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• Radiodays North America is halfway through in Toronto ON, Canada. Among the speakers today, Fatima Zaidi from Quill and CoHost, Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio and Lina Kim from The Podcast Exchange are some of the panel talking about making money from podcasting; Edison Research's Larry Rosin discusses trends in audio, and our Editor James Cridland speaks about great tools from podcasting.
• Spotify is to run a free masterclass next week on "unlocking your podcast potential". One of the speakers is Maya Prohovnik, VP of Podcast Product at Spotify, as well as Jordan Newman, Spotify’s Head of Podcast Partner Management, and Gael Aitor from Teenager Therapy.
• Viral Nation_Talent, a social media talent company, has launched a podcast division to help creators expand into podcasting. The company has hired Stephen Perlstein (ex Studio71) and Chelsea Durgin.

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• Spotify is running a gaming podcast Pod Camp in Saudi Arabia. The company is working with Kerning Cultures and Gamers8.
• Spotify isn't monetising its podcast inventory in Asia at the moment, claims Audacia CEO Kym Treasure, in an article in Campaign. The article contains many positive stats and quotes from the industry in Asia.
• Noiser is to launch "3D sound" across the company's podcast network. The company uses "3D sound" to describe binaural sound, a recording technique that works on any player or headphones.

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• The first set of speakers has been announced for Podcast Movement 2023 in Denver CO, USA. (Our Editor is going, and loves moderating panels, just saying.)
• Triton Audio Marketplace now lets advertisers book ads on broadcast radio and streaming alongside podcasts. The company claims it as an industry first; broadcast radio inventory includes iHeartMedia's 850+ stations, and will shortly add 3,400+ stations represented by Katz Media. The company suggests that making advertising easier to buy will benefit all parts of the industry.
• Snipd has launched a ChatGPT-powered feature that automatically summarises the key points from podcasts you listen to. Here's an example of the Podnews Daily from yesterday. You can join the waitlist on the Snipd website; but this link puts you at the front of the queue.

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• First look: Podchaser has launched Collections+, an AI-powered tool to help advertisers to better reach specific audiences.
• Spotify is to make more of its exclusive shows available on other platforms. Armchair Expert became a Spotify exclusive in July 2021 in a three year deal, but Bloomberg reports it will shortly be available elsewhere.
• The Infinite Dial 2023 Australia will be presented on Jun 27. The data, from Edison Research, contains the gold standard number for how many people listen to podcasts in the country.
• PRX and Sonic Union have formed a partnership to help make branded podcasts.
• Audion has launched a branded content division named Audion Stories.
• Branded content company JAR Audio wants bad reviews for its new podcast. The show, How To Get Ahead In Podcasting, presents a ludicrous and deeply incorrect view of the branded podcasting industry. At least, if you don't listen right to the end.
• The Washington Post published an immersive deep-dive into the story behind A Mulher da Casa Abandonada, Brazil’s hit podcast from last year that became a viral phenomenon in the country. The piece, from Manuel Roig-Franzia, also adds new reporting.
• Overhaul FM is a new podcast app for iOS and Android, based on the Anytime Podcast Player code. The fm-press-release.pdf">press release promises "no ads" and says it curates its featured podcasts: it goes on to offer podcasters the chance to pay $89 or more to, um, advertise their podcast as a feature within the app. It doesn't support episode images or the serial tag, and seems not to send a correct user-agent: though we can't confirm that since our Podclock app testing feed doesn't play or display properly within the app.

Podcast News

• A TikTok star with over 2.5m followers has launched her own podcast. Secret Mum Club with Sophiena is new from Audio Always. Soph’s now launching the Secret Mum Club podcast, as a place for all Mums to share all their secrets. From the silly to the serious, this is a totally anonymous place for parents to get things off their chest, "because as we all know, we’re all in this together".
• Perfect Pitch: Classical Music Deconstructed is a fresh approach to classical music, providing original and accessible insight to its audience. Hosted by Nick Hely-Hutchinson, a few weeks ago the show focused on celebratory music used in the Coronation of King Charles.

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• Long read: In our latest look at podcasting in the East, we visit Vietnam - a country where audiobooks are surprisingly popular, and where the roads aren't ideal for podcast listening. Guang Jin YEO also looks at the history of podcasting in the country. It's another fascinating read.
• podcasters-caught-in-data-leak.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-06-07">14,000 podcasters have had their Anchor usernames, emails and passwords posted on a Russian-language black-hat hacking website. (Change those passwords!)
• Data: In Finland, a study says that podcast listening takes time away from traditional media like radio and television. The data from Norstat is released today by Podimo, which claims a 40% growth in subscribers since the beginning of the year.

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• Disco Free by Headliner is being launched today on Product Hunt. It's a free AI-driven podcast discovery tool for podcasters who also have a blog or website.
• "We believe in podcasters and content creators who want to distribute their content broadly across all third-party platforms." Nilay Patel interviewed SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz for Decoder - there's a transcript here.
• Do fancy live streaming with OBS, but want to make your audio that bit better? Waves plugins now work with OBS, according to the company.
• The Australian Podcast Awards, powered by iHeart, return this year with 30 categories. Submissions are now open.
• Alby is partnering with Podcast Guru to offer "value 4 value" payments to podcasters in the popular, polished podcast app.
• media-podcasts-closure.png">A podcast network run by Ivey Media is to close, according to an email to contacts. The faith-based network had eight shows, and achieved more than 10 million downloads in the last twelve months.

Moves and hires

• Lillian Xu is joining Vox Media as the Executive Director of the audio business. She joins from New York Public Radio. We're also told she plays pickleball, which we fondly imagined was a game played with actual pickles, probably in a bar at the end of a long night. It turns out not to be.
• N'Jeri Eaton has been hired by Wondery as head of co-productions for limited series. She had worked at Apple Podcasts and most recently was Head of Podcasts at Netflix.

Podcast News

• In BRKIN Bread: For The Hungry Mind, guests don't meet before the podcast recording, and never know the topic of conversation they're going to be asked to talk about. All dinner guests are diverse in several areas, including background, ethnicity and ideology, which creates spicy conversations. It's in the middle of the first season.
• The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery is new from ABC Audio, investigating a set of savage murders that captivated and horrified the nation at the end of last year in Moscow ID, USA. The final two episodes will include real-time updates from investigators revealed in the preliminary hearing for the accused murderer.
• New from Sony Music and Hyperobject Industries, Without explores the things we stand to lose, the things we should be losing, and what might still be saved. Hosted by author Omar El Akkad, Without tackles how we process a world that's changing faster than any other time in human history.
• The Leon Media Network has launched a new podcast called Educate U.S., which will feature conversations with educators and experts about important and pressing topics in the education space. The show is hosted by Nick Zaveri, Dr. Stacey Schultz, and Dr. Patrice Fenton.
• Free From Desire is an official selection in the audio storytelling program of the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and premieres today. What’s it like to come to terms with one’s own asexuality in a society that only talks about love and sex? At the age of 35, Aline Laurent-Mayard has never been sexually or romantically attracted to anyone. This is their story - produced in two languages with a bilingual host.
• Indigenous leaders in the West are getting a seat at the table to make decisions about issues like drought, bison, and museum artifacts. The Modern West returns to tells the story of the Plains Indian Wars through audio storytelling, re-enactments, and music.

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• Spotify is to cut 200 jobs from its podcasting division. The company says that's 2% of Spotify's global workforce; but these are substantial cuts to the podcast division. While Spotify couldn't tell us how many staff work in podcasting overall, various reports suggest Gimlet has around 125 employees, Parcast has about 40, and The Ringer about 120.
  • The company's Parcast and Gimlet production studios will be merged as "Spotify Studios"; The Ringer is to continue as a separate brand.
  • Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business, also announces: "Simultaneously, in collaboration with the podcasting community, we are broadening our analytics capabilities by expanding Spotify For Podcasters, which will help creators maximize their audience on Spotify and beyond." We've asked Spotify for more details on this.
• Separately, The Athletic appear to be scaling back on its slate of soccer podcasts in the UK, according to tweets from David Cameron Walker, The Phil Hay Show, and The Square Ball.
• Apple Podcasts is to get a new look and new features in the upcoming iOS 17.
  • "Apple Podcasts will support episode artwork for all shows." (See our episode artwork on the Podnews Daily). Episode artwork is already supported by Spotify and Pocket Casts.
  • If you're subscribed to apps like The Economist or Calm, you'll get access to premium audio from those apps automatically within Apple Podcasts.
  • Apple Music's radio shows will be available on-demand within Apple Podcasts.
  • A developer beta is available now.

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• YouTube is now the "most utilized podcast listening platform" in the U.S.: 29% say it is the platform they use the most, followed by Spotify (17%) and Apple (16%) - according to Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights, who have released the Spring 2023 Podcast Download Report.
• Buzzsprout's new AI service is powered by Podium, which has formally announced their partnership today.
• Mumbler, an audio monetisation platform, has raised €155,000 in a crowdfunding round.
• Forest, a UK-based independent audio production company, has launched Forest Sounds to focus on premium factual podcast series.
• Chilu Lemba is to be the Face of the upcoming African Podcasters and Voice Artists awards season. Zambian-born Lemba is a radio and television presenter, voice-over artist, author, and musician.
  • The Awards are to be sponsored by Afripods, it's been announced.

Tips and Tricks

• Apple Podcasts publishes Five new insights to help grow your subscription on Apple Podcasts. Annual plans are popular, they say. (Try ours!)

Podcast News

• Many people now believe that our problems are just too large for individuals to do anything worthwhile about. An Army of Normal Folks sets to change that. Hosted by businessman, speaker and coach Bill Courtney, the show believes that everyone can have an impact and change their community for the better. The show launches today.
• The 13th Step is a story some people didn’t want NHPR to tell. It's about sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry, and the dangers journalists and sources can face when they expose alleged wrongdoing by powerful people. How could so many people be harmed in an industry dedicated to healing?
• The popular mental health podcast How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John returns to BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds today. The first episode will hear comedians and long-standing best friends Elis and John open up about the struggles they have faced since recording the last series. Elis talks about the stresses of moving house with his family in tow, while John opens up about battling his relationship with alcohol.

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• Jemele Hill is "to leave Spotify" (Bloomberg), and is looking for a new home for her podcast (Hollywood Reporter), but "a lot of what’s been reported just isn’t true" (Jemele Hill via Twitter). Her show is exclusive on Spotify. In June 2021 Hill announced The Unbothered Network, which launched two shows in Oct 2022: Sanctified and The Black Girl Bravado.
• 50% of YouTube creators earn more than $500 per month, claims a new survey; but YouTuber Mike Figueredo posts that YouTube Revoked My Channel's Monetization and Won't Give Me Answers.
• Downloads from Apple Podcasts are on an all-time high according to Buzzsprout's stats for May. The numbers are likely to reflect Apple now correctly identifying more of its traffic, instead of the ambiguous AppleCoreMedia name; those numbers continue to decrease.

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• Dave Ramsey, who hosts financial advice podcast The Ramsey Show, one of the top 50 podcasts in the US, is being sued after promoting a former advertiser's business which was found to be deceptive and fraudulent. The complaint, which seeks $150mn in damages, claims listeners were unaware that the company was a paid advertiser.
• Pocket Casts is to update its privacy policy (old, new). The new privacy policy is CC-SA, and goes into effect on 1 July. We don't see anything glaringly different.
• "I asked AI to make a podcast - the results are terrifying" - Libsyn's Brian Cottington used AI for every step of the way.
• Nish Kumar and Coco Khan from Pod Save The UK are on this month's cover of Pod Bible, which you can download and read today.
• Happy twentieth birthday this month, podcasting. The Guardian takes a British-slanted history of the medium. (Here's our history of podcasting in the UK).

Tips and Tricks

• There is more to your episode notes than meets the eye, suggests Podcast Marketing Magic.

The Tech Stuff

Phase six of the new podcast namespace is now closed. These new tags will be voted on for formalisation into the standard:

• podcast:remoteItem - which allows other episodes or items to be referenced. Specifically, this is being used to reference "podsafe" music tracks, so that album art and v4v payment information is available to a podcast app.
• List mediums - a method of producing playlists
• podcast:acceptsGuests - a method of stating whether your podcast accepts guests (and therefore whether you welcome suggestions) or not. Likely to be withdrawn.
• podcast:podroll - a way for a podcaster to recommend other shows in a list. (The Podnews Daily RSS feed supports this).
• podcast:updateFrequency - to help a creator to indicate when episodes will be published. (The Podnews Daily RSS feed supports this).
• podcast:podping - allowing a creator to indicate to apps and aggregators that a show is being updated on the podping network, and removing the need to poll the RSS feeds "just in case".
• podcast:valueTimeSplit - as in use already on the Podcasting 2.0 feed, a way to ensure that authors or musicians used in specific segments appear on the v4v payment.

Podcast News

• Podcast Bestie, the Podcast talks with Canadian podcaster Kattie Laur this week (here's a transcript). She talks about how to get started as a freelance podcast producer.
• Resurrection is new today - writer, producer, and host Dane Stewart spent over five years researching this podcast. It uncovers the extraordinary life of a forgotten playwright who died from AIDS in 1991, and takes listeners on a journey through queer history as it was lived by one man and pieced together by another, 30 years later.

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Results of a UKAN Industry Survey on wages

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It's the latest acqusition for the PodX Group

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And a review of a wireless microphone

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And another new podcast host

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