You can now get your podcast into TuneIn again

• Good news from TuneIn: after closing podcast submissions in Feb 2024, TuneIn now appears to be accepting new podcast listings once more. You can just use TuneIn’s broadcaster portal; the directory has all of our shows there (here’s our daily podcast). The directory is the default way into Tesla cars, Sonos speakers and many more places; when we last covered TuneIn in Dec 2024, we revealed mass layoffs at the company; but it was acquired by radio and podcast producer Stingray in Nov 2025.

• Exclusive: Libsyn and Buzzsprout have signed up with Apple Podcasts to distribute HLS video.

  • Brendan Monaghan, President & CEO, Libsyn, said: “We view video as a natural progression for podcasting — giving creators more ways to engage audiences, deepen storytelling, and grow their businesses. This partnership aligns directly with our vision, as Libsyn continues building a next-gen platform, enabling creators to publish seamlessly across formats, distribute everywhere, and monetize more effectively than ever before.”
  • Alban Brooke, Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout, said: “We’re excited to bring Apple Podcasts video distribution to Buzzsprout. HLS gives podcasters a great way to publish video to Apple Podcasts and makes it easy for people to listen or watch.”
  • All top-10 podcast hosting companies now support HLS video, with one exception: Spotify for Creators/Megaphone. (Users of Triton Digital’s Spreaker can upgrade to Omny Studio). Most of these hosting companies, however, are not publishing pricing for video hosting, and support appears to be invite-only.

• Twenty years ago this week, Podcast Generator, a free podcast hosting tool, was released. Used by more than 25,000 podcasts, Alberto Betella looks back at the tool and what it looked like in a full history. It’s a fascinating view of some of the early days of podcast history.

• In London, a new podcast and video production studio has opened in Shoreditch (a mere hop, skip and jump from The Podcast Show in May). Vaudeville Sound promise shooting and delivery in under 24 hours, and is live-streaming capable.

• In the UK, Buzz 16 Productions - owner of The Overlap - brought in more than £11.5mn (US $15mn) in revenue for its last financial year, ending 30 Jun 2025, according to accounts it has just filed to Companies House. The company has 59 employees; The Overlap is now owned by Global.

• The closure of “PodBean Live”, the company’s livestream feature, which was announced would close in June, would be missed by some creators so much that Joe Antonio has filed a petition against the closure, which has nearly 50 signatures.

• The Reform Party, a populist-right UK political party headed by Nigel Farage, has launched its own podcast. While Reform UK has unveiled plans to "back British companies and buy British products”, that doesn’t extend to The Reform UK Podcast, which is hosted by US-based podcast hosting company Buzzsprout.

• Further reading: The Rise of the Professional Dumbass: How Podcasts Are Making America Dumber (The Daily Kos)

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The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• RSS.com’s co-founder Alberto Betella’s Podcast Generator history website is worth a look. The success of this self-hosted podcast tool seems to be the fact that it didn’t require a MySQL database: the scripts just used simple flat files, making it really easy to install. As in all things, simplicity is key to adoption.

• Driftnote is the latest in a seemingly endless number of AI-coded projects that give AI summaries of podcasts, in case you can’t be bothered listening to them. This one only works with Spotify podcasts, apparently; syncs notes to Notion, and also produces production assets.

• Is this a record? This RedCircle RSS feed contains 26,614 episodes. The Vietnamese-language podcast, which sounds AI-generated, has spent the last 305 episodes narrating a translation of First Immortal of Sword Dao, a Chinese novel published in 2025 by Xiao Jinyu.

• Buzzsprout reports total downloads for March were up slightly year-on-year (up +0.3%). The number of downloads by “web-browser”, which is often how AI agents disguise themselves, has more than doubled.

Tips and tricks - with the Podnews Report Card

• From Gordon Firemark, here’s how to use AI in podcasting - both some of the things you can do with it, but also the legal things you need to consider.
• Jared Easley discusses how you can grow your show with cross-promos.

Podcast News - with Airwave

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The US government may have been conducting a slow-drip UFO disclosure campaign through Hollywood movies and television for more than 70 years. Sound, Light & Frequency is new from iHeartPodcasts, hosted by two Hollywood producers who say they were approached by the Men in Black - and offered a deal.

New last month from the Financial Times, Untold: Opus Dei follows special investigations reporter Antonia Cundy’s two-year investigation into the Catholic organisation and its growing influence in the United States. Drawing on interviews with more than 100 current and former members, the four-part series examines life inside Opus Dei and how it has developed a proximity to an ascendant conservative movement.

For 85 years, the Outward Bound Trust has had a lasting impact on the lives of thousands of young people. In his new podcast Outward Bound and Me, Dylan Carroll speaks with Outward Bound alumni from across the decades - where they started, where life took them next, and how Outward Bound helped shape the journey. These are honest stories of challenge, adventure and change, told by people from all walks of life.

Her Intentional Reset launches today - with stories of career pivot stories, big and small, from women in midlife. From 9-5 employee to romance novelist, marketing executive leaving finance world to pursue interior design, and accountant to gym owner, hear real stories of women who’ve made the leap.

You’re enforcing a policy you fundamentally disagree with. You’re delivering a message that contradicts your values. You’re watching your team break under decisions you didn’t make and can’t change. Are you the problem? Strong Face is for leaders caught between caring for their people and enforcing a system that wasn’t built to do so, and aims to help leaders see the difference so they can stop hiding behind their Strong Face.