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December 5, 2023:
December 1, 2023:
    In the Podnews Weekly Review, we talk to Anna Sian from Spotify for Podcasters; Christiana Cromer from Descript; and Neil Mody from Headliner. Neil thinks YouTube is good for podcasters; Christiana shares what Descript is doing in terms of AI, and Anna talks about the new Spotify 2023 Wrapped for Podcasters. It's sponsored by Buzzsprout.
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October 27, 2023:
    Headliner's Eddy, an editing and production tool, generates a promo pack of summaries, keywords and quotes. The company has just added four episode art images for your show, produced by generative AI.
October 20, 2023:
October 13, 2023:
    Headliner's Eddy, the text-based editor, now remembers the name of speakers in previous transcripts.
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September 21, 2023:
    Headliner has added a free transcription service into Make, the company's audiogram and video tool. Once you log in, look for the big pink transcribe button. The product, called Eddy, also allows you to edit a podcast as if it's a word document. (We were given a complimentary subscription to Headliner to publish the Podnews Weekly Review on YouTube.)
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May 1, 2023:
    To check how your podcast looks in YouTube Music, you can either a) download the app or b) visit the website. If you're outside the US, a VPN will do the trick: ProtonVPN is trustworthy and has a free tier. (Remember: you'll need to upload your show separately to YouTube, as a video file - or use a service like Headliner.)
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February 6, 2023:
    Neat bit of UX: when you're waiting for Headliner to produce a video for you, it gives a list of "podcasts about podcasts" to listen to, including Podnews.
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November 15, 2022:
September 16, 2022:
September 1, 2022:
    Eddy, Headliner's audio editor, has been updated to improve the detection and capture of "ums", "ahs", and other filler words.
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April 28, 2022:
    In Podland later today, we hear from Neil Mody on Headliner's future plans; and from Tom Billington on the Podcast Show 2022 in London, which takes place next month. Co-host Sam Sethi also breaks the news that he's bought a big red bus.
April 1, 2022:
    Headliner has launched Eddy: "Upload your audio, we transcribe it, then you edit it the same way you would a document - deleting a word or sentence deletes the underlying audio." It's free in beta.
March 21, 2022:
December 10, 2021:
    Headliner's Pro service now offers transcriptions for entire podcast episodes.
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October 29, 2021:
    Podland has an interview with Benjamin Bellamy about the new podcast namespace, and Bailey Drake from Headliner talks about recording live audio apps and transcribing them.
July 28, 2021:
    Headliner Backstage has been launched: anyone with a recording from a social audio app, can now upload, transcribe, and create promotional videos. It features speaker separation, is integrated with Headliner, and is free to use.
July 2, 2021:
June 11, 2021:
    Podland, the weekly podcast from Podnews's Editor James Cridland and Sam Sethi, this week interviews Neil Mody from Headliner, and Sam and James talk Apple, Twitter Blue, and more.
April 30, 2021:
April 26, 2021:
    Headliner, the best-known tool to make social video for your podcasts, now supports Soundbites - a new Podcasting 2.0 tag also supported by Buzzsprout.
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November 13, 2020:
    How discoverable is your podcast? Headliner has released the Podcast Discoverability Grader, a free tool to help. It gives us a score of 90% - it marks us down for not being with the cool kids on Insta. Ain't never gonna happen, girlfriend.
September 4, 2020:
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August 14, 2020:
    Giphy is now integrated into Headliner, to allow you to add stickers and GIFs to any social video you make of your podcast.
July 29, 2020:
    After Podnews reported a bug, Headliner have found and fixed a part of its production process to correctly add its useragent, thus helping podcasters everywhere. It appears that ffmpeg really wants the -user_agent flag first in the list of arguments, by the way. Podcast hosts will notice less generic Lavf/58 useragents in site logs as a result: we're grateful to the company.
June 23, 2020:
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June 1, 2020:
    Descript, a "edit podcast audio as if it was a word document" tool, has a number of new features in v3.6, including remote recording and an integration with Buzzsprout and Headliner.
April 22, 2020:
March 27, 2020:
    The Headliner Podcast has returned, with seven podcasters discussing how the coronavirus has affected them.
March 11, 2020:
    Libsyn has added Headliner integration, to help podcasters share pieces of their shows on social media. They've introduced a new, simpler method of setting permanent 301 redirects, which the company no longer charges for.
February 11, 2020:
December 17, 2019:
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December 5, 2019:
    Headliner is now integrated into Audioboom, for easy production of little social media trailers for podcasts. Headliner now has over a dozen integrations, they tell us: you can also make Headliner clips directly from Podnews podcast pages.
November 21, 2019:
    The Podcast Number is a new service for hand curated podcast recommendations delivered weekly via SMS. You can text 347 815-9536 to get started (so we guess it's for US/Canada only).
October 9, 2019:
    Podcast host Fireside has now integrated Headliner into its service, allowing customers to simply produce social videos for their podcasts.
October 3, 2019:
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September 20, 2019:

added a Headliner button on our podcast pages (like The Feed) to make it even easier. Search for your own podcast, and look for the 'H' icon!

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April 19, 2019:
    Headliner have published results of a test showing that posting audio and a moving waveform performs three times better than a static image.
April 5, 2019:
    Anchor now lets you share Anchor podcast episodes and profiles direct to a Snapchat story, which will link back directly so anyone who sees your story can immediately listen in their preferred podcast app. Meanwhile, podcast host Pinecast has partnered with Headliner to provide Pinecast customers with one-click access to create social videos directly within their platform.
January 24, 2019:
    Omny Studio, the enterprise podcast host, has partnered with Headliner to offer "one-click access to create best-in-class podcast audiograms", which help share podcasts in social media.
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November 1, 2018:
    Headliner has signed a deal with international German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, to create social video from DW’s audio content at scale.
August 9, 2018:
    Headliner is now being used over a thousand times a day, according to the company, who have rolled out improvements in text and video handling.
July 30, 2018:
    Social podcast sharing service Headliner have added 30 new fonts to their product.
July 20, 2018:
    Headliner has announced a number of updates, including stock images and video, and advanced video editing.
June 26, 2018:
    Headliner tested the diffference between advertising a podcast on Facebook using a static image vs an 'audiogram', an animated audio clip. In a blog they'll publish later this week, but shared with us today, they discover audiograms were at least four times more effective than static images.
June 1, 2018:
    Sparemin, a tool that produces shareable video from audio, has done a deal with Pixabay so podcasters can add 'true video' to their audiograms. This is in addition to a deal with Getty Images (May 17). They've also added a 'labs' section with new features, including longer 24fps video. The Earshot Creative blog also wrote up a good overview of the service.
May 17, 2018:
    SpareMin, a company that produces social videos from audio, has done a deal with Getty Images (in the United States, Canada, Australia, UK, Ireland, and Germany) for its Headliner product.

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