Daily Beast partners with Daylight Media

• The Daily Beast has signed with Daylight Media for ad sales, distribution and monetization of The Daily Beast’s portfolio of podcasts, including The Daily Beast Podcast, Inside Trump’s Head and Obsessed.

• Podtrac released its January ranker. Overall, total audience was up for January over December. The Ezra Klein Show is highest new entry at #14. The ranker measures participating publishers only.

• Ultimate Pods is a new app that bills itself “the future of books and podcasts”. The idea is that listeners can pause any episode, ask a question, and hear the host answer them in their actual voice using AI synthesis. It’s $4.99 a week; the developer, Ben Ganz, claims more than 50 paying subscribers already, and 20+ creators already signed up.

• Good news from Ireland, as two electricians have grown their podcast to an industry platform, with plans to expand this year. The podcasters plan a trades awards event, as well as a purpose-built studio.

• The Straight, an Australian horse racing website, profiles John Tapp - who started podcasting at the age of 74. Seven and a half years later, John Tapp Racing is on episode 565.

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The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• The method used by some podcast apps (notably Fountain, Castamatic and Podcast Guru) for listeners to give money to podcast hosts while they listen, sometimes known as “streaming sats”, has been changing - no more incomprehensible “node addresses”, now a simple payment address that looks like an email address. Look for the podcast:value tag in our RSS for an example. Strike is a (free) bank account for Bitcoin; and today, Podnews launches Runway, a free tool for Strike users, in beta, to help you know who paid you - and let you read their messages. (We needed one anyway, so we thought it would be nice if it worked for everyone).

  • Here’s how to enable your podcast for streaming sats - newly updated with much more detail on the above to help.
  • Thank you to Bryan Entzminger and Franco for your streaming sats while listening this week.

• Poddley “builds RSS feeds for guests, not for podcasts”. Here’s an RSS feed for everything with Jordan Peterson in it.

• Tip: having trouble with connections for Squadcast, Riverside, Cleanfeed, Zencaster or any of the other remote recording tools? Here’s ten years of experience for you: a) reboot your machine before you record; b) use a clean browser with no extensions (or incognito mode); c) use a wired connection, not wifi.

Podcast News - with Airwave

New on Airwave: The Side Dish from America’s Test Kitchen What happens when two of TV’s top cooking hosts ditch their aprons to go off-script? America’s Test Kitchen veterans Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison dive into food fights, travel snack debates, and answer your most burning culinary questions in a hilarious new podcast about life, eating, and everything in between.

In Dave Jackson’s School of Podcasting podcast this week - he’s been to a conference all about… books. So what’s that got to do with podcasting? Everything, it turns out.

Life is… a lot right now, and Love, Take Two is here to remind you it’s okay if things didn’t go as planned the first time. Hosted by queer duo José Rolón and Jaimie Kelton, it brings warmth, humor, and real talk to conversations about love, heartbreak, and starting over. Each episode features candid, often hilarious guests sharing their own “take two” stories, leaving listeners feeling lighter, seen, and ready for their next chapter.

In the debut season of 1818: A Saint Louis University Alumni Podcast the show dives into SLU’s rich and often surprising legacy. Each episode features an unexpected conversation about SLU’s background, a dynamic roundtable with alumni, thought leaders and changemakers shaping the University’s next chapter, and a spotlight on distinctive alumni events and services. Whether you’re a Billiken from yesterday, today or tomorrow, join us as we showcase the people and moments that define us. Once a Billiken, Always a Billiken.

The Science of Happiness from UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and PRX launched a new mini series called “The Science of Love,” on the nature of love and belonging. “The Science of Love” is hosted by Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis, featuring leading experts across psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to delve into emerging research on humanity’s many forms of connection.