Glenn Beck falsely claims show ‘censored by Apple Podcasts’

• In a social media post, Glenn Beck said Apple Podcasts had removed The Glenn Beck Program - falsely claiming it was political censorship by the company.

  • Podnews has learnt that the issue was a trademark dispute from a third party. We understand that Glenn Beck’s organisation was sent an email in late July, but hadn’t responded. We’ve raised trademark disputes ourselves with Apple; the emails to podcasters from Apple look like this and clearly say content will be removed if you fail to respond. After Beck’s company read the email and resolved the issue, the show returned to Apple Podcasts. Listeners who follow the show were unaffected.
  • Tip: Ensure the email you use in Apple Podcasts Connect, and in your feed if you have one there, is valid - and checked. Here’s more on trademarks for podcasts; and where copyright violations are reported.

• Acast has announced that from September 1, it will no longer accept new campaigns that use Spotify’s Ad Analytics. “Acast remains focused on fostering an open and transparent environment, working together with partners who share the same vision for the podcast industry’s future.” Acast said it will offer attribution from independent analytics company Podscribe for free to all advertisers, as well as work with a set of local companies in each region.

  • Spotify launched Spotify Ad Analytics in June, offering it for free to advertisers both on and off the platform in what some saw as an opportunity for them to collect data on competitors.

• Edison Podcast Metrics unveiled the US Top Podcast Networks, by reach. Spotify is #1; SiriusXM is #2 and iHeartRadio is #3.

• Libsyn (Podcast Movement booth #101) has unveiled Predictive Contextual Targeting for podcast advertising. The company has also released data showing the size of the company’s US unique monthly audience (over 16mn, bigger than The New York Times or NBC News), and is “on track to deliver 500mn monthly impressions”.

  • Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast (booth #101) has signed Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People for exclusive ad representation. The show from Chris Gethard was with Earwolf.

• Podcast Movement has unveiled all the parties planned for the event next week, and news about guided yoga sessions at 7am. We can guarantee we won’t be at the yoga.

• The BBC has added a Noiser show to BBC Sounds. Real Survival Stories continues to be available elsewhere.

• Engadget reviews the RØDEcaster Duo podcast mixer.

• Cancelled with Tana Mongeau has lost a sponsor after adlibbing a host-read credit in the middle of a highly criticised show that made death threats against a small business. “We regret to be in any way involved with her,” said a spokesperson for Babble, a language-learning platform.

• Triton Digital (booth #201) has released the New Zealand Podcast Ranker for July.

• Further reading: Why Podcasters and Publishers Should Lean into Ad Measurement (Signal Hill Insights) … What to Watch Out For at Podcast Movement Next Week (Eric Nuzum)

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• What makes a good podcast? Resound has posted 29 tips from 29 podcast pros - including our own Editor, who opines that “good podcasts have a reason to exist”.

• The new Audible show Your Mama’s Kitchen, mentioned below, is one of a trend of new podcasts which re-use existing RSS feeds (and Apple Podcasts IDs) for older, related shows. In this case, it re-uses Michelle Obama’s “The Light” podcast feed (and Michelle Obama is the first guest). It’s a good way to start with an audience who might like the new show. (It won’t appear in any data purporting to show new podcast launches, though).

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Armchair Expert is now “available for you to listen to us on ALL platforms!”, says an announcement. The show became a Spotify Exclusive in July 2021; and appears to be the latest to no longer be platform-exclusive.

Your Mama’s Kitchen is new from Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s media company. Hosted by Michele Norris, the first episode has Michelle Obama as a guest; each of the episodes will be exclusively on Audible for two weeks, then available widely wherever podcasts are found.

Football Ramble has returned for its seventeenth season, set to continue keeping listeners up to date with the most popular sport in the world. The show has recently celebrated hitting 155 million downloads.