This is sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! ? With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labeled, so your brand is always front and center. Learn more! Visit https://podnews.net/update/wondery-ad-analytics-launched for all the links, and to get our newsletter. Yesterday: You got your email from Podnews late yesterday. It wasn’t you, it was us. Sorry. Tomorrow: we may delay 90 minutes so we can carry the IAB US Podcasting Advertising Report data. First look: Wondery has release ..read more

This is sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! ? With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labeled, so your brand is always front and center. Learn more! Visit https://podnews.net/update/podcast-listening-globally for all the links, and to get our newsletter. YouGov has released data showing the number of regular podcast listeners in countries around the world. The data suggests that 39% of US consumers listen to podcasts for more than an hour a week; that South Africa is the mo ..read more

This is sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! ? With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labeled, so your brand is always front and center. Learn more! Visit https://podnews.net/update/cest-un-pirate-abominable for all the links, and to get our newsletter. Someone has been taking the podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and, without credit, translating it into French for nearly two years, says the host, earning money from it, too. Andrew Hickey, who hosts the podcast ..read more

This is sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! ? With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labeled, so your brand is always front and center. Learn more! Visit https://podnews.net/update/iab-2-point-2-podcast-measurement for all the links, and to get our newsletter. The IAB has released v2.2 of the Podcast Measurement Guidelines. It’s the first new set of guidelines in over three years. To help understand what’s changed, we’ve prepared a summary of changes between v2.1 and v2.2 ..read more

This is sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! ? With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labeled, so your brand is always front and center. Learn more! Visit https://podnews.net/update/spotify-number-one for all the links, and to get our newsletter. For the first time, Spotify is now the most popular podcast platform by downloads, according to Buzzsprout’s global download statistics. Spotify slipped in front of Apple Podcasts for the first time, across Buzzsprout’s 124,000 act ..read more

This is sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! ? With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's completely white-labeled, so your brand is always front and center. Learn more! Visit https://podnews.net/update/podcasts-vs-radio-younger-us for all the links, and to get our newsletter. When listening to ad-supported audio, Americans are spending more than three times longer with the radio than with podcasts, according to “The Record”, new data from Nielsen and Edison Research. However, for younger liste ..read more

This is sponsored by Podcastle. Create, Edit, Publish, and Grow your podcast -- all in one collaborative, AI-powered platform. Make your voice heard with Podcastle. Visit https://podnews.net/update/scott-greenstein-and-james-corden for all the links, and to get our newsletter. SiriusXM’s President & Chief Content Officer Scott Greenstein will be in conversation with James Corden at The Podcast Show. It’s the latest announcement from the show, which is in London on May 22-23. More than 15,000 delegates are expected from around the world. Tickets are here - use PODNEWS10 to save on selecte ..read more

This is sponsored by Podcastle. Create, Edit, Publish, and Grow your podcast -- all in one collaborative, AI-powered platform. Make your voice heard with Podcastle. Visit https://podnews.net/update/presidential-guests for all the links, and to get our newsletter. Three US presidents are united on an episode of SmartLess available today. Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes were joined by Presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton in New York City. The episode was available early on Amazon Music and Wondery+. The show switches to SiriusXM later this year. In the UK, the True Crime Awards took p ..read more

This is sponsored by Podcastle. Create, Edit, Publish, and Grow your podcast -- all in one collaborative, AI-powered platform. Make your voice heard with Podcastle. Visit https://podnews.net/update/blubrry-host-read-ads for all the links, and to get our newsletter. BackBeat Media and Blubrry are working together for premium host-read ads. Blubrry will offer its users access to premium, personalized advertising opportunities through the BackBeat Media network. TWiT is to close its studios in Petaluma in the next six months, Leo Laporte said in Macbreak Weekly. “Every little bit counts,” he sa ..read more

This is sponsored by Podcastle. Create, Edit, Publish, and Grow your podcast -- all in one collaborative, AI-powered platform. Make your voice heard with Podcastle. Visit https://podnews.net/update/youtube-future for all the links, and to get our newsletter. What is the future of podcasting on YouTube? Johanna Voolich, Chief Product Officer of YouTube, is interviewed by Rene Ritchie (and her conversation is written up in the company’s blog.) She describes the company’s vision of podcasting on the platform being an “eyes optional” experience; and confirms that YouTube does not plan to publish ..read more