The Podcast Show reveals full speaker list

• The world of podcasting is travelling to London for The Podcast Show, which has revealed its full programme of speakers. Delegates from more than 50 countries will attend, and the show has added two new spaces for international visitors. There are more than 450 speakers and 170 sessions.

  • The results of the Podnews Report Card will be revealed in the first session at 9.15am on Wednesday. Our Editor, James Cridland, says that the report reveals that apps and platforms that continue investing in new features and good discoverability are prized by podcast creators.

• In the UK, Sky News is to launch Sky News Insider, a £2.99/month subscription for ad-free access, bonus episodes and early releases. It’s the first time Sky News has launched an additive, paid-for news product. The company is using our sponsor Supporting Cast to sell podcast subscriptions.

• Flightcast has announced support for video on Apple Podcasts, and HLS video through the alternate enclosure, at no extra cost for all customers. The enterprise video podcast host is not charging for additional bandwidth or hosting to enable this feature, and all existing episodes have been pre-processed for customers on the platform, meaning they can enable Apple Podcasts video with no delay.

• The winners were announced for the 2026 Women Podcasters Awards. The awards recognize outstanding women-led podcasts and podcast professionals across a wide range of categories.

• Congratulations to Glenn Hebert, who was named and honored as the 2026 Equine Industry Vision Award Winner at the AHP Equine Media Conference. One of our earliest supporters, Glenn is one of the most generous people in podcasting, and is the founder of the eighteen year-old Horse Radio Network.

• Inception Point AI has restored missing AI disclosures, following a Podnews story on Friday where we noted that they had gone missing. In a statement, CEO Jeanine Wright blames a migration process, and says: “We are proud to build AI-native media products. Transparency around how that content is created is very important to us.”

• Libsyn has appointed Todd Pringle as Vice President of Product. “Pringle will lead product strategy and development across Libsyn’s growing suite of publishing, distribution, monetization, and advertising solutions”. He joins from Amazon Music Podcasts, Stitcher and Deezer.

• There are plenty of podcast awards out there; but how to organise them all? Recognized has worked on a distinct taxonomy of awards - from platform-led awards to the Podcast Hall of Fame, broad awards like The Ambies and specific mission-driven awards, it’s a good list and an interesting categorisation.

• Podscribe has announced expanded incrementality measurement capabilities for audio advertisers, including synthetic control groups, randomized user-level holdout testing, ghost holdouts, PSA control groups, and publisher-created holdout support.

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• Built from Podcast Index’s public datasets, Alberto Betella has produced the podroll atlas, an open view of shows that have been recommended by others using the open “podroll” recommendation feature. Here’s a focus on the Podnews Weekly Review, for example, and the shows it recommends.

• There’s concern in some parts of podcasting about the Apple Podcasts web app, which is essentially making HLS video m3u8 addresses public. While Apple Podcasts requires a complex API to submit HLS video playlists to the platform, rather than use the open alternate enclosure, those playlists aren’t kept secret, and are visible in the browser inspection tools as soon as you hit play on, for example, this episode. For some podcast hosting companies using interstitial advertising, that could mean it’s possible for someone to produce a separate m3u8 file without the advertising.

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The Gist has hit 3,000 episodes, making it - it claims - America’s longest-running daily news podcast. The show also announced an exclusive direct-sales partnership with Amplitude Media Partners.

The BBC and American Public Media launch Must Be The Money today. Produced in partnership with For The Culture By The Culture Media and All The Smoke Productions, the series blends personal financial strategy with cultural storytelling to demystify wealth-building for audiences historically excluded from traditional financial media.

A new audio drama, Highgate Wood launches today. A rock and roll ghost story, the show launches with its own music album. The eight-episode show concerns a fictional 1970s prog rock band and the aftermath of the tragedy that broke them apart.

Podcasts in the wild

Podnews reader James spotted these in Brisbane airport before a long flight - two books from The Rest Is History. They were next to the bags of candy with the 100% markup, and the most expensive souvenirs from Australia in the world.

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