The 2025 Podcast Hall of Fame ceremony, in full

• The 2025 induction ceremony for the Podcast Hall of Fame took place in Orlando FL, USA, with eleven new honorees. You can watch the full ceremony here.

• The UK’s Sport Social Podcast Network has partnered with German podcast studio Wake Word to enter the German market. The two companies will support rights holders and sporting institutions in Germany.

• Bazaar magazine’s agony aunt has launched a podcast. Here’s what she wish she’d known before she’d launched it. (Not least - listen to the experts)

• Pocket Casts v7.8 adds support for podcast descriptions that contain HTML.

• Lower Street tells you what the best background is for your (video) podcast.

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The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• A proposal has been made for a specific Audio Fiction namespace, to add additional tags that are specific to fiction podcasts, with the ideal of helping specific fiction podcast apps. The level of support is currently unclear.

• You should find our site search is now more performant, and you can use the links you find there to link directly to any story in our main news section. Our not-very hidden search RSS feeds are now properly validating, too. And those random search queries that took thirty seconds to run, followed by an error? They’re fixed too. We hope. This might be why this newsletter is late today.

Tips and tricks - with Pod Predictor by Coleman Insights

• How can you mix all the podcasts you’re listening to into mono? It’s a useful trick for some people, and it turns out, quite easy to achieve, in any podcast app.

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: The Explorers Podcast’s Matt Breen says: “Joining the Airwave has been a boon for my podcast. After about a year with them, my downloads had doubled, and traffic continued to grow. It’s awesome.”

Fin vs History is a brand new podcast from the team behind viral sensation Fin vs The Internet, from comedians Fin Taylor and Horatio Gold. They’ve bought some ill-fitting suits, and are determined to guess / explain every war, revolution, assassination and ideological movement that has ever existed. They just can’t promise it will be accurate. The show is with Podmasters.

My Legacy Podcast is new from The Martin Luther King III Foundation, Legacy+ and iHeartMedia today, promising to offer listeners an intimate look into the stories behind the personas of beloved public figures and influential leaders. The show is hosted by Martin Luther King III, human rights activist Arndrea Waters King, Legacy+ Founder Craig Kielburger and social entrepreneur Marc Kielburger.

From the creators of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill comes Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, a gripping limited series exploring the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 90s. Through cautionary tales like Go Ask Alice, infamous cases like the West Memphis Three, and the rise of the Moral Majority, the show reveals how hysteria devastated lives and distracted the church from confronting the real evils within.

Comedian Sammy Petersen is told true crime stories by journalist Georgia Love in Not Another Crime Podcast, new from iHeart today. “We don’t just tell true crime stories, we’ll be sharing a drink and a yap with our listeners while discussing the gossip, grit and gore of the crimes we find most fascinating.”

The award-winning Tape Letters returns with a new season today looking at Scottish-Pakistani families who communicated using cassette tapes in the mail. The show takes us back to between 1960-1980, sharing moments of joy and of heartbreak.