Daily news for the podcast and on-demand audio industry - from Apple Podcasts to Spotify, YouTube Music to Joe Rogan. Podnews also covers the latest jobs and events and trending shows in a short update every weekday. editor@podnews.net - visit https://podnews.net to get our free newsletter.
Apple Podcasts adds new artwork requirements
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A new CEO for Acast
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“Another 374,000 flights” - the cost of adding video
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Podcasts now mainstream in US, UK… and Australia
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People “don’t want to just listen”: YouTube’s Mohan
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News podcast consumption examined
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Classy new San Diego sports doc
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Spotify loses Trevor Noah to SiriusXM
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Spotify supporting Podcasting 2.0 for transcripts
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“Overblown”: YouTube is not dominating podcasting
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Apple’s announcements include more for podcasting
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Promo codes: do they work?
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True Crime Awards winners
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Taking the show on the road
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A legal threat to a podcast app for using open RSS
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A new dawn: Kast Media out of bankruptcy
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WTF? Marc Maron to end podcast
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Spotify adds podcast discovery to the home screen
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Acast’s Smart Recommendations launched for ad buyers
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Podcast ad recall: totally balanced
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Is better video podcasting coming to open RSS?
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New York Festivals 2025 winners announced
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Apple Podcasts paints the town purple
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Podcasts go mainstream in the UK
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The Podcast Show 2025 kicks off in London
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What are your Essential Listens?
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The Ambies give awards to Steven Bartlett and Podnews
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YouTube adds podcast chart, new podcast homepage
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Radio Academy ARIAS names Goalhanger Best Audio Brand
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Infinite Dial UK to be unveiled next week
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Podcasters win at the 29th Webby Awards
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Spotify’s play count concerns creators
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Lemonada Media’s acquisition price
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Bigger than you think: podcast revenue is $7.3bn worldwide
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PodX Group acquires Lemonada; Spotify launch “plays”
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Playback data all in one place
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The top 50 US podcasts for Q1/2025
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Looking for an expert? Meet your PodHeroes
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New concept podcast earbuds
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Spotify shows off 10% more users in Q1/25 financials
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UK audio ad growth slows
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Tencent to pay a mountain of cash for Ximalaya
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The Daily gets two new co-hosts
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YouTube is 20
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Daily Mail launches premium true crime podcasts
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Exclusive: Webby Awards podcast winners
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Podcast ad revenue smashes through $2bn
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Spotify’s Maya Prohovnik: “you’re going to be thrilled”
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Podcast Show London announces new speakers
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Women’s podcast listenership triples
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Spotify invests in international audiobooks
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Goalhanger adds women’s football show
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Video on Spotify slammed; claims rebutted
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Merger creates UK “podcasting supergroup”
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Testing ad effectiveness before it runs
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The podcast from a crowded elevator
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Google’s podcast download spike
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Video: more important than ever
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Podnews Report Card results for 2025
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The biggest app is…
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The Ambies: the winners for 2025
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Hubbard Radio Launches Gamut Podcast Network
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BBC rules out UK ads in podcasts
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Spotify Partner Program expands into Europe
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Japan: YouTube is #1 for podcasts
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YouTube could let you swap ads in videos
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Gen Z leans towards video
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Podcasts hit the mainstream
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Fantasy Footballers to keynote at Evolutions
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Law&Crime launches show exclusively with Wondery+
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YouTube puts “podcasts” on the front page
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Podstock brings the numbers together
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Michelle Obama tapes new podcast at SXSW
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Video or audio podcasts? Gen Z choose audio
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Pocket Casts on the web: now open to everyone
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AI to fix most annoying thing about podcasting
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Emerging Women in Podcasting competition launches
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Miss Me? does first sold-out live show
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New comedy podcast network to launch
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Spotify’s new video program “loses publishers money”
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Goalhanger’s two-million listener live podcasts
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Canada gets its own podcast magazine
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Data on news podcast listeners
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YouTube had “1 billion podcast listeners” in Jan
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Heavyweight to return, with Pushkin
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Acast delivers $44.9mn to creators down under
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Podimo hits a million paid podcast subscribers
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Apple Podcasts fixes its submissions process
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Podcasts have more ads than ever
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Data: Branded podcasts are liked by audiences
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Episode 1,800 for Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central
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Tig Notaro to host The Ambies
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Spotify shares creator podcast earnings
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Wondery closes in Mexico and Brazil
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Acast achieves profitability target
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Murdoch’s Fox buys into Red Seat Ventures
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Help the industry: fill in the report card
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Evolutions names first keynote speakers
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“Podcast Election” reflected in top shows
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Spotify’s first full year of profitability
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Daily news for the podcast and on-demand audio industry - from Apple Podcasts to Spotify, YouTube Music to Joe Rogan. Podnews also covers the latest jobs and events and trending shows in a short update every weekday. editor@podnews.net - visit https://podnews.net to get our free newsletter.
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