The RIAA shuts two podcasts down for music use

• Two podcasts have been forced to close after they were contacted on behalf of the record industry for “hosting unauthorized recordings”. One, The Americana Radio Show was hosted by Libsyn, the other, WB Walker’s Old Soul Radio Show was self-hosted using PodPress. Both the podcasts appeared to be music radio shows; both claimed music was used with the artist’s permission. David Oxenford, a media lawyer, blogs that the artist’s permission isn’t, normally, enough - saying this “highlights the difficulty of clearing music for podcasts”.

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• QCODE, a podcast studio and network based in Los Angeles CA, USA, has raised $6.4m in a funding round. The lead investor is Sonos, the smart speaker manufacturer. QCODE has made eight scripted podcasts so far, and has adapted nearly all their shows to TV or film.

• Yesterday we mentioned that Google Assistant now has a setting for a podcast provider for your smart speaker and other services. Today, an eagle-eyed Redditor has spotted that you can now add Spotify podcasts as your default podcast service.

  
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• Triton Digital has published its latest podcast ranker for the US. NPR is at #1; total podcast downloads were up 1.8%. An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only.

• Apple have sent an email to all podcasters (in fact, two differently-formatted ones) highlighting the updates in iOS14's Podcasts app that we reported on last month, some changes to the Sports category (which seem proprietary and outside of the RSS feed), and holiday submission deadlines.

• The Daily now averages 4 million downloads per weekday, according to Hot Pod Insider.

• A radio broadcaster in Australia, Christian O’Connell, has criticised the radio industry for being “snobbish and blinkered”, and “refusing to accept that podcasting is getting bigger and bigger and bigger”.

• Podpesquisa is the oldest and biggest podcast research in Brazil: and if you’re involved in producing a podcast in the country, the Associação Brasileira de Podcasts - Brazil’s Podcast Association - would like to hear from you for their Podpesquisa Produtor over the next few weeks.

• Goldfinch Studios has signed a first-look deal with UK podcast creators Stakhanov.

• Amazon Music has released its first exclusive podcast. The First One is by DJ Khaled, a “mogul and superstar” with suspiciously neat facial hair.

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