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Sponsored by SpotsNow. SpotsNow is the AI operating system for podcast advertising. RFPs, vetting, outreach: handled with custom agents. Your sellers close 30% more. Book a free demo at Spotsnow.io Podcast producer Goalhanger has become the fastest-growing company in the UK, according to The Sunday Times 100 ranking. Employing eighty people, the company made £37.9 million (US $50.8 million) in sales in 2025, a 321% average annual growth in the last three years. The company makes the popular "The Rest Is..." series. Confirmation that The Rest Is Football will be available globally on Netflix for the World Cup. Most podcasts on Netflix are just US-only. The Alliance for Measurement in Podcasting (AMP) has announced its "cross-platform alternative to the podcast download". The group has defined a "play" for podcasts, as part of four exposure definitions. We're promised more information in mid July. The definition differs from the widely-supported IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines, and from definitions from Apple Podcasts and YouTube, who are not part of the group. PAVE Studios is to work with A+E to turn six of its unscripted TV shows into podcasts. Shows include history shows History’s Greatest Mysteries, and Modern Marvels; and crime show The First 48. They will roll out later this year. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereNot another chatbot. A conversation engine. — Podnami gives you AI co-hosts that talk with you, challenge ideas, and help turn conversations into podcast-ready content.Improvise or let Podnami guide you. Entire scripts and visual content too!Audiencelift - YouTube Channel Growth for Podcasts — Ready to grow your podcast on YouTube? With targeted strategies, you can increase visibility, attract listeners, and turn views into subscribers. Start growing your YouTube Channel Today!<

Sponsored by SpotsNow. SpotsNow is the AI operating system for podcast advertising. RFPs, vetting, outreach: handled with custom agents. Your sellers close 30% more. Book a free demo at Spotsnow.io You've heard the show - now buy the shoe. New Heights is working with OluKai to bring "a football-inspired design lens to a premium leather silhouette with all-star appeal" (or, what the Australians call a decent pair of thongs). We're told that the $160 shoes, called the Mea Ola Nu‘u, continue the company's tradition, merging premium materials with personality-driven design. And, of course you can buy them on Amazon. In Q1/26, 14% of Americans say they have used Netflix to consume a podcast; and 4% said they use Tubi. The data, from Edison Research Podcast Metrics US, will only increase - Tubi announced a slew of new content this week including shows from SiriusXM and Audiochuck, while Netflix's The Rest is Football is being heavily promoted ahead of the World Cup. The Edison Research Podcast Consumer 2026 was released in a webinar. The data shows that a majority of podcast consumers think that AI is a threat to the credibility, creativity and quality of podcasts; and 75% disapprove of a voice hosted by AI. Using data from Sports Poll by SSRS, we also discover that US podcast consumers are more interested in the World Cup (55%) than the population as a whole (47%). Got a great pitch for a sports podcast episode or series? CBC Podcasts is now accepting pitches for a new narrative sports feed - specifically, looking for narrative-driven storytelling, and particularly things around the Olympic Games. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereBook Time with Podcast Veteran John Wordock — Has your podcast stalled? Need help with YouTube? Want to boost your video? In podcasting since 2006 John Wor

Sponsored by SpotsNow. SpotsNow is the AI operating system for podcast advertising. RFPs, vetting, outreach: handled with custom agents. Your sellers close 30% more. Book a free demo at Spotsnow.io Popular Apple-focused website Six Colors is asking its readers to help fund a podcast about Apple's history. It hit its stretch goal of $60,000 in less than 24 hours; at the time of writing, it's just hit $100,000. (The website also has a yearly report card - huh, there's an idea.) Some of SiriusXM's biggest podcasts are to be streamed on Tubi, including Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Rotten Mango and What Now? with Trevor Noah. These shows also stream on YouTube, and that won't go away. Advertising sales for video podcasts on Tubi will be shared between Tubi and SiriusXM Media. Podcast website company Podpage wants to help your podcast get found - so it's launched an AI-powered SEO assistant, to help you tune your podcast's titles and descriptions for better results in search engines. It can even be set to run automatically. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudio Post-Production Specialist: Kyle Hopkins — Broadcast-quality audio post-production for podcasts, YouTube & social video. From essential cleanup to full sound design. Responsive, consistent, deadline-safe support for creators, studios & brands.10,000+ Finance Episodes. Here's What Works. — We've produced finance podcasts since 2015 for RIAs, allocators, PE firms, and VCs. This is what we've learned about building shows that actually move the business. Free.Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, Mowpod, Podbean, <a href="https://100mba.net/escape/?utm_source=partners&utm_medium=leadgen&utm_content=Po

Sponsored by SpotsNow. SpotsNow is the AI operating system for podcast advertising. RFPs, vetting, outreach: handled with custom agents. Your sellers close 30% more. Book a free demo at Spotsnow.io Podcasting is cooked. So said Transistor's Justin Jackson, and the Podcast Marketing Academy's Jeremy Enns, in a talk at The Podcast Show in London (which they filmed themselves). Video is taking over podcasting, AI slop will drown out the good stuff, and audio-only podcasts are a thing of the past. They take a look at the data and provide simple tactics for thriving in podcasting - which, yes, is still absolutely possible, they say. Continuity announcements have been part of broadcast media for ages - "in half an hour, The Waltons. Now, though - here's Lucille Ball." Audio Always thinks they have a place in podcasting, with continuity announcements to introduce new shows to listeners. The company has written up how well they've worked. The Podcast Haven has produced an analysis tool to help you find topics to grow your show. The AI service, which requires registration, sends a seven-point plan, including SEO and guest ideas. Here's ours - suggesting we should cover government regulation, accessibility and inclusivity. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.📈 Effective Campaigns That Fit Your Budget — Player FM’s self-serve campaigns help podcasters of all sizes grow faster. Drive more plays and subscribers with campaigns tailored to your goals & budget.Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, <a href="https://mowpod.com/?utm_source=podnews.net&ut

Sponsored by SpotsNow. SpotsNow is the AI operating system for podcast advertising. RFPs, vetting, outreach: handled with custom agents. Your sellers close 30% more. Book a free demo at Spotsnow.io What works and what doesn't in podcast trailers? Coleman Insights has a free webinar this Wednesday to unveil its research - how can you make promos and trailers that work better for your show. Want to hear some trailers for shows in the meantime? Our New Podcasts feed lets you listen to some of the best. Get the podcast here - or add your show. SpotsNow has launched what it calls an AI operating system for podcast advertising. The tool automates planning and pricing, and is custom-built for each individual podcast network, to connect to the way the team already works. "The agents we custom build take the repetitive load off the floor so sellers can do the part only people can do, which is build the relationship and close the deal," says CEO Cam Pritchard. A new AI promotion tool called Kompozy has launched. Promising to "turn one idea into a month of content", the tool ingests a podcast, RSS feed or blog post, then composes a set of social posts and schedules them into different platforms (if you let it) over an entire week. We gave it Friday's newsletter; it gave us a set of decent-looking posts, including quote cards, LinkedIn-like posts, an infographic, and quotes with our Editor on a laptop, our Editor making some kind of presentation, and another photo post - it also does video clips as well. You can give Kompozy a free trial. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website</

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. The shows you listen to probably already use us. 🎙️ Supporting Cast powers subscriptions for some of the most trusted names in podcasting—because when your business depends on subscriber trust, the platform behind it matters. Let's talk about what we could build together. "Advertisers run multiple attribution systems because media players won't align on how to measure ad response. We can't even agree on a shared definition of a podcast." So says the Alliance for Measurement in Podcasting (AMP) - launched to create "the first podcasting measurement framework". Brought together by Oxford Road, the group, including voting members from Spotify, United Talent Agency, SiriusXM, DraftKings, Libsyn and others, have been working in secret since last summer, driven by what it calls industrywide confusion: both a lack of standardized metrics and disagreement about where podcasts end and social videos (as well as other forms of video) begin. The group suggests that "a billion dollars of demand is sitting on the sidelines"; it plans to introduce a new unified framework for use across audio and video at Oxford Road’s upcoming CAO Summit on July 22nd-23rd at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes CA, USA. Our take: A definition of "podcast" is vital - because, without it, it's impossible to track the growth of this medium, and the budget going toward it. The formation of this group, which appears to be representative of the podcast business overall - is a welcome step. It's notable, however, that this group does not include the IAB, which runs existing podcast measurement guidelines, nor the trade association Sounds Profitable. The Australian Audio Awards took place last night - here's a full list of the winners. The awards, which recognised both radio and podcasting, chose Mamamia Out Loud as the People's Choice Award, and included separate awards for "independent" and "major" podcasts. Public radio station WBUR stands accused of "butchering episodes, newsletters and emails" to "hide the fact" that the hosts and producers of WBUR's <a href="https://podnews.net/podcas

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. The shows you listen to probably already use us. 🎙️ Supporting Cast powers subscriptions for some of the most trusted names in podcasting—because when your business depends on subscriber trust, the platform behind it matters. Let's talk about what we could build together. Smart TVs are the new place to watch podcasts, according to new data released this week from Signal Hill Insights and FlightStory - with almost half of UK podcast consumers using their smartTV to watch podcasts. The data suggests that podcasts are competing directly with linear TV and streaming, and most consumption happens 7pm-11pm. It's, says Paul Riismandel, "a fundamental shift in how UK audiences are spending their evenings." FlightStory also released its own data alongside the study. (Of note: while you can watch Spotify video podcasts, Apple Podcasts has no support for video on TV as yet - and, unlike Apple TV, doesn't have an app on other platforms.) Our take: For this audience, video is probably a required part of the experience, although the full research says 21% used their smart TV just to listen. This might also be a marketing opportunity: 42% say they consumed a podcast on a Smart TV with someone else (the typical number for co-listening to audio podcasts on a phone is around 10%). Supporting Cast claimed yesterday that it was the first podcast subscription platform to deliver gated, subscriber-only podcast video on Spotify. Competitors Supercast beg to differ: they claim Supercast has had creators publishing gated video on Spotify since April 27th. The upshot of all of this is that we now have twice the opportunity to offer video as a paid-for upsell (on Spotify). Just a day after we carried an Ankler story with a senior Spotify executive saying they don't do exclusives any more, Spotify has signed an exclusive, alongside Netflix, for Jay Shetty's On Purpose. The deal is reportedly worth $100mn. We'd reported he was leaving iHeart back in March. The show will be no longer posted onto YouTube; but will be available as audio on all podcast platforms; Spotify will handle ad-sales. <a href="https://

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. The shows you listen to probably already use us. 🎙️ Supporting Cast powers subscriptions for some of the most trusted names in podcasting—because when your business depends on subscriber trust, the platform behind it matters. Let's talk about what we could build together. Supporting Cast has become, it claims, the first podcast subscription platform to deliver gated, subscriber-only podcast video on Spotify. The company launches the new feature with two shows - Libero, a football podcast, and Legacy, a history podcast. Partnerships with Goalhanger, Vox Media, Jim Harold's Campfire, Filmspotting and Betches Media will follow later this quarter. While video was launched on Apple Podcasts earlier this year, it's currently not possible to offer paid subscribers on Apple Podcasts any access to video. Supporting Cast is our title sponsor this month; we suspect we'd have made this #1 story today even without that. LATER: They're not first, say competitors Supercast, who say they have had creators publishing video using Spotify’s Distribution API since April 27th. That service is now fully rolled out for all Supercast creators. We're happy to make that clear. In The Ankler's Like but suggests it's still an audio-first format. "Video’s an added layer, but the format only works if it’s also consumable just in audio." There's more behind the pa

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. The shows you listen to probably already use us. 🎙️ Supporting Cast powers subscriptions for some of the most trusted names in podcasting—because when your business depends on subscriber trust, the platform behind it matters. Let's talk about what we could build together. Goalhanger, the maker of The Rest Is History, has launched a new investment and partnerships arm, Goalhanger Ventures. The company announced an investment in Invisible Media, and a new commercial partnership with Backyard Cricket. Websites on Podpage can now update the minute you publish a new episode, thanks to full support for podping, announced today. Podping is supported by many large podcast hosts, as part of Podcasting 2.0. Frank Racioppi writes about three recent Podcast Hall of Fame inductees, including our Editor. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudio Post-Production Specialist: Kyle Hopkins — Broadcast-quality audio post-production for podcasts, YouTube & social video. From essential cleanup to full sound design. Responsive, consistent, deadline-safe support for creators, studios & brands.NEED A STUDIO IN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND? — PodLab is NZ's go-to podcast & video studio, run by Radio icons Jay-Jay & Dom. Live-switched cameras, pro audio, interchangeable sets. Perfect for visiting creators. Studios from $450+GSTListen to The Writer — after a bombing in London triggers World War III, a young writer joins Foxtrot Unit, a taskforce that manipulates the public narrative by mixing truth with lies. Can you tell the difference?Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, <a href="https://mowpod.com/?utm_source=podne

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. The shows you listen to probably already use us. 🎙️ Supporting Cast powers subscriptions for some of the most trusted names in podcasting—because when your business depends on subscriber trust, the platform behind it matters. Let's talk about what we could build together. The biggest shows are getting even bigger, according to new research from Edison Podcast Metrics UK, presented at The Podcast Show London. In 2023, to reach 50% of all podcast listeners, you would need to advertise on the top 43 shows. But two years later, you only need the top 27 shows to reach half of all podcast listeners. The data was part of a preview of the upcoming UK Podcast Consumer 2026, to be released later this summer; the US version will be unveiled next week in a free webinar. SpotsNow has launched an Advertiser Campaign Planner, to help advertisers build a high-quality host-read campaign on the right shows for their brands. The tool is free, and is available from today. 51% of RSS.com's podcasters are recording video in some form, according to a new insights survey published by the podcast host. A majority of them say that video has helped grow their audience. The full results are published on their website. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.🌱 Is Your Show Ready to Grow? — Get started with Player FM’s self-serve audience growth campaigns. Low commitment, flexible pricing, and an easy way to reach engaged listeners.Workshop - Profitable Podcast Pitching — I book 50+ podcast guest spots a year and spend less than 1

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. The shows you listen to probably already use us. 🎙️ Supporting Cast powers subscriptions for some of the most trusted names in podcasting—because when your business depends on subscriber trust, the platform behind it matters. Let's talk about what we could build together. Spotify announced a set of new podcast features. "Users can ask Spotify questions about the podcast they’re listening or watching, and get answers in real time." - this feature is available in the US, Sweden and Ireland for Premium users. Dynamic Creator Sponsorships are now available for creators in the Spotify Partner Program. The feature allows sponsorships to be dynamically scheduled. Memberships (which "will launch for select creators soon") appears to be an equivalent to Supporting Cast, Patreon or Apple Podcasts Premium Subscriptions. Pricing and details weren't given. Personal Podcasts are coming next month to Premium users in the US. It's a tool that lets listeners generate and schedule short, private audio episodes tailored to their interests and their listening habits. Examples given are "Help me understand economics in five minutes", or "Share my daily city updates". After a free set of credits per month, listeners will have the option to purchase more. Spotify also highlighted how its rebuilt ad platform is driving growth (major changes for podcasting go live in July); announced a paid tool to let you remix songs, including by using AI; and Spotify Studio, a desktop app that unlocks more possibilities using AI. Earlier in the week, Spotify announced that podcasts can be marked as "verified", and clarified that AI can't be used to impersonate others using voice clones. The company still has no policy on entirely AI-generated shows.

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Hello from The Podcast Show in London! 💂🇬🇧 You can find Supporting Cast this week at our booth on the gallery level—swing by, grab a chat, and let's talk subscriptions. Or, reach out to schedule a meeting: [email protected] Across the world, the podcast economy grew 23% last year, says new data from Owl & Co. Global podcasting is now worth $9.2bn in revenue, says the data. The biggest increase came from direct ad revenue, but revenue from consumers (membership tools like Patreon and Supporting Cast, etc) also significantly increased, and is now worth $2.2bn alone. Vox Media's podcast network, Vox.com and New York magazine, have been sold to James Murdoch for a reported $300mn. The Verge and other Vox websites aren't part of the deal. (James Murdoch is the one that split from his father Rupert Murdoch's media empire some years ago). 43% of British adults now listen to an ad-supported podcast monthly, says new data from Sounds Profitable and Sound Insights. 44% of UK podcast listeners recalled ever making a purchase after hearing a podcast ad, according to the findings of The Advertising Landscape UK, which were shared yesterday at The Podcast Show. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎯Are you getting new clients from your podcast?💰 — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth & listener to client conversion strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.🔊 Get Discovered — Grow your audience with Player FM's self-serve promotional campaigns. Reach active podcast listeners, boost plays, and gain subscribers with campaigns tailored to your goals. Start today!Gold supporters: <a href="https://

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Hello from The Podcast Show in London! 💂🇬🇧 You can find Supporting Cast this week at our booth on the gallery level—swing by, grab a chat, and let's talk subscriptions. Or, reach out to schedule a meeting: [email protected] YouTube is winning podcast creator hearts, according to the results of the Podnews Report Card, which were revealed at the opening keynote for The Podcast Show in London, which kicks off today. The results show significantly better scores for YouTube in almost every category, and overall, YouTube rises to the #2 best-scoring platform, behind Apple. Apple, too, has increased its score after launching a slew of new features over the past year. We've the results in full. The International Womens Podcast Awards have a new owner, a new location, and new branding - and are open for submissions from today. Entries are just $50 each, including fees. TINK Media, the new owners of the event, are to bring the awards to Toronto ON, Canada. In the UK, Global announced a new premium advertising capability on YouTube. The company joins a select group of UK media companies with a direct YouTube sales capability, and is the only UK media owner able to offer advertisers audio, outdoor and premium video all in one place. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAutomatically create YOUR OWN podcast chapters — PodChapters helps you publish episodes with clean, ready-to-use chapters in minutes, so your podcast is easier to navigate and more actionable to your listeners. No extra production busywork required.Podcasting for Financial Services — A wealth manager's podcast looks nothing like a PE firm's. This guide breaks down strategy, content, and production by niche: advisors, allocators, VC, PE, and more. Free.Workshop - Profitable Podcast Pitching — I book 50+ podcast guest spots a year and spend less than 1 hour a week pitching. Join me and learn my system for getting on the *right* podcasts + turning those spots into paying clients!Gold

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Hello from The Podcast Show in London! 💂🇬🇧 You can find Supporting Cast this week at our booth on the gallery level—swing by, grab a chat, and let's talk subscriptions. Or, reach out to schedule a meeting: [email protected] tube strikes in London this week have been cancelled. Phew! Blubrry Podcasting has announced an exclusive partnership with Podpage - replacing its own landing pages with a website from Podpage, giving creators access to a significantly more powerful and customisable online presence. Here's an example for Podcast Insider. Triton Digital released its Q1 2026 US Podcast Ranker, which reveals that comedy is the #1 podcast category, seeing a significant increase in the quarter. Pod Save America is #1 by average weekly downloads. Digital audio in the US is already worth Brazil’s entire digital ad market, writes Rodrigo Tigre for Podnews today. In spite of 92% of Brazilians consuming some form of audio every month, audio spend in the country is so small, it doesn't even appear in the latest IAB figures. But, says the co-founder of Ozen.fm, it could take very little to move the needle in audio's favour. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudio Post-Production Specialist: Kyle Hopkins — Broadcast-quality audio post-production for podcasts, YouTube & social video. From essential cleanup to full sound design. Responsive, consistent, deadline-safe support for creators, studios & brands.📈 Effective Audience Growth — Drive more plays and subscribers with campaigns tailored to your goals. Explore Player FM’s self-serve campaigns that help podcasters of all sizes grow faster. AudienceLift.com - YouTube Growth + Subs 🌟 — 🌟 AudienceLift.com – YouTube Growth + Subs Get real subscribers, more views, and lasting channel growth. Your shortcut

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Hello from The Podcast Show in London! 💂🇬🇧 You can find Supporting Cast this week at our booth on the gallery level—swing by, grab a chat, and let's talk subscriptions. Or, reach out to schedule a meeting: [email protected] The world of podcasting is travelling to London for The Podcast Show, which has revealed its full programme of speakers. Delegates from more than 50 countries will attend, and the show has added two new spaces for international visitors. There are more than 450 speakers and 170 sessions. The results of the Podnews Report Card will be revealed in the first session at 9.15am on Wednesday. Our Editor, James Cridland, says that the report reveals that apps and platforms that continue investing in new features and good discoverability are prized by podcast creators. In the UK, Sky News is to launch Sky News Insider, a £2.99/month subscription for ad-free access, bonus episodes and early releases. It's the first time Sky News has launched an additive, paid-for news product. The company is using our sponsor Supporting Cast to sell podcast subscriptions. Flightcast has announced support for video on Apple Podcasts, and HLS video through the alternate enclosure, at no extra cost for all customers. The enterprise video podcast host is not charging for additional bandwidth or hosting to enable this feature, and all existing episodes have been pre-processed for customers on the platform, meaning they can enable Apple Podcasts video with no delay. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here90% of Podcasts Fail 📉 — Not from talent. From avoidable mistakes. The School of Podcasting shows you what actually works—before your show becomes another abandoned feed.Fanswoon - grow your podcast the smart way — add your show, ask the consultant, and grow with a plan. Get world-class and affordable insights now by signing up for free today, using the discount code PODNEWS26 at check-out for 20% off. NEED A STUDIO IN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND? — PodLab is NZ's go-to podcast & video studio, run by Radio icons Jay-

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your brand, your site, your rules. 💅 Supporting Cast is the invisible engine that powers your premium experience. Integrate a seamless subscription flow directly into your own website. Stop being a "content provider" for someone else’s app. Be the destination!! Spotify's Megaphone, and Spotify for Creators, are to support video for podcasts published on Apple Podcasts. The two companies were the only large podcast hosts not to announce support for HLS video when Apple announced it earlier in the year. No pricing has been given. It doesn't change how video works on Spotify, however: the company still requires videos to be uploaded directly for playback on the Spotify app. The company also announced live partners for Spotify Video Distribution (which allows your podcast host to directly upload video for you into Spotify). Libsyn, Podigee, Audioboom, Audiomeans, and Podspace are all live with the feature today. Spotify Video Distribution was announced in January; Acast and Omny Studio were both highlighted as launch partners then, but aren't yet live. Spotify is now explicit in the FAQ that if you change your mind, you can transition your show back to an audio-only RSS feed - but the company warns you, you'll lose all video uploads. At a big YouTube event called Brandcast, a number of YouTube-exclusive shows were announced, including four new shows from Alex Cooper's Unwell Network. YouTube announced <a href="https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/youtube/youtube-brandcast-2026-advertiser-updates/?utm_source=podnews.

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your brand, your site, your rules. 💅 Supporting Cast is the invisible engine that powers your premium experience. Integrate a seamless subscription flow directly into your own website. Stop being a "content provider" for someone else’s app. Be the destination!! Sir Paul McCartney is the guest on two Goalhanger shows this week - The Rest is Entertainment (asking questions from listeners) and The Rest is History (going into more detail on Sir Paul's life). For noting - the shows were released to paid members early; and it's smart to get double the exposure by using two shows on the network. (He has a new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, out May 29). Exclusive: DAX US and Captivate have announced a new unified monetisation suite for US creators. Captivate creators will gain streamlined access to integrated monetization tools through Captivate’s Ad Marketplace, powered by DAX’s programmatic advertising capabilities. Rob Walch, VP of Podcast Relations, said it was "a meaningful step forward in simplifying podcast monetization for creators". First look: Short-form audio documentary series Short Cuts is to return, as a collaboration between the BBC, CBC and ABC Australia. The show's producers, Falling Tree Productions, has announced a call for pitches. A multi award-winner, each episode features a selection of short documentaries exploring a wide range of subjects through inventive and highly crafted audio. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudio Post-Production Specialist: Kyle Hopkins — Broadcast-quality audio post-production for podcasts, YouTube & social video. From essential cleanup to full sound design. Responsive, consistent, deadline-safe support for creators, studios & brands.The Craft Beer Podcast You’ll

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your brand, your site, your rules. 💅 Supporting Cast is the invisible engine that powers your premium experience. Integrate a seamless subscription flow directly into your own website. Stop being a "content provider" for someone else’s app. Be the destination!! Exclusive: Amazon Music begins rolling out video podcasts from today. Video podcasts will initially be available for customers in the US on iOS and Android, across all subscription tiers. A spokesperson told us: "In today’s rapidly evolving podcast landscape, video has emerged as an increasingly essential format for creators and their audiences. With more consumers engaging with video podcasts of their favorite shows, Amazon Music is introducing an integrated video podcast experience for customers, making it simpler for customers to watch a selection of their favorite podcasts without leaving the app. This early experience will help us gather valuable customer feedback to shape and enhance the experience." Amazon Music is initially launching video podcasts with Amazon's ART19, and has plans to expand to additional partners later this summer. Initial shows with video include Higher Ground's IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, and Dear Media's Khloé in Wonder Land, Not Skinny But Not Fat and Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari. ART19 and Amazon Music will work directly with creators and publishers to provide instructions on how to make their videos available on Amazon Music. Podnews is told that the app will use HLS video, including support for HLS multivariate playlists via an alternate enclosure in RSS. Videos remain hosted by the creator's podcast hosting company. A company spokesperson told us that the approach "maintains an open RSS ecosystem, meaning podcast creators retain full control over their hosting, ad inventory monetization, and audience targeting." There is no private API to submit video, and Amazon Music is not charging podcast creators or networks for access to video distribution. A number of podcast hosting companies offering video have already said that they aim to support video delivery using the alternate enclosure.</

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your brand, your site, your rules. 💅 Supporting Cast is the invisible engine that powers your premium experience. Integrate a seamless subscription flow directly into your own website. Stop being a "content provider" for someone else’s app. Be the destination!! Oprah Winfrey's The Oprah Podcast today features guests that are out of this world - or, at least, they were. After their extraordinary, history-making trip around the moon, Oprah has an in-depth conversation with the crew of Artemis II. The crew shares how they were transformed after spending more than nine days traveling farther into space than any human being has ever been. The show was acquired by Amazon's Wondery last month. Spotify drives 1.5x more podcast consumption than YouTube, according to new data from Podstock. However, part of that is due to discovery tools and reach for new audiences - new listeners lower average time spent per stream. The data, based on thousands of different podcast episodes, highlights the increasingly multiplatform world of podcasting. In the UK, podcasting reaches more 18-34 year-olds than broadcast TV, says research from Sounds Profitable, written up by Ben Robins of Sound Insights. The data on the UK's podcast consumers arrives a week before The Podcast Show in London: Ben Robins and Tom Webster will cover more of the data on May 20 at 10am. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudio Post-Production Specialist: Kyle Hopkins — Broadcast-quality audio post-production for podcasts, YouTube & social video. From essential cleanup to full sound design. Responsive, consistent, deadline-safe support for creators, studios & brands.Launch a Finance Podcast Right — Built for RIAs, asset managers, and wealth managers. Covers compliance planning, show concept, branding, distribution, and content development. Free checklist from TPC.

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your brand, your site, your rules. 💅 Supporting Cast is the invisible engine that powers your premium experience. Integrate a seamless subscription flow directly into your own website. Stop being a "content provider" for someone else’s app. Be the destination!! Exclusive: Daylight Media has acquired the online publication Podcast Review. We first reported on the website in Feb 2018; the well-regarded website contains human-curated podcast recommendations, reviews and analysis (like this, for The Idiot). The weekly newsletter goes to 12,000 people. Alice Orr becomes the Managing Editor. Exclusive: Million Podcasts has published The State of Video Podcasting 2026 - an analysis of 34,000 English-language video podcasts. This beautifully-designed report suggests that there are 7.7mn video podcast episodes available, but it's very unequal: the top 1% of video podcasts are getting 42% of all consumption. The inequality also extends to who's behind the microphone: there are twice as many video podcasts hosted by men as women. You can also score your podcast against the top ten. Exclusive: Niche podcasts may lose on scale - but they outperform in many other ways. Strategist Losh Moodaley writes for Podnews to highlight the blind spot of the podcast industry - inventory is valued in bulk, while context is largely ignored. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.🎙️ Grow Your Podcast on Player FM — Put your show in front of engaged

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your subscribers shouldn't be someone else's email list. 🔒 Other platforms keep the keys to your audience—their payment info, their contact details, their loyalty. Supporting Cast hands them back 🔑. Build a business you actually own. A community to connect BIPOC creators through education, networking and partnerships, BIPOC Podcast Creators has announced that it is closing. The co-founders announced that the closure is partially driven by capacity and time constraints, but also reflects the structural challenges of sustaining community-driven work in the current content creator landscape. “The industry benefits enormously from communities like ours, but the infrastructure to sustain them long-term requires arduous work and significant financial investment. And frankly, it’s not enough to ask our creators to pay to make up this difference,” said co-founder Maribel Quezada Smith. VeePod has launched dynamic 3D branding for any video podcast, particularly useful for product placements and logos, as well as busy podcast publishers. The toolkit will be demonstrated at The Podcast Show later this month. Yesterday, we reported on what we called Spotify's "video lock-in". This story was based on screenshots of Podigee's implementation of Spotify's video distribution API, which we erroneously attributed to Spotify's own UX: we're happy to make that distinction clear. What's a little less clear is the extent of the lock-in. Spotify denies that creators are permanently "locked in" to using a Spotify API feed if they opt for video distribution in this way, though the company has confirmed that changing your feed back to RSS requires manual work from both the podcast hosting company and from Spotify itself. From others, we hear that this reversion process may remove comments, reviews, and video files from your podcast; and we also understand that following our story yesterday, Spotify has contacted all partners to clarify messaging about this process. Not that any of us would know - at least two podcast hosting companies have told us that the whole API is under a non-disclosure agreement, and that they are prohibited from speaking about it. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here<a href="https://pod

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your subscribers shouldn't be someone else's email list. 🔒 Other platforms keep the keys to your audience—their payment info, their contact details, their loyalty. Supporting Cast hands them back 🔑. Build a business you actually own. Thinking of using a podcast hosting company to upload video to Spotify? That ease of use comes with a big cost, we learn today: you will be forever locked in to your current podcast hosting company, according to warnings given by Spotify in the signup process. "This cannot be undone", says one checkbox on Spotify; another points out that "this permanently replaces your RSS feed with API-based distribution", repeating, twice, that "this cannot be undone". Podnews has seen at least 3,500 podcasts switch podcast hosting company in the last 30 days alone: it's part of the freedom given with any RSS feed, allowing you to find better deals and different monetisation options as your podcast grows. It's also, free to upload video to Spotify using the Spotify for Podcasters website - wherever you're hosted. It seems that it's unlikely, however, that podcast hosting companies will mention this lock-in. Podigee, which launched Spotify video this week, doesn't even have any documentation about it (they're working on it, they tell us); while Libsyn, who launched Spotify video distribution last week, don't mention this lockin at all. But then - why would they? Update: This was based on screenshots of Podigee's implementation of Spotify's video distribution API (which we erroneously attributed to Spotify's own UX). We're happy to make that distinction clear. What's a little less clear is the extent of the lock-in. Spotify denies that creators are permanently "locked in" to using a Spotify API feed if they opt for video distribution through their podcast host, though the company has confirmed that changing your feed back to RSS requires manual work from both the podcast hosting company and from Spotify itself. From others, we hear th

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your subscribers shouldn't be someone else's email list. 🔒 Other platforms keep the keys to your audience—their payment info, their contact details, their loyalty. Supporting Cast hands them back 🔑. Build a business you actually own. Podcast hosting company Captivate has unveiled its Apple Podcasts video support. Their pricing model is a flat $12/month add-on for up to 1,000 video plays. Additional bandwidth costs are charged over that number. Captivate isn't yet supporting the alternate enclosure. Podnews has published a quick price comparison page for video podcast hosting. What's notable is that different companies are charging in very different ways. It's emerged that all podcasters wanting to submit video to Apple Podcasts will need to manually get an API key from Apple (docs from Captivate, Podigee or Buzzsprout) and then submit an approval request to Apple Podcasts to enable their podcast in video - and it can take up to two weeks for Apple Podcasts to approve this request. We don't know of any publishers or shows that have been disallowed, however, and there is a suggestion that this is a technical quality check to help the platform with scaling growth. However, neither Spotify nor YouTube charges for bandwidth, and both those companies don't have a pre-publishing approval process. Captivate launched their Apple Podcasts video streaming feature with a special edition of In & Around Podcasting - however, surprisingly, that episode is not yet in video on Apple Podcasts. We bet it's in Apple's approval queue... What effect does adding video on Apple Podcasts have on your show's consumpti

Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your subscribers shouldn't be someone else's email list. 🔒 Other platforms keep the keys to your audience—their payment info, their contact details, their loyalty. Supporting Cast hands them back 🔑. Build a business you actually own. Podcast hosting company Podigee has launched video podcast support - for YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Video is available today across every podcast plan; the company says it makes them the first to support video podcast distribution to all three major platforms, across every pricing tier. Pricing starts at €19/month (US $22), for unlimited audio and four video episodes (of up to 30 minutes) per month. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. Podigee tells Podnews that they're "still looking into the implications of adding the alternate enclosure feature", but long term they would like to support it. Support will add video to other, open podcast apps (either as an MP4 or HLS stream). Buzzsprout has also confirmed it is not yet supporting the alternateEnclosure. RAIN reminds us that it's ten years since Spotify launched video shows. Acast's Q1/26 financial report says the company has shown "strong profitable growth". Sales were up by 20% (26% in North America); the company made profit of SEK 4.7 (US $0.5mn), which is the company's first ever profitable first quarter. Megaphone is switching to use Spotify Ad Server from mid July, allowing new formats of ads including video. Third-party serving via VAST is being removed entirely. As part of this transition, Megaphone has made a

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Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your subscribers shouldn't be someone else's email list. 🔒 Other platforms keep the keys to your audience—their payment info, their contact details, their loyalty. Supporting Cast hands them back 🔑. Build a business you actually own. Apple announced its Q2/26 fiscal financial results. Services revenue, which includes revenue from premium Apple Podcasts subscriptions, reached an all-time high of $31 billion, up +16.3%. The word "podcast" wasn't mentioned in the conference call; though it is available as a podcast - Apple Quarterly Earnings Call. (Weirdly, that podcast isn't on Spotify...) Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster gives his detailed thoughts on a rumoured merger between SiriusXM and iHeartMedia. If you wanted detail and proper analysis, and even some hot corporate finance talk, you want this post. How does your podcast get featured on Spotify? On Monday, we spoke with Spotify's Lizzy Hale for the official answer. Yet, a UK reader of Podnews spotted a feature for "Podcasts to help save the planet" appear in their app, which might point to an alternative way. Highlighted were podcasts from TEDxLondon, the BBC World Service, and a science podcast from Fresh Air; but the #1 slot was given to a podcast called Heart of the Wild, which is, in its words, "hosted by Dianna Colasurdo, a London-based media executive and passionate animal enthusiast". This show is too small to appear in either Rephonic or Podscribe, so we're impressed that it got the prime position in the Spotify carousel. On LinkedIn, we discover a possible reason why: Dianna Colasurdo is the Government Business Lead... at Spotify. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here<a href="https://podne

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Psst: last day to fill in the Podnews Report Card. Thank you. I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want - I want three new video-capable podcast studios. Acast has upgraded its studios in Stockholm and Oslo, and Acast's new video podcast studio in Woolloomoolloo in Sydney has officially had it's first guest: none other than Sporty Spice herself, Mel C, in a new episode of The Mitch Churi Chat Show out today. Acast has also made a number of key hires in Sweden: Otto Jorméus joins as Content Director, while Gustaf Angelin has been hired as Video and Podcast Producer. An email to Captivate customers suggests that the podcast hosting company will launch Apple Podcasts video "from next week". Following Libsyn's announcement that they now support Spotify video distribution, the company has also announced that all Libsyn creators can upload up to 100GB of storage per month for video files (and the Pro plans have no limit). "It's really important to us that our creators can lean into video in a way that makes sense for their show, without overly restrictive limitations," a spokesperson told us. Their audio upload limit is unchanged. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🚀 AUDIENCELIFT = LISTENS + SUBSCRIBERS! — Audiencelift advertises your podcast to the right audience with links to listen, follow, and opt in for push notifications! It's perfect if you want to grow and engage your audience. Learn more! 📈 Effective Campaigns That Fit Your Budget — Player FM’s self-serve ad portal helps podcasters of all sizes grow faster. Drive more plays and subscribers with campaigns tailored to your goals and budget.Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, <a href="https://mowpod.com/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campai

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Just two days left to fill in the Podnews Report Card. It should take ten minutes, and is our chance to feed back to the big platforms - Apple, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube etc - what we really want. It's our fifth year of doing this; and we've helped make big change. We can make more: with your help. The POSSIBLE conference is taking place in Miami. Here's a glimpse in video form. Among the speakers were Black Effect's Charlamagne the God, being interviewed by iHeart CEO Bob Pittman for a live recording of Math though the company gives a limited amount of monthly storage for uploads - 162MB for the $8 plan, or 540MB for the $25/month plan. (the company has confirmed this is for audio only; all non-Pro customers get 100GB of video storage per month.) The <a href="https://pod.link/392545649/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdtZWRpYXNob3cuY29tLz9wPTIwNDg?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Not long left to fill in the Podnews Report Card. We've already got time with the team at Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music to go over the results; and we're unveiling the results in full at The Podcast Show in London. Your voice deserves to be heard. The Black Effect Podcast Festival took place over the weekend in Atlanta GA, USA. The event featured live podcast recordings, panel discussions spanning the business of podcasting, a pitch your podcast booth, the Black Marketplace and more. The day contained a number of similar themes, says a piece in the Saporta Report - be yourself, stay consistent, create with purpose, and explore the growing ways that artificial intelligence can support that work. Amazon's Wondery has acquired the rights for The Oprah Podcast. No terms were shared; the deal also includes the rights for the full archive of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Winfrey's Book Club, among other things. Red Seat Ventures has announced a multiyear partnership with live comedy podcast Kill Tony. Expect the opportunity to get ad-free versions using Supercast; and the show will be in video on Tubi, FOX One, as well as YouTube. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereReal Audience Growth for Creators — Reach More Listeners and Viewers! Grow Your Podcast with Proven Results. 🚀 AudienceLift.com, Guaranteed Growth for Audio & Video Podcasts. Try it Now!<a href="https://podnews.net/class-click/3350/2026-04-28

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Not long left to fill in the Podnews Report Card. Please do! Your voice deserves to be heard. How can you get your podcast promoted by Spotify? Today, Podnews speaks with Lizzy Hale, Spotify's Head of Podcast Editorial. The company has dozens of people based all over the world, watching for shows to highlight, and guiding Spotify's recommendation systems to reflect cultural moments. In an interview, Lizzy tells us how they aim to "give more creators a real shot at being discovered". SiriusXM and iHeartMedia are in talks to merge, reports Variety. The news was initially the subject of a set of reports by Bloomberg ($). From a podcast point of view, merging the two would mean one network with 3,422 shows; representing around 207 million downloads+views a month. Spotify would remain bigger, suggests the Podscribe ranker - but that's only until SiriusXM starts representing YouTube's audio advertising later this year. Both iHeart and SiriusXM have, of course, significant radio businesses. RadioInsight suggests a merged company will be a juggernaut. SiriusXM obfuscates its podcast revenue by including Pandora in its data, but earned $2.1bn revenue from that business unit in 2025 (25% of overall revenue). iHeart earned <a href="https://s24.q4cdn.com/216390268/files/doc_financials/2025/ar/223e9f79-b858-4bd8-9830-3f41b0b95ee8.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more. Spanish-language podcast app iVoox has unveiled its first ever TV ad, which will run on Mediaset TV channels across Spain. We've added English-language captions to the ad, which you can see here. We don't remember covering a TV ad for a podcast app ever - (though TuneIn and Audible have done a few). Very welcome. Can't be bothered to record a short promo for your podcast? Why not use an AI avatar to do it for you? That's what Cleveland.com decided to do - with possibly predictably negative comments, suggests sports website Awful Announcing. It's easier to get new shows into Apple Podcasts; but that also means it's easier to push spam into it - Apple Podcasts (and, therefore, many other apps that rely on the Apple Podcasts directory) is being flooded by spam, like the Temu codes we link to today (via John Spurlock). These shows are hosted on Spotify for Podcasters, Acast, RSS.com, and Ausha. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudienceLift: AI Podcast Growth – 12% Off Now! — AudienceLift.com: Your AI-Powered Podcast Growth Partner Trusted by industry leaders to grow audiences and build subscriber databases. Start your first campaign today with code Podnews12 for 12% off! Uni Pod 26: The content creators podcast festival — Birmingham UK welcomes podcast and audio industry experts for a day of talks and networking. Uni

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more. The Tribeca Festival has selected a sci-fi podcast, The Dolos Project, for its audio line-up. Podnews has first sight of the new video trailer, which begins in the aftermath of Earth’s nuclear annihilation. From a remote space station, co-pilots David and Sarah, alongside their AI companion SAI, may be the last remnants of humanity. The show is from Marcus and Megan Bagala, who have worked for top shows for DC (DC High Volume: Batman), Marvel, Star Trek: Khan, Gimlet, Spotify, and Wondery. The most streamed podcast of all time on Spotify over the last 20 years? It's probably not a surprise to learn that it's The Joe Rogan Experience. But what might be a surprise is that German-language podcast Gemischtes Hack is at #2; and The Daily is at #6. The company released its full "most streamed of all time" lists. Taylor Swift is #1 music artist; but doesn't have the #1 streamed album (she's there at #8). Podtrac's global multi-channel podcast ranker was released for March. The biggest mover is The Adam Mockler Show from MeidasTouch Network. The global ranker measures audio podcasts, video podcasts and podcast clips on Insta, TikTok and YouTube. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereGrow Your Show with YouTube! — 🚀 Boost your podcast reach on YouTube! Turn listeners into viewers, grow subscribers, and get discovered by new audiences. Start scaling your show today with AudienceLift.com Today! 🌱 Is Your Show Ready to Grow? — Get started with Player FM’s self-serve ad campaigns. Low commitment, flexible pricing, and an easy way to reach engaged listeners.Gold supporters: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/?utm

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. First look: SiriusXM has been announced as the exclusive advertising representative of YouTube audio advertising in the US. This is a significant addition to SiriusXM Media's portfolio, which will now be able to reach 255mn monthly listeners - almost 90% of all US adults 13+. SiriusXM also released data from Edison Research, showing that around 74% of US adults 13+ consume YouTube audio, or engage in listening-first behaviours on YouTube. The data also says that 45% consume YouTube content with static visuals; 48% listen while video is minimised or in the background. Sounds Profitable released new research on "Audio Primes" - the people who listen to at least 75% of their content as audio. That's 22% of podcast consumers; and they're younger and more educated. While they choose audio for podcasts, Audio Primes also - surprisingly - consume more video as well. The full report, sponsored by RSS.com, is available as a free download. Bumper has launched The Bumper Score, a new tool "built to close the trust gap between podcast listenership and advertiser confidence". The company suggests that the next $1 billion in podcasting starts with better data; the tool uses verified metrics to give a simple score for strong verified reach. It will be free to all podcasters; you can join the waitlist now. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.Podcast Guesting UNsummit - FREE EVENT - Apr 28/29 — Build a podcast guesting strat

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot.Hey! Have you filled out the Podnews Report Card yet? Not long left to make sure you get your voice heard. Over 20,000... bots have filled it in, but we've deleted all those, and we'd like more humans. Please, if you've a spare few minutes, help us with your thoughts. And thanks. Exclusive: We've the podcast winners for the 30th Annual Webby Awards. Podcast Company of the Year went to iHeart Media. Best New Podcast is Goalhanger's The Rest Is Science. Good Hang with Amy Poehler won four awards, while The Jamie Kern Lima Show won five awards for an episode with Michelle Obama. We've a full list of the winners before anyone else. Another streaming service is to get podcasts. Fox One has announced eight new podcast shows will be available on the platform, sourced from Fox News Media and Red Seat Ventures. Is Alex Cooper's podcast network feeling a little under the weather? In a paywalled article for Bloomberg, Ashley Carman tells stories of high employee turnover, alleges bad behaviour from CEO Matt Kaplan, and, cites Podscribe's numbers to describe a failure of the Unwell Network to produce a hit other than Call Her Daddy. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudienceLift.com = Podcast Growth 🌟 — AudienceLift.com = Podcast Growth 🌟 More listeners. More charts. More growth. The smarter way to grow your podcast starts here.🔊 Unlock Podcast Discovery — Grow your

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. It's six years since the launch of The Podcast Academy. In an in-depth look at podcasting's membership organisation, we examine how it's doing in terms of membership, the state of its finances, how important The Ambies are to the organisation, and a mysterious change at the top that has left some people wondering what happened. Read our story in full. Edison Research at SSRS published the top 50 podcasts in the US for Q1/26. What effect has Netflix had on this chart? The Breakfast Club rose from 15 to 11; it's the clear leader on Netflix. The Bill Simmons podcast - removed in full from YouTube in favour of Netflix - has also risen from 49 to 42. The highest new entry is The Ramsey Show. Edison Podcast Metrics asks about podcasts, not about platforms - so will include shows wherever people consume them. Acast published its annual report for 2025. It posted sales growth in North America of +60% in the year; overall, sales grew by +29%. Bringing in a total of $274mn in revenue, the company posted an overall loss of -$12mn. The company has 429 full-time employees (up from 364 last year). > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Business School workshop is for you! Join us for this 4-day virtual workshop April 21st-24th.🎙️ Your Podcast ➡️ Thousands of New Listeners — Affordable sponsorship without the noise. Be the 1ˢᵗ show listeners see when they open PodLP, the top podcast app for flip phones.Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, <a href="https://mowpo

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. RØDE made a number of announcements at the NAB Show. Sonaura, a tiny microphone technology component, will be part of upcoming new microphones from RØDE. New products announced (but coming soon) are squarely aimed at the video podcast world: RØDELink II, a new wireless microphone system; LPA1, a new low-profile studio arm ("for precision placement without visual obstruction"); DS3, a desktop studio arm; and PodMic Flag, a bespoke flag for the PodMic to put your podcast logo on. RØDECaster Studio will be an "edit like a Word doc"-type editor, with automatic um/er removal and AI editing. And RØDE Capture, a mobile phone recording app, will finally be available for Android phones. Podcast agency Caspian Studios made a number of layoffs - roughly half the workforce has been impacted. It was Caspian's third layoff in three years. Headliner has announced it is to make its video podcasting tools free. The announcement coincides with Headliner's eighth birthday. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Business School workshop is for you! Join us for this 4-day virtual workshop April 21st-24th.Good Podcasts Grow. Great Ones Scale — Even chart-toppers need smarter growth. AudienceLift.com drives measurable expansion across Major Audio and Video Platforms. 🌟 For creators who want more than “good enough. Try it Now!Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, Mowpod, Podbean, <a href="https://100mba.net/escape/?utm_source=partners&u

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. Audioboom released a trading update for Q1/26. Revenue is up +30% year-on-year to another record of $22.5mn; the company made $4.8mn profit (up +41%). However, Audioboom describes video - up +70% in views - as "lower-yield"; revenue per thousand downloads is down from $60.83 to $45.10 as a result of more video and more downloads within the UK, which historically monetises less well than the US. The company recently signed Crooked Media and true-crime show RedHanded. Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster is running a free webinar today at 2pm ET, looking at Audio Primes: the people who listen to podcasts. The report, sponsored by RSS.com, look at podcast consumers who prefer audio, not video: and "they defy every stereotype you might have about them", we're told. You can sign up free, here. Which are the best true crime shows - for advertisers? Where are the ads in those shows working the best? Oxford Road has released data today from ORBIT which draws from more than $1.6bn in campaign data. The research shows that advertisers are timidly investing in the genre; and not properly committing. "The nuance of this genre rewards those who explore it." > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcastKeywords.com — Search data for over 70,000+ podcast related keywords. Perfect for SEO, discover competitive podcasts, organized by search intent, uncover popular “podcast” related searches! NO subscription fees.🚀 AUDIENCELIFT = LISTENS + SUBSCRIBERS! — Audiencelift advertises your podcast to the right audience with links to listen, follow, and opt in for push notificat

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. Is podcasting being flooded with AI slop? For new shows, it seems that normal, human-made podcasts are now in the minority, according to the Podcast Index. Visible on the Podcast Index's New Feeds Report, at the time of writing it shows only 44.6% of new shows in the last 24 hours were "likely legitimate", with 45.7% potentially produced by AI. The tool spots AI-generated shows by using AI itself. The Podcast Index is now making available a /recent/problematic API, which details new podcast shows that have been marked as spam, phishing, or "low-effort AI", which may help podcast hosting companies and apps curate their feeds. The Podcast Index New Feeds Report also shows that Inception Point AI released 325 new shows on Tuesday: almost one-in-five of all new shows on that day. Hosted by Spreaker and monitored by Podtrac, it's unclear how many Inception Point AI shows have been produced, since the Podcast Index appears to sporadically remove them from its index; we count more than 8,000 still there. Inception Point AI added twenty wellness shows yesterday, marked "WELLNS", in less than 75 minutes. The shows offer AI-generated advice about Codependency, Mental Health, Vaccinations, gambling addiction, anger management, panic attacks, and more. They're all hosted by "Julia Cartwright" or "Dr. Mara Lennox", and start by saying things like: "I want you to know that I'm an AI host, which means I can engage with sensitive, deeply personal material without judgment, agenda or projection." When we interviewed Inception Point AI's CEO Jeanine Wright in 2025, she told us that for health and wellness advice, "somebody is involved in listening and reviewing the content before it’s released". The company has also moved into Spanish-language podcasting, with a set of biography shows - like for the Argentine writer <

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot.Before we begin: have you filled out the Podnews Report Card yet? We'd appreciate your help in sharing it to your colleagues, customers or anyone else who might fill it in. If you want to mention it on your industry podcast, it's at podnews.net/reportcard - and thank you. CBC has released its spring/summer 2026 podcast slate. New podcasts include a comedy podcast hosted by musician Donovan Woods and Tom Power of CBC’s Q - and a new investigative series into an AI tool that claims it's solving crimes. On our story yesterday of the cloned podcasts: podcast lawyer Lindsay Bowen tells us that he believes some of the original podcast owners could have a case for copyright infringement, and either trademark infringement or a violation of the Lanham Act's prohibition against passing off. But he also warns podcast hosting companies and podcast directories need to get their house in order too: "Every hosting platform —or anyone who hosts user uploaded material available in the United States — must have a DMCA designated agent listed in the directory of the US Copyright Office. Otherwise, they can’t claim protection of the DMCA’s “Safe Harbor,” and could be liable for a contributory infringement lawsuit against them." We're sure that Dr Nathan Pali's thinly disguised versions of The Rest Is History are totally above board? At least it's not AI-generated: when we listened to one of the podcasts, we noticed this history podcaster was incapable of pronouncing the word Carthaginian. Or of editing. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. A new podcast studio, Light Knot Studios, is copying the names and designs of 75 successful history podcasts to confuse listeners and attract ad revenue. It was first spotted over the weekend by Dirk from the History of the Germans podcast (using PodSEO, who advertised with us a few weeks ago). He told Podnews: "We all have competition. But, if listeners look for History of the Germans and they stumble on this [visual copy] instead, they'll be confused and will think it's not worth listening to. We're all struggling hard for the first listen. It's very irritating." Legally, this is a little like Coming to America's "McDowell's restaurant". The law against passing off - “stopping one trader from misrepresenting goods and services as being the goods and services of another” - isn't, actually, something that copyright or trademark law covers. Since the audio hasn't been copied, it might be tricky to convince individual podcast platforms to take action. (Our advice about how to report a pirated podcast isn't going to be wholly useful for this). The company is based in New York State. The owner of Light Knot Studios is LinkedByte Corporation, which also runs an audiobook app brand Fable FM and a book summariser Winkist. They're all run by Ibnul Jaif Farabi, and uses a post office box in East Harlem, NYC. Farabi has commented on Reddit (using an account th

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. How are podcasts doing on Netflix? Independent measurement company Samba TV posted data on Netflix Podcasts, including a podcast ranker. The company says that 13% of Netflix households (that's 10mn households) watched at least 1 cumulative minute of a Netflix podcast in Q1/26. There’s really only one runaway success on Netflix for now - it’s The Breakfast Club, which is responsible for 40% of all podcast views on the platform, and has 3x the views of the #2 title, a Netflix companion podcast for Bridgerton. Almost half of Breakfast Club viewers watch the show within 48 hours of an episode’s release. (Caution: the 13% number above is a figure spanning three months, rather than the usual one-month period. The company only monitors smart TVs, not phones. This doesn't suggest these people watched a podcast for at least a minute, just that in total they've watched at least a minute of podcasts in a three month period.) Exclusive: The Podcast Show London has announced Global and iHeartPodcasts as headline partners for the event next month. This year, Global’s presence will place a particular focus on Global Studios. Exclusive: We reported on the upcoming Podcast Movement NYC in February; but today, in an interview in the Podnews Weekly Review with Bryan Barletta, we discover the pricing for tickets, and more detail about the week-long flagship event. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereContact John Wordock for Help Today — In podcasting since 2006 he's built some well-known networks and shows. Got questions about video, YouTube, content strategy, audience growth or revenue? Book a confidential meeting with John.Targeted Podcast Audiences for Brands — Brands & corporations reach targeted po

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. Podcast revenue for Patreon has increased by a third in the past year, up to $629mn in 2025. Patreon has published more details of the shift it's seeing. 47,000 podcasters are now earning income from 7.6 million patrons, the company says. Some of those include you - our many supporters of Podnews through Patreon, which keeps us free for everyone. Thank you. Podtrac released its March rankers. Publishers were up month-on-month (February has 28 days and March 31, so you'd hope so); but many publishers are down year-on-year. Versant is a new publisher to the rankings, at #13. A pop-up bookshop is about to launch in New York City - but it’s the first bookshop in the world that won't sell any books. The bookless bookstore is being opened on May 1 by Audible. In the Audible Story House, you’ll be able to browse audio books, experience Dolby Atmos, find a pop-up café, and more; it’ll be in 260 Bowery. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.AudienceLift.com = Podcast Growth 🌟 — AudienceLift.com = Podcast Growth 🌟 More listeners. More charts. More growth. The smarter way to grow your podcast starts here.Audio Primes - The People Who

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. If getting your podcast discovered is hard, then this new feature might help. Spotify has launched Prompted Playlist for Podcasts, a tool that lets you build podcast playlists just by asking for something - like "Create a podcast playlist with the biggest entertainment news". The tool is available for Premium users in English in selected countries. We gave it a go, and we approve of its top choices. Spotify’s article says that “more than 34 million podcasts are discovered for the first time every week on Spotify” - so anything that helps get new shows found will benefit us. George Soros’s Soros Fund Management is investing into MeidasTouch Network, the owner of The MeidasTouch Podcast. Terms weren't given. The investment company became the largest shareholder in Audacy in February; and invested in Crooked Media in 2022. Fun fact: Soros was described as “the man with the midas touch” in TIME magazine in 1993. He is now. Ausha has expanded its growth suite with Ausha Visibility Ads, adding the ability to buy ads on Spotify and YouTube for your podcast. Specifically adapted for podcast growth, the tool is available today in beta. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. We’ve seen the data suggesting it’s only the #3 most popular podcast app these days: but Apple Podcasts can still have a real effect when the editorial team highlight shows on its front page. One podcast says it saw 61,000 downloads in a single day after it was promoted. “What I Survived” is an independent podcast from Queensland, Australia, and got an editorial feature on Apple Podcasts at launch. (Our list of all the podcast directories includes the page to submit your show to the Apple Podcasts editorial team). Look at the US podcast charts, and there’s plenty of sports shows in the top 20. But in Latin America - countries like Argentina or Mexico - there are none in the top 200! So, why haven’t sports podcasts taken off in Latin America? There’s plenty of reasons, suggests Genuina Media; the company also has a compelling reason why this is likely to change this year. Never Not Funny, the Jimmy Pardo Podcast, is to celebrate its twenty-year anniversary this Saturday with an eight-hour livestream. The show started in 2006, recorded from Pardo’s dining table; and has produced video episodes since 2008. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Business School workshop is for you! Join us for this 4-day virtual workshop April 21st-24th.🎙️ Grow Your Podcast on Player FM — Put your show in front of engaged listeners on Player FM. Simple setup, flexible pricing, and real results for podcasters ready to grow. Get your campaign running today!Gold supporters: Buzzsp

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. Good news from TuneIn: after closing podcast submissions in Feb 2024, TuneIn now appears to be accepting new podcast listings once more. You can just use TuneIn's broadcaster portal; the directory has all of our shows there (here's our daily podcast). The directory is the default way into Tesla cars, Sonos speakers and many more places; when we last covered TuneIn in Dec 2024, we revealed mass layoffs at the company; but it was acquired by radio and podcast producer Stingray in Nov 2025. Exclusive: Libsyn and Buzzsprout have signed up with Apple Podcasts to distribute HLS video. Brendan Monaghan, President & CEO, Libsyn, said: “We view video as a natural progression for podcasting — giving creators more ways to engage audiences, deepen storytelling, and grow their businesses. This partnership aligns directly with our vision, as Libsyn continues building a next-gen platform, enabling creators to publish seamlessly across formats, distribute everywhere, and monetize more effectively than ever before.” Alban Brooke, Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout, said: “We’re excited to bring Apple Podcasts video distribution to Buzzsprout. HLS gives podcasters a great way to publish video to Apple Podcasts and makes it easy for people to listen or watch.” All top-10 podcast hosting companies now support HLS video, with one exception: Spotify for Creators/Megaphone. (Users of Triton Digital’s Spreaker can upgrade to Omny Studio). Most of these hosting companies, however, are not publishing pricing for video hosting, and support appears to be invite-only. Twenty years ago this week, Podcast Generator, a free podcast hosting tool, was released. Used by more than 25,000 podcasts, Alberto Betella looks back at the tool and what it looked like in a full history. It’s a fascinating view of some of the early

Sponsored by Podscribe. Where did your RON ads actually run? Podscribe’s new airchecks for RON campaigns reveal real placements, brand safety signals, and competitive insights. See what’s new → OpenAI has bought the TBPN podcast, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Financial Times says the purchase price is in the “low hundreds of millions”. If true, it’s likely that this is one of the biggest deals for a podcast in the medium’s history (Joe Rogan’s renewal at Spotify being $250mn in 2024). TBPN has eleven staff, has around 70,000 viewers per daily episode, and is reported to generate $30mn in revenue this year; it will remain editorially independent, the show says in a statement. The live tech show, which is also available as a relatively small podcast, “treats Silicon Valley like a sports league”, says Tubefilter. Newsletter platform Beehiiv has launched a full podcast hosting platform.. It contains full transcripts, distributes to Apple, Spotify and more, and comes with a full website; analytics are built “to IAB standards”, and you can bundle your podcast for paying subscribers to your newsletter; Beehiiv will take no additional fees. CEO Tyler Denk recently shared that Q1 2026 was beehiiv’s best quarter in history, as the company added $4.5M ARR, sent more than 10 billion emails, and crossed 50,000 active users. We have a full review with Tyler Denk on The Podnews Weekly Review this week. A number of sho

Sponsored by Podscribe. Where did your RON ads actually run? Podscribe’s new airchecks for RON campaigns reveal real placements, brand safety signals, and competitive insights. See what’s new → Buzzsprout launched free automatic transcripts for all their hosting customers using a current paid plan. Transcripts appear in Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and other apps. It has a transcript editor to help fix any words before publishing, and (unlike Apple Podcasts's transcriber) will correctly identify different speakers. The company has also overhauled its chapters tool to work within the transcript editor. Buzzsprout has also added a welcome feature to its fanmail service: you can now reply to people who send fanmail text messages to you. That’s in addition to a new voicemail service, which was added this week too. Eddy Cue from Apple spoke with technology podcast TBPN, and the interview is in video in the show on Apple Podcasts. TBPN’s podcast host, Transistor, has posted about the show - and has used an embedded video from Apple Podcasts in its blog, which we didn’t realise you could do. Until now. The shortlist for the Australian Audio Awards has been released. The awards, which are brand new this year, have a number of categories for podcasts. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.📈 Effective Campaigns That Fit Your Budget — Player FM’s self-serve ad portal helps podcasters of all sizes grow faster. Drive more plays and subscribers with campaigns tailored to your goals and budget.Find & pitch brands activel

Sponsored by Podscribe. Where did your RON ads actually run? Podscribe’s new airchecks for RON campaigns reveal real placements, brand safety signals, and competitive insights. See what’s new → Today marks the launch of this year’s Podnews Report Card, our fifth annual piece of research into what podcast creators think of the platforms we all use. Previous years have uncovered significant pain points which have since been fixed by podcast platforms, including an easier method of submissions to Apple Podcasts, and control of comments about your podcast in Spotify. It takes just ten minutes to give us your views; we’ll report back in mid-May at The Podcast Show in London, and in this newsletter. Exclusive: The 911 Podcasts sci-fi thriller podcast Cascadia has revealed six additional actors have joined the upcoming second season, which has just completed production. The Virginia Queer Film Festival has launched an audio storytelling program, Queer Ear. They’re looking for audio-only storytelling pieces under 25 minutes in length from podcast series, anthologies, and stand-alone projects. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereAudyllic.com Video + Audio Radio Quality — Why does radio sound different? Broadcast processing. Your podcast is missing that layer—even if perfectly produced. Audyllic adds Orban Optimod processing automatically. audyllic.comGrow Your Show with YouTube! — 🚀 Boost your podcast reach on YouTube! Turn listeners into viewers, grow subscribers, and get discovered by new audiences. Start scaling your show today with AudienceLift.com Today! AI co-hosts that entertain! Podnami is here! — Two AI co-hosts (or one) add to your show. Use Podnami on air or for practice. Make characters, choose voices, record, share on social media. Even choose your LLM. Free trial, no card required. Gold supporters: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.co

Sponsored by Riverside. Taking your podcast to video has never been easier. Record in studio quality, edit with AI, and repurpose your episodes — all on one platform with Riverside. No extra tools, no extra steps. Start for free. Exclusive: We’ve a full list of the podcast nominees for the 30th annual Webby Awards, before anyone else. For the first time, the awards have dedicated categories for video podcasts. iHeartMedia has sixteen nominees, Audible has ten; and both SiriusXM and Wondery have six nominees each. The winners ceremony will be on May 11. Beehiiv is “making a push into podcasting”, says Semafor. For more information, we'll be talking to Beehiiv’s CEO, Tyler Denk, in the Podnews Weekly Review this week for all the details - once the embargo has been lifted. Branded podcasts are great - but once someone’s listened, they don’t necessarily connect with your brand until the next episode. Until now - JAR Replay launches today: a way to retarget those listeners again while they use other apps, to keep your brand and your message fresh in their mind. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Business School workshop is for you! Join us for this 4-day virtual workshop April 21st-24th.😵‍💫 Has Your Show Stagnated? — Test the promotional waters with Player FM’s self-serve ad campaigns. Low commitment, flexible pricing, and an easy way to reach engaged listeners.The New Zealand Podcasting Summit, May 9, 2026 — The New Zealand Podcasting Summit turns 5!

Sponsored by Riverside. Taking your podcast to video has never been easier. Record in studio quality, edit with AI, and repurpose your episodes — all on one platform with Riverside. No extra tools, no extra steps. Start for free. Vox Media’s podcasts may be being bought by Versant, the owners of CNBC and MS NOW, suggests The New York Times. The network includes On with Kara Swisher, A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe, and Stay Tuned with Preet. Speaking recently at the Podcast Business Summit, Kara Swisher advised the audience: “You should own what you make, there’s no other choice in this media environment ... entrepreneurism and media have to go together now.” Last year, the NZ Podcasting Summit managed to make a Mic Drop Marathon - 26 hosts and 25 guests in just 50 minutes, during the event. That session is coming back this year - the NZ Podcasting Summit 2026 is Sat May 9 in Auckland, New Zealand. More details - and pictures - of the new British Airways in-flight podcasts experience with Audible. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here⚠️ Most Podcasts Fail in the First Year — Not from talent—but bad decisions. The School of Podcasting shows you what actually works so your show doesn’t quietly fade out.🎧Grow Your Podcast Audience Now! — Audiencelift.com - AI powered Audience Growth For Podcasters. Reach your ideal listener, grow your audience, Discover Now!Gold supporters: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.co