, Rob Loewenthal from Whooshkaa, Jess Kupferman from She Podcasts and Agnes Kozera from Podcorn S1/E15 Mar 11 2021
The Ambies nominees announced, Will Spotify overtake Apple?, Interview with Kal Amin Sounder, Women's History Month S1/E14 Mar 4 2021
Spotify StreamOn Analysis, Interview with Spotify's Mike Mignano and Podcast Movement the winners and losers. S1/E13 Feb 25 2021
iHeartMedia buy Triton Digital, Songs For Podcasters, Interview with Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout S1/E12 Feb 18 2021
Clubhouse, SoundClub or Fireside? Music Fair Usage, New Spotify Play Book and Maps.FM S1/E11 Feb 11 2021
Anchor's redesign; podcast consumption in Denmark; Sounds Profitable's clever ad-tech, New People and Location Tags S1/E10 Feb 4 2021
How fast is podcasting growing? Plus: Africa Podfest, Podcast Radio, and news of a new, 24-hour global podcast conference S1/E9 Jan 28 2021
Apple's new subscriptions? Spotify's failing strategy? Does Clubhouse need moderating? Interviews with Podpage, MatchCasts, Podchaser and A Million Ads S1/E8 Jan 21 2021
Clubcasting, TwitterSpaces, Dynamic Content Insertion and Interviews with, Buzzsprout, Adelicious.FM and BBC World Service. S1/E7 Jan 14 2021
Apple and Spotify privacy issues. Interview with Rob Greenlee about changes at The Podcast Academy. S1/E6 Jan 8 2021
Podcast Predictions for 2021 with Steve Pratt, Partner at Pacific Content. S1/E5 Dec 27 2020
The pros and cons of closed Spotify v open distributed podcasting. Interview with The Podfather Adam Curry & Dave Jones from podcastindex.org about Podcast 2.0 S1/E4 Dec 24 2020
Podcast Misinformation, Podcast Taxonomy, Interview with Kate Bradley Chernis, CEO Lately.AI about atomizing your podcast into hundreds of mini-movie trailers. S1/E3 Dec 18 2020
New podcast:location tag, interview with Sam Liang, CEO of Otter.AI, about live notes. S1/E2 Dec 11 2020
Does Amazon want to buy Wondery? Interview with Mark Asquith, CEO Captivate, about private feeds. S1/E1 Dec 3 2020
All about Podland News trailer S1/ Nov 28 2020