Voting opens for Podcast Movement sessions

• Voting has opened for the speaker sessions at Podcast Movement NYC. Anyone can vote, and votes will go towards half of the 2026 agenda. There have been more than 750 session submissions. You can search and vote for them here. Tickets for the event are available - it’ll be in New York, Sep 17-18.

• Podcast Movement NYC also announced its inaugural selection committee, which will be curating speakers based on a published evaluation rubric, to ensure quality and to reflect the breadth of the industry. The committee includes Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland.

• Exclusive: Crossed Wires, the UK podcast festival held last weekend in Sheffield, doubled its attendance this year to 50,000 attendees, according to numbers shared with us by the event organisers. Over four days and eleven stages, the event included a number of live podcast recordings - many are now available on BBC iPlayer within the UK for the first time; more will appear during the week. We’ve a full catchup of what happened at the event, including plenty of pictures.

• AdsWizz has extended its agreement with SoundCloud and Sonos across Europe. The company has worked with SoundCloud in Europe since 2021 (its owner SiriusXM bought a minority stake in the company in 2020), and last expanded its Sonos agreement in 2022.

• The Media Freedom Awards are open for entry. There are 22 categories covering excellence in journalism across the UK. You’ve until August 16th.

• The B2B Podcast Index is a new ranker that “ignores downloads entirely”, and instead transcribes and ranks episodes on how much someone would learn by listening.

• Digital “privacy” company Incogni, who without asking sent us the private address of one of their customers as part of a misleading legal threat seem more incompetent than we first thought; they’ve chased us up with another vaguely-written legal email - just three weeks after they told us not to worry and to “consider this matter closed” when we helped them understand how podcasts work…

Tips and tricks - with Podcast Movement NYC's Public Vote

• What does social media do for your audience anyway? Holly Brown and Lauren Passell from Tink Media, Elosi Ikharo from Jade Media talk about social media in this audio recording from Podcast Movement 2025. Listen to it while you vote for who speaks this year!

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave and TWiT.tv: MacBreak Weekly covers all things Apple: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren analyze every bit of news from the most interesting company in tech. Last week, the team covered Apple’s price spikes, due to the shortage in memory chips.

Balls On The Table kicks off a new, second, season today. The show says it offers something increasingly rare: authentic conversations between people with different backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.

The Observer in the UK, and Tortoise, have launched a new investigative podcast We call her Emma. The story uncovers the astonishing dual reality of London-born Asma al-Assad. Was the middle-class girl from West London a complicit war criminal, or a hostage trapped by a terrifying regime? Following the collapse of the Assad regime, close acquaintances and survivors are finally breaking years of silence to seek justice.

On Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos this week, the podcast hosts celebrate and anticipate the first date of Tori Amos’s US tour starting today in support of her 18th studio album, In Times of Dragons.

Entropy Rising has announced a move from biweekly to weekly episodes. Each week, you’ll dive into the real physics behind interstellar travel, explore how humanity could build megastructures like Dyson spheres, and tackle some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including the Fermi paradox and why we may be alone. If you enjoy space, future technology, or the real science behind science fiction, this is the podcast for you.