Should you censor swear-words in your podcast?

• Should you censor swear-words? The Bugle, satirical news podcast and “audio newspaper for a visual world”, published its listener survey for 2025. Among the findings - the show currently bleeps out swear-words; but the survey suggests 53.3% would support removing the bleeps.

• British Airways has pulled a paid sponsorship of Louis Theroux’s podcasts. Theroux chose, as a guest, the frontman of Bobby Vylan, a punk duo who led anti-Israel chants at the Glastonbury music festival. The airline says it was politically sensitive. Earlier this year, Theroux released a television documentary interviewing both Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and members of the Israeli settler movement.

• NPR has launched a weekly podcast recommendation newsletter. It’s called Pod Club and shares highlights from across the NPR network. The curated picks are a mix of NPR’s well-known shows like This American Life and newer podcasts like KQED’s Close All Tabs. You can subscribe here or see more recommendation newsletters.

• In the UK, the nominations for the Audio Production Awards have been revealed. Sony Music Podcasts, Goalhanger, Fun Kids, Rusty Quill and radio stations Fix Radio and Resonance FM are all nominated for Publisher/Network of the year.

• La Verdad Noticias carries some podcast consumption data from México - which says that 77.4mn people listen to music, podcasts or audiobooks on platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or YouTube Music (which is 80% of all internet users). 14.3mn have paid subscriptions (two thirds of those with Spotify).

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• How much are you using the new Podcasting 2.0 features? Transistor has released a podcast score tool. Podnews Daily gets 8.8 out of 10, because we don’t have chapters. :whatever:
• There’s a new Apple Watch app out there, but it’s not using a useragent. This you?
• Justin Wernick has built a CLI app to act as a podcast host, so he can listen to audiobooks or his own audio as a podcast.
• OP3’s John Spurlock has noticed an increasing number of automated bots downloading shows, which he’s removing from the OP3 stats.
• Libsyn has reported another big jump in web browsers downloading its shows. Perplexity was called-out earlier in the year by Cloudflare for using “a generic browser intended to impersonate Google Chrome on macOS”.
• Another week, another tool that claims to Convert Podcast to Text with AI - Instant Transcript & Summary. This one’s called Harku.

Tips and tricks

Using an automated system to produce your transcript, and not checking it afterwards? Today, an auto-generated transcript we produced (for a different newsletter) talked about "alleged and proven offences”. The news reporter actually said: “alleged, unproven, offences”. Luckily, we spotted it before publication.

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: Podcasts you love - from people you trust. This Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast from TWiT.tv, with Leo Laporte and friends; and announced a partnership with Airwave in September. TWiT is IT when it comes to tech shows.

The Line was new from FlightStory last week. The Line is “the moment between who you are now, and the person you want to be,” and is hosted by Dr. Kristen Holmes, renowned performance expert, coach, and Global Head of Human Performance & Principal Scientist at WHOOP.

Want to love cooking again… or just in general? Chef Over Your Shoulder is the new podcast for you! Join professional chefs Jody O’Malley and Kirstie Herbstreit, and “burn-to-the-bottom-of-the-pan” expert, Amy Schlueter, to demystify the kitchen and bring back the joy of cooking.

Are you overwhelmed by how your aging body is changing? Steph Fuccio is spending 30 days diving deep into different fitness programs and resources to find help for aches and pains that she has that (she hopes) can be solved with the right movement plan. Join her on My Body Can and figure out your movement plan at the same time!

If you’re looking for New Podcasts you’ll find a ton of trailers added every day for new shows - and ones you should take a listen to. It’s from Podnews; and you can even submit your own show to it, too.