Blubrry gives all its podcasters a new Podpage

Planned tube strikes in London this week have been cancelled. Phew!

• Blubrry Podcasting has announced an exclusive partnership with Podpage - replacing its own landing pages with a website from Podpage, giving creators access to a significantly more powerful and customisable online presence. Here’s an example for Podcast Insider.

• Triton Digital released its Q1 2026 US Podcast Ranker, which reveals that comedy is the #1 podcast category, seeing a significant increase in the quarter. Pod Save America is #1 by average weekly downloads.

• Digital audio in the US is already worth Brazil’s entire digital ad market, writes Rodrigo Tigre for Podnews today. In spite of 92% of Brazilians consuming some form of audio every month, audio spend in the country is so small, it doesn’t even appear in the latest IAB figures. But, says the co-founder of Ozen.fm, it could take very little to move the needle in audio’s favour.

• Podcast hosting company Captivate has enabled HLS support in the alternate enclosure. This will allow video to be visible in podcast apps that support it, like Podcast Addict, Fountain, Truefans, and others. There’s a little tag to turn on under your video podcast settings.

• Magellan AI released its Podcast advertising benchmarks for Q1/26. Podcast ad spend increased 28% year-on-year, and it also reports that ad load decreased from 8.79% in Q4 to 8.24% in Q1. It’s a free download.

• Another day, another video streaming service has announced it’s to show podcasts. In this case, it’s 9Now and Stan, the streaming platforms owned by Nine Entertainment in Australia - which is to stream a new radio show from ARN with Karl Stefanovic and Eddie McGuire. The new show will also be broadcast on Australian radio - and, we would assume, be available as a podcast as well.

• The Deutsche Podcast Awards took place in Berlin last week. A specialist jury decided on 22 categories, while the public voted on two. There were more than 2,000 entries. The Podcast of the Year was The Peter Thiel Story from Deutschlandradio.

• DAX US has made it easier for political advertisers to buy audio, announcing a new integration with Basis. DAX has access to more than 100 million US listeners; political advertisers can now reach them with an exclusive partnership through the DSP in Basis.

• A new podcast studio has opened in West London. It’s run by Footwork Media, the production company behind The Upshot and Patrick Kielty on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Tips and tricks - with The Podcast Show London

• FREE COFFEE - the first 50 people to wave their Podcast Show badge or registration email at Noxy Brothers, the indie coffee shop right next door to the Business Design Centre, gets a free coffee. It’s all thanks to Acast, who have used some form of pun about fuelling podcasting in their email.
• In Buzzcast, Buzzsprout takes a look at a recent article by Losh Moodaley in Podnews and talks about the hidden value of a small podcast.

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With Airwave: With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed. Join Dressed: The History of Fashion as the show explores the social and cultural histories behind the who, what, when of why we wear.

Libsyn has announced an exclusive advertising and hosting partnership for the special July 2026 Tour de France coverage of THEMOVE, Lance Armstrong’s acclaimed cycling and endurance sports podcast. Libsyn will exclusively host and monetize the special Tour de France episodes airing July 3-26, 2026.

In the podcast industry, there are a lot of opinions and a lot of people with them. Too Long Didn’t Listen is cutting through all of that. Inspired by the host’s own experience of wading through more arguments on LinkedIn than useful resources, this series curates trusted industry voices and gets their takes on the questions of the moment - in just sixty seconds. The show starts with: 'what is a podcast’?

Listeners will step inside the rooms where rock history happened through the eyes of someone who was actually there. In Miss O’Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time, Chris O’Dell shares firsthand stories from her years alongside The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and countless others, revealing the friendships, chaos, humor, heartbreak, and humanity behind some of music’s most legendary moments. Recorded live from The Church Studio, the podcast launches today, with new episodes every Tuesday thereafter, offering listeners an intimate look at the people behind the fame and the era that changed music forever.

What if your doctor prescribed a playlist instead of a pill? On this week’s DJ Hesta Prynn’s Music is Therapy, Dr. Priyanka Wali from Health Stuff reveals that music isn’t just background noise during ketamine therapy sessions - it’s an active clinical tool that directly shapes the neurological experience and determines the outcome of treatment.

Next on the Tee is where golf legends live and your game gets better. Hosted by Chris Mascaro, the show brings you inside the ropes and behind the scenes with the biggest names in the game—legends, top instructors, broadcasters, and insiders who share stories you won’t hear anywhere else. 2019 PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year Scott McCarron is on the latest episode, talking about his cancer battle.

Podcasts in the wild

• Podnews reader James spotted these in Angel station, on the way up to the venue of The Podcast Show. Fun fact: this is the longest escalator on the entire London Underground network. Not a fun fact at all: this is the longest escalator on the entire London Underground network.

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