Fake it until you make it, unless you buy it. Spotify's Megaphone buys Whooshkaa but still no date for exclusive podcasts, HiFi sound or transcriptions? SiriusXM we can't read you? Comments are live on Podverse and Buzzsprout supports the Person Tag.
12/16/21 • 100 min
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GUEST: Larry Rosin, the co-founder and President of Edison Research
Spotify buys Whooshkaa! Congratulations Rob Loewenthal. A great guy and a great team.
SiriusXM is being sued for failing to provide podcast transcripts for deaf users by the National Association for the Deaf and the Disability Rights Advocates.
- As we researched in June 2020, transcripts can offer significant SEO benefits.
- The podcast:transcript tag is an open standard, supported by a number of podcasts and offers both static transcripts (in HTML or text) or real-time captions (in the SRT format). Widely supported by many modern podcast hosts including Captivate, Transistor, Buzzsprout, Omny Studio and others, a number of podcast apps display these transcripts, including the popular Android app Podcast Addict.
- Amazon Music has a proprietary solution for transcripts.
- Spotify added the right to transcribe using their own proprietary solution in May 2020, and a limited beta in May 2021. There is no mechanism for publishers to supply their own transcripts.
- Google offers live captions within every Android app on Pixel phones; that live caption tool is also available on desktop Chrome . The company doesn’t support the podcast:transcript tag.
- Apple surprisingly doesn’t offer any live captioning. The company doesn’t support the podcast:transcript tag.
- With the exception of Podcast Addict, no major podcast app supports transcripts.
- In terms of podcasts to test things on, Podland contains live captions and transcripts using the transcript tag. Also using that tag, the Podnews podcast contains a transcript only.
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GUEST: Larry Rosin, the co-founder and President of Edison Research
Spotify buys Whooshkaa! Congratulations Rob Loewenthal. A great guy and a great team.
SiriusXM is being sued for failing to provide podcast transcripts for deaf users by the National Association for the Deaf and the Disability Rights Advocates.
- As we researched in June 2020, transcripts can offer significant SEO benefits.
- The podcast:transcript tag is an open standard, supported by a number of podcasts and offers both static transcripts (in HTML or text) or real-time captions (in the SRT format). Widely supported by many modern podcast hosts including Captivate, Transistor, Buzzsprout, Omny Studio and others, a number of podcast apps display these transcripts, including the popular Android app Podcast Addict.
- Amazon Music has a proprietary solution for transcripts.
- Spotify added the right to transcribe using their own proprietary solution in May 2020, and a limited beta in May 2021. There is no mechanism for publishers to supply their own transcripts.
- Google offers live captions within every Android app on Pixel phones; that live caption tool is also available on desktop Chrome . The company doesn’t support the podcast:transcript tag.
- Apple surprisingly doesn’t offer any live captioning. The company doesn’t support the podcast:transcript tag.
- With the exception of Podcast Addict, no major podcast app supports transcripts.
- In terms of podcasts to test things on, Podland contains live captions and transcripts using the transcript tag. Also using that tag, the Podnews podcast contains a transcript only.
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Spotify may owe millions from missing licenses and may have gained millions from missing podcasts?
HOSTS:
- Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
- Jeff Price CEO - Word Collections
Spotify has pulled a number of comedy albums from its service, after claims they weren’t licensed correctly. Jeff Price has announced a $3.5m investment round for his Word Collections company, which “focuses on getting comedians and other spoken-word performers paid for the use of their works for the first time”.
NEWS:
- The Infinite Dial 2021 for the UK was released last week. The headline was 41% of the UK population (16+) listens to podcasts every month - around 23m people. The data is directly comparable to the US (41%), Canada (38%) and Australia (36%). The data was paid-for by Bauer Media and Spotify.
- Links: Adam Bowie looks at the data.
- We interview Larry Rosin President at Edison Research next week.
- Exclusive: Spotify has made a number of exciting press releases about new podcast partnerships in the past two years: but many of those Spotify announcements have yet to result in a single new podcast, according to our research. Where are they? And what’s going on?
- A Sky News investigation in the UK has discovered antisemitism, racism and white supremacist material in podcasts on Spotify. Spotify has removed 150 hours of content after the news channel’s report. “In some cases, explicit slurs could be found in episode titles and descriptions while album artwork displayed imagery adopted by white supremacists,” the story says. The podcasts are still available on Google Podcasts.
- Alex Paterson has listened to more than 350 hours of The Joe Rogan Experience. He says he: “compiled some of the worst examples of Rogan’s sexist, racist, and harmful commentary over the past year -- all paid for by Spotify”.
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Next Episode
Jonas Woost, Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content, predicts the near future of podcasting in 2022
James Cridland talks with Jonas Woost Director Of Strategy at Pacific Content about his podcast predictions for 2022.
They talk about ...
- Who is Pacific Content?
- Is Podcasting still open in 2022?
- Paid Subscriptions?
- Legacy media buys into podcasting
- What does that mean for indies?
- The rise of fiction podcasting
- Are celebrity podcasts dead?
It’s been another remarkable year for many in podcasting with some tremendous growth in our industry. As 2021 nears its end, it’s time to ask, ‘What’s Next?’ For the seventh year in a row, Pacific Content has asked some of the smartest thinkers in podcasting this important question. We received plenty of predictions!
Part One:
https://blog.pacific-content.com/in-the-year-2022-320f4c175f6f
Part Two
https://blog.pacific-content.com/in-the-year-2022-part-two-92c22c1c44b0
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