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RSS.com has automatically removed Chartable prefixes from podcasts hosted on the service, according to the company’s latest release notes. Chartable prefixes stop working on Dec 12, and will render your entire podcast unplayable if you don’t remove them.

Joining Bluesky, like everyone else? Do your brand a favour and use your domain name as a nickname - easier to read out on your podcast and comes with full verification. Bluesky has a guide. We’re @podnews.net over there, by the way. Also find our section sponsors @rss.com over there too.

The Podnews Weekly Review this week contains interviews with Neil Mody from Headliner and Alberto Betella from RSS.com - and our Editor, James Cridland, discusses podcasting's seeming open-armed welcome to YouTube and Spotify, with Sam Sethi. Of all the podcasts we mention here, this one's obviously the best.

Podcast host RSS.com is adding a way for its podcasters to get their show sponsored. Any podcast with more than 1,000 downloads a month can apply - you can find “Sponsorship Opportunities” under the “Monetization” tab in your RSS.com dashboard. The company has also added more links to apps on podcast pages.

The Tech Stuff is sponsored by RSS.com, who offer free transcripts for every one of their hosted podcasts. Move your podcast to get six months free.

Podcast hosting company RSS.com has launched a major new update to its podcast web player, which now displays chapters in full screen. It’s especially impressive on desktop; the company sees it as offering an engaging, full-screen presentation. You can test it out here.

Podcast hosting company RSS.com has launched “podrolls”, a way to recommend shows that you think your listeners might enjoy. A Podcasting 2.0 feature, it’s supported on RSS.com websites, supporting podcast apps, and Podnews podcast pages.

Podcast hosting company RSS.com is officially LIT. The company has launched live podcasting, which is supported in a number of Podcasting 2.0 apps. If you’re following a show, you can get alerts as to when that show is recording an episode live, and listen in the app.

Podcast hosting company RSS.com has launched a new version of its dashboard, which is much faster and, the company suggests, will help speed up development of new features.

Thinking of Starting a Podcast? Here Are 7 Things to Know (RSS.com)

RSS.com has made enhancements to its podcast pages, including an improved podcast player and its featured community page.

Podcast host RSS.com has published its year in review for 2023.

Have you forgotten a gift for your favourite relative/friend? Why not give them the gift of podcasting with an RSS.com gift card? It’ll be delivered instantly. They’ve sponsored this section of our newsletter for years now: we’re grateful for their support.

The Podnews Weekly Review this week features an interview with Alberto Betella from RSS.com, and with singer-songwriter Ainsley Costello. Our Editor also (right at the end) kind of launches a new tool if you're fed up with the amount of spam you get from the email address in your RSS feed.

Podcast hosting company RSS.com has added enhanced collaboration for teams, and updates to podcast pages. Evangelist Joe Casabona takes customers through the new features. Our Editor is an advisor.

Podcasting 2.0 this week features Cameron from IPFS Podcasting, and Alberto Betella from RSS.com

Podcast hosting company RSS.com has rolled out per-podcast and per-episode support for the podcast:location tag, which contains the place that the episode is about. It's also added support for podcast:season, podcast:episode and podcast:license. (They sponsor this section; our Editor is an advisor).

First look: Podcast hosting company RSS.com has launched PodViz, an in-house visualisation tool to produce videos from audio podcasts for services like YouTube. The service supports chapter art and YouTube metadata; an example is here. It's not limited to the company's hosting customers: any podcaster can try it here.

In the Podcast Business Journal later, Ben Richardson from RSS.com on the company's plans for Mexico, and doing business there. "In Mexico, there’s a lot more of a personal touch and relationships take a little bit longer to build - but once they’re built, they’re really strong," he says. You can subscribe free.

RSS·com no longer exposes their users' email addresses in RSS feeds. You can turn it on temporarily for legacy apps to verify you.

RSS·com now supports the podcast:txt feature. It can help verify feeds in supporting podcast apps.

Podcast host RSS·com now supports multiple podcasts under the same account and supports uploads in a wider variety of file extensions.

At one point, Samsung Free's automated podcast plays were responsible for more than 1-in-10 podcast downloads, Podtrac tells Podnews today. The problem first appeared around November 14, and peaked at 10.7% of all daily downloads on Nov 27. According to Podtrac data, the issue appears to have been corrected. Podtrac will temporarily remove all Dalvik counts from its monthly podcast and publisher rankers for November.

The Samsung Free podcast app will "soon be updated", according to a communication from Acast to its podcasters, to remove the cause of a significant increase in downloads from automatic plays. (See yesterday's Tech Stuff for more). In the meantime, Acast has demonetised listens coming from the Dalvik useragent "to protect our advertisers"; and notes that "under IAB guidelines, these listens are considered valid". (Also considered valid downloads: those podcast plays bought in games apps)

In a step forward for podcasters wishing to enable value-for-value streaming, podcast host RSS.com has partnered with Alby to seamlessly power "boosts" and "boostagrams" with a free lightning wallet for every one of their podcasters, to support the new payment and comment standard. RSS has produced a video showing how it works on their platform.

Podcast host RSS.com is to announce integration with Alby this week: enabling value 4 value for thousands of podcasts. You'll be able to activate and link your Alby account with your podcast in RSS.com's dashboard. Alberto Betella will be on the Podland podcast this week.

RSS.com has added automatic distribution of shows to Boomplay, which is an African streaming service with over 50 million monthly active users.

Exclusive: Podcasts promoting call girls are appearing within Spotify, as free plans from podcast hosting companies flood platforms with advertising for sex workers. We've a list of more than five hundred shows, many still live. RSS.com has implemented an automated process to combat these podcasts; however, shows are still on many other hosting companies. Apple Podcasts, which operates an approval process for new podcasts, is not showing these podcast titles. Spotify did not respond to our request for comment.

Host with Timber? Podcast host RSS.com has your back: use promo code TIMBERSS for a free year of hosting if you're moving a Timber podcast.

RSS.com Podcasting has partnered with Podbox in Mexico (en español) to co-produce, distribute and monetise new podcasts in the Spanish language. Podbox has studios in La Condesa.

Thank you to RSS Podcasting, who has become our latest gold supporter (and our #1 supporter, too!) We're grateful to you for supporting our independent journalism, and for your support elsewhere over the past year or so. (Here's how you can be like them).

At Podcast Movement, the sponsor of the Spanish track, RSS Podcasting signed a co-production relationship with Grupo Fórmula, a Spanish-language talk radio network in the US and Mexico. (The company's also posted a recap of day 1 of Podcast Movement).

Podcast host RSS Podcasting has added a custom embedded player; and full support for chapters and soundbites using the Podcast Namespace. Here's a peek

RSS Podcasting has launched a community section of their website, promoting the varied shows available on their hosting platform.

Podcast host RSS.com have ensured that all their podcast RSS feeds are now available on Adam Curry's The Podcast Index. They've also set up automatic submission to the index for new RSS feeds.