Keynotes announced for Podcast Movement NYC

• Podcast Movement announced two keynotes - Tom Webster will give a preview of The Podcast Landscape 2026, while TINK Media’s Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt (above) will explain “WTF is a podcast in 2026”. Tickets are available here.

  • Podcast Movement has also announced it is to celebrate sponsors and attendees with a billboard in Times Square (upload your logo through the Swapcard app); and “podcast newsletter checkups” with beehiiv through the event.
  • And, Arielle Nissenblatt (who’s a licensed NYC Tour Guide) is running a Podcast Walking Tour on the Wednesday - a tour of NYC’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood through the lens of podcasting, storytelling, and New York City history.

• Audacy is to close its podcast hosting and monetisation service, Audacy Creator Lab, on Nov 1. Launched as Podcorn in 2019, which was acquired by Audacy for $22.5mn in 2021, the new “Creator Lab” was announced at Podcast Movement Evolutions in Apr 2025 - making some podcasting companies angry at its marketing tactics. It announced YouTube integration this March. There appear to be just 426 shows hosted on Audacy Creator Lab in the Podcast Index, though you could also take part in the Creator Lab Marketplace wherever you were hosted.

  • The company’s website doesn’t mention that it’s closing yet; and they’re still marketing on podcasts: Podscribe reports that Audacy Creator Lab has advertised on 52 shows since Monday.

• A new website builder called Podspun has released a significant update. The tool creates a website from your podcast - but also your social media as well, to keep it fresh. The websites are also built to be visible in AI search as well as traditional SEO.

• YouTube announced that YouTube Shopping Creators can now tag Amazon products in the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program. It’s available for eligible US creators only, and only visible in select countries and regions and on select surfaces.

• In Japan, podcast ad network RobotStart has completed a funding round, bringing its total funding up to US $5mn. The company has more than 400 podcasters, and also works with Japanese radio stations; it claims to partner with more than a hundred advertising agencies.

• In the UK - football podcast Jamie Vardy is Having a Party has signed for live rights for six Bundesliga matches, including the season-opening fixture between Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart. The matches will be carried on YouTube globally (excluding DACH) on Vardy’s YouTube channel.

• And, PodcastOne has signed the rights to Dropping Names…and Other Things.

Only Human: BOUND — Prometheus retold

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A captured resistance leader wakes stripped of rights, name, and self, reduced to a designation: A135X. Session by session, an AI erases his memory, and the fragments that surface may belong to four different people. What’s left of him, if anything, is the only thing standing between erasure and reconstruction.

Only Human: BOUND is a ten-episode psychological science-fiction serial that takes the oldest story of punishment and turns it into a chamber piece about identity, complicity, and the limits of human and machine. Created and produced by Frank Gullo, with a human-directed team of voice actors, musicians, and sound design.

New episodes will be released through the September 7 finale, with a sequel already in motion.

Listen and follow on the official website.

Tips and tricks - with Podcast Movement NYC

• Just announced as keynoting for this year - but you can enjoy Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt’s appearance in 2025: The Best Podcast Growth Tips!

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: For the Love of History uncovers the people, events, and little-known-facts hidden in the shadows of your old history textbooks. Expect turkey gods, the history of the toothbrush, and tattoos - and everything inbetween.

Past Due: 100 Years of Central Library is new from the Los Angeles Public Library. The podcast got a feature on CBS News.

Launched this week, Simple Enough: Organizing, Productivity, and Mindset for Entrepreneurs starts with the life you actually want, then helps you work backward to simplify your space, mindset, routines, and habits enough to support it, while using money mindset as a deeper lens for understanding what you keep, buy, avoid, regret, or struggle to release. No one right way, no total overhaul, and no shame.

Season 4 of Countermeasures confronts some of the biggest biothreats and health outbreaks in human history: from the Spanish Flu and the Black Plague to the 2001 Anthrax Attacks. Episode One kicks off with the third wave of the opioid crisis, releasing today, just in time for International Overdose Awareness Day on Monday.

The podcast trailer podcast Trailer Park is releasing a three-part miniseries exploring what makes podcast trailers effective. Based on a 2026 Coleman Insights research study co-designed by host Arielle Nissenblatt and researcher Jay Nachlis, the series combines data with perspectives from Pantheon Podcasts and NOVA Entertainment to reveal what encourages listeners to keep listening, where trailers lose them, and how creators can apply the findings to their own shows.

Podcasts winners in the wild

It was the prestigious Edinburgh TV Awards last night - and, for the first time, there was a Best Visualised Podcast category. Congratulations to Persephonica, who won the award with viral comedy sports show Game’s Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast. Celebrating backstage, the Persephonica team are shown above - at the back, Adnan Ahmed - Showrunner, Persephonica, Stevie Middleton - Commissioning Executive, BBC Sounds, Stephen Trenchard - Assistant Commissioner, BBC Sounds; at the front, “Steve” (Chris McClure, front right) and, front left, Persephonica boss Dino Sofos who seemingly wants a fight.