Apple Podcasts updates embedded player

• Apple Podcasts has updated its embedded player for websites - which allows you to embed episodes or your show. The player supports video and trailers. While plays from the Apple Podcasts web embed are not displayed in Apple Podcasts Connect Analytics, they’ll be in your podcast host, and it’s a great way to make it easy for new listeners.

• Podcasts you love, from people you trust - from January, the TWiT podcast network is to host on DAX US, allowing TWiT to directly manage DAI advertising across its network, and work even closer with advertisers. The company, which has shows like Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech, currently self-hosts.

• After a continued investigation in the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, the NBA has meted out the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and its owner, the ninth-wealthiest person in the world, Steve Ballmer.

  • “It’s not hyperbole to say (it) changed media forever last night,” said Acast CEO Greg Glenday in a LinkedIn post - the show is hosted by Acast. Glenday describes the news as part of a current cycle where media giants are getting curious about the podcast space.

• So, why did Acast buy Backyard Ventures? We thought we’d find out. In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, a conversation with Acast’s CEO Greg Glenday, and CEO of Backyard Ventures, Matt Cisneros. Our interview is also in full video on YouTube.

• Where do you make your podcast? Avery writes: “I run a fifteen-room inn on Galena Street in Frisco, Colorado, and I make a podcast from its front desk before the guests wake up.” The podcast has original music, is in video, and the latest episode is “26 quiet minutes about the place I thought would fix me: leaving it, coming back, and the difference between rescue and companionship.” And, as a bonus - “There’s also a scone recipe in the middle, with altitude adjustments, because a podcast, like a breakfast, needs something on the plate that isn’t feelings.”

• In Japan, the Otonal Podcast Ads Network now offers more than 200 million ad impressions a month. The company’s announcement lists many of the networks that the company works with.

• A new executive podcast called The Q Suite has achieved strong view numbers over its initial 60 days. It demonstrates a need for this virtual mentoring network dedicated to early- to mid-career LGBTQ+ professionals, the producers say.

• On Tuesday we reported about a podcast removed from Spotify in August last year because it contained some (fully-licensed) music. Today - an email from Spotify to the podcaster: “Thank you for your patience while we have taken another look at your appeal. Upon review, and with apologies, we have concluded that our original decision was incorrect.” Result!

Tips and tricks - with Podcast Movement NYC

• In Podcast Movement last year, Competing for Big Shows, Creators, & Audiences Across Media Platforms was an unfiltered and practical discussion between podcast industry leaders about what it really takes to compete for new business.

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: Tumble Science Podcast for Kids is a science podcast created to be enjoyed by the entire family. Hosted & produced by Lindsay Patterson (science journalist) & Marshall Escamilla (teacher), today’s episode features two listener questions, and you’ll learn about a surprising twist of evolution.

N2K’s weekly podcast Hacking Humans has published its 400th episode. Launched in May 2018, Hacking Humans hosts Dave Bittner, Maria Varmazis, and Joe Carrigan have shared the latest social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits making headlines around the world. It is one of the longest-running podcasts focusing on social engineering and the human side of cybersecurity.

Is true crime the latest obsession, or just history’s oldest guilty pleasure? Buried Evidence is new today from DMG Media - a new weekly podcast where history meets true crime, unearthing the murders, mysteries and scandals of the past.

The Bird Roads is the latest show from Ella Watts and Amber Devereux at Tin Can Audio, following their successful collaboration on Camlann: An Audio Drama. There’ll be a preview of the show at this weekend’s London Podcast Festival on Sunday 6th September during their live performance of Camlann. The first episode of The Bird Roads is scheduled to release on Wednesday 9th September, and episodes will then release weekly after that. It follows Noor Latif, a pilot at the end of the world, searching for her lost lovers on a flooded planet. The story is about love, grief, and hope, even at the end of all things.

It is 1942. Washed out of flight school and inexplicably assigned to the U.S. Army Air Forces “First Motion Picture Unit," Private Oliver Whelan tumbles down the rabbit hole of wartime Hollywood. On The Tinsel Front is a hilarious, fascinating and touching full cast audio comedy/drama inspired by the real-life people and places of the U.S. Army’s film production effort in Tinseltown during World War II.

Ignore City, the audio drama rock musical nominated for 6 New Jersey WebFest Awards, is back. In a post-apocalyptic future where technology is outlawed, Deban Rimpa, a scrappy bike messenger, befriends a sentient robot head named Saner 0805. She embarks on a grand adventure through Ignore City to save civilization before government agents catch up with her. New episodes featuring original music by The Shake Ups start in September. It’s Futurama meets The Terminator…but with singing!