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• Apple has confirmed a download bug has been fixed in iOS 14.7. This meant downloads from Apple Podcasts were down 20% in June and much of July. Since Apple accounts for almost half of all podcast downloads, it had a big effect on the industry - one analyst criticised Spotify, causing its stock to drop by $2.5bn: because of lower Podtrac figures caused by Apple's bug.
• Daniel Ek doesn't believe Spotify has any editorial responsibility over what's said in the Joe Rogan podcast, according to an interview. The show is a Spotify exclusive; Spotify paid the podcaster $100m for his show.
• Facebook has been showing off more of its plans for podcasting and audio. Ashley Carman tweets videos of Clips, a new podcast discovery service, and apparently automated captioning is coming. The service is unavailable to most podcasters, and entirely absent for the 97% of the world's population who don't live in the US.

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• German podcast Cui Bono: WTF happened to Ken Jebsen? is to become a TV show: Florida Film is producing a six-part documentary based on the podcast, which traces the path of a public radio broadcaster turned conspiracy theorist. (Thanks, Steffen!)
• Audio-Technica has released a new low-cost dynamic microphone, the AT2040.
• Paula Szuchman has been named Director of Audio at the New York Times.
• WAMU, the public radio station in Washington DC, is hiring an Executive Producer, Podcasts.
• Last Friday, we disclosed that FeedBurner (still) powers 56,000 podcasts: a number we sourced from the PodcastIndex database. In The New Media Show, Todd Cochrane commented: "I'm not surprised. The question is, are they active?" Here's the answer: of the 56,000 Feedburner shows in the Podcast Index, 9,115 (16%) were updated in the last 90 days - including The Adam Carrolla Show, Tom Merritt's Daily Tech News Show, TED Talks Daily, The Moth, and shows from the Irish Times and Monocle 24, just to name a few.

• Looking for a reason to send out a press release? The 3 Takeaways podcast has "reached the top 2.5% of global podcasts", according to a release yesterday. The data is from ListenNotes, and based on a proprietary Listen Score, - worked out by activities on the ListenNotes website, media mentions and reviews. Podnews is a "top 1.5%": it's likely you'll be at least top 5%.
• Steps to create your own podcast tribe - James Marriott has a five-step plan for full-on cheerleaders for your show.

• Dave Winer was a guest on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People a few weeks ago in this episode. He talks about the invention of the RSS feed, and the first podcast. (thanks, Josie!)
  • Hosted by Ivy Queen on Spotify, LOUD is brand new today, exploring the touchstones of Reggaeton through on-the-ground reporting spanning countries all across the globe. Each episode serves as a chapter in the story of the genre: from traces of the music beat that sparked a war between two San Juan DJs (and resulted in a drive-by shooting injury of Daddy Yankee) to drug trades and fearful politicians that shaped the successes of cultural hits like “Gasolina.”

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• The creator of Lore, Aaron Mahnke returns with Bridgewater, with a promo set to launch later today. It's the supernatural story of folklore professor Jeremy Bradshaw, who is pulled into the mysterious 1980 disappearance of his police officer father. The screenplay is written by Lauren Shippen; Bridgewater is on all major platforms.
• Spotify's podcast ad revenue has jumped 627% year-on-year, according to their revenue announcement today: Joe Rogan and Megaphone helping the increase. We learnt that Podz cost the company $53.4m; and Greenroom $67.7m. The company appears to have stopped reporting the number of monthly users who listen to podcasts. They have 365m monthly users; last we heard, 25% of them (91m) listen to podcasts.
  • Spotify stocks did drop, though: they had slower user growth, partly caused by an issue with email verification which perhaps cost the company two million users. (We feel better at our bugs now).
• First look: Podcast producer Jam Street Media has been acquired by Amaze Media Labs, in a deal announced today. No terms were given. Amaze Media Labs owns a number of podcast networks; Jam Street Media is run by Matty Staudt, a member of the start-up team at Stitcher and iHeartRadio's first VP of Podcast Programming.

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• First look: Acast has expanded its Acast Creative unit to the US, to work with sellers and production partners to offer new creative solutions. Shantae Howell has been appointed Creative Director of the Americas; she joins from Vox Media.
• “South East Asia is the blue ocean. I see all the action happening in the West: guys, the whole supply, the next frontier is here.” So says Ron Baetiong, the founder and CEO of Podcast Network Asia, interviewed on this week's Podland. Podcasting is growing fast in the Philippines and Indonesia: countries where Spotify has a significant lead.
• Audioboom has signed a distribution agreement with Samsung Podcasts, the podcast app for Galaxy phones. (You can submit your show there too - find the details here).
• The NBA, the National Basketball Association, has signed with US podcast producer iHeartMedia to produce more than twenty podcasts.
• Daniela Garcia from PodBooking, a social networking app for podcasting, is interviewed by PodBible.

• Think you need a big budget for a podcast? Megan Jones, the producer of Museums n'That at Leeds Museums and Galleries in the UK, says that a big budget is nothing without personality.

• Axios Re:Cap had a special guest, focusing on Spotify's continued growth: none other than Daniel Ek himself. He'll be on the For The Record podcast on Spotify this week, too.
• A new series of the Puffin Podcast: Mission Imagination, has launched. Hosted by multi award winning comedian Babatunde Aléshé, it's made for the British summer holidays: each weekly episode will whoosh children away to a different magical world created by a fantastic Puffin author. It's made by Mags Creative.
• The audio producer of international hit Teacher's Pet has released The Elements, a new podcast that journeys into the heart of surviving a disaster. Slade Gibson, the audio producer and composer, won a Walkley Award alongside Hedley Thomas for his work on Teacher's Pet.
• Malpraktis Universiti launched yesterday: the first fiction thriller podcast in the Malay language. A remotely produced podcast, it highlights mental health issues faced by the local student population and subtly calls out government ineptitude in managing the COVID crisis. It was produced by ZAG Podcasts in Kuala Lumpur.
• Long Shot is new from iHeartRadio and School of Humans, examining the history and 250-year journey to the COVID-19 vaccines. It's hosted by journalist Shaun Raviv.

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• Spotify has announced the first partners for their Open Access feature, which will allow paid subscriptions from third parties to work with Spotify. They include Acast+, Glow․fm, Memberful, Supporting Cast and Supercast, as well as a number of publishers. See analysis, below.
  • Spotify's Megaphone has signed Canada's The Weather Network to the Spotify Audience Network.
  • The company's research department has also published a paper about recommendations.
• Magellan AI has launched its Q2/21 (US) Podcast Advertising Benchmark Report. It says that podcast ad spending continues to grow (up 22% from last quarter), and has seen a 55% increase on brands using the medium.
• Buzzsprout has added a dynamic content library, allowing you to save and track dynamic pre-rolls or post-rolls. The feature also comes with tracking, so you know how many times each pre-roll or post-roll has been heard.

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• Podcast editor Descript has launched "Studio Sound", a "voice regeneration" service that claims to reduce noise, remove room echo and to "make it sound like you're in a studio". There's a little demo on the website; it's in opt-in beta.
• Headliner Backstage has been launched: anyone with a recording from a social audio app, can now upload, transcribe, and create promotional videos. It features speaker separation, is integrated with Headliner, and is free to use.
• Lantigua Williams & Co has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant for a documentary reparations podcast.
• Podcast app Shuffle has added a set of AI-powered chatbots so you can pretend you're chatting with Joe Rogan, Bill Simmons, Alexandra Cooper, or other podcasters. We asked some awkward questions of Rogan, all of which "he" declined to answer.
• In Mexico, commercial radio broadcaster Grupo Radio Centro has launched Audio Centro, a specific division for podcasts. Podcasts include daily news, horro fiction, and a comedy show.
• TEGNA's Locked On Podcast Network has announced that twenty local sports shows are now available on YouTube as well as on TEGNA tv station's apps.
• Jennifer Dollard has been promoted by Acast to Content Director, Ireland; and the company has hired Hannah O'Connell as Associate Partner Manager in the country. The announcement says Acast is achieving 7.5m listens in Ireland every month, and has significant revenue growth in the country.
• Isabel Lara has been promoted to NPR's first Chief Communications Officer.
• Changes at Chartable? In May, CRO Christopher Calvi left the company, Account Exec Megan Johnson moved to Podsights, and COO Karo Chakhlasyan left this month to rejoin Wondery.

• Rating and reviewing a podcast won't help it get to the top of the Apple Podcast charts, says the Australian ABC's Andrew Davies in the latest edition of Podcasting Essentials - but you can benefit from clear calls-to-action in your podcast.
• How to promote your podcast on social media - from Buzzsprout's podcast marketing series.

• Toxic: The Britney Spears Story has been downloaded over 550,000 times in the first three weeks, according to SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz in an earnings call.
• Crane's Corner, the popular feature once heard on Sacramento's NewsRadio KFBK, is now a podcast. Journalist Ed Crane has covered some of the biggest stories in the past four decades.

Spotify's announcement about their open access feature conveniently includes many of the main competitors to Apple Podcasts paid subscriptions. Patreon may be included through their Acast integration, we'd guess; leaving Substack as the only major service not included.

With this announcement, Spotify is supporting a variety of different ways to charge for your podcast, if you so wish - using services like Memberful, Supporting Cast or Acast+. Unlike Apple, each of these allow you to keep control over your membership list; none charge anywhere near the 30% fee that Apple does; and, unlike apple, all work on Android, the most popular mobile OS in every continent.

Since the Apple Podcasts app also accepts private RSS feeds, all these services also work with Apple: the only drawback is that users need to subscribe on a website away from the Apple ecosystem.

Spotify is showing that it's entirely comfortable playing in the open world of RSS, and now an open world of paid subscriptions: however you want to sell them.

Apple Podcasts, iOS-only, with a 100% lock-in model for subscriptions and a hefty commission, would seem to offer less earning potential for creators.

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• Audacy has launched Podsauce, a podcast discovery show. The show (in both audio and video) will "give viewers and listeners the inside scoop on new podcasts from the genre’s top talent and discover hidden gems they might otherwise have missed out on." There will also be a minute-long version on the radio.
• LA Weekly carried an article praising 'king of podcasting' Peter Vincer, which appears to be paid content, linking to a 12-minute denial video from Vincer on YouTube tackling a number of accusations made by The Verge in early June. The video includes a number of screengrabs of messages that he says refutes points in The Verge's story, and ends with a quote from The Office.
• Yesterday, we covered the indie Shattered Glass podcast who successfully got Kristen Bell and Monica Padman to stop using their show's name. They've now published an open letter: it turns out that "in episode 2 of your podcast, you acknowledged our existence, admitted you knew about us, and then proceeded to encourage others also to start a podcast in our name." They suggest that the Hollywood stars donate to three organisations, and give advertising space to people who advance women but also protect their intellectual property. Seems a good call.

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• Spotify has added a "what's new" feed, containing new podcast episodes and music from people you're following. You'll find it by tapping the bell on the home tab; it's rolling out to all users.
• EU countries are dragging their feet to enact new controversial copyright rules. Reuters reports that many European broadcasters and artists are unhappy about a potential weakening of Article 17, which could force platforms like YouTube, Instagram and even podcast apps to filter for copyrighted content.
• You wait all year for a collaboration tool for podcast producers, and then two come along at once. Yesterday we mentioned Episode Check; today, EditPoint, a tool that works on an iPhone or iPad. It's designed to let you listen or check a show while doing other things, and comes complete with pre-filled buttons to note issues.
• What's behind the year-over-year decrease in podcast downloads for June 2021? Podtrac posts a blog, confirming what we reported on July 2 - a bug in Apple Podcasts has resulted in at least a 20% dip in downloads on the platform. The fix was rolled out on July 20; so you'll see big increases in August: and, really, they were up 5%, they say.
• iHeartMedia has signed with Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated Studios for a multi-year audio content deal.
• The Sports Podcast Awards will be announced later today, we understand. With 27 categories for sports podcasts, they were initially announced in April. Emails sent to podcasters say the categories are open from now until the end of September; the winners will be announced in a live-streamed event in February.
• Spotify has announced "The Final Chapters of Richard Brown Winters", a 90-minute "feature-length" fiction podcast, from Gimlet.

• What goes into planning a paid promotional campaign to support a podcast? The UK podcast producer Listen, along with ad-buyer Carat, highlight their learnings.

• The New Statesman Podcast currently has a special set of episodes co-hosted by Armando Ianucci, the writer of Veep and The Thick of It, to examine how Britain could do politics better. Episode one went live this week, with Ian Hislop and Jill Rutter.
• Raising capital? Planning your fundraise? Funded - how they raised millions is back for a second season, launching with three startup founders who raised over $77m from 18 investors.

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• Audacity has updated its privacy policy, and the team has apologised for some wording that "begged for misinterpretation". The company has amended its policy to no longer store IP addresses (even for 24 hours); and removed a restriction for under-13s.
  • Opinion: The privacy policy now seems clear and fit for purpose. However, it's highly unlikely that the amendment about storing IP addresses would have been made without independent media holding them to account.
• iHeartRadio is #1 for podcasts, according to the Media Monitors Podcast Listener Survey for the second half of June. Joe Rogan and The Daily are #1 and #2 shows; comedy is the #1 genre. The research is based on recall; Media Monitors is owned by iHeartMedia.
• Apple Podcasts is hiring for a Head of Content. This was N'Jeri Eaton's title.

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• Clubhouse no longer has a waitlist, and is open to everyone. It's also got a nice new logo, and a fancy website. Ed Zitron isn't a fan, calling it a stinker.
• Podcast Movement's Dan Franks talks to Audioburst about what to expect at Podcast Movement 2021. The event talkes place in Nashville TN, USA, on August 3-6. (One thing not to expect, sadly, is Podnews - we can't travel).
• The Melbourne Podcast Festival has been rescheduled to September 17-19. Tickets are still valid.
• DM Podcasts has partnered with talent agency Born Bred Talent to offer brands access to their podcasters.
• Podsights and ARN's iHeartPodcast Network have released details on the ad conversion rates for the network, which they say are higher than social media channels.
• Scott Galloway, the co-host of Pivot, has had his Bloomberg TV show cancelled after posting a weird half-clothed promo for it.
• Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are releasing a book of the Renegades: Born in the USA podcast.

• Spotify Greenroom records in 64kbps 48kHz mono MP3, in case you're wondering.
• Stop researching gear and focus on making your content better, says a redditor.

• All the trains in my son’s train podcast ranked by how much I hate them has almost nothing to do with podcasts, other than being sparked by listening to Thomas & Friends Storytime over and over again. (Here's one with US accents). We thought it was worth linking to, though.
• MECCA Talks is new from Australasian cosmetic brand MECCA, working with Acast. It features conversations with brand founders, industry experts and MECCA’s in-house specialists, and has deep dives into the history of iconic beauty formulations.
• Sealed Section is a new health podcast from Mamamia, with Chantelle Otten focusing on intimate, private issues for women. There are some things just too personal for many women to talk about even with your closest friends.
• Gastropod, a food, science and history podcast, has joined the Vox Media Network, working with Eater.

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• In Canada, Corus radio stations have launched The Curiouscast Podcast Hour, airing a weekly show with a different podcast episode every week from the company. It'll be hosted by Chris "Dunner" Duncombe, the Director of Podcasting and Streaming for Corus Entertainment, and aired on GLobal News stations. The company owns 39 stations in eight of Canada's top ten markets.
• NBC has launched five podcasts around the Tokyo Olympics, and the NBC Olympics Apple Podcasts channel. The Podium and In The Village will both be daily.
• Podcorn's CEO is interviewed for an advertorial in MediaVillage about earning money with podcasts. The company, owned by Audacy, has 48,000 podcasters using their platform.

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• BetterHelp is still the US's biggest podcast advertiser, says Magellan AI, with NBCUniversal (Peacock) a distant #2. They have a market update webinar today at 11am ET.
• Libsyn announced a partnership with Canva, to help podcasters produce show and episode art.
• macOS Big Sur 11.5 has been released. The 3.84GB of download will give you minor enhancements to the Podcasts app, a bugfix for Apple Music, and fixes something you won't have noticed that was broken with some smart cards that you don't use.

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• What's the perfect length for your podcast episodes? Kristi Jacobsen has another take on the age-old question. Here's our answer, by the way
• Pointing at recent upheavals in the industry, Evo Terra has some advice to survive: including to diversify your podcast's assets and footprint.
• Pacific Content post How to Interview Someone While Climbing a Volcano, which seems a niche skill. It's really about face-to-face interviewing skills, which we once had a while ago.

• This Is America with Rich Valdes has signed an agreement with YEA Networks. YEA will provide hosting and sales representation. It'll be produced by Valdes’s production company, the ABC Recording Network.
• For ten years, an arsonist terrorized Southern California, burning down businesses in broad daylight. Four people died. Then a manuscript for a novel led investigators to the last person they would have ever suspected. Firebug is new today from Marc Smerling's Truth Media and Sony Music Entertainment.
• On Podland this week, sponsored by Buzzsprout and Riverside․fm, NOVA Entertainment's Head of Podcasts & Digital Content Rachel Corbett co-hosts with James Cridland, Podnews's Editor. We talk fiction podcasts, dynamic ad insertion, podcast market slowdowns, GoodPods and social audio; and an we have an interview with Grammar Girl's Mignon Fogarty, who has been podcasting since 2006.

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• First look: Crooked Media has signed with Acast to unlock international advertising and sponsorships across its podcasts. The company's shows will be available to advertisers in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for the first time.
• Audioboom has released their H1/21 half-year financial report. Revenue is up 93% on H1/20. The company makes $50.73 per thousand downloads, a figure that's up 92%. In June they saw 92.8m downloads.
• Substack is funding the launch of Booksmart Studios, a podcast network, to the tune of "a six-figure advance". So far, they've launched Amna Khalid's Banished, John McWhorter's Lexicon Valley and Bob Garfield's Bully Pulpit, with two more titles to come.

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• Shuffle, a podcast app allowing you to chat with other fans, is now available in "Early Access" for Android users. (This is a limited-place beta test program, open to anyone).
• Spotify's Parcast is reported to have signed a first-look deal with UK podcast producer Noiser.
• Transistor's campaign to get 25 companies to enable Stripe Climate, and donate at least 1% of their revenue towards fighting climate change, has been achieved within 24 hours.
• Triton Digital's LATAM Podcast Report for June is out, with a debut appearance from Audiochuck Adlarge/cabana's Crime Junkie.
• Podshare is a new online ad-tech platform launched today. Andrew Menczel, the co-founder of owning company Piccolo Podcasts and Media, says: “Our platform will make it easy for brands big and small, local and international to find your podcast and sign up to advertise with you.”
• Launched earlier this week, Hope Media, a Christian broadcaster in Sydney NSW Australia, has unveiled a collection of podcasts that they describe as "something for everyone", including buried stories in Australian history, Christian sporting elites and wisdom from leaders.
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• Acast says that they've learnt a lot about podcast subscriptions while beta-testing Acast+; pricing appears to be best at around a cup of coffee ($3-5), and a great starting goal is 3% of your audience.

• We Interrupt This Broadcast was launched yesterday: narrated by NBC's Brian Williams, each podcast episode unfolds and presents an in-depth look into the reporting of, and reaction to events that have since become history. It's based on the book by Joe Garner.
• The Town That Knew Too Much launches today: a podcast documentary about Cheltenham, the home of British spying. Nick Hilton, the host and producer, was interviewed on the Podland podcast last week.
• PodcastOne has launched Cheating: When Love Lies, which delves into the taboo topic of cheating and asks the hard questions about affairs: how common are they, who’s having them, and why?
• The Haunted Estate with CelinaSpookyBoo has teamed up with Studio71 for new episodes, guests and wild stories about not just spooky things but the hauntings of everyday life. It made it to the top 75 of the Apple Podcasts chart.
• From Left Handed Radio, John Jambon hosts Your Stupid Stupendous Brain. In this episode he uncovers the mystery of 2011: a year that everyone swears they can remember even though it never officially occurred.
• The Reasonable Doubt Podcast, a companion podcast to ID's Reasonable Doubt TV show, has launched season two, with exclusive insight on the investigations seen on TV, provide updates on where the case stands now, and discuss what didn’t make it into each episode.
• Running Things with Donovan Bailey launched last week, hosted by the world record-breaking sprinter and two-time Olympic Champion. It describes itself as "a major new lifestyle talk show to the podcast space, featuring an internationally-renowned heavyweight from the world of sports." It's being distributed by Acast.

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• Listening to fiction podcasts have grown by as much as 338% in Sweden in the past year, according to Karin Bäckmark, Spotify's Nordic podcast manager (pictured, left). The company has announced a new audio drama, called De Fria, which will start recording on location near Nynäshamn in September. It'll be released in 2022, and will be directed by award-winning director Peter Grönlund (pictured, right), produced by Munck Media.
• The social podcasting app GoodPods has received an update this week, with good news for indie podcasters. The leaderboards (hit search, then scroll down) have an "indie only" switch, which filters out the corporate shows. There's also a "your friends listened-to" view, also to help discover new shows. You should claim your podcast (edit your profile), too.
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• The June 2021 US Podcast Report is out from Triton Digital. Stitcher are #1 for a second month, beating NPR (though iH eartRadio isn't measured). Average weekly downloads for the top 10 publishers were up by 5% year-on-year, in spite of an Apple Podcasts auto-download bug and a shift to IAB v2.1. (One investment analyst recently used figures from the competing Podtrac ranker to claim podcasting was in negative growth).

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• Luminary has partnered with Times of India investment arm Times Bridge to launch in the country; we're promised Indian original content, and the press release claims India has a monthly podcast listenership of 58m people.
• Radio is making way for podcasts - in Cleveland, quite literally. Evergreen Podcasts has purchased the former radio station complex of WDOK-FM. The building is six times larger than Evergreen's current offices; the company will employ 25 people by the end of the year. The building is in "Radio Lane", but that name's unlikely to change for now. WDOK-FM, better known as Cleveland's Star 102, moved in to the Halle Building with other Audacy stations in 2012.
• Digital Music News suggests that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry got $25m from Spotify last year, but so far have only made one, 35-minute, show.

• An oldie but a goodie: how to add your podcast to every podcast directory
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• Podland News this week with James Cridland and Sam Sethi talks to Nick Hilton about his new podcast, Jemily Rime talks about the future of podcasting, and Zach and Rock from Squadcast talk about their new release, which'll go down well with one of the sponsors, Riverside FM. Also sponsored by Buzzsprout.
• Jools and Jim's Joyride is back for a new season: musician Jools Holland and surreal comedian Jim Moir have a relaxed, rambling chat with celebrity friends about transport, travel, trips and tittle tattle. The first guest is Rob Brydon.

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• Half of the shows listened-to on Audioboom are from their back catalogue of older shows: so they've launched AdRip, a tool that automatically rips out live ad-reads in old podcasts, replacing them with new ads, so creators can earn more revenue.
  • The company has also signed a multi-year ad-sales agreement with Zane & Heath's Unfiltered. The hosts have signed with talent agency UTA.
• Clubhouse has added a new messaging system, called Backchannel. It allows speakers to get questions from the audience and chat with co-hosts without disrupting the room, and should be especially useful to podcasters.
• It's been a year since ACPM in France started measuring podcasts in one of two rankers in the country. Le POD has some infographics showing how it's grown, and the latest numbers - 225 podcasts were measured last month; three only achieved one download. Go and give La parole aux enfants ! a listen, and double their numbers.

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• Bernstein, an investment company, released a report questioning Spotify's podcast investments in what they term "a slowing market". Spotify's stock dropped 6% on the news.
  • Analysis: Bernstein quotes Podtrac figures as evidence of this 'slowing market', saying that in June, listening sank 16.5% year-on-year. However, Podtrac don't measure Spotify's podcasts; and it's notable that the top ten publishers in Triton Digital's latest Podcast Report for the US (measuring May vs May) shows an 11.4% growth in downloads. However, a bug in Apple Podcasts may affect total downloads in June.
• Liam Geraghty has been appointed Audio Content Producer for Intercom. Liam was a freelance audio producer creating work for RTÉ Radio in Ireland as well as podcasts for clients like Intel and A&E Networks.

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• You can now submit your podcast to Samsung Podcasts - a player that exists on selected Samsung smartphones. We've added it to our big list of places to add your podcast.
• In case you missed it yesterday: research on what podcast apps index to help you find shows. Mark Steadman discovers that pushing lots of detail in your episode notes is almost entirely pointless for in-app SEO.

• Congratulations to The Bugle, the audio newspaper for a visual world. A 14 year-old podcast, it launched in October 2007 and is shortly to hit 500 total episodes - this week reaching episode 200 without John Oliver, who got too famous and important to bother with it. Now totally independent, the show's had 150 million global listens.
• Written off is new today from Lemonada Media. Walter Thompson-Hernández speaks with formerly incarcerated young writers, and their work is read by creatives like John Legend.
• Facilitating groups can be a minefield, and a joy. Facilitate This! was launched last month to help those who work with groups and collaborative leadership.
• Psychoactive is a new show from Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance in the US. It promises to get to the bottom of the strange relationship with the US and drugs by talking with scientists, politicians, activists and celebrities.

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• Exclusive: Do podcast apps use your podcast's description to help people find new shows? Should you put your guest's name in your episode title? Which apps search which bits of your RSS feed? Three weeks in the making, Mark Steadman from podcast studio Origin has catalogued what every big podcast app indexes, and how to help listeners find your podcast.
• The number of US Latino podcast listeners has soared. According to new data from Edison Research, the number of Latino listeners is up by 44% year-on-year; 36% of Latino adults are now listening every month. (Más información en español)
• Fiction podcasts are growing in Asia, with the launch of Fey Hollow: The Fairy Tale Murders. A new true crime thriller podcast from Singapore's AXN, the podcast has a dual ending that allows listeners to choose how they want the show to finish - "making them the creator and the audience at the same time", says the producer, KC Global Media. The show's already hit #1 in the island state.

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• Wondery+ is now on Apple Podcasts Subscriptions. Subscribers get ad-free listening, early access, and exclusive content for $4.99/month after a 7 day free trial.
• Apple has made some clarifications to new show submissions within Apple Podcasts Connect. By default, when you submit a new show it will appear in the API, so your show will appear in other podcast apps too: if you want to opt out, you'll now be given a confirmation message to ensure you understand that the show will only be available on Apple Podcasts. We've updated our page showing where to add your podcast.
• In the UK, the BBC has launched a podcast accelerator programme called BBC Sounds Audio Lab. It will give six audio creatives the opportunity to turn their ideas into a series of podcasts for BBC Sounds, and will also include a number of free masterclasses.
• Audioboom has promoted two new senior team members: Thomas Mancusi is Chief Revenue Officer, and Erica Tong as Chief Operating Officer. Both have been with the company for five years.
• Podcast host Whooshkaa claims it's the first podcast host to recertify for the IAB Podcast Guidelines v2.1. (Julep Hosting from Germany was first to certify for this new standard).
• Parcast has released their 100th show for non-US markets. The first, in November 2019, was an adaptation of Cults for the German market, Sekten & Kulte - Im Namen des Bösen; the latest is Horoscope Today: Stars Edition for Australia and New Zealand.
• The trend for shorter content appears to have reached Amazon, which has launched Kindle Vella, a mobile-first serialized story experience.
• Backtracks has released an integration with Google Data Studio, allowing publishers to build custom reports and dashboards.
• macOS11.5 has reached release candidate stage, which normally means this operating system will be released publicly soon - it contains some improvements to the Podcasts app, it seems.
• FastCompany publishes an article they first entitled "6 alternatives to Apple's terrible podcast app", telling a story about one devoted podcast listener who carries his old phone around just so he can keep using the old version of the Apple Podcasts app.
• That fake Overcast app is still in the Google Play store. Marco Arment, the developer of the real Overcast (and owner of the trademark) describes Google Play as "a garbage fire of copyright and trademark infringement".
• The NATPE ContentCast event focusing on The Business of Podcasting is today from 12pm ET. It's free to watch; our Editor is moderating a panel just before the final session.

• Jeremy Enns joins Nick Schildberger and Nicole Goodman to talk about how to get more podcast listeners in this week's Podcasting Essentials.

• Dr Death premieres this Thursday on the US television service Peacock. Listeners to the podcast feed can hear a conversation between Dr. Randall Kirby and Christian Slater, the actor who plays him, starting today. Wondery+ subscribers, including on Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, get exclusive, ad-free access to season two about Dr. Fata plus ad-free access to season one and all bonus episodes.
• Emprendedores con Luis von Ahn is a new original podcast from Adonde Media, the globally minded podcast production company that is also behind the hit Duolingo podcasts. The podcast is executive produced by Martina Castro, and 'features the stories of latinamerican entrepreneurs behing the social impact startups that are changing the world'. It's hosted by Luis von Ahn, the CEO and cofounder of Duolingo.
• The US network of daily, local podcasts, CityCast has announced eight new cities to add to Chicago IL and Denver CO. Upcoming cities are Boise ID, Houston TX, Las Vegas NV, Nashville TN, Oakland CA, Omaha NE, Pittsburgh PA and Salt Lake City UT. Their website has a mailing list to join so you know when your local city has launched.
• Manatomy is a new podcast where celebrities talk openly and frankly about their bodies. It's hosted by Danny Wallace and Phil Hilton, from Stitcher. Wallace: "Men just don’t talk about this to each other, they don’t have that chat. Manatomy hopes to change that"
• The Rush looks at different ways that our brains get the biochemical rush we crave. It's hosted by Josh Szeps, who gets force-fed fatty foods, falls off a tower, and gets tied up in rope.

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• Australians love their smart speakers, according to new research from Edison Research and Commercial Radio Australia. 26% of people own one; compared to 33% in the US. The research doesn't specifically mention podcast consumption (though 41% claim to use it to "get the news").
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• The Australian Podcast Ranker is also out for June, measuring participating publishers. Casefile True Crime is still #1, but Hamish & Andy has moved up to #2. Casefile is now on a break while their anonymous host recovers: so, will we see a new #1 for July?
• RSS Podcasting has launched a community section of their website, promoting the varied shows available on their hosting platform.

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• The ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ podcast from the far north of Canada has helped identify the Inuktitut storyteller in an archive recording about a creature named Qallupilluk. Koonoo Ipirq died in the late 1980s. It's the second storyteller to be identified by the show.
• Audiovalley, the owners of Targetspot, have posted their H1/21 revenue. Targetspot revenue is up 56.3% at €11.2m (US $13.2m). It also owns music rights company Jamendo, Shoutcast and Winamp.
• Matt Deegan writes about organising the British Podcast Awards. Look at the cushions! We published the full winners list yesterday.
• We've dropped the ball, says Evo Terra: promoting the benefit of Podcasting 2.0 and the new namespace for the future of the medium. Meanwhile, Tanner Campbell suggests that RSS isn't just dated, it's quickly approaching irrelevancy.
• Is podcasting's future using Tik Tok stars? BlueWire has signed 12 Tik Tok influencers; and Stay Hot has grown to be one of their biggest podcasts, CEO Kevin Jones tells Podnews.
• Successful Farming has signed podcast publisher Global Ag Network for adsales representation for their podcasts.
• СЛЫШ! The Russian Podcast Festival is free on YouTube between July 16-18, with more than seventy speakers.
• Caution: A version of Overcast appears to be on the Google Play store for Android users. It isn't Overcast: it's the codebase for AntennaPod with lots of ads thrown in, and just uses the Overcast logo and name. We'd recommend PocketCasts if you're looking for a decent podcast player.

• How to design a profitable branded podcast that doesn't sound like a branded podcast - Paul Colligan cautions you to work with the client and set a simple goal.
• Andrew Gold posts How My Podcast Went from 4 Monthly Listens to 20k per Week - "and how every podcaster can use this strategy to increase their audience". It's relatively simple, too - as long as your podcast is good, he adds.

• Digital Citizen launches today: a podcast that helps you become a more responsible digital citizen and make the internet a better place. From Fastmail, it's produced by The Podcast Partnership.
• Killer Psyche is new from Wondery today; Candice DeLong, a former FBI criminal profiler, draws on her decades of experience to reveal why murderers and criminals do what they do. She will reveal fascinating new details about what drove these people, including cases she worked on first-hand, like the Unabomber.
• Vox Conversations has been re-launched with new hosts and a new production schedule. Sean Illiing and Jamil Smith welcome guests for authentic, open conversations about everything from the relationship between democracy and fascism to the intersection of sports, politics, and culture.
• The Night Shift is a new real play D&D podcast played by an acclaimed young adult author, a radio DJ, a food network star, and an LSU football player. It launched yesterday, and is based in Baton Rouge LA, USA.
• Live life in sneakers is the advice of Scott Henderson, who claims it's a deliberate step towards self-improvement. He's launched a new podcast with NOVA Entertainment, saying "Every discussion is designed to pass on the tools for bettering yourself, and the world around you."

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• The winners were announced for the British Podcast Awards 2021. We've a full list: Fearne Cotton (above) won the Podcast Champion award for her efforts to open up the mental health conversation, and the Podcast of the Year was awarded to VENT Documentaries.
• Podsights has launched an audience intelligence tool, allowing you to know demographic information about your audience. They've also added additional tweaks including a campaign approval flow.
• Stony Brook University's Podcast Fellows course has unveiled new guest lecturers.

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• Omny Studio has shared a number of feature updates for July.
• "I see a departure from archival-focused, post-production-heavy creations, to more live participation-based, live-production-focused, media.", says Tanner Campbell, writing advice about the future of the medium.
• "Research" from a loan company claims that British podcasters are making an average of £954 (US $1,325) a month from podcasting, says the Oxford Mail. Selling handmade candles is apparently the second most popular way to earn money on the side, earning £670 (US $930) a month. We're not entirely sure this is true; Brits we've asked say it sounds dubious, or just plain bollocks.
• A new podcast studio has opened in Wishaw in Scotland.
• 9to5Mac reviews the Apple Podcasts app. Not sure they like it.

• How to Create and Host an In-Person Event for Your Podcast - Podcast Movement's Jared Easley wrote this tip for Entrepreneur.
• The German company Podever write how to get your podcast onto YouTube, and why you might want to do that.

• The OPAWG list of rss-useragents now contains an acceptsaac column, to help podcast hosts automatically give supporting podcatchers a better-sounding, lower-bitrate version of a show. Podnews is using this to deliver AAC to some podcast apps.
• Podnews has implemented the Podchaser API on our podcast pages, bringing back ratings and creators.
• The Podcasting 2.0 team this week have been working on sending messages alongside tips, and cross-platform comments for podcast episodes. Their Mastodon instance is a good place to learn more.
• There should be a new Podcast Index website shortly, too.
• Satoshis Stream, a value4value tool, now allows you to use webhooks to display value payments in live podcast streams.

• Extraordinary Stories has a new Executive Producer. Sydney Pead joins publisher Mamamia from 10News.
• Claiming your confidence is back for a new season. It provides personal development via inspiring, honest and entertaining conversations with confident people, and is now being produced by Podshape.
• It's a good day to be talking about soccer. If you're Italian. Attacking Third is new from CBS Sports, highlighting the NWSL, US Women's National Team and more. Three times a week, hosts Sandra Herrera and Lisa Roman will provide previews, recaps and interviews with some of the top players in the world.
• I Love Lucifer is a black and white podcast with Lucille Ball and... wait, no. Starring scream queens and monsters from hell, Go Girl Media have launched a new bad-to-the-bone podcast. This comedy horror podcast began as a television show but was shelved in 2020 due to the pandemic: two B movie stars battle movie monsters by day… and real monsters by night.

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• Netflix has hired its first Head of Podcasts, N'Jeri Eaton. She had been Head of Content, Apple Podcasts for a year; and prior to that spent four years at NPR.
• Does Google occasionally think it knows the address of your podcast RSS feed better than you do? You can now tell Google your preferred RSS feed.
• Kajabi, a service to help sell online courses or memberships, has added a podcast hosting service. The tool allows public or private podcasts: you can charge for them here, too.

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• Encuestapod has published its Spanish-language podcast research. The data, from 3,063 participants, showed an increase of people listening on computers and smart-speakers, perhaps a result of the pandemic's at-home instructions.
• Lemonada Media has launched BEING Studios, an "audio reality" podcast unit. Reality television expert Kasey Barrett (The Real World, Kardashians, Born This Way) has been named Executive Producer.
• Welder, a remote recording tool much like Riverside or Squadcast, has launched a free podcast transcript tool.
• The Paris Podcast Festival will take place in October, but their podcast competition is now open for entries until July 21. There are a number of categories for people who live in France, and one category if you're outside France but still make a show in French. Bonne chance!
• The NATPE ContentCast, a free event about the Business of Podcasting Content, has revealed its full schedule. Our Editor is moderating a panel at 2.50pm ET.

• We've updated our loudness and LUFS article to link to the new loudness․info website, and taken the opportunity to clarify why loudness is important.

• Barely Gettin' By, a pop culture and history podcast from RMIT, is back for a fourth season with sustainability in the spotlight.
• Inspired Money hit episode 200, with new episode art, social media re-branding, and an interview with international motivational speaker Chad E. Foster. We reported it hitting episode 100 in July 2019.
• Drilled bills itself as "a true crime podcast about climate change", and returns for its sixth season today investigating the rise of the natural gas industry.

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• First look: PodcastOne has launched LaunchpadOne, a new, free podcast host. The platform includes PayPal donations, a learning center and the opportunity to get discovered by PodcastOne.
  • PodcastOne's CTO, Jim Ballas, has more details about LaunchpadOne later today in the Podland podcast.
• PodBooking - the social network for podcasters - will have a new section tomorrow containing the latest podnews, jobs and events from the Podnews network. You can download PodBooking, free, on the Apple App Store or the Google Play store.
• Libsyn shows can now be added to JioSaavn, India's largest music streaming service with more than 100m monthly users. “I see the partnership with JioSaavn as a key opportunity to expand interest for podcast creators and listeners globally,” said Rob Greenlee, Libsyn’s VP of Content and Partnerships.

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• How loud is your podcast? This website will tell you - it appears to use JavaScript. Here's more about loudness.
• iHeartRadio is still the #1 US podcast publisher according to Podtrac's ranker of participating publishers.
  • Here's what else you need to know today: The Daily is still the #1 US podcast.
• The first Arabic sports podcast network, Studio Al Jumhour has launched seven new shows covering a number of sports.
• New on Android, Lisny is a "fast, beautiful and fun" listening experience.
• AdsWizz has made an agreement with AI Music to "automatically adjust the background music of the ads to the listener's music genre". It's being used by Dunkin', a US food and coffee brand, within music streaming services.
• Have you voted for The Podcast Awards yet? Podnews is in the "Politics and News" category. We would really appreciate your vote.
• Podcasting's growth during the pandemic is all thanks to Hollywood stars is The Hollywood Reporter's take of a new report from Stitcher. New listeners are younger, more diverse, and spread out across the whole nation.
• iHeartMedia has announced four new shows coming to the My Cultura podcast network, iHeart's new podcast network for Latinx voices and creators.
• Spotify is basically killing podcasts, says Mike Masnick, the editor of Techdirt.
• The Office Actors Launch Podcast Urging Fans To Try Watching Something New is a new article from America's finest news source, The Onion. "iHeartMedia announced the launch of a new podcast Monday in which actors from The Office will get together and urge fans to try watching something new," says the piece. We previously thought this was a satirical website.

• Inspiring Podcasters and What We Can Learn From Them (Audry)
• The BBC has been recording comedy shows, with audiences, using Zoom. Here's how they work

• The Mosaic Life Podcast with Trey Kauffman has signed with the Bleav professional podcast network; but, more importantly, reached episode #100 a few days ago. The podcast aims to explore and unpack the concept of happiness and what it means to each of us as individuals.
• None But The Brave, the Springsteen Podcast for the true aficionado, has joined Evergreen Podcasts.
• One Year is new from Slate and the Slow Burn team. Hosted by Josh Levin, the podcast's first season focuses at 1977, "a year when the nation's rules seemed on the verge of getting rewritten".
• A new season of HELGA launches next week, WQXR host and performing artist 'Helga Davis interviewing creatives including Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and artist Nick Cave'.

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• For the first time, all major podcast apps display episode notes in the same way. As Podnews testing now reveals, in the <description> field, all major podcast apps now support <a href links, <p> paragraphs, <ul><li> bullet points, and make URLs clickable automatically. You should keep episode notes below 4,000 characters, though, to ensure they display everywhere (Apple has a limit of 4,000, Google Podcasts has a limit of 5,000).
  • According to our records, neither Apple, Spotify or Google have ever shown podcast episode notes this consistently before.
• "If people can't find your podcast, they can't listen to it," says Steven Goldstein, after attempting to search for Brains.
• Audio editor Audacity has posted "a quick statement to address the concerns around our new Privacy Policy". "We do understand that unclear phrasing of the Privacy Policy and lack of context regarding introduction has led to major concerns about how we use and store the very limited data we collect. We will be publishing a revised version shortly."

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• What place is there for women in podcasting? So asks Le Pod, a French podcast website, sharing a survey that, if you speak French, you should fill in.
• Podcasts are "bursting onto China youth scene", report AFP in a number of publications today. The story covers StoryFM, a podcast with an audience of 1.2m.

• Congratulations to Wernham Blogg's Office Podcast, a fan podcast for the UK version of The Office, which has succeeded in attracting a special guest for the show's 20th anniversary - Ricky Gervais. "We're a seriously independent podcast, and we record with a single mic balanced in a pint glass," they tell us, "so this is a real rags to Ricky story". The new episode is released on Friday.
• The AppleInsider podcast focuses on the Apple Podcasts app this week, with a special guest of Podnews's Editor, James Cridland. There's a full transcript here, including the phrase "I think Apple has done a fantastic job there".
• Adam Curry was interviewed in School of Podcasting with Dave Jackson last week in this episode (and this summary).

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