Has Google given up on podcasting? Are subscriptions better than ads? Amazon, Spotify and Twitter double down on live social audio. Does podcasting need policing for lies and defamation?
09/02/21 • 39 min
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Listen to episode 40 with James Cridland and Sam Sethi
NEWS HEADLINES: - https://podnews.net/
- Has Google given up on podcasting?
The founder of Google Podcasts, Zack Reneau-Wedeen, has left Google. Gabe Bender, Google Podcasts’ product lead, left in April. - Amazon is copying Clubhouse
- Clubhouse adds spatial audio
- Spotify adds another show to Greenroom
- Twitter adds an API for Spaces
- Does podcasting need policing?
- The dangers of defamation and bullying in podcasting every host should know
- India's radio DJs are moving to podcasting
- Apple Subscriptions are working
- Spotify integrates with Memberful
- NEW Podcasting Best-practices website
- Matt Deegan and Radio Academy launches mentoring programme RAMP.
- Decoding Crypto is a new podcast to help understand what cryptocurrency is all about, hosted by Justin Baldori and Jason Pizzino.
- Gary Arndt has written an introduction to
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Listen to episode 40 with James Cridland and Sam Sethi
NEWS HEADLINES: - https://podnews.net/
- Has Google given up on podcasting?
The founder of Google Podcasts, Zack Reneau-Wedeen, has left Google. Gabe Bender, Google Podcasts’ product lead, left in April. - Amazon is copying Clubhouse
- Clubhouse adds spatial audio
- Spotify adds another show to Greenroom
- Twitter adds an API for Spaces
- Does podcasting need policing?
- The dangers of defamation and bullying in podcasting every host should know
- India's radio DJs are moving to podcasting
- Apple Subscriptions are working
- Spotify integrates with Memberful
- NEW Podcasting Best-practices website
- Matt Deegan and Radio Academy launches mentoring programme RAMP.
- Decoding Crypto is a new podcast to help understand what cryptocurrency is all about, hosted by Justin Baldori and Jason Pizzino.
- Gary Arndt has written an introduction to
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
Podcast Wars: Is Apple the NEW Internet Explorer? Evo Terra on why podcast apps suck. How's Spotify doing and new ways to discover podcasts.
Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi
INTERVIEW:
PODNEWS HEADLINES:
- How’s podcasting doing for Spotify? Internal Spotify podcast consumption data has been leaked to Business Insider.
- If Spotify Isn't getting much value from Gimlet, that feeling’s mutual
- Matt Deegan writes more about the figures and the strategy of exclusives
- Spotify has expanded “Music and Talk” shows to fifteen more countries
- Spotify will let all US-based Anchor podcasters sell subscriptions
NEW DISCOVERY TOOLS:
- Podchaser has refreshed their creator profiles and alerts. They’re referring to "Roles" as “Credits”. We’ve followed suit (like our listing for Podland).
- Entale has also added a way to follow people and be notified whenever they’re featured in new episodes.
- You can now link to a specific timestamp in a podcast episode on Buzzsprout.
- Podcast host Captivate now sends podcast credits automatically to Podchaser using the Podcast Taxonomy
- Apple has also rolled out a social media link generator to help promote your podcast.
- Apple has doubled its affiliate payout for linking to paid podcast subscriptions.
TECH CORNER:
- Buzzsprout RSS feeds now include the podcast:GUID
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Passing the RSS buck! Is unmoderated podcasting spreading misinformation? Do podcasting apps need better content moderation reporting tools? Twitter to support Value4Value boosts.
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GUESTS:
- Valerie Wirtschafter - The Brookings Institution
- Andrew Craissati - Auddy
NEWS HEADLINES:
- Podcasting is "an ideal tool to inject false or misleading information into mainstream discourse while going undetected", according to research from Valerie Wirtschafter
- The Australian High Court found that, by running the Facebook pages, the media groups participated in communicating defamatory material posted by third parties and were therefore responsible for the comments.
- Apple has been forced to allow media apps to link to websites for payment. The change should allow simpler methods to pay for third-party content that isn’t subject to Apple’s 30% commission. The new policy takes effect in early 2022.
- RedCircle has landed $6m in funding. The company monetises podcasts, selling host-read ads or programmatic advertising, as well as a method of selling podcast subscriptions.
- In Germany, Alex Jacobi criticises the state of podcast statistics: notably, the lack of standard data export and APIs from podcast hosts for statistics. He has proposed OPAF data exchange standard (Open Podcast Analytics Format).
- Podnews has published its first ranker - the people and companies who we’ve written about over the past 90 days.
- PodNews updated their guide on how to earn value4value from your podcast.
- Twitter has confirmed that it is working on a tipping process using
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