2025 Podcast Hall of Fame inductees announced

• The inductees for the 2025 Podcast Hall of Fame have been announced. These recognised embrace Sounds Worthwhile’s Tom Webster, She Podcasts’ Jessica Kupferman and Libsyn co-founder Dave Mansueto. The ceremony is on Jan 17 in Orlando FL. To date, all 51 inductees have been from the US.

• Fiction podcast The Program has launched its year in review for 2024. The article comprises how the present was marketed; how Spotify’s feedback have been actually useful; obtain numbers; income; and even some choir music.

• On Nov 29 Podnews highlighted the Spotify exec who was ignoring video on Spotify, preferring to add video on to YouTube. Excellent news: Invoice Simmons, who’s presently Spotify’s Head of Podcast Monetization and Innovation, has right now uploaded a video to Spotify.

  • The video begins with a… promotion of “our new YouTube Channel, Ringer Films”, which incorporates full video episodes of The Rewatchables and The Huge Image, two podcasts that are unavailable in video on Spotify. Looks as if that memo hasn’t completely sunk in.

• Blubrry has released its AI tools for all podcasters, not simply these utilizing Blubrry for internet hosting. There are a set of AI instruments round pre-planning, transcripts, episode artwork and social promotion.

• Analysis firm Kantar has targeted on how effective podcast advertising is. The info – not paid-for by a podcast advert gross sales firm – is unbiased, useful, and (principally) optimistic.

• SiriusXM has launched the Women’s Empowerment Network, beginning with two new exhibits. “The Girls’s Empowerment Community is a vacation spot the place ladies can come collectively and be heard in methods which might be genuine, uplifting, and transformative,” stated Karen Hunter.

• CoHost rolled out an improved B2B Podcast Analytics feature, with new options for bettering listener and lead identification and measuring the ROI for podcast initiatives.

• A new browser-based video editing tool, your.mov, has launched. Of particular curiosity to podcasters: “Add podcast audio or video and your.MOV creates participating visuals and animations, alongside textual content commentary.”

• The outdated joke “if you wish to maintain one thing a secret, put it in a podcast after the midroll” might need some reality to it in spite of everything: The Occasions of London studies about an interview with the Director-General of MI5, the UK’s domestic security agency, spilling secrets in a podcast made for the UK civil service.

• Additional studying: Novel’s Willard Foxton writes about previous “pivots to video”: “I bear in mind notably an exec at BBC3 saying to me as soon as “who cares a couple of linear channel, we’re getting 50 million views every week on Fb” after which he seemed like he’d been hit within the face with a frying pan when Fb determined it needed Russian dashcam movies not pop doc content material, and visitors fell by actually 98% in a single day.” … Regina Larko writes that we are at risk of losing the power that audio-only podcasts hold …

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• Dave Winer, the co-inventor of podcasting, has posted a concern that we’re “shedding the phrase podcast”, and giving the thought of a “listening checklist” function for podcast apps. (We predict it’s fairly near the “podroll” already carried out in Podcasting 2.0).

• A $140 microphone can sound like one costing $3,595 – with only one small change to 1 inside capacitor, in line with the Aftermath web site, which mods an AKG Notion to make it sound similar to a Neumann U 87.

• Our posts on Bluesky look nicer now. Discover us over there as @podnews.internet (after all).

• Truefans, a web site and podcast app, has launched a superfans chart. In the event you’re a selected podcast’s “superfan”, you’ll share in 1% of all of the funds that go to the podcast. The app additionally now helps music artist pages and radio feeds.

• The Podcasting 2.0 “board assembly” final week mentioned the change for streaming funds to make use of LNaddress; and Godcaster, Adam Curry’s new undertaking for faith-based radio stations.

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#1 in Apple Podcasts
Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce (Wave Sports activities + Leisure)
The Rest Is Classified (Goalhanger)

#1 in Spotify
Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce (Wave Sports activities + Leisure)
Crime World (Sunday World)

During the last week, 197,708 podcasts revealed at the very least one new episode (up 2.3%). source

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