Fireside Chat updates its terms

• After Podnews highlighted Fireside Chat’s terms of service following its public launch at Podcast Movement, the company released updated terms late last week. The new terms (differences here) seek to clarify the 'General Media Release’ section about ownership of content, and one clause has been removed. We have reviewed Fireside’s new terms and conditions.

• “Nearly one in five weekly listeners say that YouTube is their primary service for podcasts. This is why I twitch a little every time I hear a podcast tell listeners to 'subscribe or follow us wherever you get your podcasts.' Are you sure?” - in his latest newsletter, Tom Webster shares some data that might convince you to get your podcast onto YouTube.

  
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• Podkite has added a way to embed the reviews for your podcast on your own website. That looks like an excellent podcast they’ve got a screengrab of.

• JustCast has launched an embeddable podcast player, which supports chapters from the Podcast Namespace. A React component, it’s open source. We’ve added it to our embedded podcast players page.

• Audio editor Ardour has released v6.9. Embarking on a significant rebuild, the developers warn to steer clear of the v7.0 nightly build for now.

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• Following up on our story last week about Apple Podcasts’s continuing bugs, podcast host Buzzsprout gives some advice to podcasters to promote alternatives to Apple Podcasts, “if you want to push your listeners to a different app so that they actually get your episodes when they come out”.

• SOLVV is a new on-demand social podcasting app. In alpha, the app offers 15-minute shows, with an automated way to find panelists and post shows, which appear unavailable via RSS feed.

• Writing in AdAge, Omri Argaman writes that “the early numbers and growth rate show that most consumers are passing on podcasts”. We’d gently suggest that podcasting has shown continuous growth since 2013, and now 116m Americans, or 41% of the country, listen to podcasts every month.

Tips and tricks

• How I make… Hit Different - Courtney Carthy tells us the tools he uses to put together his hit podcast, and many others.
• Steven Goldstein identifies Podcasting’s Grid of Pain, and asks: is your content truly recommendable, or is it just “fine?”

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• It’s time to hang up the egos and move beyond IP addresses, says Dave Jones, writing on The Podcast Index’s blog. The post highlights a new way to get better podcast analytics, using a “ULID” URL parameter, and listen stats.

• For podcasters, lightning is already Bitcoin’s killer app, says a post from Breez.

• Last week, we saw an overall 84 shows migrate to Spotify’s Anchor and Megaphone. Excepting Podiant’s migrations to Castos, Libsyn was the paid-for podcast host losing the most shows in our sample.

• Castamatic, an iOS app, is working on adding boostagrams from its app. That allows a listener to send a message along with a tip from their app as they listen.

• The podcast version of Podnews today contains “Boostagram Corner”, a hopefully weekly section highlighting messages we’ve been sent by listeners using value4value tips.

Podcast News

The Offensive, an award-winning, critically acclaimed mockumentary podcast that follows fictional Premier League club Ashwood City FC, returns for a fourth season today. From Stak, the show won a British Podcast Award in 2019.

The founder of Podfriend, Martin Mouritzen, is a guest on Podland this week, about boostagrams.
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Meanwhile, over on the Podcasting 2.0 podcast, Max Hillebrand from Prague takes us through how Bitcoin works.