Another exclusive show to leave Spotify?

• Jemele Hill is “to leave Spotify” (Bloomberg), and is looking for a new home for her podcast (Hollywood Reporter), but “a lot of what’s been reported just isn’t true” (Jemele Hill via Twitter). Her show is exclusive on Spotify. In June 2021 Hill announced The Unbothered Network, which launched two shows in Oct 2022: Sanctified and The Black Girl Bravado.

• 50% of YouTube creators earn more than $500 per month, claims a new survey; but YouTuber Mike Figueredo posts that YouTube Revoked My Channel’s Monetization and Won’t Give Me Answers.

• Downloads from Apple Podcasts are on an all-time high according to Buzzsprout’s stats for May. The numbers are likely to reflect Apple now correctly identifying more of its traffic, instead of the ambiguous AppleCoreMedia name; those numbers continue to decrease.

• Dave Ramsey, who hosts financial advice podcast The Ramsey Show, one of the top 50 podcasts in the US, is being sued after promoting a former advertiser’s business which was found to be deceptive and fraudulent. The complaint, which seeks $150mn in damages, claims listeners were unaware that the company was a paid advertiser.

• Pocket Casts is to update its privacy policy (old, new). The new privacy policy is CC-SA, and goes into effect on 1 July. We don’t see anything glaringly different.

• “I asked AI to make a podcast - the results are terrifying” - Libsyn’s Brian Cottington used AI for every step of the way.

• Nish Kumar and Coco Khan from Pod Save The UK are on this month’s cover of Pod Bible, which you can download and read today.

• Happy twentieth birthday this month, podcasting. The Guardian takes a British-slanted history of the medium. (Here’s our history of podcasting in the UK).

Tips and tricks - with Podnews Live - where podcasting connects

• There is more to your episode notes than meets the eye, suggests Podcast Marketing Magic.

The Tech Stuff - with The Podcast Standards Project

Phase six of the new podcast namespace is now closed. These new tags will be voted on for formalisation into the standard:

• podcast:remoteItem - which allows other episodes or items to be referenced. Specifically, this is being used to reference “podsafe” music tracks, so that album art and v4v payment information is available to a podcast app.
• List mediums - a method of producing playlists
• podcast:acceptsGuests - a method of stating whether your podcast accepts guests (and therefore whether you welcome suggestions) or not. Likely to be withdrawn.
• podcast:podroll - a way for a podcaster to recommend other shows in a list. (The Podnews Daily RSS feed supports this).
• podcast:updateFrequency - to help a creator to indicate when episodes will be published. (The Podnews Daily RSS feed supports this).
• podcast:podping - allowing a creator to indicate to apps and aggregators that a show is being updated on the podping network, and removing the need to poll the RSS feeds “just in case”.
• podcast:valueTimeSplit - as in use already on the Podcasting 2.0 feed, a way to ensure that authors or musicians used in specific segments appear on the v4v payment.

Podcast News

Podcast Bestie, the Podcast talks with Canadian podcaster Kattie Laur this week (here’s a transcript). She talks about how to get started as a freelance podcast producer.

Resurrection is new today - writer, producer, and host Dane Stewart spent over five years researching this podcast. It uncovers the extraordinary life of a forgotten playwright who died from AIDS in 1991, and takes listeners on a journey through queer history as it was lived by one man and pieced together by another, 30 years later.