Buzzsprout Ads launches, for podcast discovery

• First look: Buzzsprout, the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads, letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue).

  • Curious how they sound? Listen to Podland this week for an interview with Dave Jones from the Podcast Index, and some ads automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads.

• Top executives are deserting Clubhouse. Four senior leaders have quit the company in the past two months, as downloads slow dramatically.

• Later today, Sony Music Entertainment will announce two new shows for The Binge subscription channel - Witnessed: Friendly Fire and Fringe Network: Alien State. All episodes of both shows, ad-free, have been added to the channel.

• Eight new nominees for the Latin Podcast Awards have been announced. Registration is still open.

• PodBible magazine published issue 21. The UK print magazine, available in railway stations and in some copies of The Sunday Times, is free to read online, and features Suruthi Bala and Hannah McGuire from true crime podcast Redhanded.

• Data: In Belgium, podcasts are more popular than ever, reports The Brussels TImes. The research was gathered by Ipsos.

• In Austria, the Ö3 Podcast Festival took place in Vienna. German website Radioszene explains what you missed - Google Translate is your friend.

• If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen little cartoons about podcasting from Erik Jones. Courtney Kocak’s Podcast Bestie newsletter interviews him about them.

• Resonate Recordings were at The Podcast Show in London, and wrote up their highlights.

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• Twitter has added a page explaining how best to use Twitter for podcasters. The company recommends Twitter Spaces for community, and Super Follows or Tips for revenue.

• Squadcast look at “10 ways to get plugged in to the world of podcasting”. We’re one of them!

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• We’d like to put together a big list of podcast apps that use AppleCoreMedia as a partial useragent. Work for a podcast host? Able to help us work out rough percentages of total downloads for this useragent?\

• The only global statistics produced to the IAB standard, Buzzsprout’s download stats suggest that Apple Podcasts is still growing. Apple had 40.7% of all downloads in May, vs Spotify’s 25.3% (and Google Podcasts’s 2.5%). Separate data from other sources suggest that Spotify reaches more people, though.

• Our hosts changes page (we removed the ceased podcasts from there, which confused the graph) shows a large amount of shows switching from Anchor to Megaphone.

• Got Alby? Our front page, and recent pages in our archive, now let you sent sats directly to us using Alby.

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From Post Script Media: Climate change is not a distant science story. It’s a story about how everything in our carbon-based economy works — and how it’s getting reworked. The Carbon Copy is a weekly news analysis podcast that explains the changing planet through the lens of current events. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.

The Commune is new from Stuff today, telling the story of Centrepoint in Auckland, New Zealand’s notorious free-love community. It’s a powerfully moving inquiry into how well-meaning people can talk themselves into doing terrible things and why, even decades later, the battles over Centrepoint’s true legacy continue.

In Podcasting 2.0 this week, Adam and Dave chat with Nic Ivanov from Vizzy, and also say nice things about Buzzsprout Ads within Podland.