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• In 2021, film director and actor Caveh Zahedi recorded a podcast every day for a year - called 365 Stories I Want to Tell You Before We Both Die, it features stories from his life. Now, producer Leon Neyfakh and Prologue Projects are making the whole year’s stories available as a paid podcast. They are letting people pick their price: $3.65 (one penny per story), $36.50 (ten cents a story), or $365 (one dollar per story), working with Supporting Cast.

  • Neatly - a week’s worth of stories remains available in the free feed - the stories originally published this week last year; the shows change daily, starting over at the beginning of each year. We’re told they will “continue doing this forever, until we all die or become millionaires”.

• Are you selling access to your show? The free ride for Spotify’s paid podcast subscription service is coming to an end. In Spotify’s earnings call yesterday, Daniel Ek said that from 2023, the company will take a 5% cut (plus payment costs). Apple Podcasts takes 30% (including them).

  • And, YouTube has turned on tipping for all eligible creators in 68 countries around the world. YouTube also takes a 30% cut.

• With the excitement earlier on this week about Spotify’s proprietary video podcasts: Substack quietly released video on their platform back at the end of January, we’re told by Podland's Sam Sethi.

• How is podcasting changing in Ukraine since the war began - and how will it affect the Ukranian podcast market? Dmytro Palchykov is Production Director of The Ukranians Audio; and he spoke to iZone Media (in an English article) about how his team has adapted.

• The New York Festivals Radio Awards, which also contains recognition for podcasts, announced their winners. Overall, more awards were won by UK companies than those in the US.

• Daryl Battaglia from Triton Digital has joined Bryan Barletta for a deep-dive into Triton Digital’s new podcast metrics tool. The company worked with Signal Hill Insights to produce a tool that’s comprehensive and accurate.

• ESPN anchor Sage Steele has sued ESPN, and its parent company Walt Disney, after the company suspended her for questioning ESPN’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, and criticising former President Barack Obama, in a podcast interview on Uncut with Jay Cutler. She claims a violation of freedom of speech.

• Another member of the UK’s Royal Family is to host a podcast - Princess Eugenie is to host Floodlight, a podcast for the anti-slavery collective. She’s currently twelfth in line to the throne.

• The New York Times focuses on the use of podcasts to expand the reach of smaller museums.

• Another popular podcast has gone exclusive - Hamish & Andy’s Remembering Project has a new season starting today, now exclusive to the LiSTNR app. The show did 100,261 downloads in March, making it #71 in Australian-made shows in the Australian Podcast Ranker. It’s a spinoff of the Hamish & Andy podcast which is #1, with 2,258,000 downloads in March; there are no such plans to make that exclusive.

Tips and tricks - with SoundStack

• Claiming that big tech doesn’t care about you or your podcast, Evo Terra recommends “going beyond the directory” and owning the relationship between you and your audience.

• It’s always better to give one simple link to share your podcast with others. Your own website is by far the best solution; but we cover how to get universal links to your podcast for everyone.

Podcast News - with Acast

From Acast: Alexis Fernandez asks - Do You F*****g Mind? All things self growth, self love, relationship and learning to give less of a f**k will be discussed here, with some neuroscience thrown in for good measure - learn mindset hacks to live the most badass life.

In Podland later today, we hear from Neil Mody on Headliner’s future plans; and from Tom Billington on the Podcast Show 2022 in London, which takes place next month. Co-host Sam Sethi also breaks the news that he’s bought a big red bus.

Mood Ring is new from APM Studios today - a new weekly podcast from author and journalist Anna Borges, it launches just ahead of Mental Health Awareness Month, and shares practical and creative ways to improve our lives, with each episode focusing on one new way we can cope with our feelings, our baggage, or the world around us.

You have more influence than you think

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When you think of influence you probably think of Beyonce, Ronaldo, or Obama… but you don’t think about yourself.

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