The Podcast Show announces 2024 details

• The Podcast Show London is to return this May, and the event organisers have released the first set of speakers and more detail on the event. A new feature this year will be The Creator Village, sponsored by Spreaker: a special space for creators including a pop-up podcast studio, a business advice and feedback hub, and a Creator Stage with talks. PODNEWS10 saves money on selected delegate passes.

• The EarBuds Audio Collective has a fancy new website. It offers a weekly newsletter containing five podcast episodes according to a theme.

• A new sales company has launched for podcasters and YouTube creators: Amplitude Media Partners has been formed by John Donahue, who was most recently Senior VP of Sales at Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast. He says: “Our network’s goal is to assist Independent Creators in monetising their content through a back-to-basics approach of dedication and transparency, utilizing our experience and extensive Advertiser connections.”

• In the Courts #1: There’s been (some) action in the National Association of the Deaf vs SiriusXM two year-old legal case, where SiriusXM has been taken to court for not producing transcripts. The lawyers for the NAD furiously say that SiriusXM didn’t give them any information about its new app (“sandbagging!” “incredibly vague!” “effort to sabotage!”) and asking for a further delay. SiriusXM’s lawyers furiously say that SiriusXM had a new app on Dec 12 which they told the other side about within two months and it does (some) transcripts now, and they allege bad faith on behalf of the NAD’s lawyers (“feigned surprise!” “acting improperly!” “tenuous assertions!”), but also are asking for a further delay. Anyone would think lawyers are paid by the hour. Meanwhile, Apple Podcasts will roll out transcripts for almost 100% of shows within the next few months.

• In the Courts #2: The host of The Fighter & The Kid, Brendan Schaub, has lost a legal claim against YouTuber Yew Neek, also known as Kyle Swindelles. Schaub claimed that a “reaction video” by Swindelles used Schaub’s copyright material; and Shaub’s lawyers managed to get YouTube to shut Swindelles’ channel for a two year period while the case was ongoing. The judge ruled that Swindelles’ use of Schaub’s material was “fair use”. However, Swindelles, who didn’t use a lawyer, was unable to argue for additional sanctions against Schaub for harassment: while “troublesome”, the judge said it was “conduct typical of our adversarial system”.

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• AM/FM Radio And Podcasts Deliver Decision Makers For Business-To-Business Advertisers says new data analysed by Cumulus Media and Westwood One’s Pierre Bouvard.

• Podcast Follower is a script for a “Lindy” that gets you an email containing a weekly digest of all the podcasts you listen to.

• Apple Podcasts appears to be removing suspicious 5-star ratings from some podcasts.

• TuneIn is “working on a new way for podcasters to submit and manage their podcast in our directory”, and while it does so, they’ve removed their form to let us add podcasts there. Back shortly, we hope.

• “We believe there is a place for AI within podcasting when used to enhance that human storytelling experience rather than replace it.” CEO of Acast Ross Adams writes positively about AI in podcasting in PodBible magazine. Meanwhile, the DW Akademie interviews Paul McNally about “the good, the bad and the ugly” of AI in podcasting and journalism.

Moves and hires

• Peter Levin has joined Realm’s Board of Advisors. He was Co-Founder and CEO of Nerdist Industries, an early podcast network, in 2012, and started a newsletter business in 2009.

• Dom Scott has joined broadcast composition and sound design agency Mcasso as Director of Business Relations. He was with Wisebuddah.

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• Andy Sheppard from Pacific Content highlights how to choose music for podcasts.

• Impressive trick if you can pull it off: a YouTube video of an interview in a studio. But one of the speakers is 9,000 miles away from another…

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