Keeping your podcast going in the holidays

• A nice idea to keep your shows going over a holiday period, and help promote others: daily tech news podcast the Techmeme Ride Home podcast is currently running bonus episodes of all the times the host, Brian McCullough, has appeared as a guest on other shows, as feed drops. Worth a go for next year?

• Happy Holidays from the US government, who has blessed us all with the new Corporate Transparency Act. If you run a corporation, LLC or another qualifying legal entity, you’ve just over a year to tell Uncle Sam who owns your company, or pay the hefty penalty. Gordon Firemark has written this helpful guide. Quite a few podcasts in the US - and this very newsletter - are owned by an LLC, which is normally a good plan (it stands for Limited Liability Company, which is a clue.)

• The Podcast Review published its ten “best podcasts of 2023”.

• Earbuds this week looks at podcasts about how to be happy, curated by Paul Levitin.

• Rephonic has launched a YouTube channel. James Potter will be adding indepth videos about podcast ads, PR and collaboration.

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• From Transistor, Justin Jackson suggests that you don’t start a video podcast: and go audio first. “In the beginning, a new podcaster needs to find their voice, practice, and learn what makes an episode compelling. Video adds a whole layer of production complexity that distracts from that aim. Plus, appearing on video adds a lot of pressure to worry about your appearance.”

• Shows from real-estate investment network BiggerPockets are moving to the Cumulus Podcast Network.

Podcast News

In 1982, June and Jennifer Gibbons were the youngest women to be sent to Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital after a crime spree that saw them cause hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage in arson, vandalism and theft over a period of five days. They were just 19 years old. Launching today - June: Voice of a Silent Twin, which for the first time has one of the twins telling her story. New from BBC Cymru Wales, it’s available everywhere, including BBC Sounds.