Planning for the unexpected

• It’s something that’s a little awkward, but… if something happens to you, what happens to your podcast and your digital estate? We’ve compiled a set of things you should do - some will take just a few minutes - to make it easier for your colleagues and your loved ones should something happen to you. Recent events show us that we’re not always in control of what happens to us in life: so it’s important to make sure that your work lives on.

• A significant competitor to YouTube, video sharing website Vimeo has been acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38bn. Bending Spoons acquired Streamyard last year, and almost doubled its monthly pricing. It’s also doubled the pricing for Evernote, and tripled the price for Meetup. The company also owns WeTransfer and video hosting and streaming platform Brightcove.

• Skimr is a new podcast app that “helps you catch up on 10+ episodes in under 30 minutes with intelligent summaries & swipeable keypoints.”

• The Metacast app now supports private RSS feeds, has a global default speed control, and other tweaks.

• Popular iOS app Overcast has opened a subreddit. “I know almost nothing about Reddit, but I want to learn,” writes Marco Arment.

• London’s Soho is “the most creative square (half) mile on the planet”, according to Jon ODonnell, writing “why podcasts are heading to Soho”.

Beer drinking opportunity: Our Editor, James Cridland, will be at The Yorkshire Grey in Langham Street, London, from 5pm-7pm tomorrow, Tuesday Sep 16, for an impromptu meetup with podcast and radio people. Sam Sethi, co-host of the Podnews Weekly Review and CEO of TrueFans, will also be there. Come for a pint of “man in the box”, and stay for a chat with others from the audio world.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• Not for podcasting, but might be useful for others: openRSS is a website that makes RSS feeds for websites that don’t have them.

• iOS 26 and macOS 26 will be rolled out today, probably at 10am Pacific (1pm Eastern). We’ve been running it for a while; there are no big architecture changes, and we’ve not had any compatibility issues for the stuff we use, so we reckon it’s probably fine for an upgrade for everyone.

• The Podcasting 2.0 podcast ran a test on Friday of live HLS video streaming, signalled within the RSS feed.

Moves and hires

• Amelia Chappelow has joined MIK Studios as Head of Content. She joins from SiriusXM and consulting; and is now based in Melbourne VIC, Australia.

• Sports and entertainment media company Dirty Mo Media has made a number of strategic promotions, including Tiff Powers being appointed EVP.

Tips and tricks - with Patreon

• Just adding your show to Apple or Spotify means that you’re missing out on a lot of listeners. Here’s a full list of every place to list your podcast.

Podcast News

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled has joined the fwd network. The show offers practical tools for managing everyday challenges while fostering stronger, healthier parent-child relationships.

Crime House Daily is new today from PAVE Studios - a twice-daily show which covers the biggest cases, headline trials, and breaking developments every morning and night. The show is hosted by victim empowerment specialist and crime analyst expert Katie Ring.

For school runs, drop-offs or any time you’ve a few minutes together, Kids vs Parents is the ultimate family trivia showdown where kids face off against parents for bragging rights. Each episode has questions for the kids and tougher ones for the parents. Topics range from Pixar, Sports, Taylor Swift, Broadway, and even the Ocean. Every episode is a quick, themed battle the whole family can play along with.

From TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, and even Myspace, there’s been a lot to talk about over the last twenty years. The Wild Wild Web podcast with Eric Sedeño covers internet trends happening this week to deep dives on historical and iconic internet moments. Eric and his weekly guests will talk about their favorite moments, their favorite platforms, and best of all, their favorite memes.

Love true crime but yearn for something a bit less dark? You’re in luck. Heather McDonald brings you the lighter side of true crime in Juicy Crimes. Along with special guests from the legal, journalism, comedy, and celebrity worlds, she explores the greed, the grift, and the gruesome in the juiciest crimes of all time.

Just launched, No Ordinary Monday goes behind the scenes with a weekly guest whose job is anything but ordinary: clearing landmines, blowing up movie sets, or exploring uncharted caves. Hosted by documentary filmmaker Chris Baron, you’ll dive into the how, the why, and the single most unforgettable story of their career. These stories will challenge what you thought a “career” could be and might just change how you think about your own.