Webinar to uncover what works in a podcast trailer

• What works and what doesn’t in podcast trailers? Coleman Insights has a free webinar this Wednesday to unveil its research - how can you make promos and trailers that work better for your show.

  • Want to hear some trailers for shows in the meantime? Our New Podcasts feed lets you listen to some of the best. Get the podcast here - or add your show.

• SpotsNow has launched what it calls an AI operating system for podcast advertising. The tool automates planning and pricing, and is custom-built for each individual podcast network, to connect to the way the team already works. “The agents we custom build take the repetitive load off the floor so sellers can do the part only people can do, which is build the relationship and close the deal,” says CEO Cam Pritchard.

• A new AI promotion tool called Kompozy has launched. Promising to “turn one idea into a month of content”, the tool ingests a podcast, RSS feed or blog post, then composes a set of social posts and schedules them into different platforms (if you let it) over an entire week. We gave it Friday’s newsletter; it gave us a set of decent-looking posts, including quote cards, LinkedIn-like posts, an infographic, and quotes with our Editor on a laptop, our Editor making some kind of presentation, and another photo post - it also does video clips as well. You can give Kompozy a free trial.

• After more than six years away, The Great Albums podcast is back for a new season. The show, hosted by indie rock musicians and original co-hosts Bill Lambusta and Brian Erickson, has also launched a Patreon page, for video versions of the show as well as bonus episodes and livestreams.

• On May 7, we reported that Inception Point AI had stopped publishing new shows as they moved publishing platforms. More than three weeks later, we still don’t see any new shows from the company; though there is evidence of a few shows being updated: Fresno, California Crime Report, an automated service voiced by “Agent Monday”, is one of them (as are shows for Sacramento, Colorado Springs, Mesa, Tulsa, and Omaha - all with AI-generated artwork).

  • However, if you’re looking for “daily fishing updates” in Fiji, South Pacific Fishing Report Today, or you want your daily astrology update in Capricorn Astrology Bites: Daily Horoscopes with Luna Vega, or check the daily Surf Report for San Diego California, you’re out of luck - most Inception Point AI shows haven’t updated since May 21.

• The winners of the 2026 CrimeCon CLUE Awards were announced. Creator of the year went to Derrick Levasseur and Stephanie Harlowe for Crime Weekly.

• The Podcast Consultant has acquired podcast production company Sundial Media. Terms weren’t given; Sundial co-founder Adam Hendricks will join The Podcast Consultant.

• Audiochuck’s The Deck is now showing on Tubi. It’s the latest Audiochuck show to appear on the platform.

• Industry show PodBiz, which looks at the money in podcasting, has signed a sponsorship deal with video production house Lean & Loaf.

• Talkhouse has launched a new website, complete with a podcast section.

• The SiriusXM and iHeartMedia “merger” isn’t going ahead, according to the The New York Times.

• Piers Morgan’s Uncensored Network has signed with Backyard Ventures for ad sales. Backyard Ventures will represent the network’s podcast, YouTube, and social platforms.

• Is podcasting dead? Ralph Estep Jr examines the recent creator survey from RSS.com to discover what we should know about the trends it uncovers.

• From the archives: our Editor’s personal blog contains notes from a meeting of the UK Podcasters Association in 2008, which included a lengthy discussion about how difficult music licensing is for podcasting. Seems nothing changes.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• Tom Rossi of Buzzsprout has posted a suggestion to better identify apps that request downloads of podcasts (and, potentially, to restrict access to devices that don’t identify themselves).
• Adam Curry and Dave Jones discussed the news of the formation of the Alliance for Measurement in Podcasting in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast. The solution is, they suggest, cutting podcast app developers in on ad revenue (as, to an extent, Apple Podcasts is already doing with their HLS video), in return for better first-party data. The guest this week is Mike Dell from Blubrry.
• Using a podcast app and you’re not sure what its useragent is? Here’s the simple way to check.

Tips and tricks

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: In Data Over Dogma, bible scholar Dr. Dan McClellan and atheist podcaster Dan Beecher team up to discover what the Bible actually says, and what it doesn’t say - even if everyone thinks it does.

Think your podcast is niche? My Funeral Home Stories just finished its fourth season - with more than nine million downloads. It blends dark humor, real funeral-industry stories, crime-scene removals, grief, addiction, and the emotional toll of working around death.

CASSINGLES, a new music interview podcast, is launched today. Hosted by veteran middle-school English teacher Chris Margolin and curriculum designer Courtney Margolin, the show asks musicians a different kind of question: What songs taught you something?

The Binge Cases: U R NEXT is new from Sony Music Global Podcasts this month. Hosted by journalist Leigh Alexander, the series examines what happens when digital harassment crosses over into real-life danger.

As you step away from your laptop and skip off to summer vacation, you may be contemplating your life and what you do at work everyday. In Fixable this week, the hosts (CEO & Leadership coach, Anne Morriss, and Harvard Business Professor, Frances Frei) will help you tackle the daunting concept of finding purpose in your career.

It’s nice to know a lot about a little, but sometimes all you can hope for is knowing a little about a lot. The Quizard’s Pit is a weekly trivia tumble into the weirdest corners of the known world. Shane Madej and Matt Real, plus the occasional brave guest, dive headfirst into a fact-finding tête-à-tête fueled by curiosity, questionable confidence, and a deep love of learning strange little things. Each episode, they are assigned a universal topic like cats, bicycles, or Denver, then each brings three of the most surprising facts they can dig up.

What’s Your 20? returns for a new season this month, with Rob and Sarah having conversations on the industries that keep Australia moving, important regulation changes for drivers and operators, and the unexpected things that happen out on the road. The show is brought to you by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.

Podcasts in the wild

Podnews reader Robin spots Bloomberg’s Zero podcast getting a nice write-up in the latest edition of Private Eye magazine. The piece highlights the head of energy policy at insurgent populist party Reform UK, who declined to engage in actual climate science in the show. (At Podnews, we get many, many “quote emails” from PRs, keen to highlight interviews in podcasts - they don’t work for us, but they do work for more general outlets or for specialist publications).

See any marketing for podcasts in the real world? Snap’em and send’em to us.