Bartlett beats Rogan for most subscribed video podcast

• The Diary of a CEO has become the most-subscribed podcast on YouTube, overtaking Joe Rogan.

  • So far this year, the podcast has achieved more than 1 billion YouTube views. But, 261 million of these were using audio tracks other than English, according to YouTube Studio data. International audiences have become a significant part of the show’s growth, Bartlett’s company says.
  • Ukranian President Zelenskyy was a recent guest. Also - Mark Cuban, James Talarico, AI skeptic Ed Zitron, and Seth Godin.

• One of the oldest podcasts has been painstakingly rebuilt from scratch. Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code is back on the internet, produced by Christopher Isene who has restored the complete archive, and added transcripts and chapters to every one of 863 episodes. The full website is here.

  • It’s always worthwhile watching Steve Jobs demo podcasting for the first time, playing an episode of the Daily Source Code before he stops it, really, really quickly for some reason.

• Captivate has renewed its certification for the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines. It’s now certified to v2.3, and is now additionally certified for the Ad Delivery metric.

• RSS.com added voicemail for its users. It allows listeners to leave voicemail as feedback, and sends you an email.

• Podcast app Parasocial has added support for video. The app supports in-line, full-screen, and picture-in-picture mode on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo, and Mac OS.

• In the US, before a single midterm vote has been counted, around 600 right-wing accounts, podcasts and outlets have made 7,000 statements saying that the 2026 election can’t be trusted, according to a “Conservative Podcast Tracker” in the Underheard newsletter. Media Matters counted 148+ election-denier bookings on just eight shows between July 1 and Oct 15.

• Where’s Education Across the States hosted? This AI-generated podcast appears to have its audio and thumbnail image hosted on muse.ai/podcasts - on the server of Meta’s Muse AI app. Hmm. /ht John Spurlock

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• After our piece about Spreaker last week, which appears to be enabling its users to steal other podcasts to earn money, the weekly Podcast Index catalog snapshot (and our specific query for Spreaker shows) indicates that Spreaker has managed to clean up just 72 shows from its list. There are now 1,706 shows in Apple Podcasts from Spreaker that are also available on Apple Podcasts from another podcast hosting company; including podcasts originally from NRJ, History Hit, NBC News, Audacy, Vox Media and more. The iHeart-owned company appears to be doing little to clean up its act (hardly surprising: they earn 41% from the advertising they inject into stolen shows).

• Additionally, recognising that this behaviour isn’t unique to Spreaker, the Podcast Index has produced a set of data highlighting “lookalike” feeds throughout its catalog. There are plenty of daily CSV files for podcast hosts to import and use as part of any anti-piracy action (should they show willing). This web page looks at top shows that are likely copies - shows that share the same title and number of episodes, but are slightly longer (because they have more ads stuffed in them). Of the top 500, more than 290 of them are with Spreaker. In this data, we see copies of podcasts on Spreaker that were originally from the BBC, Double Elvis and iHeart, the New York Times, CBC, Barstool Sports, NPR, Audiochuck, and plenty of others.

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• In the School of Podcasting this week, Dave Jackson chats with Brian Cottington from Libsyn about how to “stop the scroll”, and do better podcast titles and thumbnails.
• PodBiz talks with Molly Ponzo, VP of Ad Product for SiriusXM Media and AdsWizz, on how the company successfully cross-sells someone only interested in Call Her Daddy into buying across the network’s shows.
• The Podnews Weekly Review chats with Ainsley Rossitto from beehiiv about their new ad monetisation tools, and with Kate Cocker on how to keep happy doing a daily show about positivity.
• Podmastery hits episode 100, with Neal Veglio giving every podcast a free audit (at least - what to look for with one).
• Podcast Perspectives has snagged Rox Codes, the co-founder of Flightcast, to highlight what video-first podcasters need from a podcast host: a great listen, as ever.

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