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• For Women’s History Month from ABC News in the US, In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson listens to more than 123 hours of audio diaries from Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, including new revelations about Lyndon B Johnson's presidency. The first two episodes dropped yesterday.
• The IAB Tech Lab released two updates to its v2.1 Podcast Measurement Guidelines for public comment in December and January. However, Podnews can reveal that over the entire 74 days, the public feedback email address given didn't actually work: emails silently bounced with a User Unknown error. The IAB described this as "unfortunate", but would neither confirm nor deny that it has received no feedback at all to this address as a consequence.
  • The updated document, including IPv6 measurement, was only publicly announced in two tweets; and by editing an existing post on its website (so it wasn't flagged as a new item).
  • The IAB tells us it is now "extending public comments"; but have not responded to our followup questions over the weekend to tell us (and you) the new dates.
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• SquadCast has taken its new video and audio platform out of beta. v3.5 of the product includes a number of fixes and enhancements.
• KQED, a radio station in San Francisco CA, USA, is working with Google to make better news audio transcripts, which may also improve automatic transcripts for podcasts, too.
• Sounder, a podcast management and monetisation platform, has raised $2.15m in a seed round. They've raised $4m in the past 14 months.
• Chartable have announced custom attribution windows across all their attribution products. Their announcement blog post explains the current defaults, and why you might want to change them.
• The London International Awards have extended the 50% discount for entries, including their podcast category.
• CNN Audio and CNN en Español have launched a new weekly podcast called Desafios Globales, with Chief International Correspondent José Levy. Meanwhile, FOX News Audio is to expand its podcast lineup, with five original programs.
• Listeners want to go to ONE place for everything, be it Clubhouse or Spotify or whatever, says Eric Nuzum in his latest newsletter.
• A new book, Step-by-Step Podcasting For Business, has been released. Written by Katharine Kerr, it's aimed at businesses who want to get to grips with audio marketing.
• Twitter Spaces appears to have added a new feature to allow you to give your "space" a title. Podnews will be in a chat on Friday

• What’s the Best Computer for Podcasting & Audio Production? (The Podcast Host)
• You can earn money on Facebook, according to an article by Facebook on Podcast Movement.

• Spacetime Diaries is a "genre-bending fictional podcast series" from Portland OR, USA, created by a collective of sixteen actors, producers, musicians, and sound engineers from across the country, including Portland, New York City, and Los Angeles. They've released a music video to accompany the podcast.
• The Financial Times has relaunched Tech Tonic, their tech podcast. It's been revamped into "a series of deep dives into the promises and perils of our digital age".
• 21st Century Football: The Complete Guide (so far) is another new release from the Crowd Network, the UK podcast publisher.
• Sounds Profitable this week has Podnews Editor James Cridland as a guest, talking about RSS useragents.

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• US podcast listeners are more diverse than the US population, says data from Nielsen, shared by WARC.
• A Million Ads have signed up to Google's Display and Video 360. The access will allow more audio inventory for the company, which produces dynamic audio ads. From Sounds Profitable, here is an example of how it works.
• Meghan and Harry's Spotify podcast cost the company $25m, according to the UK press.

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• An interviewee is taking Spotify to court for, she says, manipulating her interview to paint her in a bad light. Son of a Hitman, from Spotify Studios, featured excerpts from an interview, and cast doubt on her judgement.
• Africa Podfest's Feb 12 event is available in full on their YouTube page, and the team have posted an overview of their event this year.
• Evergreen Podcasts has launched a sports channel with a number of different podcasts.
• Twitter Spaces appears to be slowly rolling out to users. Our @podnews account - on an Android phone - can see (and hear!) Spaces discussions. We took part in two over the weekend.
• Tom Webster's newsletter this week focuses on "hard data vs real data", examining the Edison Research Podcast Consumer Ranker, and the surprising appearance of Serial as the 13th biggest podcast (by total audience) in 2020.
  • Analysis: Tom's explanation - that Serial included Nice White Parents in full - is certainly part of the answer: as independent verification, Podtrac reported the audience for the Serial feed was huge in July 2020, up 48 places to #11. However, that "up 48 places" tells us that Serial was #59 in Podtrac's chart in June - which is worth highlighting. In spite of Serial not releasing an episode since November 2018, it was still in the top 60 podcasts on Podtrac, measured by unique audience. Serial appears to be relatively unique as an evergreen podcast that new listeners seek out, and as Edison Research's data also shows.

• Is your podcast host IPv6 compatible? Some mobile networks, especially in places like India, are requiring all connections to work in future using IPv6-only. We are, but many podcast hosts aren't yet. (We've added an IPv6 checker in our podcast pages, now that there's an agreed plan for IPv6 measurement).
• Dave Jones has written about the podcast:value tag, and also published the standard which explains how payments can be made by listeners.
• The Podcast Index is now publishing their full podcast database index on IPFS, updated every 24 hours. (Listing 1.3m podcasts, today's dump is a 192MB .tgz file, which expands to 647MB. You can use DB Browser for SQLite to examine it).
• Apple's API is not currently returning episode data, breaking our episode pages but also breaking other tools that link directly to shows. (Apple episode IDs are assigned by Apple, rather than using the UID in the RSS feed).
• The Podlove Publisher Plugin now supports the transcript and person tags from the new Podcast namespace. (Podnews's podcast has both in, too).
• The Anytime Podcast Player, available for Android, has support for Podcast Index search, chapters and funding links.
• RSS useragents for Podmust, Sonnet and Verb․fm have been added to the RSS-useragents list in Github.

• Three Ways To Monetize A Podcast: A Pro’s Tips - an interview in Forbes with Jason Allan Scott.
• The most important word to use in your podcast (Rachel Corbett)

• The 'exploration of modern life and how to survive it', Reply All, has been put on pause, following the allegations of toxic behaviour from some staff members.
• Buzzsprout has published a technical postmortem of their DDoS attack last week. Their podcast, Buzzcast, also goes into the incident.

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• Android appears to be beating iOS usage in North America, according to latest data from ScientiaMobile. iPhone use appears to be down in every continent, with Android is now in the majority.
  • James Cridland, Podnews's Editor, is speaking today at PodFest Global about international podcast opportunities. Use the promo code "podnews" to get a complimentary ticket worth $49.
• iHeartMedia has announced a new business operating structure, which will split the company into two divisions.
  • Conal Byrne becomes CEO of the iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group, and Darren Davis will serve as COO. This unit includes the apps and websites, podcasts, Voxnest, and will also include Triton Digital.
  • The company's radio products will be under The iHeartMedia Multiplatform Group.
• In Australia, ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia was launched a year ago, and is celebrating their anniversary.

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• SummitMedia, a US broadcast radio company with 49 stations, and podcast company CurtCo Media have entered into a strategic partnership.
• Neon Hum has announced the producers selected for its free training bootcamp. It was designed to provide a new and unique opportunity for marginalized storytellers who want to become story editors.
• Sports podcasting network Blue Wire is to open a podcasting studio in the lobby of the Wynn Las Vegas. It's part of a $3.5m investment by Wynn Resorts into the company.
• Acast is promoting its tools for podcasters of all sizes. Everyone's Got A Story features messages read by some of Acast’s most well-known podcasters, dynamically-inserted across its catalogue of more than 20,000 shows.
• A website rebroadcasting Clubhouse chats has been shut down, just one of many security issues with the service. It is also being threatened for closure in Indonesia (population 270m). German newspaper Zeit Online is holding its morning news conference on the service. (via Splice Slugs)
• Podcast editors, consultants, and cover-artists: LinkedIn is building a competitor to Fiverr and Upwork.
• The amount of podcasts switching hosting companies appears to be on the increase, according to our sample of the space.

• How to build a voice over booth at home for under $30 - Rachel Corbett
• How to be amazing and leave them wanting more - Dave Jackson and Valerie Geller

• From CBC Podcasts: Tai Asks Why Join Tai as he boldly goes where no 9th grader has gone before, to find you answers you never knew you needed on the award-winning CBC podcast
• Counter Programming with Shira and Arielle is returning for a new season next week, focusing on counters in all their forms: expect stories about laminate, Beyoncé, and, we hope, the puppet from Sesame Street. One! Ha ha ha!! Two! Ha ha ha!! The show was featured on Apple's New and Noteworthy last time round.
• Getting the Brand Back Together is new from Crate Media. Brad Circone explores the unexpected connection between successful businesses and unforgettable bands - bound together through brand - on Getting The Brand Back Together.
• The Influential Women Podcast celebrates their four year anniversary on International Womens Day. Lockdown guests included trauma and anxiety counsellors, a former prisoner on capitivity and a mindfulness Buddhist coach on the power of walking outdoors and other mental health initiatives.
• Podcasts can be vegan too, and the Vegan Life Magazine Podcast launches today, hosted by Jake Yapp. It starts with cake.

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• BetterHelp is still the #1 podcast advertiser in the US, according to Magellan AI. CarMax, an auto retailer, increased their spending the most.
• Entercom did their Q4 2020 earnings call. Digital revenue was up 23% year-on-year, though the company didn't break out podcasts.
• DAX is reported to have been appointed exclusive sponsorship partner for NPR in Canada. DAX already represents Wondery in the country.

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• iHeartMedia announced a new partnership with Novel, a UK podcast producer, to co-produce a series of narrative, in-depth investigative podcasts.
• The Wall Street Journal highlight Gotham Podcast Studio in Manhattan NY, USA - and the rise of "pros to polish podcasts".
• The Ambies, the podcast awards from The Podcast Academy, will announce its nominations on March 4th.
• WACUP really whips the llama's ass. The WinAmp Community Update Project is a set of plugins aiming to keep Winamp working and updated. It appears to have a podcasts player inside it.
• AdsWizz Audiomatic got a deep-dive in Sounds Profitable last week. A scalable way to reach podcast and audio listeners, Erik Barraud shows Bryan Barletta how the product achieves targeting, real-time measurement and attribution.
• Christina Cauterucci at Slate dissects the Spotify press image of Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama. She notes that Obama has three different beverages: "something in a mug, something in a glass, and something in an insulated cup".

• Scheduling Podcasts Helps You Level Up Without Burning Out, says RSS Podcasting
• Seven Years in, The Benefits of Doing a Podcast - Bruce Wawrzyniak highlights what he's got out of doing his show - including relationships and revenue.

• From CBC Podcasts: The Dose The Dose cuts through confusion to deliver credible health news you can use. Host Dr Brian Goldman brings you the best science from top experts in plain language.
• Twenty Thousand Hertz looks at the McDonald's "ba da ba ba ba" melody: expect controversy, celebrity, and 3,700 different audio mixes. A podcast about the world's most recognisable and interesting sounds, we're loving it. (The podcast also seems quietly to no longer be part of the TED family of shows).
• The second season of Manbet, from the Jordanian podcast company Sowt, has been released. It tells the story of enslaved African Muslim Omar ibn Said, from his manuscript written in 1831.
• Jane Coaston hosts the new series of The Argument from the New York Times's Opinion Audio team. The first episode discusses the 1806 device to prevent a measure from being taken to a vote: the Filibuster. Containing a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition, don't expect a five minute argument, more the full forty minutes.

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• Buzzsprout, Podbean, Spreaker and Captivate were all subject to a denial-of-service attack. The same attackers appear to have been involved. We were wondering why they've targeted podcast hosts: so we talked to the group behind the attacks.
• A company called Happyscribe is publishing automated transcripts of podcasts without the apparent consent of many of the publishers. We covered issues around auto-transcriptions in June.
• Cumulus Media, owners of Westwood One, says it achieved more than 1bn downloads in 2020, and podcasting is "pacing up more than 30% in Q1". Podcasting revenue grew 40% last year. "We've made our bet on partnership arrangements with talent as opposed to going out and spending a lot of money on IT or infrastructure," said CFO Frank Lopez-Balboa. The company uses Spotify-owned Megaphone.

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• Backtracks has launched a tool that monitors your head gesture movement. The tool require the listener to be using AirPods Pro headphones.
• Investor Andrew Wilkinson says he's removing podcasts from his phone: "podcasts are mostly people repeating ideas you already agree with or talking about things that trigger anxiety", he says. Wilkinson is co-founder of Tiny Capital, which invests in iOS podcast app Castro, podcast membership platform Supercast, and podcast producer Ride Home Media.
• Triton Digital has released the latest Podcast Rankers for the US and LATAM. These rankers are incomplete and contain participating publishers only; notably these rankers do not include iHeartRadio's podcasts. Triton Digital is being bought by iHeartRadio.
• Matt Deegan writes about Spotify's announcements yesterday. On the interactivity, he writes "It would be much more interesting if they served these new features through the RSS feed, challenging other apps to include it in their services too. This would properly drive the take-up of the feature, and Spotify would still benefit if they were the people executing it the best."
• Echoing the open, independent nature of podcasting, writing in the Financial Times ($) former Spotify chief economist Will Page notes that major labels released 1.2m songs in 2020: but DIY artists released 9.5m songs. The music industry is making more money, he says, but has more mouths to feed.
• Ivy is a new podcast app that offers a way to follow topics, tags, hosts or podcasts.
• CephaloPod is also a new podcast app for Android.
• Movistar Home, a smart speaker in Spain from Telefónica, now incorporates iVoox's podcast catalogue.
• Podnews's Editor is speaking at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit, with NPR's Bryan Moffett. Tickets are free.
• Fans of Michael Barbaro's Mmms, this is for you.

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• How to make your episode notes look beautiful in all the podcast players

• From CBC Podcasts: Pop Chat Every week, host Elamin Abdelmahmoud invites you into his group chat to help make sense of the cultural drama blowing up the internet.
• The Journal has an interview with Dominion Voting Systems CEO, John Poulos, today. His company has filed three defamation lawsuits against TV networks, saying his excellently 100% accurate and very handsome voting machines are perfect, which of course they absolutely are.
• NASA's Curious Universe features raw recorded sounds from another planet, as captured by the Mars Perseverance rover.

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In a day where Spotify outlines their future for audio in their Stream On event, they made so many announcements that this edition of Podnews is entirely full of just them today:

• Anchor announced the launch of paid subscriptions later this year. Podcasters will be able to give their supporters additional paid-for features within Spotify. You can sign up for the waitlist. This will be "a limited beta in the US", starting this Spring, we're told. The demo in the announcement shows a podcaster being able to choose from $2.99, $4.99 and $7.99/month subscriptions as price points. Podnews was told that Spotify will take a small cut of the fee.
  • Michael Mignano, the co-founder of Anchor and Head of the Podcaster Mission at Spotify, told Podnews: "What we're really trying to do is to give creators ways to make a living off their art. It's really true to the spirit of our mission to enable creators to monetise their work in whatever ways they see fit."
• Spotify promoted the forthcoming Spotify Audience Network, allowing advertisers access to Spotify’s Originals & Exclusives, podcasts via Megaphone and Anchor, and ad-supported music. It will bring their Streaming Ad Insertion product to Megaphone podcast publishers as well as Anchor podcasters. You can also buy podcast advertising for the first time through Spotify Ad Studio in the US, beta testing from today.
• Anchor and Wordpress announced a partnership. You can automatically create a text-to-speech version of your blog, or integrate podcasting into your Wordpress site. Bloggers or podcasters can get started today.

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• Spotify is testing a method to allow listeners to search for podcasts by theme and topic. Using machine learning, it's testing in the US.
• Video podcasts are coming later this year in Spotify, for Anchor podcasters. Video is already available for some shows, including Joe Rogan. The product is "to complement their audio with visual".
• Q&A adds interactivity to podcasts, allowing listeners to ask or answer questions. Polls allow quick surveys of your listeners. It will work inside both Spotify and Anchor. You can sign up for the waitlist.

"The goal of these features are to build on top of the existing audio experience. Not to prevent listening and innovation outside of Spotify, but to create experiences that are only possible because Spotify's podcasting ecosystem contains both the creation and the listening technology," said Michael Mignano.

• Spotify is to launch in more than 80 additional countries. It almost doubles the amount of markets that Spotify is present in, covering more than 1bn potential new listeners. Podcasts will be "in the majority" of these new markets. It brings the coverage to more than 170 countries: there are around 195 countries in total.
• The Boss and The Boss: Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen will host Renegades: Born In The USA, a new show that is exclusive to Spotify. Obama and Springsteen will explore topics of race, fatherhood, marriage, and the future of America. Dollar Shave Club and Comcast sponsor it in the US: in Australia, McDonald's, known as "Macca's", is sponsor.
• Also from Obama's Higher Ground podcast company, a new season of Tell Them, I Am, hosted by Misha Euceph, was announced for Ramadan - promising "a compelling collection of narratives from Muslim voices". The show was previously produced by KPCC: Euceph had said she "doesn't own a single percent of the show", and had railed against KPCC to "give us our shows back". The new season will be on the same Apple Podcasts ID, suggesting that KPCC has reached an agreement.
• Spotify has signed an agreement with film-makers The Russo Brothers (Captain America, Avengers) and their company AGBO.
• Spotify also published more detail on their podcast deal with DC Comics, and their upcoming podcasts with Ava DuVernay and ARRAY.
• Spotify's "Shows with Music" feature, announced in October, is now branded "Music + Talk".
• Spotify also announced a number of new features for music.
  • Spotify HiFi is coming later this year, a lossless audio upgrade for Premium users.
  • "Marquee" allows musicians to buy advertising on the platform in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland; and a self-service buying experience is coming to the US
  • Labels will also be able to "have a say in our algorithmic recommendations".
  • "Daily Mix" will be expanded to offer more algorithmically generated mixes.
  • The company paid out more than $5 billion to rights holders in 2020.
• Michael Mignano, the co-founder of Anchor and Head of the Podcaster Mission at Spotify, will be interviewed on the next Podland podcast on Thursday.

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• From CBC Podcasts: Tony Ho Award-winning sketch troupe Tony Ho takes listeners on a journey of dark comedy. Bite-sized sketches explore human relationships and how careless we can be with each other.
• Production of The Gist is on hold after Slate suspended host Mike Pesca for, reportedly, repeatedly using racial slurs.
• The next episode of Buzzcast will include details of Buzzsprout's DDOS attack, which continued throughout much of Monday. Spreaker also suffered a similar attack. No personal information was accessed. More on this tomorrow.

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• Podnews has launched new, live data today showing podcast host migrations. A first for the industry, it shows the small amount of individual shows that have switched podcast hosting company - where they came from, and where they're went. It's updated daily.
• First look: Acast has bought RadioPublic, acquiring tools and services for podcasters everywhere. The acquisition also sees RadioPublic co-founders Chris Quamme Rhoden (CTO) and Matt MacDonald (Chief Product Officer) join the Acast team. Jake Shapiro left in September to join Apple.
• PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni have left Gimlet Media's Reply All. Eric Eddings, former host of Gimlet’s The Nod podcast, accused the two of working against efforts to diversify Gimlet's staff and content. Vogt has apologised, saying he had behaved "like a baby and a jerk"; Pinnamaneni said "I feel great regret". Gimlet Managing Director Lydia Polgreen said, in a staff email, "From the moment I arrived at Gimlet, it was clear that our culture needed work, and that there were big things that needed to change to make this a better, more equitable place".

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• Commercial music can now be licensed for podcast use in SongsforPodcasters - a new website with more than ten thousand tracks available. Pricing starts at $55. The CEO and CTO, Kirt Debique, is on the Podland podcast today.
• The IAB quietly released an update to their proposed v2.1 Podcast Measurement Guidelines at some point in January for public comment. There was no announcement, and the IAB appear to have removed their previous v2.1 proposal from the web: we kept a copy, though, and have done a diff of it. It now contains guidance for IPv6 measurement, and updated US-based podcast player market share. The public comment period has already ended.
• More than one-in-ten podcast listeners searches for a podcast on a specific topic, according to data from The Canadian Podcast Listener 2020. They have published more data on How listeners discover new podcasts.
• The first nominees for the Latin Podcast Awards have been announced.
• Podcast host Captivate has announced new integration with Descript, allowing you to upload directly from the Descript interface. Megaphone has launched a unique listener performance tool, allowing "elegant, real-time visibility into podcast impressions, downloads, and listener engagement".
• Puskin Industries has hired Kerri Kolen as Editorial Director, Audiobooks; and Nicole Morano, Pushkin’s first Publicity Director.
• PODWORK has been announced: a conference aimed at those who want to launch a podcast network.

• Supercast looks at how 5 podcasters can add 6-7 figures of revenue
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• From CBC Podcasts: Pop Chat - from food trends to celebrity gossip and everything in between, join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud for a weekly dive into pop culture alongside special guests.
• Cadence13 has launched Unsolved Mysteries, a weekly podcast based on the long-running TV show.
• Black Girls Texting has signed with PodcastOne's LadyGang Network. It's the sixth podcast on the network, "which features a female-driven, all-star lineup of pop-culture, reality television and motherhood trend-setters".
• Marc & Heidi - The Other D’Amelios is a new podcast from the entrepreneur parents of Charli and Dixie D’Amelio, who are TikTok stars. It's on the Ramble network.

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• iHeartMedia is to buy Triton Digital for $230m from EW Scripps. Triton Digital owns podcast host Omny Studio, podcast metrics, analytics services, and dynamic advertising. It's one in a series of podcasting ad-tech acquisitions.
  • EW Scripps bought Triton Digital for $150m in October 2018; Triton Digital paid $8.5m for Omny Studio in June 2019.
  • EW Scripps previously sold Stitcher to SiriusXM for $325m in July 2020. Stitcher and Midroll cost Scripps $54.5m in 2016.
  • iHeartMedia also owns podcast hosts Voxnest and Spreaker, podcast producer How Stuff Works, Mediabase and Media Monitors, radio software company RCS, and radio news website Inside Radio.
  • Here's a deep dive into Triton Digital's Podcast Metrics from Sounds Profitable.
• AdsWizz has been certified by the IAB Tech Lab "for audibility" - with this in place, they say, publishers and advertisers can now know for certain whether an ad was heard or not. (To classify as an “audible” ad, the audio ad must play for 2 seconds with the player unmuted.)
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• Zencastr has raised $4.6m in funding, and will roll out its video feature in beta.
• In Australia, SCA's PodcastOne Australia has been rebranded to LiSTNR. The new LiSTNR app only contains podcasts and radio from SCA, but "a selection of premium PodcastOne US titles will also be available". The company launched PodcastOne Australia in September 2017.
• A new pressure group, Podcasters Declare, is calling for a climate category in Apple Podcasts. An open letter argues that Apple's progressive corporate environment policies should be matched by a place for climate change in Apple Podcasts. (Podnews agrees: we've signed it.)
• Tucker Carlson is to produce a thrice-weekly exclusive video podcast from April. The broadcaster will continue to produce Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News.
• PodcastOS is a Notion dashboard that helps podcasters "pitch, produce, publish, promote & monetize their podcasts."
• Podcast Movement 21 speaker submissions are now open. The event is in Nashville TN in August.
• People: Australia's Podshape has hired Whitney Quayle as an account manager. She previously worked for Mamamia. Meanwhile TuneIn has made a number of appointments to their board.
• In France, the ACPM has posted their January rankings. Culture Générale is still #1. An incomplete ranker, one of two in the country, it measures participating publishers only.
• Will Clubhouse kill podcasting? On his personal blog, our Editor has some thoughts.

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• From CBC Podcasts: Uncover: Dead Wrong takes us through the almost unbelievable story of Glen Assoun, who spent more than 17 years in prosion for the murder of Brenda Way, a crime he did not commit.
• Pantsuit Politics has been highlighted by Apple for their Apple Podcasts spotlight. It's an Acast show.
• Wondery's American Scandal has released the first of a new season focusing on Bernie Madoff.

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• A new podcast production company for US Latinos, Pitaya Entertainment has been launched. It has six shows currently, and the press release describes the company's executives as a "dream team", including Andy Bowers, formerly of Slate and Megaphone, alongside record company executives and producers.
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• Amazon Music is looking for a Podcast Manager for Spain, and another in Italy.

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• Spotify has announced a live-streamed event, Spotify Stream On, on Monday Feb 22. It's not clear what it is; but Daniel Ek's comments recently may give a clue: "We are very bullish on the opportunity to provide meaningful ways for podcasters (to) monetize through the platform efforts. And I hope to be able to talk a little bit more about what our plans are in the near future on that."
• If switching to Buzzsprout, the company now lets you import your podcast stats. Meanwhile, Castos has rolled out multiple user support.
• In France, NRJ Global is to sell advertising on shows hosted with Audiomeans, a French podcast host.

• Do you need a guest release form for your podcasts? (Buzzsprout)
• How much is it to host a podcast on AWS?

• From CBC Podcasts: Inappropriate Questions explores and deconstructs invasive questions asked to different communities. Whether it's "What are you?" or "Why don't you drink?", the show explores what these questions imply and why people ask them.
• Le French Rugby Podcast is the second podcast signing this month from Crowd Network, which launched last September.
• The Have A Go Podcast is a brand new comedy podcast from Australia's DM Podcasts, hosted by Dave Edwards. It promises to "wrestle with the key issues facing Australians today".
• Land of the Giants from Vox Media is back for a third season: this time, telling the inside story from the Googleplex.

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• Acast UK shared stats and data from their 2020. They now have more than 60m UK monthly listens, and saw a 184% growth in UK brands spending more than £100,000 ($178,000). CEO Ross Adams also reaffirmed the company's commitment to an open podcasting ecosystem.

Open podcasting is the bedrock of which the entire podcasting industry was built. It's an ecosystem that allows content creators to share their work with listeners everywhere … we don't believe that podcasters, listeners and advertisers should be tied to a single platform, because being open is the only sustainable way to build our podcasters and an engaged, consistent audience that is attractive to advertisers. - Ross Adams, CEO, Acast

• Seems someone agrees: The Joe Rogan Experience has started posting clips of shows on its old, open RSS feed. Currently, a clip from a recent Elon Musk interview ends with a 40 second promotion for Spotify at the end, voiced by Rogan. The show went exclusive on Spotify on Dec 1.
• Podcast listeners in the Middle East and North Africa are listening to more podcasts, a new report from Amaeya Media says. Listeners "continue to prefer shorter podcasts", says the survey.
• Recommended: YouTuber Tom Scott posts a thirty-minute video called YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? He doesn't - but could - highlight branded podcasts.

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• Clubhouse users might be sending raw audio and user data to the Chinese government, it's been claimed. The app uses a Chinese company, Agora, for their voice conferencing service: that company denies there's an issue.
• Gary Aylott has joined podcast host Captivate as the company's Head of Design.
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• How to Write a Podcast Business Plan (& Why You Should!) (The Podcast Host)
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• From CBC Podcasts: Mic Drop Tweens and teens sharing their mood-swinging, dream-chasing, rule-breaking dramas, adventures and experiences - with no adult interruptions.
• For All Mankind: The Official Podcast is a new podcast from Apple, as an accompaniment to the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. Apple's press release says "available globally on Apple Podcasts and via RSS", which is one way of acknowledging that other platforms exist; however, the show isn't on Spotify.
• The YUNGBLUD podcast has the biggest proportion of under-35 listeners on the BBC Sounds app, it's been revealed. The app claims 130m plays for on-demand radio and podcasts in Q4 2020.

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• The Verge asks "Can anyone moderate podcasts?" - following up on the story that Steve Bannon's War Room podcast is still available on Apple Podcasts. Interviews suggest most podcast apps are trusting Apple to choose what's acceptable and what isn't; and the story claims that podcasting "isn't ready for moderation".
• Apple Podcasts are looking for a Head of International. You'll work out of their London office. "We are seeking an excellent senior leader with a thorough understanding of the Podcasts industry."
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• Lemonada Media has signed with Hollywood talent agency CAA. They were previously with UTM.
• What are Mark Cuban's thoughts about podcasting? He spoke to Erica Mandy at Podcast Movement; she writes about the interview in Business Insider.
• More consolidation on the way? The owner of Global, a company that owns radio and poster sites in the UK and the DAX audio ad platform in the UK and North America, has bought 8.8% of iHeartMedia. ("The deal is not connected with Global", though).
• Last week, we reported the ACPM Podcast Ranker in France. Today: the other one, run by Médiamétrie, reports that January hit 100m global downloads of podcasts by their French publishers, almost all radio broadcasters. An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only.
• GRStudio "helps you record, edit and publish podcast content from your browser".
• Google Podcasts is "pretty good now" says a review; is the Dutch language market really too small for podcasts? asks Lieven Heeremans.
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• 9.4% of recently-updated podcasts use the Podcasting 2.0 namespace. From a sample of 84,955 podcasts inspected last week, 8.6% use the locked tag. 0.2% already use the person tag.
• We mentioned a while back that Libsyn have been updating all RSS feeds to https:// rather than http://; other podcast hosts doing this are Podomatic, Squarespace and Spreaker.
• just_audio is an open-source "feature-rich audio player for Android, iOS, macOS and the web", written in Flutter.
• Also open-source, the Anytime podcast player, which uses the above audio component. Android-only currently, but written in Dart and Flutter. (And shortly to have a proper user-agent).
• Here's a good post about how Breaker skips silences in their iOS app.
• Nobody wants to know how to replace an embedded episode image with a new one using ffmpeg in m4a (AAC) format files. But in case you're not nobody, use ffmpeg -i "inputaudio.m4a" -i "inputimage.jpeg" -map 0:a:0 -map 1:v:0 -codec copy -disposition:v:0 attached_pic "output.m4a"
• Not entirely unrelated to the above, the Podnews podcast now has embedded episode images.

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• From CBC Podcasts: Recall: How To Start A Revolution In October of 1970, Canada was in crisis. This series will reveal the stories of that time through the voices of those who lived it: the bomb expert, survivors and the radicals themselves.
• A Cup of Tea and a Chat with former KROQ announcers Gene "Bean" Baxter and Allie Mac Kay has signed a sales deal with ART19. It moves the podcast away from being a Patreon-exclusive. (Bean is also on Podcast Radio).
• Deeply Human is an ambitious collaboration between the BBC World Service, American Public Media and iHeartMedia. "The program brings together the No. 1 podcast publisher globally with the BBC’s nearly century-long expertise in audio storytelling and APM’s success in making podcasts for the American market" says the press release.
• The Sounds Profitable podcast includes an interview with Rishabh Jain on podcast ad targeting after the death of cookies. Worth a listen to understand what advertisers really get from a podcast listen.

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• Libsyn has acquired podcast creation platform Auxbus. Launched in May 2019, Auxbus is a web-based podcast production platform "that lets you plan, record, and launch all in one place". Ryan DuVal, Auxbus Chief Engineer, will "join Libsyn to lead its newly formed Creation product line", says the press release. Terms weren't disclosed; Auxbus was put up for sale in December 2019.
• Happy Africa Podcast Day! There's a day of events at the Africa Podcast Festival website.
• PodLP, a podcast app for KaiOS users, has added push notifications in its latest update.

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• NPR podcast listeners are getting more loyal - weekly users are up by 5% but downloads are up by 28% year-on-year, according to the NPR Podcast Report for Q4 2020.
• Hindenburg has announced their traditional World Radio Day sale prices - this Feb 13 there's a 40% discount. Hindenburg Journalist Pro drops from $375 to US$225, as one example. Hindenburg has donated US$25,900 from previous sales to Cultural Survival, a charity that advances Indigenous Peoples' rights and cultures.
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• In France, the ACPM podcast ranker for December 2020 says that Culture Générale from Choses à Savoir is the most popular podcast in the country, with 1.2m downloads in France. The company has 12 podcasts, which achieved 2.8m downloads overall. An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only.
• Sounds Profitable's next deepdive is on February 18th. Erik Barraud, SVP of Product at AdsWizz, will demo their planning and buying platform for advertisers, AudioMatic; he'll be joined by Bryan Barletta, fully running through what the product actually is and how it’s used. It's free to watch - register here.

• Podcasts are like pets: here's five reasons why - must have been ruff writing this (The Podcast Host)
• We had 1,489 downloads yesterday of our podcast. Here's how people listen: Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts and Overcast are our top three podcast apps.

• From CBC Podcasts: The Story Store - the one-stop story-shop, that takes orders from kids across Canada and turns their suggestions into hilarious, fun-filled adventures for kids, grandparents and everyone in between.
• You Heard Me Write is a new Spotify podcast from their SoundUp program for under-represented voices. Hosted by Kacie Willis, on each episode writers, musicians, sound designers and dynamic thinkers will collaborate on a multimedia project, without knowing the identities of their counterparts - it debuts next Thursday.
• Podland, the weekly podcast with James Cridland and Sam Sethi, has interviews with an author of a new book about Spotify; Wayne Parker from podcast location service Maps․fm, and news of a new Clubhouse-a-like.
• Cry Like A Boy is the first original podcast from Euronews, available in both English and French. It explores how men are defying stereotypes and promoting gender equality; and takes you to five African nations to discover how local communities are working towards change.

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• January's Australian Podcast Ranker is out. Stuff You Should Know, represented in Australia by ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia, continues as #1 podcast; Life Uncut, above, is #3. Diamantina Media (represented by ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia) is a new publisher at #9. Downloads for the top ten publishers increased by 5.5% month-on-month.
  • An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only. The country's largest podcaster, the ABC, is still absent.
• Amazon Music has signed an exclusive podcast. COLD, which was a Wondery show, is to stream season 2 exclusively on Amazon Music next month. COLD is currently in the top 100 in 40 countries; but podcasts from Amazon Music are currently available in just six of them, leaving many fans frozen out.
• Podz is a new app (iOS only) that gives you automatically generated clips of podcasts to help you discover new ones. Described as a newsfeed, Katie Couric and Paris Hilton are apparently investors. CEO Doug Imbruce told Techcrunch: "The experience of discovering and consuming podcasts is ancient. It literally feels like browsing the web in 1997."
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• Spotify is in the mood for some lovin'. The platform "saw an increase of 49% of global listeners streaming love-themed podcasts compared to this time last year". They've worked with Tinder to make a playlist.
• Libsyn5, the fifth version of Libsyn's publishing interface, is now available in beta. It offers new features and enhancements to existing ones.
• Podcast link-sharing platform pod․link has been acquired by Podsights. The deal also includes its founder, Nathan Gathright. The product is now free to podcasters.
• Sounder has added a new premium user management system, allowing podcast teams to collaborate on their podcasts.
• In Austria, the Ö3 Podcast Award, which it claims is the first award for podcasts in Austria, has taken place. From 30,000 nominations, the first prize went to Erklär mir die Welt ("Explain the world to me"). Run and judged by state broadcaster Ö3, no Ö3 podcasts were eligible.
• Also in Austria, a set of regional news podcasts have been built with a tool called Sonarbird - which integrates national and local news with bespoke advertising (and from AdsWizz).
• Entercom has signed the Locked On Podcast Network for adsales and distribution. The network was bought by TEGNA earlier this year. Entercom will also co-produce some new shows with their own on-air personalities.

iHeart's announcement about their innovative new binaural "3D Audio" came as welcome validation to many binaural podcast producers.

• Ocean Matters was released by Fresh Air Productions earlier this year in binaural, focusing on the state of the oceans. The same producers who made this also made Dom Joly's Big American Vacation for Audible back in 2016.
• Amazing War Stories was released in binaural in October last year; covered by ProSound and professional audio blog Fast and Wide.
• Almost Tangible are selling a number of binaural productions as audiobooks, and won a number of awards in 2019's New York Festival.
• In late 2019, Zima Podcasting Network "looked to reinvent the podcasting industry" with binaural productions throughout 2020: that reinvention appears not to have happened, though.
• In 2018, The Undersiders was both binaural and bilingual, released by French podcast company Engle.
• 2018 also saw Calais 2037, a binaural podcast with an all-star cast.

• Advice for managing your podcast workflow (RSS Podcasting)
• Make Your Good Podcast Great With Syndicated Content (Evo Terra)

• From CBC Podcasts: Chosen Family a conversational podcast, hosted by queer, cosmically-destined BFFs Thomas Leblanc and Tranna Wintour. Welcome to the family!
• Star Wars Minute, a podcast that analyzes, criticises and philosophises about the Star Wars movies one minute at a time, has signed with ART19 for adsales.
• The Podcast Industry, a weekly podcast-about-podcasts from podcast monetisation platform PODGO, has our Editor on this week as a guest.
• Spectacle has been launched by Neon Hum: a new podcast tracing reality television back to its inception.

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• Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi are co-founding a “next-gen podcast platform” where hosts can talk to fans live and monetise their conversations, reports The Verge - it's said to be similar to Clubhouse but with the ability to record conversations. Cuban sold internet radio company broadcast·com to Yahoo for $5.7bn.
  • The app is reportedly to be called Fireside, which comes as news to the five year-old podcast host Fireside. "Surprising and more than a bit concerning," says Fireside's Dan Benjamin.
  • Chris Messina doesn't think much of the logo, either. #awks
• Have you considered syndicating your content to other podcasters? Sounds Profitable this week, with Chartable, suggests a way to do that with ad-tech. (One more reason to subscribe.
• Will podcast advertising keep surging in 2021? MediaRadar expect to see a 10-15% increase in ad spend this year.

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• iOS 14.5 may allow you to choose your default podcast app, according to beta testers.
• In India, the podcast producer WYN Studio has raised Rs 2 crores (US $275,000).
• Casey Reed has joined Blue Wire as Head of Marketing. She'd been at Hulu for almost five years.
• In Norway, podcast company Acast report a 266% increase in revenue last year, and a 39% increase in new advertisers. Plan-B, a Norwegian content creator which produces some of Norway's biggest podcasts, has signed with the company.
• Transistor has published five free pieces of music for podcast intros. Attribution is required.
• The Brussels Podcast Festival is looking for your votes for the Public Prize 2021. The event itself takes place over three days from February 25.
• "I have a few thoughts on what Clubhouse really means for podcasting. In short: not that much." Rebel Base Media's Mark Asquith suggests that Clubhouse is "a solid way of getting cheap attention right now, but it’s not likely to push people to listen to your podcast."
• Downloading This American Life costs a typical South African the equivalent of US$3.52 in data costs. Writing on his personal blog, our Editor wonders whether the proposed alternateEnclosure tag could mean we get another billion podcast listeners.
• Auphonic published two listening examples for podcasts encoded at different bitrates and codecs: even 6kbps!

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• 9 lessons in podcasting from Asian creators (Acast)
• The One Change That Took Us From $20 to $900 a Month on Patreon (Sean Howard, Podcast Movement)
• How many podcasts are in each Apple Podcasts category? Someone asked, so here's the answer.

• From CBC Podcasts: Evil By Design In Episode 1, hear from two 'Jane Does' who allege they were lured with false promises to fashion mogul Peter Nygard's palatial estate in the Bahamas, and attacked.
• Resonate's co-founder Jacob Bozarth appears on a recent episode of Ecomonics "to talk about lessons he's learned about podcasting, the experience of producing a podcast, and the story of Resonate over the past 5 years". It's the episode published on Feb 3.
• Financial literacy podcast Earn Your Leisure, which we first reported in July 2019, is now part of The Black Effect Podcast Network. It's had more than five million downloads.
• The Alfred Daily, a 40-minute daily local podcast for Shaftesbury in Dorset, has been awarded by the town's Rotary club. A number of Rotarians nominated Alfred for the vital role the daily podcasts have played in strengthening community cohesion during lockdown.
• The NewsWorthy's Erica Mandy is profiled in Kansas City magazine. (The podcast is currently hiring).

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• The New York Times released their financial results for 2020. They made $36m in podcast ad revenue, up $7m; total advertising revenue for the business declined by 20%, though. Those numbers should increase - this year, the NYT can sell advertising in This American Life, as we reported last August.
  • Meanwhile, Michael Barbaro has written to WAMU, a radio station that takes the radio version of The Daily, with a number of action points and apologies for some of the NYT's, and his, actions around Caliphate.
• Other media outlets are reporting more data on Spotify's latest results. Spotify credits podcast popularity for 24% growth in subscribers is The Guardian's take. Last month, Citi said that Spotify's podcast plan wasn't working; we wonder whether they still think that.
• Google Podcasts is getting a little tweak in its playback screen, reports AutoEvolution. We're yet to see the update, which is restricted to beta users. We are, though, seeing episode images at least some of the time.

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• Fresh Air on NPR covered the "uncertain future" of podcasts covering Donald Trump. The reporter was Nick Quah.
  • Nielsen's Podcast Buying Power Service, which 'matches podcast listeners with their buying habits', has three new subscribers: Active International, Ad Results Media and Oxford Road.
• What's Joe Budden doing? He's supposed to have moved his podcast to Patreon, yet he is still hosting with Libsyn. He's quoted as saying that exclusive deals are prehistoric; yet has launched exclusive shows on Patreon. He spent two hours explaining why he was leaving Spotify, though, through the metaphor of strip clubs, stories about watches and 52 f-words, so no wonder we're a bit f-ing confused.

• How much does it cost to host your own podcast on Amazon AWS? - it costs us $15/month, but our podcast is not your podcast.
• And for the techie, here's what we've learnt hosting our own podcast this way. Both these articles are updated after Kent got in touch to ask us questions.

• From CBC Podcasts: The Secret Life of Canada - the country you know, the stories you don't. The history podcast about the terrible, hilarious, dirty and wonderful history of Canada.
• First reported in Podnews in May 2019, Bill Clinton has finally launched Why Am I Telling You This? with iHeartMedia. The Hollywood Reporter says his first interview is with a jazz player.

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• 25% of the 345m monthly active Spotify users now use the app to listen to podcasts, up from 22% the previous quarter. Speaking on the company's Q4 2020 earnings call, Daniel Ek said he's "reasonably confident" that he can see benefits in user growth and retention from podcasts.
  • Ek hinted that Spotify may be able to allow podcasters to monetise their shows on the platform through a set of new business models. "I hope to be able to talk a little bit more about what our plans are in the near future on that."
  • Spotify says it has 2.2m podcasts in the system (Apple has 1.8m).
  • The company also denied that the increase in podcast use would result in a lower payout to record companies.
  • Podcasts were mentioned 47 times in the earnings call.
• In Denmark, 27% of adults (15+) listen to podcasts every week. That is 3 percentage points up from last year, according to new data from DR. Spotify is the market leader in the country. There's a full interview with the researchers in the Podland News podcast later today.
• Acast's programmatic ad sales revenue grew 215% in 2020, the company has announced.

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• PodcastAddict now supports the new podcast:location tag. Buzzsprout also supports it (for whole podcasts, rather than individual episodes); and Podnews podcast pages also support that, like this from North Idaho Now.
• PodLP, a podcast app for the KaiOS platform, has now been downloaded 5m times on Jio, an Indian mobile network. (We list how to submit your podcast to PodLP in our list of podcast directories).
• Radio France has signed an agreement to put its podcasts on PodcastAddict. The broadcaster is unusual in restricting its RSS feed addresses from the Apple Podcasts API - so Culture en Direct, as one example, can't be played from services that use it, like our own website.
• Headliner, a social podcast promotion platform, had more than 272,000 new users in 2020.
• Joe Budden has signed with Patreon.
• In Canada, the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has signed with Triton Digital for podcast hosting, monetisation and measurement. You can take a deep dive into Triton Digital's podcast metrics platform on the Sounds Profitable website.
• In Argentina, news channel TN has launched TN Podcast, its own podcast network.
• ESPN got 500m downloads in 2020, a yearly increase of 28%.
• Ariel Nissenblat has launched a newsletter, Podcast Plunge. Each issue is anchored by a podcast episode, and then focuses on other pieces of internet about the main topic of the show.
• Comeback Stories is a new podcast from Darren Waller and Donny Starkins. Waller's comeback story from drug addiction was a big hit on YouTube; and now they're getting others to tell their comeback stories. (The podcast has, unusually, deliberately launched on Apple Podcasts only).

• How to think about Clubhouse audio strategy (Pacific Content)
• Easy solutions for soundproofing a room with things you already have (Stop Making Sense Productions)

• From CBC Podcasts: Tai Asks Why - join Tai as he boldly goes where no 9th grader has gone before, to find you answers you never knew you needed on the award-winning CBC podcast.
• Spotify For The Record will post a new episode today with CEO Daniel Ek and CFO Paul Vogel on their Q4 2020 earnings report.
• Mea Culpa with convicted criminal Michael Cohen features an interview with Stormy Daniels, in case you still cared about any of that nonsense.
• Podland has interviews with Anna Sian of Anchor on their redesign; Peter Niegl and Rasmus Kidde from Denmark Radio on new podcast consumption stats in the country; and Sounds Profitable's Bryan Barletta on his news podcast this week.

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• First look: There were more than 885,000 new podcasts in 2020 - almost two new podcasts every minute. Spotify has grown the most in real terms, though the amount of plays through the iHeartRadio app has doubled over the last year, according to Chartable, who have just released a set of data covering the last twelve months.
  • Megaphone hosts more popular podcasts than anyone else, the data also shows - by some margin.
• Amazon Music has launched podcasts in Canada, eh. (Not in Amazon Music? Submit yours here, or through your host).
• A MediaRadar study ($) says that ad-spend on podcasts was up 11% year-on-year in Q4 2020. "The top five podcast producers in terms of ad revenue last year were NPR, iHeartRadio, Barstool Sports, Wondery and The Daily Wire, which collectively captured 33% of all podcast ad revenue".

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• iHeartRadio is still the #1 podcaster, according to Podtrac's January data: the company leads NPR for both US unique monthly audience and global streams/downloads. Here's what else you need to-know-tdy: The Daily remains the US's most popular podcast. An incomplete ranker, it measures participating publishers only.
• Acast has quietly released a new logo. See it below: they're a gold supporter (or see our full list of podcast hosts).
• Top-five podcast app PodcastAddict is rolling out full support of the new RSS 'person' tag. (We like their screenshot!)
• The Infinite Dial 2021, Edison Research's data about media consumption, is now accepting registrations for their webinar. It's the most-quoted data for podcast consumption in the US.
• SiriusXM has published their annual report. Their Pandora business (which includes AdsWizz, Stitcher and Simplecast) saw a 1% drop in ad revenue in 2020, and a drop of 2% for subscriber revenue.
• Radiodays Asia has published their programme for their virtual conference in March. There are a number of podcasting sessions, including a panel session from Australia and speakers from across South East Asia, as well as our Editor.
• Law&Crime Network, which runs a TV channel, is to launch a podcast network. True crime, naturally.
• A new show, Words That Build, describes itself as having an 'innovative format' - it'll take voicemails from real estate professionals, and also says it "transmutes written articles from top publications to audio".
• A book-reading podcast, The StoryLight Podcast, will be doing a live show on Discord this Saturday, February 6th.
• The Verge writes about Elon Musk's use of Clubhouse; meanwhile Matt Deegan says that Clubhouse isn't about audio. "At its worst, I’d say the content is basically the annoying self-promoters from LinkedIn given a microphone to talk to their echo-chamber," he says, before saying it's a good place for like-minded people to chat.
• Heb je nog een podcasttip? Answering the question often asked - "do you have any podcast recommendations" - Lieven Heeremans has been keeping an Excel sheet of all the podcasts he's listened to since April 8. 835 so far, and recommends you some. Google Translate is your friend, tenzij je Adam Curry heet.

• Making Your Podcast Better With Dynamic Content (Evo Terra)
• Your Podcast Takes Flight With Twitter - Blubrry tells us how to show your podcast the big angry blue bird.
• Why a Podcast Without a Strategy is Likely to Fail (Steven Goldstein)
• Avoiding Lawsuits As a Podcaster: Here’s What You Need to Know When Producing Your Show - a US-centric view of the legal things you need to consider, from Squadcast.

• From CBC Podcasts: Pop Chat - every week, host Elamin Abdelmahmoud invites you into his group chat to help make sense of the cultural drama blowing up the internet.
• Back for a new season, Gimlet/Spotify's Resistance tells the story of Keith Davis Jr, in prison since 2015 for crimes he says he didn't do: the show focuses on his enduring relationship with his partner.
• Earshot Strategies in the UK has produced its first own-branded podcast, The Success and Ideas Podcast. The first episode interviews former BBC political correspondent Guto Harri.
• The Office Deepdive is a new, behind-the-scenes podcast about The Office (US), presented by Brian Baumgartner. It's new from iHeartRadio.
• Positively Gam, an upcoming podcast from Adrienne Banfield-Norris and ART19, has announced its upcoming guests.
• Switched on Pop has joined New York Magazine's Vulture. It signed with Vox Media two years ago; the show will retain the hosts.
• How to Grow a Pod is an accompaniment podcast to a new book, How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast: it features many of the interviews in the book, from Ira Glass to George the Poet.
• WordPress, beloved of many podcasters, now has a fortnightly podcast. WP Briefing includes a guide to upcoming releases, a guest to talk about a topic important to the community, and 270 comments that Askimet caught for you.

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