What’s in the Podnews Report Card?
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Our Editor James Cridland shared the results of the Podnews Report Card at Podcast Movement. We’ll have this data in full in Monday’s Podnews; but overall, Apple has increased its lead over Spotify as the most favoured podcast platform used by podcast creators. YouTube is eagerly awaited by many publishers; and Google Podcasts saw a disappointing fall in ratings from those in the industry.
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A free podcast transcription tool has been launched. It runs entirely on your own local device (“for the highest privacy and security”), the company says; it uses whisper.cpp’s “tiny” model. It’s powered by Spreaker, though you don’t need to be a customer to use it. It hosts the SRT file itself, which is ideal to add it to your RSS feed.
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Acast spoke at Podcast Movement about how the company uses geo-targeting to safely serve ads for sports betting only in locations where it’s legal.
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Over the past 90 days, at least $25,778.46 has been paid out to podcasters using streaming sats and boosts. This data is available on a new stats page from the Podcast Index.
- Here’s how streaming sats work.
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Reddit’s own Clubhouse clone, Reddit Talk, is to close. The system will wind down on March 21. It’s a casualty of the closure of a third-party tool that Reddit used for audio.
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We’ll be back with our usual length Podnews on Monday.
PodnewsTips and tricks - with Phantom Producer
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Our article on how to understand podcast stats has been updated to remove retired analytics data from Google Podcasts, and to add OP3 data.
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In case you missed it, no, the number of new podcasts hasn’t “plummeted by 80%”.
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Podcast data for Mar 10
#1 in Apple Podcasts
The Deck Investigates (audiochuck)
The Coldest Case In Laramie (Serial Productions & The New York Times)
#1 in Spotify The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) My Therapist Ghosted Me (Global)
Over the last week, 221,951 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 102.5%). source
