Trebble launches reliable AI podcast editing tool

• Trebble has launched a new, “reliable AI editing tool”, called DeepCut. The tool can be personalised to specific podcasts; and can be given natural language instructions. An optional upgrade, Safe Cut, can be used to automatically make edits that sound natural. The company, which is more than twelve years old, has also had a makeover: a new logo and website.

• Edison Research released the Top 50 Podcasts in the US for Q3 2025, from Edison Podcast Metrics. The survey-based data lists all shows and was continuously collected in July, August and September. The Charlie Kirk Show jumped to #17, while The Meidas Touch Podcast also entered the top 20 for the first time.

• The Black Podcasting Awards celebrated its 2025 winners in a first-ever in-person ceremony. Anna DeShawn earned four honors; Lisa Woolfork, Dominic Lawson and the We Sound Crazy Podcast got three. We’ve a full list.

• Everyone’s watching the “kids” on YouTube - but Flightpath’s Sean Howard highlights that many are business owners building empires; and suggests in an article for Podnews that Calling Creators “Kids” Is How Legacy Media Lost the Plot.

• RESONATE 2025 celebrates the storytellers at the heart of podcasting; and what better to do that than a set of Podcast Hero Trading Cards. There are eighteen cards per pack, and will be either available for pickup at RESONATE 2025 in early November, or will ship the following week.

• On social media, many users have claimed that Spotify is running ads for ICE, and have called for people to cancel subscriptions. Fact-checking platform Snopes says that ads for ICE recruitment are confirmed to be appearing on Spotify - and also on Google. The content does not violate Spotify’s advertising policies, according to a Spotify spokesperson; “users can mark any ad with a thumbs up or thumbs down to help manage their ads preferences.”

• UK podcast production company Chalk + Blade is to close. The ten year-old company is winding down (with some launches still to come), and will have closed by the end of March.

• In Saudi Arabia, the General Authority of Media Regulation has suspended a YouTube podcast. The host of “Miraya”, Mohammed Al-Saeed, appeared on the opposite end of a couch shared by an actress, Rana Jabran, covered by (separate) blankets. This was deemed inconsistent with public taste and media guidelines, according to a Times of India report, quoting a story in Al-Ain News. YouTube hosts have to apply for a Mawthooq license in the country.

• The New World asks “Have we reached peak podcast?” in a paid article.

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• Podnews podcast episode list pages now support the podcast:location tag for creators. One example of that is the episode list for our own Podnews Daily, which shows various recording locations. We support v2025 tags with OpenStreetMap IDs.

  • We’d like to support the rel=subject part of the spec: if you know of a podcast using that, please get in touch.
  • RSS.com has full support for v2025 location tags for both creator and subject.

• You can now edit our podcast pages. Editing is, right now, limited to adding YouTube podcast links: if you’re logged in, and we don’t have a link for that show, you’ll be asked to add them. (Although some of that relies on something that Amazon Web Services has just broken, so, there’s that.)

Tips & Tricks

• Rachel Corbett gives us The 5 most common podcasting mistakes (and how to avoid them)

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With Airwave: What Should I Read Next? is the show for every reader who has ever finished a book and faced the problem of not knowing what to read next. Each week, Anne Bogel, of the blog Modern Mrs Darcy, interviews a reader about the books they love, the books they hate, and the books they’re reading now. Then, she makes recommendations about what to read next.

A show about the collapse of the EMI record label, Music, Money & Mayhem, finally launched from BBC Studios on Sep 29. The show, made by Novel, was promoted on the front cover of a supplement of The Times as launching “July 7”.

In Tea, Tales, and Tomes this week, things are getting spooky, with Halloween specials bringing spine-tingling magic to every age. In one Once Upon a Fright, you are invited to sit beside the campfire and delve into the ultimate Halloween reading guide. Complete with eerie sound effects, this performance-based episode is the perfect listen to get you and your little reader feeling ALL the seasonal vibes.

In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. In The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall, explore the tangled web of the Satanic Panic: the believers, the skeptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully-convicted. The stories of these eyewitnesses point us toward the real underlying problems: was the fault with Satanists? Or ourselves?