Dealt a bad hand: Audiochuck accused of plagiarism

• Exclusive: Audiochuck’s new podcast, The Deck, has been accused of copying a similar show from May 2020. We speak to one of the co-hosts of Dealing Justice, and take a listen to both shows. This isn’t the first accusation of plagiarism against the company.

• Joe Rogan has apologised for repeated use of “the n-word” on his Spotify-exclusive show, after India Arie shared clips of Rogan using the racial slur more than 24 times. Rogan claims they were taken out of context. Spotify appears to have removed 70 episodes of his show over the weekend, according to a monitoring website; the company hasn’t made any comment as to why. Scott Galloway and Roxane Gay both announced they’re removing their podcasts from the platform; and the Obamas are hunting for a new podcast deal. Meanwhile, Spotify’s Science Vs has released a special show, fact-checking Joe Rogan’s interview with Robert Malone; and the BBC’s Ros Atkins has posted an explainer about what’s going on: it’s a worthwhile, and balanced, five minutes.

  
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• Exclusive: Mumbler has released what they call the first monetisation study for podcasts in Spain. 137 podcasters took part. We’ve been given a set of pages translated into English; almost half of the podcasters said they were not monetising in any way. Selling services was the top way of earning revenue, followed by sponsorships.

• Doing a good podcast interview is the responsibility of both podcast hosts and guests, says Mark Deal, one of the organisers of Interview Mastery Summit, a virtual event announced on Feb 19. It’ll be co-hosted by Danielle Desir.

• Podtrac reports iHeartRadio is #1 for podcasting for January’s US publishers list - the gap slightly narrowing between them and NPR at #2. No change in the top 5 for US podcasts.

  
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• From Acast to Zcast - Zibby Owens has launched a new podcast network, Zcast, powered by Acast. The slate of shows include her award-winning Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books.

• Castos has released a new feature enabling all its podcasters to earn Bitcoin from listeners, as well as links to PayPal, Patreon and others. It’s one of the first podcast hosts to build in support for “value4value”.

Moves and hires

• Holly Garrard has been hired as VP of Business Development and Partnerships at Reel2Media in Seattle WA, USA. She joins from iHeartRadio.

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• PodLP has become the latest podcast app and directory to use podping to speed up new podcast episodes and dramatically decrease their bandwidth and server bill. The app has also just hit 10 million installs.

• If you run an Umbrel bitcoin node at home, there’s a new update which contains a bugfix for Helipad (as well as a CSV export tool). The new version of Helipad also has a streams API hidden under the hood.

• If you’re listening on a new podcast app to the Podnews podcast, thank you for hitting the boost button and sending us a message. We got 7,970 sats from boosts last week; we’re grateful for the messages, including a comment from Adam Curry to get back under the duvet (for audio reasons, naturally).

Tips and tricks

• What unique angle can you bring to the conversation? Kathy Sucich, the Host and Executive Producer of the Smarter Healthcare Podcast, talks to Kristin Marquet.

Podcast News - with Quill

Produced by Quill: The Great Indoors How has technology changed around the world? Join Matt Roberts from Amdocs as he discusses how human technological adoption habits are evolving as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how we’re rediscovering the magic of technology as a necessary result of being indoors.

The Read has joined Patreon, we’re told: hosted by American comedians Kid Fury and Crissle West and based in New York City, members of their Patreon will have special access to bonus audio segments, priority notice on live events, monthly Live Q&A Video Chats with Kid Fury & Crissle, and more.

New from Paradiso Media, Seventeen features Laura Leigh Abby’s diary from when she was 17; an era before social media and smartphones, an an era with inherent and often unwitting misogyny. The show explores how a generation of would-be feminists were influenced by the mixed signals of pop culture, and launches today.