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- Agencies agree to only buy on “engaged views”
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- At the Sounds Profitable Business Summit last week, ADOPTER Media, Right Side Up and Oxford Road announced that they will only use YouTube's Engaged Views to count YouTube impressions for buying advertising. You can watch the announcement here. YMH Studios have also made a similar statement. Oxford Road's Dan Granger said that the industry should "get a little fed up" and make our voices heard.
- YouTube suddenly changed the definition of a public "play" in August - with just five business days notice - to one that doubles its numbers; the "engaged views" figure is almost the older definition - worked out using an opaque, proprietary algorithm that YouTube declines to clarify.
- The IAB has a different definition for video plays - "50% of the pixels on for two seconds" - and, last week, appeared to reject a new framework for measurement of video/audio podcasts. Matt Shapo, Senior Director of the Measurement Center at IAB, and Jason Adamski, Director of Audio at IAB, were interviewed by PodBiz in a new episode just made available, with Adamski admitting that the industry is fragmented.
- In the PodBiz podcast interview, Adamski is asked for the difference between a download and a play. He suggests that "a download is the bitrate of everything that has been downloaded onto the device, and a play is actually when... I don't know if we have a standard definition of a play, I mean it is when we have views, and..." before being cut off by Shapo. In fact, the guidelines define a valid download as the transferral of at least 60 seconds of content to a device: bitrate isn't relevant. And, there is no definition of a play in the Podcast Measurement Guidelines at all.
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8 min - Are podcasts at the front of the store?
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- Are podcasts at the front of the store? Showing a preview of data from the upcoming Podcast Landscape 2026 study at Podcast Movement NYC, Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster revealed that, for the first time, the top three places where people have "ever" consumed podcasts are not dedicated podcast apps. YouTube, Spotify and Netflix don't show podcasts front-and-centre when using them, requiring users to dive into menus to discover any podcasts. Webster compared Netflix's podcasts category as the equivalent of the CD range in a Walmart - just the most popular titles in a small selection which is hard to find; while a real podcast app like Apple Podcasts or Pocket Casts was the equivalent of Tower Records.
- As for next steps, Webster suggested that we need to talk about Netflix, and its effect on podcasting; that podcasting's stars need to give back and promote the medium; and that we need to tell our story as an industry. He said that Sounds Profitable will assemble a strategic group to discuss the findings more.
- Speaking in a separate session, Rob Walch suggested that Netflix lists just 1 in 67,547 podcasts. (And doesn't list yours.)
- More than 400 people showed up for the Sounds Profitable Business Summit earlier in Podcast Week, according to organisers, including more than 200 brand and agency buyers.
- Here are all of the Sounds Profitable Business Summit photos - the download PIN is 8086. (And sessions are on YouTube)
- Here are day 1 of Podcast Movement 2026's photos - the download PIN is 2045
- It's the final day of Podcast Week today, as Podcast Movement NYC concludes.
- You can now earn from Spotify in more places. Not at Podcast Week, Spotify announced that the Spotify Partner Program is expanding to a further 35 new markets, including much of Central and South America, and more countries in Europe. The program lets creators earn with advertising on Spotify's free tier, and on revenue from Premium users for video. "Total monthly payouts to enrolled shows have increased by more than a third" since the platform expanded earlier this year. It also gives access to dynamic sponsorship adtech. The company lowered the eligibility requirements in January.
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6 min - IAB: a new framework is “not needed” for measurement
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- At the IAB Podcast Upfront during Podcast Week, Jason Adamski of the IAB announced a new downloadable guide focusing on (among other things) the measurement of video podcasting. The IAB appears to reject a medium-agnostic measurement standard like the recently-released AMP Accords, saying "the solution is not to build a new framework from scratch", and instead suggests that we use two separate standards from the IAB Tech Lab - the "Podcast Measurement Technical Guidelines v2.2" and the "Digital Video Served Impression Guidelines". It adds: "The practical challenge is not the absence of standards. It is knowing which standard applies where."
- The guide - and even the full press release for it - requires a registration with your email address to read. That's not how you set standards. As a service to our readers (and to protect our own business) you can download the document directly here.
- Missed the Sounds Profitable Business Summit? All the sessions are now available on-demand on YouTube, for free. We enjoyed Ira Glass - here's his - as well as Krystina Rubino and Greg Glenday about the Spotify Skip Button. You can also flick through all these lovely photographs from both days of the summit, for a sneak peek into the venue (see if you can spot our Editor recording the daily Podnews podcast).
- Podcast Movement starts in a few hours - Tom Webster has a keynote with some surprising news, while our Editor, James Cridland, will talk about podcasting's history and why it matters.
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6 min - A new home for Kevin Roose and Casey Newton
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- First look: The creators of the New York Times's Hard Fork, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, are to join NPR - for a new show called Machine Gods. Starting in October, it's the first deal under new Chief Content Officer Nadine Zylstra: it will be in video, and will also be aired on NPR member stations from early next year. Zylstra and NPR CEO Katherine Maher will discuss the deal later today at the IAB Podcast Upfront, part of Podcast Week.
- The Podcast Study 2026 was announced at the Sounds Profitable Business Summit, as Podcast Week continues in New York City. Among the findings revealed: 45% of podcast listeners would be "at least somewhat likely" to pay for a subscription tier to remove ads; and 64% would sign up for email from their favourite podcasters. The authors of the study have announced four upcoming webinars.
- Speakers at the Sounds Profitable Business Summit yesterday included Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, and a special session about YouTube's recent changes.
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6 min - Ira Glass: Podcasts go deeper, and so do the ads
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- In the opening Sounds Profitable Business Summit session, with plenty of ear-catching audio, Ira Glass from This American Life highlighted "what podcasts do better". Podcasts go so much deeper than what most influencers are putting out there, he said - and that means a deeper connection - which also means that the ads work harder. The Business Summit kicks off Podcast Week in New York City; with buyers and networks in one room, the summit included a number of well-attended talks and plenty of networking time.
- TYT has named Airwave as exclusive advertising sales partner, in a seven-figure deal. Airwave is expanding its in-house sales operation; the company will represent premium advertising opportunities across TYT’s podcast, digital video and live programming.
- Krystina Rubino from Right Side Up and Greg Glenday from Acast spoke about the Spotify skip button at the Sounds Profitable Business Summit. Glenday said that he spoke to a number of creators who pulled their shows off Spotify as a result. However, "digital display has already had a similar reckoning," Rubino said, highlighting the viewability metrics that are now used for display advertising, following ad-blockers. "If your ads suck," she said, "maybe you should do better." She added: "We have ruined many websites with ad banners." "If you're afraid of sharing consumption data with your advertisers, you have a deeper problem."
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5 min - Podcast Week kicks off in NYC
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- Podcast Week kicks off in New York NY, USA, today - a week of events focusing on podcasting. Today and tomorrow, the Sounds Profitable Business Summit brings together the business of podcasting with those that buy it - a one-stage event with an emphasis on networking. Then, the 2026 IAB Podcast Upfront takes place on Wednesday, unveiling the content coming up for brands to work with; and finally, Podcast Movement on Thursday and Friday, where creators come to refine the craft they have already built. Podnews will be in New York throughout Podcast Week.
- AI replicas of the voices of podcast hosts outperform human announcer-read ads by +26%, according to a new study. The data shows that an AI cloned voice of the podcast host works +26% better than an ad that has been read by a different (and human) pre-recorded voice. An ad actually read by the real podcast host works +9% better still, though. Podnews readers can download the case study here.
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6 min - Substack adds a podcast tab to its app
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- Substack has launched a new podcast tab in its app: "a dedicated space where you can easily reach your existing listeners, and help new listeners find you". The tab lists shows from Substack creators. The company tells Podnews that "creators publishing podcasts collectively earn over $200 million per year on Substack" - here's a list of the most popular.
- Substack has also published download and view numbers from the Organizing Things podcast, which launched last week on the platform. The first week got 10,385 downloads - "entirely organic, no paid promotion or ad spend". What's the secret of its success? The show's co-host Shea Serrano is a five-time NYT best-seller, and was previously with Amazon and Wondery; and already had 128,000 subscribers to his newsletter: so that might be a factor.
- Are you measuring the success of podcast ads too soon? Magellan AI released its Q2 2026 Podcast Measurement Benchmark Report - and in it, we learn that 41% of site visits happen in the first week, and 76% by the end of the first month: so if you judge campaigns after just one week, the figures will be less than half of what the ads are really delivering.
- Spotify's Megaphone has made another unannounced change - this time, the qualification process for new shows to join SPAN, the Spotify Audience Network. As of Sep 8, a show needs at least three published episodes before it can be submitted to SPAN. Previously, only one published episode was required, so you could publish a trailer and be able to monetise your show from the first scheduled episode - but, no longer. One creator, who posts limited-run series, told us: "having to wait to monetize halfway through the run is pretty debilitating".
- As with other changes that Megaphone has made recently, it is wholly undocumented; the company has repeatedly ignored any requests for comment. Perhaps creators might find a human to talk to in New York next week.
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6 min - “Cinematic” podcast studio opens in Hollywood
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- A new "cinematic podcast studio" has opened in Los Angeles. Goldmine Podcast Studio features an adaptable set, an engineer on-site and same-day ready-for-edit files. It's in the heart of the Hollywood Media District in Seward St.
- YouTube's changes to views are concerning, suggests Glenn Rubenstein from ADOPTER Media. The changes were seemingly rushed through in August, with creators given less than a week to prepare. "Sure, now it makes it look like every video has more views, but each counted view now means less," Rubenstein says, calling on all networks to commit to using the older "engaged views" metric (despite YouTube never actually explaining what that is). "Spotify testing a “skip ad” button and YouTube’s lowering of the bar are counterproductive to the growth of this industry. We need to improve measurement, not loosen it," he adds.
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6 min - Acast’s big European hire and management re-org
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- Podcast monetisation company Acast has made a new and significant senior hire - Liv Sandberg will become EVP, Europe from early 2027. She joins from TikTok, Facebook and Starcom, and has served on the IAB Sweden board since 2019. She also won Role Model of the Year at the Nordic Women in Tech Awards in 2024. It means that all of Acast's businesses in Europe now have a single regional leader.
- Acast also held its first creator event in Brazil last week.
- Can AI help with your podcast production? Caloroga Media has launched a new AI production studio called Linnet. The tool, born out of the company's own production workflow, is a scriptwriting tool, an audio and video editor and a publishing tool that uploads finished shows directly to podcast hosting companies. "In an industry flooded with AI-generated content designed to be ignored, Linnet puts creators back in control of what gets made and how it sounds." It's in limited-access beta.
- We notice that the company has also jumped the shark - at least, removed the word from the company name.
- First look: Flightcast has added video advertising capabilities - allowing video ads to be delivered across Spotify, Apple Podcasts and RSS. The tool gives publishers a more unified way to deliver video advertising.
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7 min - Bobby Bones celebrates ten years of podcasting
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- Bobby Bones is celebrating ten years of The BobbyCast. The show now has over 92 million monthly social media impressions and 5.4 million social media followers. His show, with iHeartPodcasts, spawned the Nashville Podcast Network; and is now also available on Netflix.
- The oldest podcast host? 95 year-old Dominic Chianese, who played Corrado "Junior" Soprano on The Sopranos, just launched a new show called Dominic & Junior with his son Dominic Chianese Jr. We're promised some of the biggest names in Hollywood as guests to talk about their craft.
- Back in 2022, we discovered the age of the oldest podcast guest - 105, since you ask - but could Chianese be the oldest podcast host? Hit reply if you know of an older one.
- We're going on a bear hunt. We're going to catch a big one. UK podcast producer Goalhanger launches its first show under the Goalhanger Drama brand on Thursday: Bear Hunt is a major new ten-part original audio drama following a fictional mission to assassinate one of the world’s most powerful and heavily protected leaders.
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