FinCEN files investigation is accompanied by a podcast

You’re incorrectly identifying up to 50% of your user agents - increasing visibility into what player the user is actively engaging with in both web and streaming, where we were previously blind, is a massive win — in today’s Sounds Profitable, our new adtech newsletter, with Podsights

Aug 27 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• The Guardian: “Thousands of documents detailing $2 trillion of potentially corrupt transactions that were washed through the US financial system have been leaked to an international group of investigative journalists” — Eighteen months in the making, Entercom’s Pineapple Street Studios has released Suspicious Activity, a podcast to accompany the FinCEN files, a landmark investigation from BuzzFeed News and the international consortium of investigative journalists. This is the first time that a large-scale investigation like this has been accompanied by a podcast series. It’s available now.

• Joe Rogan has apologised after spreading false information about the Portland bushfires, for which he was widely criticised. On Twitter he says he repeated false news without looking into it, adding “That won’t happen again. I’m sorry.”

• The hosts of The Doughboys have apologised after a recent episode with actor Rob Lowe. The podcast has donated $10,000 to split between two women’s homeless organisations. Lowe was also on Joe Rogan in August.

• On Twitter, Andrew Norton posts a thread entitled People wearing headphones in movies but they’re listening to podcasts. We recommend it to you.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS․com

• Significant movement from The Podcast Index this week, with a stats page, a Twitter-like discussion system, and a blog.
• The Podcast Index has also added a new API, /api/1.0/recent/newfeeds, which returns every new feed added to the index over the past 24 hours.
• Built from The Podcast Index, Cast Coverage, a random podcast player.
• The podcast-rss-useragents list at OPAWG has had a number of additions, to help podcast hosts correctly attribute plays from apps, including those on the web and on AppleCoreMedia.
• After Podnews reported it as a bug, Amazon Music has correctly set their RSS user agent. It’s Amazon Music Podcast. Thank you! Sounds Profitable has more on RSS user agents today.

Podcast News - with cabana

From cabana: Ever miss those spooky campfire stories you heard growing up? Well, gather round… Full Body Chills is back with more creepy bite-sized stories. Season 2 starts October 1st - just in time for Halloween.

Lights Out with Shawne Merriman is a new podcast from FOX Sports Radio and iHeartRadio. Launched on Saturday, the first guest is the NFL’s Quentin Jammer, talking about his mental health.

In the latest episode of Marketing to Mums, Katrina Carter interviews the new Head of Podcasts for Mamamia, Elissa Ratliff. “Elissa shares her insights and tips into the options brands have in podcasting to help them deliver uninterrupted, long-term relationships with mothers across the world.”

Ways in which we messed up

• If Joe Rogan can say sorry, so can we.
  • The new UK podcast production company signed to WME is called 'Noiser’, not 'Noisier’. Sorry.
  • Captivate wasn’t the first to announce integration with The Podcast Index, as we said on Friday: Fireside was first, implementing that within 24 hours. Sorry.