Apple history podcast hits $60,000 funding in less than a day

• Popular Apple-focused website Six Colors is asking its readers to help fund a podcast about Apple’s history. It hit its stretch goal of $60,000 in less than 24 hours; at the time of writing, it’s just hit $100,000. (The website also has a yearly report card - huh, there’s an idea.)

• Some of SiriusXM’s biggest podcasts are to be streamed on Tubi, including Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Rotten Mango and What Now? with Trevor Noah. These shows also stream on YouTube, and that won’t go away. Advertising sales for video podcasts on Tubi will be shared between Tubi and SiriusXM Media.

• Podcast website company Podpage wants to help your podcast get found - so it’s launched an AI-powered SEO assistant, to help you tune your podcast’s titles and descriptions for better results in search engines. It can even be set to run automatically.

• The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity later this month will feature, among others, three trade organisations for audio - the UK’s Radiocentre and Australia’s Commercial Radio & Audio have an invite-only session with Professor Mark Ritson, while Sounds Profitable are also hosting a discussion.

• The BBC World Service has announced the winners of its International Audio Drama Competition for 2026. All seems well with the genre - there were more than 800 entries from 87 countries around the world.

• Podcasts from iHeartRadio have been added to LG Radio+ on LG Smart TVs, as well as iHeart’s radio stations. LG Radio+ will also be available on LG xboom speakers.

• Streaming and podcast hosting company StreamGuys has added an automatic AI ad tagging service, to identify and place markers in their clients’ podcasts and archived content.

• Ankler Media’s Like and Subscribe newsletter this week details who at Netflix buys podcasts, and the unique terms they get you to sign.

• Nielsen published The Record: Q1 U.S. audio listening trends. Podcasts are getting 20% of all time with ad-supported audio in the US; larger than ad-supported streaming music, which gets just 16%.

• BridgeWise has added a Podcast Sentiment Analysis Feed to its Context Analytics product, which quantifies what investors are reading, disclosing and saying; now, the company is now able to measure what investors are listening to, checking what podcasters are saying about companies (grouped by ticker symbol).

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Tips and tricks

• Resonate Recordings posts B2B Podcast Best Practices: 13 Lessons From 100+ Business Shows
• Serious about your podcast? One way to protect it is to get a registered trademark.

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AI with Kai cuts through the AI hype with practical conversations for business leaders. Host Kai Gray and producer Tim Scott unpack the week’s biggest AI stories, share simple ways to use AI in your work, and interview executives, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders who are already seeing results. If you’re trying to understand what AI means for your business, this show focuses on real-world use cases, not science fiction.

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Podcasts in the wild

Podnews reader James spotted the BFI IMAX in London’s Waterloo is one giant ad for a podcast right now - particularly, The Rest is Football, which is being carried on Netflix in the UK over the FIFA World Cup. This road junction is one of the biggest and most visible in central London, with 5.7 million impacts per fortnight - here are more stats and details from the out-of-home company which sells it.

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