Happy 1st birthday to us! Here comes Spotify with its big M&A war chest, Castamatic 8 supports Value4Value and Lisa Laporte CEO of TWiT tells us how to run a successful podcast network.
11/25/21 • 68 min
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Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
- Lisa Laporte - CEO - TWiT.tv
- Franco Solerio - Founder & Developer - Castamatic
NEWS:
- Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding. The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows and plans to move into new markets.
- $78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding
- Spotify CFO Paul Vogel says the company has $3.5bn in cash for acquisitions. Speaking at a conference in Boston MA, USA, he said: “Podcasting was this business that for 20 years didn’t change — it was a simple RSS feed — no way to do anything different”. (Paul - podcasts are 18 years old).
- Matt Deegan writes about making your audio business acquirable, looking into more detail into Spotify CFO Paul Vogel’s announcements.
- Netflix and Spotify have “come together” to launch a Netflix Hub on Spotify. It includes playlists for Netflix shows and additional audio.
- Podcasts in Samsung Free’s Listen Tab have launched in Europe. The podcast app is available exclusively to Samsung Galaxy owners, in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, France and Italy. You can add your podcast here.
- Chartable has launched SmartFeeds, a new tool that mirrors your RSS feed and makes it easier to switch podcast hosts and enable Chartable analytics.
- Bryan Barletta notes that shows with Apple Podcasts Subscriptions get the most promotion within the Apple Podcasts app.
Arielle and Squadcast are running a scavenger hunt, and you can play.
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Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
- Lisa Laporte - CEO - TWiT.tv
- Franco Solerio - Founder & Developer - Castamatic
NEWS:
- Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding. The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows and plans to move into new markets.
- $78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding
- Spotify CFO Paul Vogel says the company has $3.5bn in cash for acquisitions. Speaking at a conference in Boston MA, USA, he said: “Podcasting was this business that for 20 years didn’t change — it was a simple RSS feed — no way to do anything different”. (Paul - podcasts are 18 years old).
- Matt Deegan writes about making your audio business acquirable, looking into more detail into Spotify CFO Paul Vogel’s announcements.
- Netflix and Spotify have “come together” to launch a Netflix Hub on Spotify. It includes playlists for Netflix shows and additional audio.
- Podcasts in Samsung Free’s Listen Tab have launched in Europe. The podcast app is available exclusively to Samsung Galaxy owners, in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, France and Italy. You can add your podcast here.
- Chartable has launched SmartFeeds, a new tool that mirrors your RSS feed and makes it easier to switch podcast hosts and enable Chartable analytics.
- Bryan Barletta notes that shows with Apple Podcasts Subscriptions get the most promotion within the Apple Podcasts app.
Arielle and Squadcast are running a scavenger hunt, and you can play.
BuzzsproutPodcast hosting and a whole lot more
Previous Episode
Podcast listening is growing globally, Spotify advertising and subscriptions are expanding internationally but why is no one checking the content is factual, not breaking copyright and has a license to use it?
Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
Sean Li - Clever.FM
NEWS:
- Spotify expands Podcast Subscriptions globally and now includes 20 price points from $0.50 to $150 and a way for creators to download subscribers' contact info — Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets.
- There are now more than 1,000 channels in Apple Podcasts. Podnews has discovered 293 paid subscription channels so far.
- Audiobooks are coming to Spotify - the company is to acquire Findaway, an audiobook distributor. Findaway will “enable Spotify to quickly scale its audiobook catalog”. It’s experimented with audiobooks before: adding classic books, and a bespoke category for spoken word. (There are already more than 3,900 audiobooks on Spotify).
- Medium is getting into audio, acquiring audio-based learning platform Knowable. Warren Shaeffer, co-founder of Knowable, will join Medium as the Vice President of Audio. (Evan Williams, Medium’s CEO, was co-founder of Odeo, an early podcast company.)
- Oprah Winfrey was on Clubhouse, but only 23,000 people listened.
- Meanwhile apps or logins are no longer required to listen on Spotify Greenroom. And - genuine question - has anyone heard from Mark Cuban's Fireside Chat recently?
- The New York Times says that 'misleading covid-19 talk goes unchallenged’ on podcasts (and on radio). The article criticises iHeart, Spotify and Apple.
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Winslow Bright talks about licensing music for your podcast. Hint: there is no fair usage. It's the start of the podcast awards season. Facebook podcasting is growing but it's clearly not ready for primetime and Spotify is testing sponsorship?
HOSTS:
- Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi
GUEST:
- Winslow Bright - Executive Producer at Premier Music Group
NEWS:
- Apple Podcasts announced its Best of 2021. A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar from Pushkin Industries was chosen as Best Show of the Year.
- The chart also gives us some understanding of the performance of Apple Podcasts Paid Subscriptions - Bad Blood: The Final Chapter is #1 in the list, and said in September that they had 6,000 subscribers. (That was $16,000 a month in revenue after Apple’s cut).
- The Australian Podcast Awards winners will be announced on Thursday 2nd December at a live ceremony in Sydney.
- In Australia, the winners of the Australian Commercial Radio Awards were announced. Best Original Podcast went to Zero Waste Baby with Veronica Milsom, produced by SCA’s LiSTNR.
- In the UK, the 2021 Audio Production Awards took place. The Production Company of the Year was won by Listen Entertainment.
- In the UK, The Rachel Bland new podcast award from BBC Radio 5 Live has been awarded this year to You’re Not My Mum: The Stepmum’s Side.
- Edison Research’s Infinite Dial is coming to the UK. The UK has been without a direct comparison to the US, Canada and Australia in terms of podcast consumption.
- The latest Share of Ear study from Edison Research suggests that more than a quarter of all Americans a
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