Google Podcasts closes, and joins the graveyard

• Google Podcasts, which closed on April 2 in the US, was scheduled to finally close globally yesterday. Founder Zack Reneau-Wedeen left in Sept 2021, and the app has had no characteristic updates since. Google Podcasts began making its option to the Google Graveyard in Jan 2023, when Google Podcasts was faraway from Google Search. The third try at a podcast participant from Google, it was virtually six years outdated.

  • Creators: now’s the time to verify in case you’re nonetheless linking to Google Podcasts out of your web site, and take away these hyperlinks. You’ve till the tip of July 30 to get your podcast stats from Google Podcasts Manager. That web site may even assist submit your RSS feeds to YouTube, in case you’ve not achieved that but.
  • Listeners: On the time of writing, Google hasn’t updated its help pages – these make it seem that the app remains to be obtainable, and it’s (astonishingly) nonetheless obtainable to put in on Android. However, YouTube Music is the corporate’s most well-liked successor – it does play RSS feeds, if you use our tool. Now we have recommendations for replacement apps.

• In early March, Ashley Carman reported that Call Her Daddy was searching for a brand new purchaser, away from Spotify, in search of a nine-figure deal. This weekend, Semafor reported that Spotify’s not promoting adverts “past this 12 months” for the present; SiriusXM seems one of many potential suitors, however they need “important minimal obtain necessities”.

• Spotify, which not too long ago elevated its US worth from $10.99 to $11.99, has launched a new $10.99 “basic” plan – with out the audiobooks. It’s solely obtainable as a downgrade (by way of the web site). Podcasts are unaffected.

Strikes and hires

The Tech Stuff – with RSS.com

• The Stitcher app closed on Aug 29 final 12 months. No person seems to have advised its RSS feed checker, although, which is still checking our RSS feed every hour, lonely, on a bit server all by itself, that no person cares for any extra…

• OP3 is now measuring over 17 million downloads a month. The free, open podcast analytics service takes just minutes to get set up.

• We’re listening to intriguing dialogue of a “Podcasting 2.0” occasion – both digital or, maybe, even in a bodily one, designed to assist podcasters rise up to hurry on a few of the new options. We hope to hold information when we’ve got it.

• One factor we forgot to say final week in our saving bandwidth special was the if-modified-since header. For podcast RSS feeds, it needs to be comparatively trivial to make use of this; we’re capturing particulars this week on who isn’t, but, utilizing it (and requesting RSS feeds in full each time).

Suggestions and tips – with Memberful

Podcast Information

The Money Trench is launched immediately, calling itself “the music industry podcast” with journalist and host Mark Sutherland and exec producer Mike Walsh. As a podcast promising to supply “complete weekly evaluation of the most recent music trade information and views”, it’s sponsored by PPL, the UK document trade’s assortment company and licensing organisation.

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Podcast knowledge for Jun 24

#1 in Apple Podcasts
Drowning Creek (Wavland)
Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government (The Spinoff)

#1 in Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government (The Spinoff)

Over the past week, 192,228 podcasts revealed not less than one new episode (down 2.3%). source

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