Down Anchor, Goodbye Facebook, Au Revoir Michael Mignano & Tom Webster. Hello Squadcast!
05/05/22 • 55 min
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- Buzzsprout - last week, 3,549 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout
- NEW: Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser: and, using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.
Special Guest
- Steve Jones - Content Director at Crowd Network
Show Notes & Links:
- Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and will close the service starting Jun 3. The company will stop creators adding podcasts to the service this week. They don’t plan to communicate the closure to Facebook users.
- Facebook was responsible for just 0.3% of all podcast downloads last month, says Buzzsprout. It had reached 0.5% in February, making it the 17th largest podcast app.
- More than a quarter of new podcast episodes published in April were on Anchor, according to data from John Spurlock:
- The world’s largest podcast host, Anchor was down for much of yesterday
- Spotify is hiring for a podcast moderation team in Dublin Ireland.
- Michael Mignano is to leave Spotify. He’s said to have given his resignation last week and leaves at the end of June.
- Chartable has clarified its future, in an email to users.
- In the UK, The Radio Academy’s ARIAS took place last night.
- Headliner has added an integration with Hindenburg (
A twice weekly podcast making sense out the chaotic political world
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Connect With Us:
- Email: [email protected]
- Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
- Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support
- Get Podnews: podnews.net
Sponsors
- Buzzsprout - last week, 3,549 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout
- NEW: Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser: and, using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.
Special Guest
- Steve Jones - Content Director at Crowd Network
Show Notes & Links:
- Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and will close the service starting Jun 3. The company will stop creators adding podcasts to the service this week. They don’t plan to communicate the closure to Facebook users.
- Facebook was responsible for just 0.3% of all podcast downloads last month, says Buzzsprout. It had reached 0.5% in February, making it the 17th largest podcast app.
- More than a quarter of new podcast episodes published in April were on Anchor, according to data from John Spurlock:
- The world’s largest podcast host, Anchor was down for much of yesterday
- Spotify is hiring for a podcast moderation team in Dublin Ireland.
- Michael Mignano is to leave Spotify. He’s said to have given his resignation last week and leaves at the end of June.
- Chartable has clarified its future, in an email to users.
- In the UK, The Radio Academy’s ARIAS took place last night.
- Headliner has added an integration with Hindenburg (
A twice weekly podcast making sense out the chaotic political world
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Connect With Us:
- Email: [email protected]
- Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
- Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support
- Get Podnews: podnews.net
Previous Episode
Will video help make the next podcasting star? Anchor, Substack and YouTube think so. We talk to Tom Billington about the London Podcast Show and Neil Mody about Headliner, Disco and Eddy.
Sponsor
- Buzzsprout - last week, 3,448 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout
Guests
- Tom Billington - Content Director for The Podcast Show
- Neil Mody - CEO & Co-Founder Headliner
Show Notes & Links:
- Spotify’s Anchor has rolled out proprietary video podcasts to all Anchor users in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.
- Paid subscriptions will be available for these shows, too; additionally, Anchor has integrated with Riverside.
- Remote recording tool Riverside has just raised $35m in Series B funding.
- A better future alternative (perhaps) is to support the alternateEnclosure tag.
- Podbean appears to be seeing a large number of migrations away from the service.
- Spotify has just released its financial results for Q1/22. Spotify stock reached its lowest point ever!
- Spotify is launching a fund to support open source software.
- Apple has launched three new Apple Podcast Collections, Apple Podcasts has also launched new listening reports for paid subscriptions
A twice weekly podcast making sense out the chaotic political world
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Connect With Us:
- Email: [email protected]
- Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
- Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support
- Get Podnews: podnews.net
Next Episode
It Sounds Interesting now that Tom Webster has announced he is joining Sounds Profitable.
Sponsors
- Buzzsprout - last week, 3,437 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout
- Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever.
Special Guest
- Tom Webster - Sounds Profitable
Show Notes & Links
- Tom Webster has announced he is to join Sounds Profitable as Partner.
Writing in Sounds Profitable, he outlines the future for Sounds Profitable - to share content, research, run events and advisory services to help set the course for the future of the audio business. - Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central hits episode 1,600 this week. One of the first podcasts in the world, its first episode was Oct 9, 2004 - just a few weeks after the word “podcast” began to be used. This was the first podcast Tom Webster listened to.
- Wondery is streaming some shows in Dolby Atmos. You’ll need to be a Wondery+ subscriber to listen because there aren’t any standard podcast apps that playback the format yet.
- The sixth annual IAB US Podcast Advertising Revenue study was published. It shows US podcast ad revenue growth increasing dramatically during 2021, hitting $1.4bn. Revenues are forecast to hit $4.2bn in 2024.
- iHeartMedia’s podcast business brought in $69m during the first quarter - 12% of total revenue; its radio business brought in $416m. The company posted a net loss of $48.7m, though, for the quarter.
- Spotify is to close Spotify Stations, a lean-back music radio expe
A twice weekly podcast making sense out the chaotic political world
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Connect With Us:
- Email: [email protected]
- Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
- Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support
- Get Podnews: podnews.net
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