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Apple has launched Apple Invites, a way to “create custom invitations to gather friends and family for any occasion”. Anyone can receive an invitation; only iCloud+ subscribers can send one. “With Apple Invites, users can create and easily share invitations, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and engage with Apple Music playlists.” You can’t use the tool for remote podcast guest invitations (you don’t appear to be able to share URLs) but it’ll absolutely work for in-person events.
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Using Memberful: This Week in Tech uses Memberful for reliable, recurring revenue - and this week, Leo Laporte and the round table covered the return of Pebble smartwatches, what’s going on with Apple AI, and O3-Mini, a new model from Open AI.
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Could Apple Podcasts regain the top spot, over Spotify? Buzzsprout’s data for January shows Apple Podcasts on its highest download numbers for ten months, and less than a million away from Spotify. Here’s a historical graph.
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Audacy is officially no longer going bankrupt, closing its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in court, reports iHeart’s Inside Radio. CEO David Field welcomed “the dawn of a new era”, and has stepped down; Kelli Turner is interim CEO while Audacy looks to fill the role permamently. RadioINK reports that the new head of the FCC may wish to overrule Audacy’s deal. The company owns a number of podcast companies including Pineapple Street Studios.
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Lemonada Media is now using Supporting Cast, joining publishers like Wondery, Slate, NPR and others. (Supporting Cast lets you offer subscription programs that work in most apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube Music).
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How Apple Podcasts works in China: and why you’re (probably) not there
Apple Podcasts has changed in China. We've all the details of how it works.
How to test user-agent details for a podcast app
Wanting to discover how an app tells your podcast host who it is? Here's how to tell.
Predictions for 2025 - and impressions of 2024
We asked our PWR Supporters, the supporters of our weekly podcast Podnews Weekly Review, for their impressions of 2024 and predictions for 2025.
TuneIn tunes away from podcasting amid mass layoffs
TuneIn is no longer maintaining its podcast directory, and has made significant layoffs over the last few years.
What is Podcasthon 2025 - and how can you take part?
More than a thousand podcasts are getting together for charity in March 2025. Here's what it's all about, and how you can get involved.
$1,000 for listing a podcast: examining Licensync
EXCLUSIVE: An Italian company is collecting money from podcast directories for linking to shows. Is this another reason to work together in an industry association?
YouTube Music plays podcasts via RSS. Here’s how
Yes, YouTube Music is a "proper" podcast app. Here's how to use it to listen to podcasts via RSS.
Questions to... Spotify's Maya Prohovnik
Spotify's future; its attitude to open RSS; and what a podcast is in the first place. We asked - she answered, in an exclusive interview for Podnews.
Replacing Chartable - alternatives for reviews, marketing and analysis
Chartable is to close. But what can you use to replace it? It all depends on what you used it for...
How to install Apple Podcasts on Android
Got an Android phone? You can get Apple Podcasts on it, with these three steps. No iPhone required!
Podnews in the Bumper Dashboard
What our podcasts look like in this brand new tool
How Podnews can help promote a podcast
How we can help you promote a podcast for you or for your client with our editorial or paid-for coverage.
Your own free transcripts: how to install Whisper.cpp on Mac OS
How to install Whisper.cpp really easily for Mac OS, so you have unlimited, free, transcripts made available for everyone.
A week of podcast data shows Spotify’s dominance
We take a look at global download data from OP3 and uncover fascinating differences between countries for podcast consumption
What to know when applying for a job in podcasting
Hints and tips as to how to get the best out of our jobs board
Podnews report card - results for 2024
The results of the Podnews Report Card for 2024. Good news for almost everyone!
How much are podcast downloads really down year-over-year?
How much has the change in auto-downloads from Apple Podcasts affected podcast downloads? New data suggests wildly different effects based on different categories.
Should I have the word PODCAST in my podcast’s title?
Should your podcast have the word PODCAST in it?
Missing, presumed deleted
Growing followers, paid subscribers, and an award nomination: and then Spotify for Podcasters deleted the show
The iOS 17 changes in Apple Podcasts
A special report, with a timeline of the changes; how automatic downloads work and what changed; how the industry spotted it, and the effect it has had on podcasting.
The State of Podcasting in Latin America
By 2027, there will be more podcast listeners in Latin America than any other region in the world.
How to make decent podcast artwork
We've carried plenty of coverage about podcast artwork in the pages of Podnews. Here is some of the best.
How to submit a podcast to us for news coverage
How to get a podcast promoted in our newsletter
How do Apple Podcasts Transcriptions work?
How does this new feature from Apple work? Will it work with your podcast? A list of frequently-asked questions, and the answers
Apple Podcast Connect's terms of service, January 25, 2024
The terms of service, as published by Apple on January 25, 2024, with the major changes highlighted
Is Podcasting 2.0 clear enough?
Is it clear enough to explain Podcasting 2.0?
Github repositories for podcast app and website developers
From badges to user agents, there are a lot of regularly updated community Github repos out there.
How to understand podcast stats
Analytics from Apple, Spotify, YouTube, podcast charts, downloads, OP3, Podtrac and more: what does it all mean? What's the biggest show in the world; and how is your show doing?
How to email someone your podcast: the AUDIO tag in email
A great way to market your podcast to someone: use email (specifically, the AUDIO player tag). We test it out.
Our recommendations for a new podcast app to replace Google Podcasts and Stitcher
Two big podcast apps, Stitcher and Google Podcasts, have both gone away. So what's the app most like those if you want to keep listening?
Was Glenn Beck censored by Apple Podcasts?
Was Glenn Beck censored by Apple? Or was it something else a little less exciting?
How can I get more listeners to my podcast?
The million-dollar question: you have a podcast, but how can you get more people listening to it?
The history of the Stitcher app
An app that was ahead of its time; and one of the biggest.
Vietnam: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Vietnamese podcasting market, its history, and what shows will work there
Opinion: DR's move against open podcasting is not in the public service
Plans to restrict shows are not what public service broadcasters are about
Korea: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Korean podcasting market, and what shows will work there
The Podnews Report Card - 2023 results
Podcast creators have their say about the platforms we all use
Podtrac data: total audience and download shares for Jan 2023
Apple's size, and Spotify's size. Who's #1 for podcasts?
Japan: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Japanese podcasting market, and what shows will work there
Understanding podcasts in East and South East Asia
A focus at East and South East Asia - what podcast listeners are consuming, and what content works in a part of the world with twice the population of the US and a fast-growing podcast market.
Korea: a country overview
An overview of the most popular podcasts in South Korea
Have the number of new podcasts really “plummeted”?
Are there really 80% fewer new podcasts?
Podcast app sent your location to any podcast publisher
Rova, the free radio and podcast app from New Zealand's MediaWorks, wants to tell podcast publishers where you live, work and play
Was Robin Williams the first podcaster?
Was the actor and comedian Robin Williams an early podcaster - even before the name was invented?
The podcast industry's biggest spammer
Who has sent us more unsolicited commercial email than anyone else?
New Podcast Trailers
Looking for new podcasts to listen to? Here's all about our podcast trailer feed.
Apple Podcast Connect's terms of service, March 24, 2022
The terms of service, as published by Apple on 24 March 2022
How many podcasts are there?
What's the total number of podcasts out there? And how many episodes? And how much has podcasting grown in the last five years?
Podcast market data for your presentations
Slides with market data to use in your presentations
Podcasts with the same name: what to do and how to prevent it
Would a registered trademark help? Or something else?
How to get Podnews on your smart speaker every day
How to listen to our updates every day
How can I charge for my podcast?
From Supercast to Supporting Cast, and Apple Podcasts Subscriptions - how you can charge for your podcast
Music supervision and licensing for podcasts
How easy is it to get commercial music cleared for a podcast? It's easy to say no, but there are companies that'll help. Here's what's involved with music licensing.
The unwritten contract between podcast publishers and apps
What should I be looking for if my podcast is being carried on a new app?
Apple Podcasts channels
What Apple Podcasts channels exist? How many shows are paid-for in Apple Podcasts?
Is YouTube the answer to Google's Podcast woes?
Why isn't Google bigger with podcast listeners? Matthew Stevens highlights the missteps the company has made in the past, and its bright future
US podcast app downloads and audiences: Sep 2021
Podcast data shows Apple is close to be beaten by Spotify for monthly users; but not for downloads - and significant differences in engagement
The podcast market in Latvia
The country where YouTube rules; where podcasters work together, and around 20% listen every month
Apple Podcasts - top subscriptions and top free channels
The most popular channels on Apple Podcasts, both free and paid-for, is the first publisher-based data from the company
How to report a pirated podcast
If your show's audio has been copied by someone else, and you need to get it removed under DMCA or copyright takedown, here's how and where to do that.
How we... redesigned Player FM
Player FM has gone through a redesign. What's new - and what have they learnt about the process?
How I make... Hit Different
Courtney Carthy dives into his bag of tools for producing a hit podcast
How people find your podcast in apps - who indexes what?
What podcast and/or episode metadata is indexed by which search engines and directories? How should you use your RSS feed to get more new listeners?
What is a podcast?
What is the definition of the word 'podcast'? Are YouTube shows podcasts? How about Spotify Exclusives? It's a simple question: but it doesn't, quite, have a simple answer.
Is it a lemon? Apple's botched podcasts rollout
A month later, how's the new Apple Podcasts? Not good, it turns out. We ask publishers how things are going.
Spotify vs Apple: who's bigger really?
Buzzsprout says Apple is neck-and-neck with Spotify for podcast downloads. Libsyn says Apple is more than four times bigger for downloads. Who is right?
Audio quality for music streaming - and lossless podcasts?
Audio quality is a new battleground for the music streaming companies. What does it mean? And, particularly, what does it mean for podcasting?
Apple Podcasts's changes: why it doesn't see your new episode instantly
There's been a big change in the way Apple Podcasts works in iOS 14.5
Our podcast sample
We mention our podcast sample quite a bit here. What is it? And why isn't it a perfect sample?
Mythbusting: are downloads from 'AppleCoreMedia' mostly Apple Podcasts?
Traffic from an AppleCoreMedia user agent should be lumped into the total numbers for Apple Podcasts. Is that true?
Your podcast in Podnews
Your podcast on Podnews's podcast pages; and our DMCA request procedure
How many podcasts are there in each category?
How many podcasts are there in each Apple Podcasts category? We take a quick look
Review: The Spotify Play, by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
A review of 'The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance', by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
How to get live captions for every podcast you listen to - on whatever app
There's a way to get live captions on almost any phone and almost any app
Can you help yourself to free podcasts for your audio app?
Can anyone take your RSS feed and use your podcast audio however they want? Another company doesn't quite understand the way that podcasters work.
The best podcasts in the world - Apple Podcasts 2020
The biggest shows of 2020, according to the largest podcast platform in the world
Insecure feeds and audio, and identifiable domains: you don't want them
Insecure feeds and things - why are they bad? Especially, what's the problem with a unique domain name?
How to pirate someone else's podcast onto Anchor
Pirating someone else's podcast is easy - you don't even need to know the RSS feed of the podcast you want to pirate. Let us show you how: and what Anchor ought to be doing.
Updates in iOS14's Apple Podcasts app for podcasters
What new features in iOS14's Apple Podcasts means to podcasters, and why they matter
Divided States of Media: Dan Granger interviews Jordan Harbinger
Jordan Harbinger, on his start into podcasts, self-censorship, and defending yourself against misinformation
Why Joe Budden is leaving Spotify, in his own words
A machine-produced transcript of the reasons why Joe Budden is disillusioned with Spotify.
How I make... Grumpy Old Geeks
More than 460 episodes, and 'a few million downloads'. Jason DeFillippo shows us how it's done.
How to get universal links to your podcast for everyone
One link to rule them all - or to get your new listeners. Here's how to get one.
How I make... Podcast Pontifications
Evo Terra tells us why it takes 3.5 hours for him to record an episode that lasts for less than ten minutes.
How I make... Podcast Gumbo
Paul Kondo explains how he makes his weekly podcast recommendation podcast
Anchor could automatically delete your account without warning
The robots are coming - Anchor removed an entire account within two hours of posting one piece of new audio.
The 100 most popular podcast names
The most popular podcast names - including Daniel's Show
Do ID3 tags matter for podcasts? What about SEO?
Are they a sure-fire way of helping your SEO? Or not used at all?
Analysis: Is Spotify REALLY bigger than Apple Podcasts?
How can Spotify really be #1 when Apple is clearly so much larger?
Podcasts - do they mean more spam?
If you do a podcast, is your email address being used for marketing emails?
The Podcast Academy: what and why?
Rob Greenlee writes about what The Podcast Academy is there for, and how to join
Podcast transcripts: who's in control?
Is automation a good idea for all transcripts? And who gets to choose?
Podcasting's Growing Market Imbalance
Too many podcasts, not enough listeners?
The publishers who don't want their podcast to be on every platform
The podcast publishers who are making deliberate choices to stop audiences finding their podcasts on some platforms
Google Podcasts Manager: a first look
We take a look at the new analytics service from Google Podcasts - and discover a way to submit your podcast
Today's most popular Android podcast apps
What are the best podcast apps for Android? We look at the data.
Advertising A Podcast, Part 3
Promo ad swaps, episode drops and crossovers
What app buttons should you have on your podcast website?
The Apple Podcasts one, of course, but which else? We discover something interesting from our own data.
Advertising A Podcast, Part 2
Buying Social and Search Ads
In podcasting too, consent isn't optional
Some podcast companies are endangering the strange and potentially fragile equilibrium between the listeners, the creators, and the apps that are connecting them
Review: Make Noise, a creator's guide to podcasting and great audio storytelling, by Eric Nuzum
A podcasting book that doesn't focus on the technology. Music to my ears.
B2B podcasts: count your meetings, not your downloads
What's the best way to measure success for your branded podcasts?
How to encode your audio: MP3 or AAC / M4A?
What should you use for your podcast?
Is Hot Hollywood really the #5 podcast in Podtrac?
Two new entries in this month's Podtrac podcast charts highlight the fragility of podcast stats
How to make your episode notes work in all the podcast players
Want to make your episode notes look lovely? Here's the way to avoid also making them look rubbish.
Podcasting 2020 – The Rise of the Machines
Is 2020 going to be the year that podcasting gets smart?
How I make... The Freenoter
From ATR-2100s to Auphonic, here's how The Freenoter is made
Who's the best podcast host - how to choose
One of the most-asked questions on podcasting forums is "which podcast host should I use?" So, here's the answer.
Anchor bypasses Apple Podcasts approval process with copyright violating podcasts
Anchor's special deal with Apple lets anyone post anything, seemingly
The radio station making money from podcasts
This station is doing something unusual: charging for podcasts
The strategy behind WarnerMedia Podcast Network's first indie podcast
A look at the reason why they're working with Rainstream Media on Somebody Somewhere
New and changed Apple Podcasts categories: summer 2019 (updated)
All the changes for podcasters announced by Apple: what's gone, what's new
Audio quality comparisons
What effect does bitrate, samplerate, and mono/stereo have on audio quality?
The end of open: BBC blocks its podcasts on Google [UPDATED]
The BBC has blocked access to its podcasts from Google Assistant, Google Podcasts and Google Search.
How WebSub works: and why it's good for your podcast
WebSub fixes one of the main problems for podcasting in an elegant manner
Episode number support in podcast apps
How many podcast apps support the episode tag?
Episode numbers in episode titles: all you need to know
People are worried about episode numbers, following an email from Apple this week. Here's what's up.
Apple Podcast Connect's terms of service, 31 January 2019
The terms of service, as published by Apple on 31 January 2019.
Things I learnt when self-hosting my own podcast
Some things learnt after self-hosting a podcast for a while
Podcast apps, privacy, and GDPR
Is NPR's RAD a privacy violation? No... but yes. We explain how podcasting works, and exactly how much data you're sharing.
Do ratings and reviews really help you get featured in 'What's Hot'?
How do you get into the 'What's Hot' section of Apple Podcasts? Is it anything to do with ratings and reviews? Or is it... something else? By Daniel J. Lewis
Promote Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts equally: and here's what happens
It turns out that if you promote your podcast on both services equally, you get equal usage. You just have to promote it that way.
How to use commercial music in your podcast
Can you use commercial music, from records or CDs, in your podcast? No, you can't. Here's a full set of reasons why you can't - without a licence.
How to do loudness: the LUFS and LKFS FAQ for podcasters
What are LUFS and LKFS, and why is Apple asking for -16 of them? This article helps with understanding loudness levels for your podcast, and how to achieve them.
How I make... Podnews
What tools are used by Podnews every day to produce the newsletter and the podcast?
How to embed a podcast player into your website
Want to embed a podcast player into your website? Here's how...
Popular podcast app Castbox altered RSS feeds and is still removing links
Castbox has been republishing unauthorised and altered versions of podcast RSS feeds, and deliberately removing links to the websites of the podcasters they link to.
Apple kicks out a republisher of 'top 5' podcasts from Apple Podcasts
Apple acted swiftly to kick out a republisher this week. But should they have approved the podcasts in the first place?
Is this proof that Apple's Podcast Charts are being manipulated?
Does this show strong evidence that it's easy to game the iTunes Chart?
Placings on Apple's Podcast Chart can be bought
A company promises to get you into the Apple Podcast Charts. All they want is money.
How to add your podcast to every podcast directory
We have a daily podcast. Here's where to find it - and all the directory links to add your podcast, too
Podcast subscribe pages for everyone
How to get a simple page to link to your podcast from social media, letting people subscribe and listen instantly
Is iHeartMedia really the leader in 'snackable' podcasts?
A configuration error means that their Podtrac stats could be thousands of times too large
Chapter points in podcasts: a waste of time?
Which podcast apps support chapter points? Is it worth your while spending time and effort on them?
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