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Daily podcasting news: we're your free daily email briefing for podcast and on-demand, with news, jobs, events and ideas from across the world. Subscribe today! We’re also @podnews @social .podnews.net
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SO ITS ONLY REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE CALLED A PODCAST IF IT HAS AN RSS FEED ATTACHED SO REALLY JOE ROGAN ISN’T A PODCAST AND NOR ARE THOSE THINGS ON YOUTUBE BECAUSE THEY ARENT ENCLOSURES OF A MEDIA FILE WITHIN AN RSS FEED YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF WHERE WE HAVE COME FRO
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Daily podcasting news: we're your daily email briefing for podcast and on-demand, with news, jobs and ideas from across the world. Subscribe free today.
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Breaking: Google have added podcast search to desktop and iOS. Suddenly, podcasts are returned in over 63,000 search results every second.
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BREAKING: Spotify buys Gimlet... and Anchor. *falls off chair*
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Brisbane, Australia, last week Looking nice, @case_file
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Tomorrow, May 30, is our second birthday. Two years of Podnews. We might celebrate somehow.
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On now: @adamcurry - the podfather - at @podcastmovement in Dallas
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Oh, my. There’s a front page to Google Podcasts - and a search function - on the web.
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Daily podcasting news: we're your free daily email briefing for podcast and on-demand, with news, jobs, events and ideas from across the world. Subscribe today!
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Anyone have anything they want to tell us about Kast Media? In confidence? editor @podnews .net - we have a story on Monday, and wondering if it's "just them".
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From the next edition of @podnews - @GooglePlayDev having a sensible and not-at-all robotic conversation with an indie developer after automatically pulling his app by mistake. #customerservice
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ACTUALLY A PODCAST REQUIRES AN RSS FEED WITH AN ENCLOSURE SO NO YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS NOT A PODCAST FROM A TECHNICAL POINT OF VIEW REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU CALL IT BUT PEOPLE WILL PROBABLY CALL IT A PODCAST ANYWAY
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Happy International Podcast Day from the part of the world that gets it first.
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There’s been no podcast news over the last 24 hours, so no Podnews today
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New @ApplePodcasts seems to be a disaster. Many people reporting that their show is no longer available; many more that they simply cannot log in. Podcasts are impossible to submit currently, with incorrect errors about images and phone numbers. We’ve asked Apple for a statement.
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BREAKING: Podcasts are now live on Amazon Music in the US and the UK.
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What a nice Slack message (and thanks, anonymous Gmail user) - we’ve just hit 20,000 subscribers to our newsletter. It seems 🥳 and 🎉 are in order!
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Breaking: Spotify Announces Acquisitions of Podcast Technology Companies Podsights and Chartable More in Podnews in 12 hours.
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There are now 750,000 podcasts in Apple Podcasts. #yikes
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WOAH - Apple Podcasts have just launched a fancy web interface.
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You can now listen to Apple Podcasts directly on the web
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Reddit seems a great place for people to notice your podcasts. 35,900 people have voted up this story from @DarknetDiaries @JackRhysider and 665 comments so far in just six hours.
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Breaking: Apple will remove the need for email addresses in podcasts next year; and changes to their approval process. Goodbye, spam!
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BREAKING: An easy way to share and play podcast episodes for the three billion worldwide users of Facebook? Spotify is powering a podcast player within the biggest social network of them all.
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Oh, good. @MBoudet has discovered our email address and is now sending us insults about this piece we wrote a month ago. We're apparently a "biased pile of shit", and we "suck at our job" (but on the bright side, at least we still have one).
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Breaking, from the @podcastacademy
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This is a great list if you like podcasts about podcasts. Clearly, having our podcast so prominently listed has no effect on us breathlessly tweeting this.
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In the code for Apple Podcasts on the web, each episode is marked "requiresSubscription:no", and each podcast has a 'price' field, which is marked "free". #WWDC #podcasts #RIPiTunes #letsnotjumptoanyconclusions
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Podchaser launches their @Podchaser Feed, a new way to discover great new podcasts. And also put smilies in their press release to deliberately try and break things.
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'Follow our podcast': Apple Podcasts to stop using 'subscribe'. The way we talk about podcasts will change forever: no more 'subscribe', a lot more 'follow', as Apple follows Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.
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Thanks to the one person who unsubscribed in a huff from Podnews today after we covered @arithisandthat 's work. Though, many more thanks to the remaining 23,977 who are less precious about occasionally hearing a view they might not agree with.
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Today: Dr Death tops the charts worldwide with its translated versions. Spotify adding podcast playlists; a third of attempts to listen to a podcast on a smart speaker fail; and "here's what else you need to kill today" - a daily true crime podcast
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Today: we look at how show notes display in over 40 different podcast apps. And - podcasts are more popular than music playlists, and more popular than blogs, too. Who knew? (Us, obviously.)
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We're in The Times (of London) today. How exciting!
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Right. We need THREE decent podcasts to put into Podnews today. @ us with a great podcast we should be promoting. First three get in. Go!
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There'll be more audio fiction at the London Podcast Festival next month
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Today: it's not been a very good week for @hearluminary - a proxy server (removed), messing with show notes, removing links, incorrect credits, disguising their app, and more big podcast publishers leave the platform.
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Presenting... our new "pod-coasters". We need to work out what to do with these really.
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Updated: our guide on how to use commercial music in your podcasts. If you want to go ahead and use Back In Black in your podcast, you might want to read this first. New: Spotify may be using bots; and the new SoundExchange agreement.
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Today: massive news for podcast discovery, as Spotify launches “Your Daily Podcasts”, a personalised feed including your favourites and new shows you might like. And, the launch of Gumball, a podcast advertising marketplace.
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A quick overview of the new features JUST launched by @spotify @forpodcasters at @podcastmovement
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Exclusive: YouTube's plans for podcasting: We learn what YouTube has planned - integration, monetisation and analytics. And Podimo buys a podcast publisher.
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Tim Ferris's podcast has achieved over 400m downloads so far. We went to look at our figures to compare: we've done 0.54m downloads so far. We're actually quite proud of that in a way.
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Apple appear to have switched on transcript search within the upcoming Apple Podcasts apps. Here's a search for "pixel phone" on the desktop Apple Podcasts app in macOS beta.
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Hello X. Can you see this post?
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Oh, thank heavens, somebody's making a "Netflix for podcasts". WHY HAS NOBODY THOUGHT TO DO THIS BEFORE? #sarcasm
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Brew is building the self-described "Netflix for podcasts"
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Happy International Podcasting Day!
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We don't normally welcome new Gold Supporters for Podnews on Twitter, but this one may be surprising: thank you @hearluminary for supporting our industry. (Sorting out the show notes would be awesome too... -wink-)
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🚨 EXCITING PM19 SESSION ALERT KLAXON @wilw_writes @SkyePillsbury and @jamescridland @podnews in one room. @nwquah shall we keep a seat? /cc @EarbudsPodCol
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Much excitement. Someone called Neal has become subscriber 25,000. Still time for that number to go down before we send out our newsletter, but we think we’ve done it! Thank you Neal, and the other 24,999.
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BREAKING: Spotify have just announced they're buying Parcast, another podcast production company.
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Happy @intlpodcastday everyone!
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Today: NPR will earn more next year from podcasting than it does from radio. NPO make it to Spotify; South African podcast data out on Wednesday; Brexitcast's success; and auto-post on YouTube?
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How long should your podcast be? We've looked at scientific evidence; the current iTunes charts; and creative debate to give you the ideal length, once and for all.
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We're on our way to #PM18 - one of the many good views on the way: Sydney Harbour looking pretty good this morning, if you like that sort of thing. New to Podnews? Get our free newsletter:
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This will be okay for a podcast studio, right?
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BREAKING: after nearly ten days, podcast categories are back BACK BACK!! in Apple Podcasts. Looks like we're #15 in the new Daily News category in Australia.
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Today: @audioboom posts significant revenue growth; podcasts ads are least likely to be skipped; it takes 9 minutes to find something to watch on the telly; and have we hit peak podcast?
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We'd probably recommend not doing business with people who DM messages like this.
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Breaking: You can now listen to Apple Podcasts on the web (or even on your Android phone). *And* these new pages are all in Google search results already.
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Good luck to @webby2001 and @BryanBarletta for their first big event today at @PodcastMovement . Check Podnews today for details of their ad research unveiling (live online).
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Happy 20th birthday, podcasting. @davewiner made the first podcast feed 20 years ago today. @ericnuzum tells us what was in it. (The @RIAA might want to look the other way for a second). Thank you, Dave!
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Sorry we’re late today. We’d blame a heavy travel schedule, but that’s an obvious lie.
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Can you use commercial music in your podcasts? Fair use, non-commercial use, and plenty more explained here:
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Breaking: Branded-content podcast producer Pacific Content acquired by Canadian media company Rogers Media.
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Fun fact: in April, there was one new podcast episode posted every 1.5 seconds.
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The BBC has blocked Google from indexing and playing its podcasts, on Google Podcasts, Google Home and Google Assistant. Here's the full story.
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Interesting data from our own website. Gave pause for thought. RSS buttons are rather more used than you’d think; and Google Podcasts buttons getting lots of clicks too. @robgreenlee @GeekNews @theDanielJLewis @ZackRW etc
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Podcast app makers! You don't support episode numbers. Following Apple's threatening email today, do you plan to? Please get in touch - updates @podnews .net - and we'll have a round-up tomorrow.
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Podnews acquires Podcast Business Journal: Our family just got a little bigger. Plus, Lemonada Media launches an audio book club with Apple Books
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Neat! A choose-your-own podcast launches today, like those adventure books we all used to have (?)
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Just remembered that Podnews is opinion-free. Cough. As you were.
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Today: new BBC research into the power of branded podcasts; Synth 2.0, the pinterest for podcasting; more features for Captivate; improving the quality of your podcast; and how much money do podcasters make?
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Who wants to listen to an aloof British accent talking about podcast bitrates, LUFS and microphones? Anyone?
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Breaking: Tom Webster, @webby2001 , is to join Sounds Profitable as Partner, "teaming up with Bryan Barletta to help build something to make the podcasting space better for everyone." Read more (or listen!) at @SoundsProfNews
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Today: Spotify is now the biggest podcast platform in the US, according to a new study from Morgan Stanley. Plus, Apple welcomes your potty mouth.
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The total number of podcasts is now 700,000 say @ChartableDotCom ; the @BBC release some user numbers for BBC Sounds; and @YouTube @YTCreators are not doing nice things.
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Hey. We've got a podcast. It's like our newsletter, but slightly less good, but you can hear it while you're driving. Listen here:
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At the #rainsummit @ZackRW announces that Google will add podcast episode search results later this week (essentially searching through automated transcription).
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Breaking: it seems the @BBC are deliberately blocking access to their podcast RSS feeds for Google Podcasts, Google Assistant and other Google services. We've approached the corporation for comment.
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The good folks at @pocketcasts have made their app free.
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BREAKING: @amazonmusic has launched podcasts to its service in the US.
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We take a look at Google Podcasts Manager, launched today - and discover it’s also a way to submit your podcasts to the platform, too.
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We're packing for #PM19 . We get in Tues afternoon. Looking forward to it!
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@lockheimer Press enquiry: This is the third time this app has been removed for linking to third party content. a) What safeguards are you putting in place to not penalise this developer again? b) Can you explain why your own Google Podcasts has not been removed for doing the same?
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Chicago. @spotify are advertising a podcast (though without calling it a podcast).
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For the record - here's how show notes display currently in @hearluminary and @Spotify (both in black), plus @google Podcasts and @SwootHQ (in white). While Spotify is opt-in, would be good to similarly apply pressure on Spotify to respect podcasters' data here.
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Spotify have brought their podcasters portal out of beta, at - and now you can see the favourite artists of your listeners. Here are our listeners' top three. YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS
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Today: Good news! Podcasting is bigger than ever - now listened-to monthly by over 100m Americans.
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CORRECTION: While many people before us have reported a change in @ApplePodcasts automatic downloading behaviour in the next release, as did we on Wednesday, we're told that there will, in fact, be no change in this behaviour. We apologise for the error.
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Congratulations to someone-we-can’t-mention-for-privacy-reasons who is our 11,800th subscriber! NOW, NOBODY UNSUBSCRIBE
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One more email subscriber to @podnews and we’ll hit 11,800. Will YOU be the 11,800th subscriber? #blatant
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A graphic we didn't use the other day. #shudder
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