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• Congratulations to podcast host Jordan Harbinger, who has renewed with PodcastOne for what is described as a "high seven-figure deal". He will remain with the network for the forseeable future. Harbinger does almost 11m monthly downloads.
• Podcast hosting and monetisation platform Megaphone says it has "launched in Germany, Spain, France and Italy".
  • We're... not entirely sure what the company is announcing here. Megaphone tells us that the Spotify Audience Network is not launching there yet; and we're told the platform will continue to be only available in English. It doesn't appear to include any local support (support is "through email or chat"); and we can only find one Megaphone staff member in these countries on LinkedIn: that person is not a new hire. Further, Engle, a French podcast publisher, signed with Megaphone 16 months ago.
• Podbean has announced a Corporate Podcast Summit, to be streamed on LinkedIn on Nov 9. It's focused on branded and internal podcasts.

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• The Paris Podcast Festival was last weekend. En français, here are reports from day 1, day 2, day 3, and day 4, including prize winners; and the not very official top five things there.
• Podcast hosting company RSS Podcasting has announced improved podcast analytics.
• StreamGuys has upgraded its multimedia player.
• Spotify appears to have a new(?) in-app feature recommending guest appearances of, in this case, UK comedian James Acaster. It popped up on the screen of Podnews reader James Potter, who wonders if this is humanly curated, or if they have been working on credits data.
• Apple announced new MacBook Pro laptops with a notched screen, because everyone wants a laptop with a notched screen. Logic Pro gets an upgrade for spatial audio support. There are new AirPods, which everyone will buy, and more colours for the HomePod mini, which nobody will. There's also a new cheap 'voice plan' for Apple Music, for people who like being misunderstood by Siri.

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• Scott Porretti has been promoted to President of Katz Digital Audio, and will be responsible for growing podcast and programmatic revenue. Katz is the largest media representation company in the US.
• Melissa Harris-Perry has been named the Host and Managing Editor of The Takeaway from PRX and WNYC Studios.

• How podcasters can grow their show with cross-promos - writing for Podnews, Podcast Movement's Jared Easley suggests that cross-promotions are a great way to help your podcast's discoverability.
• Eric Nuzum shares five pieces of advice for those interested in podcasting, including: "don't be boring".

• Presented by AdLarge Media: Voices for Justice A true crime podcast hosted by Sarah Turney, the first season explored the story of Sarah's sister, missing teen Alissa Turney, which led to the arrest of their father in 2020. Each week, Sarah covers more true crime stories, asking listeners to help find justice for these unfortunate victims.
• Hello from The Magic Tavern has just launched season 4, titled "A New Age". A massively popular comedy podcast, it's good to see it back.
• FYI is a brand new podcast from Broadsheet, Australia's go-to culture guide. The 20 minute episodes start Nov 2.
• The Search is a brand new podcast from Spanian, a rapper and counter-culture icon. It will document the next steps on his search for life's truths. It's produced by DM Podcasts and launches today.

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• Apple has posted a new page explaining how automatic downloads work on Apple Podcasts. The page explains what gets automatically downloaded, when a podcast stops being auto-downloaded, how Apple Watch works, and cautions that automatic downloads may lead to an incomplete view of listener behaviour (in third-party analytics, we guess), recommending Apple's own analytics.
• She Podcasts took place over the weekend. We're looking forward to reading blogs and posts about it; but here's a snapshot of the top 10 podcasts, according to the Podcast Consumer Tracking Report from Edison Research, split by men and women. It made Arielle "glum".
• AdLarge has published their 2021 Podcast Buying Guide, containing guidance and context for advertisers wanting to benefit from podcasts. It's a free download.

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• TargetSpot achieved revenues of €12.3m (US $14.2m) in H1/21, a year-on-year increase of 56.3% (led by the US, which was up 72%). Its figures were released as part of its owning company, AudioValley; it posted a €0.4m ($0.46m) loss, after a 60% increase in staff costs.
• Radio Today Australia has been acquired by its competitor, Radioinfo. Both websites will continue to operate independently, however Radio Today's Content Director and Editor, Vivienne Kelly, will depart the business on Nov 19. Radio Today operates a radio-focused podcast awards and newsletter.
• Dan Ilic, the host of A Rational Fear paid for billboards to be shown in Times Square decrying Australia's climate change policy. He managed to get onto CNN, among other media outlets, as a result. Jake Tapper knows us: "You're a podcaster, so you could talk for four hours straight".

• podcast:popular is a new proposal for the podcast namespace: a tag that would show a podcast's most popular episodes in a podcast player. A podcast hosting company could turn this tag on for all shows, and surface the most popular show for potential listeners to discover. Your thoughts would be welcome.
• From May, but worth a look - Den Delimarsky posts how to download your podcast analytics data from Spotify. It makes us wonder whether this works using the standard API bearer header. Also - why are we having to jump through these hoops to get API access to data for our own podcast?
• When sending boostagrams, you can send any amount of boosts - and some numbers have meaning. A boost for 1776 is known as a "Liberty Boost", while a boost for 1999 is a "Prince Boost". Gary Arndt has compiled an initial list - anyone who wishes to send us a school calculator boost would be a friend for life!
• Cloudflare post an interesting piece about multi-user IP address detection. The current IAB specification discusses a method of marking some IP addresses (a big corporation, for example) as safe to assume it has multiple users on the end: but this technology looks as if it might automate that work.
• Boostagram corner: Using value4value, we earn small amounts of cryptocurrency from every listener, and additional boostagrams - messages alongside larger tips. Dave Jones liked "Good Apple, Bad Apple" (thanks for the Rush Boost); Brian of London liked our mention of him last week (1029 sats from Castamatic); Dave Jones again: "I don’t think Spotify is “breaking podcasting”. They’re just breaking their product. Their podcast strategy looks increasingly fragmented and hard to understand. When their attempt to wall the garden fails, like that always does, the open RSS ecosystem will still be here ticking along - because information wants to be free and audio wants to be heard." Thanks for the 21,138 sat from Castamatic. Adam Curry likes us when we say newpodcastapps․com (5000 sats from CurioCaster); "medus" says Podnews is the first show they listen to each weekday - thanks for the 2,000 sats from Fountain. In the last week we made 39,135 sats (US $24.05). We appreciate the boosts, and the normal sats per minute: send us a message here by holding down the boost button in your podcast app, and if you don't have one, get one from here.

• Presented by AdLarge Media: Voices for Justice A true crime podcast hosted by Sarah Turney, the first season explored the story of Sarah's sister, missing teen Alissa Turney, which led to the arrest of their father in 2020. Each week, Sarah covers more true crime stories, asking listeners to help find justice for these unfortunate victims.
• Rule Benders is the first branded podcast from Samsung, featuring people who have defied convention and redefined what is possible. It's made by Acast Creative in Australia.
• New from TED today, Am I Normal? is hosted by Mona Chalabi, a data journalist, diving into the numbers to get some of the answers. It's produced by TED and Transmitter Media.
• Internet and telephone company in the UK TalkTalk has appointed Dap Dip to develop its podcasts over the next year. They've been producing Walking The Walk since February; Dap Dip will produce more podcast ideas to highlight the company.

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• SiriusXM's Stitcher has signed Rory Farrell and Jamil 'MAL' Clay, to bring New Rory & MAL to their More Sauce network. It's the latest high-profile podcast signing from Stitcher. Not in the press release: any mention of Joe Budden, who fired the duo from his podcast in May.
• Earlier this week, we published data from Podtrac showing that Spotify is close to Apple in terms of US monthly users but nowhere near in terms of US downloads. John Spurlock has calculated how many episodes Podtrac, and the other analytics services, measured in September.
• Spotify is breaking podcasts, according to a piece in WIRED. It quotes Keri Hoffman from PRX: "What makes podcasting a healthy ecosystem, and different from where consolidation has happened in other industries, is the fact that there are lots of access points, people can listen on a multitude of devices and platforms".
  • Meanwhile, Spotify is spending money to promote its advertising opportunities, with a campaign called All Ears On You.
  • The company's VP of Personalisation, Oskar Stål, explains how personalisation works at Spotify, and details differences between podcasts and music.
  • Fortune magazine has a story headlined Spotify—licensee of Joe Rogan podcast—says it won’t allow inaccurate information (wow, we think our coverage is too sarcastic sometimes). The article quotes Dawn Ostroff suggesting that the company is focusing on content moderation, trust and safety.

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• Audacy has bought something for $40m. The SEC report says it's a "small digital acquisition", but gives no other details. The company also says its revenues for Q3/21 should be up about 23% year-on-year.
• Ads are more than twice as memorable if they're next to relevant content, according to data from GumGum. MediaTel explains 'conversational targeting tools', and how Acast and DAX are using them for ads.
• Auphonic now has a native integration with Podbean. The service applies sound levelling and noise reduction.
• Podcast app Castbox is to be in cars: the company has signed a partnership with Faurecia Aptoide Automotive, which provides apps for a variety of auto manufacturers.
• Writing in the Bello Collective, Galen Beebe suggests listening to podcasts at 0.8x speed to make time for yourself.
• For the Cairo Review, Kim Fox and Josephine Karianjahi write African Podcasting: Challenges and Chances. TechNova covers the state of podcasting in Ghana.
• The Paris Podcast Festival has started. It'll run this weekend.
• The 2021 Discover Pods Awards are have announced the finalists and voting is open until 6pm ET today. Categories include best debut podcast of 2021, true crime, news, history, kids & family, and more; here's a direct link.

• Theo Balcomb is to leave The Daily from the New York Times after five years as producer. "I’m looking to dive into tape, hunker down with stories, edit and produce beautiful things," she says.
• Jon Hales has joined DAX as Chief Growth Officer, North America. He joins from Spotify.
• Alex Underwood has joined Vurbl as Chief Revenue Officer. He's been an advisor to the company since January; he left Spotify at the end of 2019.

• Shandee's Story is a new podcast from Hedley Thomas, the host of The Teacher's Pet, a critically-acclaimed podcast that led to a new arrest. Another true-crime podcast, it launches first in the app for The Australian newspaper.
• Podland today has a long interview with "Brian of London" about Podping, Hive and dairy cows, Genevieve Hassan about how she got her podcast onto Virgin Atlantic aeroplanes, as well as plenty more comment about the week's podcasting news. (Use the chapters in your podcast app to navigate through.)

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• Last Podcast On The Left has announced it's no longer to be a Spotify Exclusive show. They've signed with SiriusXM's Stitcher, and will be available in every podcast app, including Spotify, from Feb 1 2022; they'd been exclusive since Feb 2020.
  • SiriusXM's Stitcher has also signed The Bellas Podcast, hosted by WWE Hall of Fame inductees Brie and Nikki Bella.
• Spotify has claimed it has more than 1,000 Spotify Original podcasts, in a blog post focusing on podcast producers across the world.
  • Spotify is launching "its first video podcast in the UK". Internet Sensation is available in both audio and video (much like Joe Rogan). It's hosted by Alex Elmslie, a YouTuber, and launched on Tuesday.
• iHeartRadio has announced the nominees for the 2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. The ceremony will be on Jan 13 2022 in Los Angeles.

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• Sounds Profitable has published a deep-dive with RedCircle, a podcast hosting platform. Mike Kadin takes Bryan Barletta through the tools and how podcasters can monetise their content.
• Congratulations to the winners of the New York Festivals Radio Awards Storytellers Gala. The BBC won Broadcaster of the Year; the UK's TBI Media won Production Company of the year; Macmillan's Driving The Green Book won Gold for Narrative/Documentary.
• If you missed the IAB UK Podcast Upfronts, here are the sessions from Fresh Air Production, Podfront, DAX from Global and Acast.
  • For Acast, their UK+ Managing Director, Georgie Holt, reaffirmed Acast's commitment to an open podcasting ecosystem: "The open model and this whole approach is what made podcasting so loved in the first place: people can listen whenever they want, wherever they want and on whatever platform they want to listen to. It’s the best way for podcasters and advertisers alike to reach the most listeners, without shutting out any of the addressable market."
• Cool thing of the day: French podcast host Audiomeans has published Podcast City, a mapped imaginary city of 486 podcasts. (There's a blog post here with more information.) Complete with outdoor cafés, a medieval old town, a business district and parks, the only things missing to make it properly authentic is an eye-wateringly expensive café-au-lait from a waiter who doesn't like you and wishes you'd leave.

• Liz Alesse has been announced as Director and Executive Producer of Podcast Programming for ABC News in the US. She had been leading the podcast team for six months, and joined ABC News in 2015.
• Samiah Adams has launched House of Howard, a company specialising in production project management and operations consulting. She had worked at Gilded Audio and Pinna.

• Carey Green has written the first in a series on creating an efficient and effective podcast workflow, which he says will make your show easier, manageable, mistake-free and effective.
• How I grew my podcast to 40,000 downloads per month, from Eric Skwarczynski, recommends, among other things, Tik Tok.
• The Reynolds Journalism Institute published "Experts share their tips for making the most from many audio formats", interviewing a number of experts.

• What Are You Wearing is a new podcast from Mamamia Podcasts, calling itself "the podcast for your wardrobe". Produced by Rose Kerr, the series launch partner is clothes retailer H&M.
• Borrowed Future, a podcast from the Ramsey Network, is now available as a movie on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Google Play. The movie is free to teachers.
• In the Q'd Up Podcast on Podcasting, a bunch of well-known podcasters help define podcast terms - which sometimes aren't as clear as you think.
• New from iHeartRadio is Real-Time Crime, presented by "Top Clubhouse Creator Leah Lamarr" and a TV personality Teddi Mellencamp. The two will be joined by investigative professionals who will help listeners understand what goes into a high-profile case.
• Object: stories of design and craft was launched today, talking to seven of Australia’s master craftspeople in ceramics, jewellery, textiles and metal. Why does their work matter? How do they keep going? What's their advice for creatives? Produced by the Australian Design Centre.

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• Sounds Profitable en Español starts today, as Bryan Barletta explains in Sounds Profitable with Podsights. The podcast adtech newsletter will be translated and produced using technology from Veritone MARVEL․ai: and so will the Sounds Profitable en Español podcast, with Bryan sounding as if he speaks Spanish fluently… but he doesn't.
  • Using the same synthetic voice technology, you can hear our Editor, James Cridland, speaking Spanish (he doesn't speak it either) in our podcast today. It's quite a thing.
• Google Podcasts is blocking access to some podcasts to under 18s and users who aren't signed-in, we've discovered. We've more details in depth, below.
• Apple Podcasts for Creators has updated its Podcast Hosting Providers page, with twelve new podcast hosts and filters.
  • We've previously asked Apple how companies are selected for this page. They wouldn't say; but suggest that providers use Apple's contact us link.

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• Podcast host Transistor has partnered with Descript as an automated publishing destination.
• Triton Digital has released the Australian Podcast Ranker. There's no change in the top 3 in either the publisher or show rankers. Total measured downloads rose to 52m; almost hitting the record of 52.2m in May.
• Susie Warhurst has been appointed Head of International, Apple Podcasts. She was SVP of Content for Acast, and works out of London.
• Kristin Charron has been named VP of Marketing for Veritonic. She moves from Triton Digital, where she'd been for ten years.

Podnews has discovered that Google Podcasts is restricting podcast content, marking some shows as "Content not available", with a note that the company has "restricted some content for people who aren't over 18". Shows may be restricted even if they are not marked as 'explicit', or have any obvious reason to be blocked; and publishers have no visibility as to whether their shows have been flagged in this way.

We were contacted by an affected sports and fitness podcast publisher, with episodes including interviews with a women's football manager, a TV sports commentator, and a rugby coach. Their client was concerned that their content had been apparently flagged as unsuitable for kids. Having reviewed the content, we can't see any reason why it should be restricted.

A Google Podcasts spokesperson tells us:

"We work hard to offer a safe and reliable platform to our creators, which means we take seriously our obligations to comply with applicable regulations and legal requirements around the world.

"As part of our efforts to comply with new children’s privacy regulations in the United Kingdom and other regions, certain content may now be restricted for users who our systems indicate may be under the age of 18 or who are not signed into their Google Account and are in a region impacted by the aforementioned compliance measures.

"To determine what content is age-appropriate for these younger users, we rely on information from multiple sources, including publisher tags, our own internal reviews, and other signals. We are working to improve our signals so that we can safely expand the corpus of podcasts that can be accessed by younger and/or signed-out users in the relevant regions, and plan to roll out additional updates soon."

We're unaware of any other podcast app that takes decisions to hide entire shows like this, seemingly at random. It's particularly disappointing that publishers are unaware that their show (and reputation) is being erroneously highlighted in this way. Google can, and should, do better.

• Spotify has launched two new shows about Spotify this month. Spotify: Mic Check launches on Oct 19 with "intimate conversations with musicians and podcasters from around the world, sharing exclusive recordings and personal stories in their own words".
• We're told that the other, Spotify: Discover This, is brand new and launches tomorrow, though you'll spot 11 episodes have been published in the past year. It promises fresh insights on music, podcasting, cultural moments, and trends.
• The existing "Spotify show about Spotify", Spotify: For the Record, will, this season, "push our stories further by making this podcast the only place where audiences can hear certain business updates."
• Radiotopia has launched S***hole Country, describes as an audio memoir about achieving the Ghanaian-American Dream. It's produced by an anonymous producer using the name Afia Kaakyire.

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• Exclusive: Spotify is closing in on Apple Podcasts and indie podcast apps are becoming less popular, according to new data released to Podnews by Podtrac today. Calculated from over a billion US podcast downloads in September, for monthly audience, Spotify is now less than three percentage points away from Apple. But, for monthly streams/downloads, Apple is more than seven times larger - and that number's growing.
  • The data also reveals that most independent podcast apps are shrinking in users and downloads; that iHeartRadio's app grew the most last year; and a significant difference in the behaviour of users on Spotify vs Apple.
• Facebook has launched an "Audio" hub on their mobile apps, including podcasts and live audio rooms. You'll find it in the "Watch" tab (obviously). It's available only within the US.
• SiriusXM has signed a first-look deal with podcast producer Audio Up for new scripted podcasts. Audio Up also announced it's completed a $12m funding round.

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• Ozy Media's collapse/non-collapse is something podcasters should take note of, suggests Steve Goldstein - arguing that the real winners in the podcast industry will be those with integrity and grace.
• Audioboom used Salesforce to create their internal sales platform, called LIRICAL. It does billing, sales and bookings - Salesforce have published a detailed look at the system.
• Adam Bowie and Tom Webster spoke at Radiodays Europe, with podcasting facts and figures from across the world. The conference announced it will be in Malmö, Sweden, May 15-17, a week before The Podcast Show 2022, May 25-26 in London.

• Bruce Wawrzyniak has published 400 episodes of his show - here's why he won't stop now. Good reminders why keeping going is a good plan for your podcast, too.
• Call Her Daddy's Alex Cooper suggests that there's more to a podcast than just a celebrity and a microphone. "So many celebrities are trying to do it and sometimes it falls short or they're not able to retain an audience."
• Is now a good time to start a podcast? Jack Rhysider suggests that yes, yes it is.

• Matt Walsh and Timothy Simons are launching Second In Command: A Veep Rewatch today. Produced by Kast Media, each week they will rewatch one episode of Veep and reveal exclusive stories from filming, play trivia, answer fan questions, talk with political commentators about the show’s (often) absurd politics and more.
• Launching today, Audacy and Osiris Media's Breaking Waves looks into the Seattle grunge scene, which defined rock in the 1990s: with bands like Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.
• They Walk Among America is a new spinoff from the creators of They Walk Among Us, a UK-based true crime show. The creators have renewed their agreement with Acast.
• But is it funny? discusses what's new in comedy, and digging deeper into what we laugh at and why. It launched last month, produced by Counterpoint Arts.
• City of Ghosts is new from Hug House Productions, a neo-noir supernatural audio drama set in 1990s NYC about corruption, murder, and the things that haunt us, it was developed and written over nearly three years.

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• Radiodays Europe is on in Lisbon, Portugal - it's the largest radio conference in the world. Tomas Coppens from VRT shared podcast consumption data from the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. Eric Nuzum and Hiwote Getaneh from Magnificent Noise did a masterclass about setting your podcast up for success.
• Data: Research company Ipsos has released the third edition of their Italian study into digital audio. 31% of Italian adults listen to podcasts every month, says the data.
• YouTube Music is to make background listening available for free, starting with Canada. ChromeUnboxed suggests the app is to merge with Google Podcasts. The company is also rolling out live translations and a better subtitle editor.

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• Clever․fm calls itself "The YouTube of Podcasting", claims to be "creating the most interactive podcast experience on the market", and say they solve "the podcasting platform problem" forever. It offers proprietary commenting features.
• Remote recording tool Zencastr now automatically generates transcriptions.
• San Francisco's KQED has posted upcoming events for their PRX Podcast Garage.

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• Chris Bannon has been hired as Head of Global Audio for Condé Nast. He was CCO at Stitcher.
• Karina Farias has joined Edison Research as Project Coordinator. She was PD and morning host at KUFX-FM in San Jose CA, USA.

• The expiration of an old root certificate for Let's Encrypt continues to cause problems with some podcast platforms. NPR, RadioPublic and TuneIn are no longer updating any RSS feeds from Anchor or Feedpress, and others secured with Let's Encrypt. NPR, RadioPublic and TuneIn need to fix their servers to remove the old Let's Encrypt root cert: this fix helped us last week when we had a similar issue.
• The open list of podcast hosts, containing details of patterns to look for in RSS feeds and audio URLs, has been significantly updated by John Spurlock to include many more hosts. From the data, here's a list of podcast hosts.
• There are now 2,209 podcasts that are value4value enabled.
• The Fountain app has been updated. It supports episode-level value splits (so you can share sats with your guests) and now supports serialised shows. It does value4value and RSS chapter points (among many other things).
• Libsyn Pro appears to have migrated many of its shows over to Libsyn RSS feeds, according to our podcast hosts tracker (we list the two as separate). Otherwise, our sample suggests Megaphone gained 27 shows overall, while Libsyn lost 25 overall.
• Good Apple: Now that recent versions of Apple Podcasts use one central RSS scraper, instead of every single phone calling on RSS feeds every time, this has resulted in significant bandwidth savings for podcast hosts. Compare: Friday May 7 (2,947 hits) with Friday Oct 8 (just 216 from the scraper; a further 395 from old iPhones).
• Bad Apple: The Apple Podcasts app has now had 1,100 ratings on the Apple App Store, and has a score of just 1.8.

• How to create a podcast transcript - Podcastpage also highlights the benefits of doing so.
• Why you need to define your podcast concept - Rachel Corbett says that the more specific it is, the better.
• Want to squoosh your podcast artwork down to the 500KB that Apple requires? We heartily recommend Squoosh: we use it every day.
• Boostagrams this week from Gary Arndt, sending 1776 sats through Fountain and saying "This show is my primary way of keeping abreast with what is happening in the podcast industry". Sir Peet, using Fountain, sends 5,000 sats and says "more drinks, cheers!" And, someone anonymous sends 2112 sats from Breez, pointing out that "Ozy Media is a very strange company". You're right. We made 22,815 sats last week, about US $12.50 (much from streaming, not boosts). Here's how to enable your podcast for value4value - and if you're not seeing a boost button in your podcast app, find a better one.

• Shehroze Chaudhry has admitted in court that his stories, which made up a large part of the New York Times's podcast Caliphate, were entirely made up. He's never even been to Syria. He's been fined US $8,000, and - horror - sentenced to a year of living with his parents in Ontario, Canada.
• In Podcasting 2.0, Adam Curry and Dave Jones chat with Brian of London, talking about Hive.
• It's National Coming Out Day in Australia: the ABC has launched Innies + Outies, with fascinating stories from diverse LGBTQIA+ Australians about coming out or staying in.

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• A new podcast, Fat Leonard, highlights what it claims is corruption within the US Navy. Leonard himself talks for the first time, and the podcast also includes the brave women who exposed the fraud. From PRX and Project Brazen, the content studio created by former Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, it launched yesterday.
• A market share of podcast hosts based by new episodes has been published for September. John Spurlock's Livewire Labs has produced the data: Anchor published the most new episodes, with Buzzsprout, Spreaker, Libsyn and Soundcloud also in the top five.
• Exclusive: A look at the podcast market in Latvia. Andrejs Siliņš tells us that Apple Podcasts is the #4 platform, with just 10% of Latvians saying they use it. Spotify is more than three times as popular; but there's a bigger platform still.

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• Meanwhile, 31% of Norwegians listen to podcasts every week, according to research from Kantar, presented by Knut-Arne Futsæter at the EMRO 2021 Conference. That has doubled in the past five years, according to the company. Norwegians spent 12 minutes with podcasts per day, versus 65 minutes with the radio.
• Audioboom has launched Audioboom Studios, a "new business unit" producing shows. They've promoted Brendan Regan to CCO of Audioboom Studios, Mike Newman as VP, and Neil Fearn joins from Global. (This is the second time the company has launched Audioboom Studios - the first was in 2018, with coverage in Podnews and in RAIN News.)
• The Techmeme Ride Home podcast has launched its own investment fund. The Ride Home Fund will reach "some of the most interesting ideas before others even see them", using the podcast's audience and active angels to spot deals.
• The IAB UK podcast upfront took place in London. Among other presentations, Sony Music Entertainment previewed their upcoming podcast slate.
• Cloudflare has won an important court case in the US - a Californian court rejected a copyright infringement claim against the company, which operates a content delivery network.

• Tim Clarke has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Digital Audio Content at Audacy. Clarke will be responsible for audio content, including podcasts, across the Audacy digital platform, which includes the Audacy app, Audacy․com, and Audacy’s station websites.
• Erika Aguilar will be the new 'Morning Edition' and 'Up First' Executive Producer for NPR. She joins from San Francisco member station KQED, where she was Director of Podcasts.
• APM Studios have made two new executive appointments. Joanne Griffith has been made Chief Content Officer, while Thomas De Napoli has been named Chief Strategy Officer.

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• What happens when you're featured on Apple Podcasts? Jack Rhysider was. "In the past 4 years I've done so many other marketing techniques and none of them cause immediate noticeable growth as much as being featured here does."

• Field Work, a popular sustainable agriculture podcast from American Public Media, has announced a third host for their next season. Tara Vander Dussen is also known as the New Mexico Milkmaid.
• The Sx with Emily podcast, which isn't missing an 'e' in its real name (but then it isn't an email newsletter sent to over 20,000 people with anti-spam filters) is one of the oldest podcasts in the world, launching in 2005. The podcast has joined Acast; it was previously with Libsyn.

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• Spotify has made a series of announcements about podcast monetisation. First up, top Anchor podcasters in the US can now be part of the Spotify Audience Network. That allows ad-buyers to buy ads on your show, and improves your potential to earn revenue. These ads are called "Automated ads", since they'll be automatically inserted: if you're with Anchor, you can join the waitlist today.
• Anchor has also launched "Premium sponsorships", where they sell host-read sponsor credits on your behalf. It's for "select creators with a higher level of listener engagement": you'll be contacted if you qualify.
• Anchor's original Anchor Sponsorships is now rebranded "Ambassador ads", where you spread the word about Anchor to your listeners.

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• Spotify Ad Studio, Spotify's self-serve ad buying service, will offer podcast ad buying "in our podcast network" (again, for the US only). (This could be an interesting place to promote your own podcast.)
• Spotify has also announced it's joined the Global Alliance of Responsible Media, added the ability to exclude sensitive topics, and improved their contextual targeting tools.
• Separately, Spotify has published a whitepaper on the evolution of podcast advertising, including a short and selective section on podcasting's history, which doesn't mention Adam Curry nor Apple.
• First look: Supercast has opened their integration with Spotify Open Access, which enables publishers to offer gated content within Spotify's app. It's the first subscription platform to offer the Spotify Open Access integration to all its users.
• Podcast editing software Descript has annnounced 'season one' a number of updates: "studio sound" is graduating from beta, and now has an intensity dial to control the effect; their artificial voices feature is now improved; and they've added a number of audio processing effects, like compression, limiting, noise gates and ducking.
• Watch out, Zoom - Clubhouse has added private Clubhouse links, allowing you to share links to private rooms.
• Lena Moss Glaser has been hired as VP and EP of Audacy's podcast studio 2400Sports. She'll oversee all production and content operations for 2400Sports podcasts.
• Kristi Boulton is now Marketing and Content Manager for Fable and Folly, the audio fiction network.
• Jack Hughes has left podcast platform Reason. He was co-founder and COO.

• Formerly a Luminary exclusive, Wisdom from the Top is now a podcast co-branded by NPR, and available across 'most' podcast platforms. Paid subscribers to Luminary (in their app or in Apple Podcasts) will hear the show a week early.
• NOVA Entertainment has launched Unpacked, an investigative podcast that delves into the world’s most curious and complex stories. Season one will focus on the story of Britney Spears.

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• Want to reach 13-23 year-olds with your podcast? You'll be wanting to promote Spotify, not Apple Podcasts. A Gen-Z survey published by Transistor (and compiled by a Gen-Z'er) shows that Spotify is almost three times more popular than Apple Podcasts - which, in the long run, could "have detrimental effects on both the creators and listeners using Spotify".
• iHeartRadio is still #1 for podcasts, according to Podtrac's Top US Podcast Publishers for September. iHeart added 29m global downloads last month; but also added 30 new shows. (Podtrac contains participating publishers only).
  • Here's what else you need to know today - there's no change in the top 5 Top US Podcasts, with The Daily still #1. SmartLess - a new entry last month at #9 - is still #9.
• YouTube is hiring an executive to look after podcasts, according to Bloomberg. The company is owned by Google, which also owns Google Podcasts - but if they can manage sixteen messaging apps...

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• Online podcast studio Podcastle has raised $7m in funding.
• The owner of digital ad exchange DAX, Global has acquired Remixd - technology that converts text articles into audio files. It'll be incorporated into DAX's product.
• In Germany, Fyeo - ProsiebenSat.1's podcast platform, has sold its exclusive shows to Podimo.
• New podcast producer Fresh Produce Media has launched. The "talent-driven narrative audio company" has ten shows in production.
• The Black Podcasting App has been launched. It describes itself as "the central destination for a wide array of podcasts celebrating African American culture and topics of interest". We've added the link to submit your podcast to our full list of podcast directories.
• RØDE has released the PSA1+ professional studio arm, a premium microphone boom stand for US$129.
• Bandrew Scott reviews the new budget Behringer TM1. "For the price it's not horrible".
• In Brazil, the number of podcasting listeners has grown by 24% this year on the Deezer app.
• Women's podcast network Mamamia unveiled three new shows in their Q3/21 upfronts. A new weekly fashion podcast, a comedy show and a seasonal wellbeing podcast were announced alongside a full service content agency.
• In Australia, the finalists of the Australian Commercial Radio Awards have been announced. Nominees for 'best original unbranded podcast' are The Briefing, Hamish & Andy, FlusterCuck (part of Carrie & Tommy), Zero Waste Baby, and Stuff of Legends. The nominees for 'best original branded podcast' are Lost At Sea, part of NSW Police State Crime Command, Raw Ag Podcast, The Fox Family; and Let's Talk Organ & Tissue Donation. The awards event has been postponed to February.
• Now you can stop playing The Secret of Monkey Island, and enjoy some quality podcasts. Launched in 1985, the Commodore Amiga has finally got a podcast app.
• Samu Rast has been hired as Head of Sales at SyncFloor, a music licensing platform.

• What is a podcast? Just in case anyone asks. This goes with our history of the word 'podcast', published yesterday.
• Looking at data from a show of his, Nick Hilton observes that listeners are more loyal in Apple podcasts.
• Got unreliable electricity? Want to podcast? Tae Haar has some tips.
• If you're in the US, you can learn more about adding your podcast to Facebook's mobile app here. If you're not in the US, your luck's out, for now.

• Podcasting Essentials talks about music licensing: Deborah Mannis-Gardner discusses what you can licence and how you go about securing the correct music rights clearances.
• The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe has been signed by Audioboom. It was the #1 short-form podcast in Podtrac's revised Nov 2017 figures. It was hosting with Libsyn.
• RedHanded, the UK true crime podcast, has also been signed by Audioboom, and won the Listeners Choice prize at the 2021 British Podcast Awards. It was with Acast.
• Swedish podcast Flashback Forever has signed with Sweden's Acast. It claims 23m downloads since the start of Jan 2020, and was hosting on Pinecast.
• Heavyweight is the latest Gimlet show to become a platform exclusive on Spotify. You'll hear an announcement if you're hearing the show anywhere else - it goes exclusive in November.
• Art, Life and the Other Thing has been released by The Art Gallery of New South Wales, exploring the life and influence of artist Brett Whiteley.
• Trueheart is launched today by Hollywood's social impact experts, Amy and Scott Malin. The Malins dive deep with celebrities, mavericks, visionaries and real life heroes to find out what sets their souls on fire and to discuss how they’re making an impact.

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• Who invented the word 'podcast'? Who made the term popular? Who used the word 'podcast' first in... a podcast? Our history of the word 'podcast' contains audio, quotes, and a full timeline.
• "'Ere! He says he's not dead!" - after announcing it was to close after allegations of deceptive conduct, Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson has told NBC that it isn't going to close after all. The company produces a number of podcasts.
• Jamit calls itself a new social audio platform that's the BET of podcasts, inspired by the Apple Podcasts chart being "dominated by shows featuring white hosts". It launches into public beta today in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• Music streaming platform Deezer has acquired a stake in Driift, a live-streaming company.
• Jonathan Charak has been appointed as Libsyn's new Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Richard Heyse, who resigned in May.
• UK media expert Matt Deegan takes a look at the Apple Podcast Subscriptions chart that we published last week. He suggests it "demonstrates that the subscription functionality is just not being used that much at the moment - by content creators or consumers": and one reason why, he suggests, is that subscriptions are proprietary to each platform.

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• Why your podcast needs a trademark, a piece by an IP lawyer, notes the existence of common law protection.
• If you're asking your listeners to do something, here are ways to create a compelling call to action, according to Jared Easley.

• How I Work has joined ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia. Hosted by Dr Amantha Imber, it explores the working days of some of the world's most successful innovators. The show was with Acast.
• Paranormal and true crime podcast And That's Why We Drink is going on the road for a fifteen-date run of North America. Here are the dates - and here is where to buy tickets from Friday.
• A Little Bit Culty has been signed by Acast, and returns for a second season later this month. Hosted by former members of a cult, it was with Buzzsprout.
• Everything you think you know about Jack the Ripper, a notorious killer in London in 1888, is wrong, according to Bad Women: The Ripper Retold. New from Pushkin, this podcast reframes the victims, and the killer himself. Hosted by historian Hallie Rubenhold, it launches today.
• Belle Makes Twelve is Meet Cute's newest rom-com series, with music from Ellie Goulding's album Brightest Blue. You’ll meet Belle, the overworked, eldest daughter in a family of twelve... who’s trying to take care of her family while also taking care of herself. Will she be able to make time for her beau, or will they call it quits? Meet Cute claims to be the first company to narratively integrate songs and musical artists into a scripted romcom podcast.

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• Ozy Media has announced it is to shut down, after a number of reports about the company's business practices. There were question marks over what the company had told investors, advertisers, employees and guests; and the impact could still affect other media companies. Carlos Watson, the co-founder and CEO of Ozy Media, has resigned from the NPR Board. The company had five podcasts, including co-productions with iHeartMedia and the BBC.
• 71% of younger (25-40 year-old) public radio fans use podcasts, accordings to Jacobs Media's' Public Radio Techsurvey 2021. Only three-quarters of public radio fans use a radio at home; and for millennials, that figure drops to 55%. In total, 39% of public radio fans listen to podcasts every week.
  • Even among public radio fans, however, The Daily from the New York Times fares better than NPR's own podcasts, NPR News Now or Up First.
• In case you missed an email, Anchor "identified an issue that caused plays to be undercounted between Sep 8-14". It recalculated all data on Sep 21.

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• Fireside Chat has made changes to its terms and conditions. The main change corrects a layout problem, but the company also asked you "to use commercially reasonable efforts" to notify Fireside if you plan to commercialise content you make on the service (which is curious, since the company has been at pains to point out that you own your content anyway). Here's what's changed.
• Melinda Wittstock, the CEO and founder of Podopolo, has published an open letter to "clear up some misconceptions". It follows a story in Friday's Podnews about "poorly worded" tweets.
• Podpage has a new feature to import all videos from your YouTube channel into your podpage website. Here's an example from Miss Ileane's Anchor Show.
• Podtube is a "platform and social network just for podcasts", according to a piece in The Times of India. It appears to not use RSS. Meanwhile, the New Indian Express's Indulge website looks at independent podcasters from Kerala.
• David Couch has joined podcast publisher Auddy as Chief Revenue Officer. He joins from Deezer and SoundCloud.

• RadioPublic, the Podbean app, and TuneIn are among those that have not updated any shows hosted on Anchor since Sep 30. We suspect this is related to the expiration of an old root certificate for Let's Encrypt. Podnews's webserver also failed to connect to Anchor RSS feeds from Oct 1 (or our own internal tools which also use Let's Encrypt); we had to patch our server. The fix is for RadioPublic, Podbean and TuneIn to implement, not Anchor.
• Open-source Android podcast app AntennaPod is curious about an apparent drop in users over the last few days. Any clues for them? (We wonder if it's related to the above?)
• RSS feeds on LibsynPro infrastructure appear to being migrated to standard libsyn․com feeds.
• In case you wondered, last week Podnews made 4,536 sats from listening to the show, and a further 29,956 from boosts. That's $16.40 just last week. In total so far, we've made $188. Even though it's very early days, that'll pay for a decent round of drinks, so if your podcast isn't value4value-enabled, we'd recommend doing so.

• How to get Your Podcast That all-Important 5-Star Review - Riverside suggests, among other things, reading reviews out on your show.
• This Agent Sees a Future for Actors in Podcasting — Are You Next? - Backstage Magazine, a publication for the acting profession, reckons the acting community should so take notice, darling!

• Unholier than thou returns for season two: Crooked Media's podcast that explores the intersection of the saintly and secular. Hosted by Philip Picardi, the trailer's now available, and the new show starts Friday.
• Also launching today, Because of Anita, looking at the testimony of Professor Anita Hill in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. It's from The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios.
• The Guardian's Today in Focus goes inside the Pandora papers, one of the biggest leaks of financial data in history, showing how 35 current and former world leaders, and over 300 public officials, have used offshore companies to avoid paying tax.

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• "We believe the future of podcasting is interactive", says Spotify. The answer, it suggests, is through proprietary Q&A and Polls, which it has launched through Anchor - here's a video of the process. Q&A and Polls are "only available in select markets", and, it goes without saying, only work in Spotify.
• Spotify also launched a quiz to help you find your perfect podcast, for users in US, UK, Germany and Australia. We were given Healthy-ish (which shows there's some geo-targeting in the algorithm).
• Released during International Podcast Day, growth podcast host Captivate announced a guest booking and interview management system. The system allows capture of guest information, diary management and import to episode notes, and is integrated with remote recording tool SquadCast. Podnews's Editor is an advisor.

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• Clubhouse has announced a forthcoming feature that will let you record your Clubhouse rooms. "Replays" will allow you to download your audio, as well as make it available on-demand in the app. The company also added three new features - a search engine (it's in the explore tab for now); a clip creator; and the release of spatial audio for Android users.
• Dan Savage, host of the Savage Lovecast, has signed with Supporting Cast. One of the first shows to offer a paid version, it transitioned from a homegrown solution to Supporting Cast and has already achieved a 20% increase in revenue.
• Libsyn's AdvertiseCast has released its average CPM figures for September. The average CPM for a 60-second podcast ad within AdvertiseCast's marketplace dropped slightly to $23.12 (-1.8%) - it's up 9.7% year-on-year.
• Surprisingly, Joe Rogan has been knocked off the top of the Spotify podcast charts. Banter with Sapnap and Karl Jacobs, from a pair of gamers, is the new #1 - hosted on Anchor and available everywhere.
• A new social podcasting app, Podopolo, sent tweets to many podcasters yesterday including Aaron Mahnke that the CEO Melinda Wittstock admits were "poorly worded". The tweets suggested that podcasts should claim their show on the app to "receive shared earnings from listens". Wittstock confirms, in common with other apps, they do not make money from unclaimed podcasts on the platform. (They don't otherwise alter podcasts, and do not cache your audio, either - all is good).
  • Testing the app, however, we discover that it sets a useragent of YourApplicationName on Android, so plays from the app will appear in your podcast host as simply "Unknown": we've reported that as a bug. We've also discovered that the company had copy/pasted at least part of its terms and conditions from Dribbble, a design website that Wittstock says she has never heard of. That's now fixed.
• The Southern Poverty Law Center has published a four-part series on "Inside the Far-right Podcast Ecosystem". (For the archives, here's part 2, part 3, and part 4.) It reports that shows are more consistently-available for those that self-host.
• Casted has launched Casted Video, allowing marketers to manage their video as well as audio assets in one place. CEO Lindsay Tjepkema says the move closes the loop between audio, video, and text.
• We Edit Podcasts, RØDE Microphones and Spreaker have produced an all-inclusive starter bundle available in select Staples stores. The start-to-finish package includes the RØDE NT-USB mini mic, a free editing only trial episode from We Edit Podcasts, and 1 free year of Spreaker podcast hosting services.
• Lulu Garcia-Navarro has joined the New York Times's Opinion Audio team, to anchor a new podcast. She was host of NPR's Weekend Edition.
• Sean Carter has joined the Washington Post as its first full-time audio engineer-composer. He's worked with a number of large brands including Vogue and the United Nations.
• The Podnews Ranker, keeping tabs of companies and people we mention in our news, shows that Apple Podcasts was the company we've written about the most over the past three months.

• You can add Podnews to your morning news briefing routine on Google Assistant, Siri or Alexa. Find us in the news section. Alternatively, we've also got a podcast.
• Should you put your guest's name in your episode title or your episode description? In the title - otherwise you won't appear in search, according to our research.

• The winners of the People's Choice Podcast Awards were announced. The Adam Curry People's Choice Award went to Tell Em Steve-Dave, a comedy podcast.
• The winner of the PodcastOne 'Self Made Podcast Edition' talent competition was announced as Knock Knock, a true crime podcast hosted by Jason B Jones. Jones wins a contract and prize worth $100,000.
• For International Podcast Day, A Kids Book About: The Podcast released an episode "just for you" - a version 'made by artificial intelligence', and different for every listener.
• In the latest edition of Podland, Ross Adams and Johan Billgren from Acast highlight why they see the future of podcasting as being open.
• The most recent episode of Freakonomics Radio looks into "that's a great question", and why Americans use it in interviews (and it is a peculiarly American thing).

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• First look: For International Podcast Day, Apple Podcasts has just released data on their top subscriptions and top free channels. Wondery+ is the most popular paid channel, while The New York Times is the top free channel - the data also reveals that Luminary has been thrown a lifeline becoming the second most popular paid subscription on the platform. We have the full list, and analysis of the results.
• Data: Enterprise podcast host Omny Studio has released stats for International Podcast Day. Apple Podcasts got 55% of downloads in August 2021; Spotify got 14% (doubling in downloads year-on-year); and Google Podcasts is #3 with 4.29% (up by almost 150%). Podcasts on smart speakers have increased by a third.
• Acast is running a podcast advertising campaign this International Podcast Day, with some of Acast's best-known podcasters highlighting the shows that have defined their careers.

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• This International Podcast Day, podcasts have been added to the radio - the radio receiver, that is. If you own a Pure Elan Connect or Connect+, it's been updated today to include podcasts. Here's more details of how to update it. These radios are available across Europe, the UK and Australia.
• Love Apple Podcasts? You can now rate and review inbuilt iOS apps like Apple Podcasts. At the time of writing, Apple Podcasts was the company's worst-rated app with just 2.0 stars after 156 ratings.
• Podcast host Castos has launched a refresh of their UI today. Unusually, they're sharing their design system with the world. The company also introduced support for three new podcast namespace tags last week.
• Podcast host Captivate has a live stream today (12pm Eastern) with a 'huge' new feature. We'll have details of it tomorrow. Podnews's Editor is an advisor.
• In India, podcast network HT Smartcast is cebrating its two year anniversary, having reached more than 50 million listens. The company produces podcasts in six different Indian languages.
• IMDB has made another tentative step into podcasting: listing the winners of the British Podcast Awards all the way back to 2017.
• Shure has released the Shure MV7x, a version of the MV7 with just an XLR connection. Bandrew Scott says, in a review, that "the XLR output sounds 10x better than the XLR output on the original MV7". The company recently sponsored a category in the International Women's Podcast Awards.
• Podcast Movement Evolutions is accepting speaker applications. The event is in Los Angeles CA, Mar 23-26.
• NinjaBuzz is a new service allowing podcasts to find advertisers for sponsorship deals. Just launched, it takes a 15% commission.
• The FCC has fined ViacomCBS and Pluto TV for violating closed-captioning rules. Closed-captions obligations have applied to online services since 2012, but this is the first enforcement action. Captivate's new player has inbuilt transcripts, while podcast players like Podfriend have (if you open the player at the bottom) real-time closed captions, both made possible by the new podcast:transcript tag.
• Audio ad exchange DAX has partnered with Breakbeat, a global hip-hop podcast network run by Kendrick Ashton. The company has also released a study claiming 64% of UK media agencies increased their ad spend in podcasts over the last year.
• The Podcasting, Seriously Awards Fund has partnered with UK audio producer trade body AudioUK to publicise the fund across Britain and Northern Ireland.
• Double Elvis has announced a new music show looking at post-punk, and partnered with three existing music shows.
• Good luck to the entrants for the People's Choice Podcast Awards. The winners will be announced tonight at 9pm Eastern.

• Podcasting is a slow burn - you need to be in it for the long haul. But it isn't just that, says Evo Terra.

• Australian journalist Jessica Rowe has removed an interview from The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show after social media backlash. The interview was with controversial Australian politician Pauline Hanson.
• Popular entertainment website TMZ has launched its podcast, The TMZ Podcast is focusing on the Britney Spears court case.
• Caso 63, a successful Spanish language podcast from Spotify, is to return for a second season. The show has also been adapted in Brazil, India and will make it into English later this year.

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• iOS 15's "Private Relay" has gone live: but what effect will it have on your podcast stats, and on ad-tech? In Sounds Profitable with Magellan AI, Bryan Barletta looks at the impact so far. (You should subscribe!)
• Clubhouse has been criticised for not delivering promised sponsorship. The Verge reports that the Creator First program didn't deliver meaningful stats, promotion, or sponsors. “We’re better off turning this into a podcast, instead of doing it on Clubhouse”, one creator is quoted as saying.
• Wondery has launched a kids podcast subscription service, Wondery+ Kids. For $4.99, the service provides early access to new episodes and exclusive access to select episodes of favorite shows.

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• US comedy writer Scott Aukerman is launching Comedy Bang! Bang! World, a paid-for podcast network. Aukerman, who also launched Earwolf in 2010, is partnering with Acast; subscribers for either $4 or $7 can listen to these shows acro ss almost all podcast apps. Acast's Ross Adams and Johan Billgren are guests tomorrow on the Podland podcast.
• Spotify has released data suggesting that "digital audio is significantly more impactful than radio", because of the tailored nature of listening to on-demand audio. The data claims that Spotify is more impactful than other forms of digital audio, too - due to the user interface, they say.
• Spotify's having more impact on iPhone batteries, though - the company has acknowledged a bug with high battery drain: causing some peoples' phones to use more than 30% of battery life in as little as an hour.
• Hot on the heels of Fireside comes Glow - in terms of name confusion, that is. Just as Mark Cuban's Fireside is nothing to do with Dan Benjamin's Fireside, so Amazon's Glow is nothing to do with Libsyn's Glow. Amazon's Glow, launched yesterday, is a device to help parents play with their kids remotely, while Libsyn's Glow is a podcast membership service. We're pleased to have cleared that one up.
• Podcaster Toni Lodge has been signed by Marchmedia to an exclusive management deal. Toni & Ryan has achieved 300,000 downloads since it launched in mid-August.

• Why, 809 Episodes Later, I’m Still Podcasting - Derrick Story likens podcasting to storytelling.

• NPR's weekly Car Talk program has been taken off the air, more than seven years after the death of one of the co-hosts. The show continues as a podcast, though: a new, twice-weekly podcast will rerun episodes from the show's early years.
• Launching today, NPR's Book of the Day is a daily quick listen with the best book interviews from across NPR, on one podcast feed. The podcast will offer a mix of genre fiction, literary fiction and nonfiction.
• A genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion can no longer be distinct from conducting business successfully. That's one of the key takeaways from Scoot Over, a new podcst from the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship, with journalist Aymann Ismail leading conversations about how to make a more inclusive world.

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• Meet Cute, a popular rom-com podcast, releases its first international production today. Written by Nigerian-based Kasimma and acted and produced by Nigerian creators, it's a story of love, friendship and adventure. In the last 1.5 years, Meet Cute has created over 350 stories.
• A new podcast audio checking service called Vib3s has launched, to check your podcast's audio quality is all that it should be. A free service, we tested it out with Podnews - our podcast's audio scored 3.5 - the algorithm didn't like our background music much, but other scores made good sense.
• The IAB has released a new content taxonomy structure for public comment. The data provides a common language to be used when describing content, so that advertisers can choose where they want to advertise.

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• Audio editing software company Hindenburg is to offer 40% off all its home-user products for International Podcast Day. The company has also announced two webinars on the day - An Introduction to the language of podcasting, and Una Introducción Al Lenguaje Del Podcasting. International Podcast Day is Thursday the 30th.
• Podcast hosting company Captivate revealed their new embeddable podcast player. Here's what it looks like - it's completely screenreader accessible, responsive and has a fully customisable design. The company also promises "a big reveal" on International Podcast Day. Podnews's Editor is an advisor.
• Podcast hosting company Transistor has teased their upcoming dynamic audio insertion tool. The system will offer pre-roll and post-roll.
• iHeartMedia has partnered with Sonoro to launch a slate of eight podcasts for their Latinx podcast network My Cultura.
• Mumbrella write a feature-length piece on podcasting in Australia. "Podcast spend significantly scaling up is clearly some time away, considering of course that the Australian media and marketing industry tends to embrace change in measurement metrics and spending habits with the speed of a semi-trailer doing a U-turn."
• In Amsterdam, RecSys 21 is taking place - a conference on recommendation systems. As part of that, PodRecs was a workshop on Sunday focusing on podcast recommendations. Present were a number of people from Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Apple and the BBC, among others.
• Katherine Wells has joined Vox as Editorial Director of Explanatory Audio, and will oversee all of Vox's narrative shows, including Unexplainable and The Impact. She was previously Executive Producer of Podcasts at The Atlantic.

• Squadcast post 4 Unique Ways to Engage Your Podcast Listeners. It includes welcoming listener feedback. (Yesterday's Podnews podcast had plenty of that).
• Here's how to earn Bitcoin from your podcast.

• Hunker, a home design website, has released its first podcast. Being Home with Hunker features 'honest conversations about design and decor, exploring what it means to be home'.
• To a lesser degree is a new podcast from The Economist, focusing on climate change ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate conference.
• Over My Dead Body has returned for a third series, focusing on a small-town cop who's death uncovered unsettling secrets about the village of Fox Lake IL. The show is available now on Wondery+, and shortly on RSS feeds everywhere.
• True crime doesn't escape even the BBC: Sport's Strangest Crimes returns for a new series, focusing on Allen Stanford, the man who bought cricket. It's produced by South Shore.
• Exclusive to Spotify, Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24 tells the story of Jason Rezaian, a high-profile foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, who spent 544 Days imprisoned by Iranian authorities. The podcast launched today.

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• Research company Statistia has published a map of where podcasts are most popular. Sweden, Ireland and Brazil are the top three countries; with the US on par with the UK, Canada, Australia and others.
• First look: PodcastSOP is being launched tomorrow - a tool to manage the workflow of each new episode release for your podcast, and make it easier to keep on top of shows. "I found that one of the primary reasons that (podcasters) stopped podcasting was due to stress caused from a lack of organization and systems, and that's precisely what PodcastSOP helps with," says founder Alex Sanfilippo.
• The New York Times covers a strange tale about Ozy Media, and an impersonation of a YouTube executive in a call with an investment bank. The company produces podcasts with iHeartMedia.

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• A company called DDEX, which describes itself as an "international standards-setting organization dedicated to improving the exchange of data and information across the music industry", will hold an open meeting tomorrow to discuss proposed requirements for description and communication of music metadata in podcasts.
• Hub & Spoke, a non-profit podcast collective, has secured a donation of $100,000. The collective will hire a development manager with the funding.
• In Australia, the ABC has temporarily removed some episodes of Unravel: Juanita, "in light of new information that casts serious doubt on some of the claims made by interviewee John Innes."
• Ricky Gervais has released another series of Absolutely Mental. The new season costs $15.
• Listening Dog Media and Podcast Radio have partnered to broadcast shows from the podcast network. From 7pm tonight, the station will broadcast One Decision, from the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, and Emmy-winning veteran journalist Michelle Kosinski - formerly CNN’s White House Correspondent.
• MacRumors says there's a new 1.25x playback speed control in Apple Podcasts in iOS 15; and the iPad version has a set of keyboard shortcuts. The comments are not pretty. Meanwhile, "I think this terrible app is one of the worst things Apple makes" is the verdict of tech website BGR.

• Twitter has launched crypto tipping using the lightning network: the same tool used by Podcasting 2.0 value4value apps. The tool uses the Strike API. It's "rolling out" on iOS, but Strike itself - marketed as "money without borders" - is only available in the US and El Salvador.
• Samsung has updated their RSS specifications. The specification, now at v2.0, includes a small list of supported categories: subcategories will not be used.
• Podcast hosting company RSS․com is now supporting the podcast:funding tag. This tag lets podcasters add a link to support the show financially, which appears in apps like Podcast Addict, Podverse, PodcastGuru, PodLP and many more (and our podcast directory too).
• Benjamin Bellamy spoke about the podcast:location tag at the Netherlands Podcast Festival 2021. Here are his slides, containing at least one Photoshop of Podnews's Editor.

• Here, from the UK broadcast regulator Ofcom, is research into swearwords - sorted into "mild", "moderate", and "strong" - and whether everyone knows what they mean. Caution: this list contains almost every swearword available. (This might be helpful, at the very least, to work out whether that podcast is deserving of the 'explicit' tag - though if you're reading this list to find out, the answer's probably "yes".)

• Jackie Gillies, a businesswoman and cast member of Real Housewifes of Melbourne launches Shine It Up today - offering inspiration and motivation to live your best life.
• New from the Wonder Media Network, As She Rises brings together poems from artists throughout the US and territories that depict the effects of climate change on their home and their people.
• Foundation: The Official Podcast is an accompaniment podcast for AppleTV+'s Foundation original show. It was launched on Friday, and is produced by Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios.
• Who, When, Wow! launches today - the first Tinkercast show to launch with Wondery since their partnership was announced last month. Hosted by Rebecca Shier, the show is initially released within the Wondery+ app, and is a peek into the lives of unsung humans.
• The Pod Broads, a podcast about women in podcasting, launched its second series last week. Nichole Perkins was the first guest; the season will also include Misha Euceph, Noor Tagouri, and Avery Trufelman. It's hosted by Alexandra Cohl.

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• A non-profit organisation set up by podcaster Ashley Flowers has led to an arrest in an unsolved case. A suspect was arrested a week ago in connection with eight alleged sexual assault cases, after funding was made available for an advanced DNA test from Flowers' Season of Justice. The funding group is currently assisting 31 cases.
• An indie podcast is now being published via a syndicated weekly column in a number of local newspapers. The podcast, Looking Forward, will be carried in TAPinto newspapers in the US.
• Ashley Carman's Hot Pod Insider reports that podcast company Himalaya has been scaled down, with around eight people, almost half the company's staff, losing their jobs over the summer. Ariel Liu has been made CEO. We reported in April that the company was transitioning towards a focus on audio courses; the company is now pivoting again to "short-form inspirational and motivational content".

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• Clubhouse has added Wave, an equivalent of catching someone in the hallway of a conference and having a quick chat between sessions.
• The August 2021 Latin America Podcast Report has been released by Triton Digital. The highest new entry at #16 was Dementes ("uncensored conversations with leaders of industry").
• There's a new podcast network in France. Orso Media has been launched by Matthieu Stefani and Christofer Ciminelli, and brings together ten podcast creators with more than a million downloads a month.
• Perry Tripp has joined Libsyn's AdvertiseCast as Director of Brand Partnerships. He joins from media company Talkhouse.

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• How to embed a podcast player into your website - we link to a number of free embedded players.

• Science podcast for kids Brains On! will now be heard in US classrooms, after APM entered into a partnership with Listenwise.
• HBO launched a Band of Brothers podcast on the show's 20th anniversary. The 12-part podcast series launched earlier this month, is hosted by Roger Bennett (Men in Blazers, HBO’s Succession podcast) and kicked off with an interview with Band of Brothers Executive Producer and Series Co-Creator, Tom Hanks.
• Undermine is the definitive Phish podcast, which returned for season two a few weeks ago. This season focuses on the Phish community, featuring countless amounts of exciting and in-depth interviews with Phans. In the first episode, Phish lyricist Tom Marshall walks listeners through the evolution of tape trading and the digital dialogue around Phish in the 1990s.

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• A podcast network for women, Ossa, is the focus of an article on the NASDAQ website. Marla Isackson, the founder and CEO, is connecting women-hosted podcasts with women-focused brands in order to increase the representation and influence of women’s voices worldwide.
• PodcastOne has announced the judges for its Self Made Podcast Edition talent competition.
• The 2021 Discover Pods Awards are accepting nominations until tomorrow at 6pm ET. The fifth annual awards claim to be the largest fan-voted awards aiming to celebrate a diverse group of podcasts. It's free to nominate - here's the direct nomination link.

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• The Podcast Host is running a survey finding out the obstacles podcasters face in their podcasting process. You've until Monday, and there's a brand new microphone and headphones up for grabs.
• Spotify has been criticised for promoting a podcast by a far-right comedian.
• Earshot Strategies, a branded podcast production company now in its fifth year, has hired Lucio Mesquita as their Head of Editorial and Operations. He joins from the BBC and the Caribbean's Guardian Media. The company also has a new website.
• The world's #3 podcast app, Google Podcasts, is getting a full Material You update. "Material You" will be the new style for Android 12, which is shortly to be released. You need the latest Google App, a Google Pixel phone, and you need to wait for a server-side update, just like the new UI elements promised in August, which we're still waiting for, no pressure.
• Google Podcasts has also released a new version of its app on iOS. The app is now updated to v2.0.13, and "includes bug fixes and performance improvements". Maybe the new UI is hidden in that, too.

• Podcast Maker Day is today, from podcast host Captivate. It's free for everyone, and includes guest speakers and help launching a podcast.
• Also today, a workshop on the keys to avoiding burnout and making sure the process of producing your podcast stays enjoyable. From Squadcast, it's at 4pm ET.
• Evo Terra highlights why learning podcasting from the pros is bad advice.

• The Nutrition Couch has joined iHeartPodcast Network Australia. It's hosted by two leading dieticians, Susie Burrell and Leanne Ward.
• In Podland later today, Sam Sethi and James Cridland speak to Nielsen's Bruce Supovitz and Arica McKinnon about their Podcasting Today report, and Richard Kramer about Spotify and hyper-competition.

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• 31% of consumer media consumption is now audio - but only 8.8% of the average media advertising budget is allocated to audio, says new research from WARC and iHeartMedia. 25% of advertisers do not invest in audio at all, according to the data, which was presented at AudioCon; the report also suggests that ad-spend for podcasting is growing.
• Widely reported elsewhere, eMarketer suggests that Spotify will overtake Apple Podcasts in the US this year in terms of total audience. The data is sourced "from eMarketer": we've no understanding of where their data is from or how it's gathered.
  • In terms of total global downloads, Buzzsprout's figures for August suggest it's already happened: Spotify is on 31.7% and Apple Podcasts on 26.9%. Libsyn, however, says August's figures show Apple at 59.3% and Spotify 15.1%. Podnews analysis in May suggests that both companies' figures are incorrect.
  • Mind, all podcasts are different. Last Friday, Podnews's podcast had just over 2,400 downloads: we saw 330 via Apple Podcasts, and, according to the Spotify dashboard, just 30 stream starts on Spotify.
• Podcasting in Africa is growing all over the continent, and Africa Podfest is launching a Discovery Tour around African podcasting hubs. The virtual tour kicks off with Zambia on September 29th: it's free, with another three countries to come later in the year.

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• Last year, the Podcast Editor Survey discovered that the average amount charged by podcast editors was $133 per episode. But what will it be this year? If you're an editor, you're invited to complete the survey.
• Spotify has highlighted their France podcast slate for Q3/21. There are thirteen upcoming podcasts, and what Spotify calls "the country's first video podcast".
• Amaze Media Labs has expanded its sports podcast network division. The company has launched two new podcast networks - The Pigskin Podcast Network (covering NFL, college football, football betting and fantasy football), and The Basketball Podcast Network.
• SiriusXM has launched a Marvel channel on Apple Podcasts Susbcriptions, with paid shows including a Spanish-language version of Wolverine, a documentary series, and new titles.
• The Ambies are open for entry - there are two new categories: Best Podcast for Kids, and a new category for Best Indie Podcast. You've until early December.
• The AES, the Audio Engineering Society, has released its recommendations for podcast loudness levels. For speech, the paper recommends -18 LUFS; however, this is quieter than Apple, Spotify or Google recommend.
• Steve Perrault has been hired as Senior Producer for MLB content by Audacy's 2400Sports podcast studio. He joins from Barstool Sports.
• Korri Kolesa is Veritonic's new Chief Revenue Officer. She joins from ART19.
• Spotify has published a technical paper on their search engine: highlighting that music searches are very different for podcast searches. Users "spend significantly more time inputting and rewriting queries to find podcasts as compared to music", the research says.

• On Reddit, Andrew Warner writes a piece about "podcast ad revenue - what I've learned over ten years". He says: "Make sure your ad sponsors are just as valuable to your listeners as your show. A bad sponsor will make you lose listeners, and when you lose listeners, you lose good sponsors."
• Evo Terra posts Five resources to help you think like a serious podcaster. #1 is good. We like #1.

• Margins of Error is new from CNN, discovering the statistical stories that are hidden under the radar. The first episode focuses on the paranormal: more than four times the number of Americans believe in ghosts than did in the 1970s. It's hosted by Harry Enten.
• The Dougherty Gang launched earlier this week; it's part of a new true-crime slate from iHeartMedia and KT-Studio.
• Badlands: Sportsland launches today, taking a deep dive into the most sensational true crime stories in the world of sports: Mike Tyson, Oscar Pistorious, Evel Knievel and OJ Simpson are just some of the athletes who'll be covered. It's hosted by Jake Brennan, and available to binge on Amazon Music.
• Getting Back There From Here is a new audio fiction series from writer and director Neil Cargill, shedding light on the experience of auditory hallucinations. Recorded remotely in several countries from Scotland, it's launched today.
• This is Europe returns for a new season. Shahidha Bari will take you on a six-part journey across Europe - showing how Interreg is transforming communities and changing lives with co-operative schemes impacting on issues such as re-using waste products, reducing traffic and resettling refugees.
• How We Survive has just been announced, looking at the technology that could provide some of solutions to the climate crisis. The first season looks at lithium: and why our survival might depend on it; it's hosted by Molly Wood.

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