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22.7% of shows started on Spotify for Creators in January haven’t posted a new episode since the end of February - that’s better than the average, as is 20.4% for Ausha, 18.9% for Megaphone, 12.6% for Podbean and 12.3% for Libsyn. As you’d expect, podcast hosting companies with well-publicised free trials show the highest levels of podfade, including Spreaker (40%), RSS (71%) and Hubhopper (83%).
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BlogTalkRadio is to close on Jan 31. One of the earliest podcast and live-streaming hosts, it launched in January 2006. It merged with Spreaker in August 2017; Voxnest bought Spreaker in 2018; iHeart bought Voxnest in 2020. Most recently it’s been part of Triton Digital. In August this year, it hosted 3,293 podcasts.
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Spotify for Podcasters is still the #1 podcast hosting company, in terms of share of new episodes. Spreaker increased its hold on the #2 slot; Buzzsprout remains at #3. Acast has moved up to #8, with an all-time record share of 2.5%.
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Pocket Casts uses the standard
podcast:transcript feature in your podcast RSS feed. It doesn’t generate transcripts for you: like your thumbnail image and your audio, it’s all in your control. Podcast transcripts are supported by a number of large podcast hosting companies, including Blubrry, Buzzsprout, RSS-
Spreaker has made changes to its auto-optimisation feature, which adds advertisements to podcasts. The company looks as if it has opted more podcasters into the tool, which appears to now recommend more ad breaks - some podcasters report an ad break is being inserted every five minutes. (You can adjust it back down).
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BlogTalkRadio closure - its email to customers
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The team behind podcasting's DDoS
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