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- 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.
- AudienceLift has launched a new service, "preferred apps & players", which is designed to give podcast networks control over where their audiences grow: driving listeners to the apps driven by creator strategic choices.
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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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5 min - 26,000 tickets sold last weekend for Goalhanger’s Fest
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- What can fill the whole of London's Southbank Centre for three days, and sell 26,000 tickets? Podcasting. Goalhanger's The Rest Is Fest took place over the weekend, with 22 shows and live podcasting from the Goalhanger stable of podcasts. We've tons of pictures to show how big podcasting can be.
- Fyyd, a German-language podcast directory, is to close - after receiving a copyright claim for unauthorised use of podcast artwork. Its owner wrote: "I have received a cease and desist letter from (news agency) the dpa regarding the graphics of an NDR podcast. I just don't have the strength for it right now. Because I am neither wealthy nor healthy, I am going to minimise the risk for the future and close fyyd."
- Opinion: We've covered companies sending these sorts of things before. Where a photograph for a thumbnail has been used under licence from a publisher, then our legal advice (and the advice of stock image libraries that we asked) is that this use should be covered by the publisher's licence: even if a resized/cached copy of an image by a directory is made for privacy or technical purposes; there is some US case law to that effect. But - a slow hand-clap to the German dpa, who it appears may succeed in closing the only German podcast directory, giving more control to the US-run directories of Spotify, Apple and Podcast Index which are outside their legal jurisdiction. We've asked dpa for comment: they haven't replied.
- UPDATE: The dpa has withdrawn the complaint.
- In Canada, Pod The North has announced the Pod The North Pitch Contest, which will be held at PodSummit YYC on Oct 17. You can win over $3,500 to support your podcast. Appplications to take part are open now.
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6 min - Apple Podcasts updates embedded player
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- Apple Podcasts has updated its embedded player for websites - which allows you to embed episodes or your show. The player supports video and trailers. While plays from the Apple Podcasts web embed are not displayed in Apple Podcasts Connect Analytics, they'll be in your podcast host, and it's a great way to make it easy for new listeners.
- Podcasts you love, from people you trust - from January, the TWiT podcast network is to host on DAX US, allowing TWiT to directly manage DAI advertising across its network, and work even closer with advertisers. The company, which has shows like Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech, currently self-hosts.
- After a continued investigation in the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, the NBA has meted out the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and its owner, the ninth-wealthiest person in the world, Steve Ballmer.
- "It's not hyperbole to say (it) changed media forever last night," said Acast CEO Greg Glenday in a LinkedIn post - the show is hosted by Acast. Glenday describes the news as part of a current cycle where media giants are getting curious about the podcast space.
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4 min - 'The Daily' offers five things to know about podcasting
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- Rachel Quester, Supervising Producer of The Daily, shared five things she's learned with the audience at Radiodays Asia, which has just wrapped-up in Jakarta. "Have a clear, simple, intentional mission statement" ... "Figure out new ways to tell the same story" ... "Challenge yourself to not become formulaic" ... "Meet your audience where they are (don't try to be the smartest person in the room)" ... and "Find someone who will invest in you and pay it forward". The show launched almost ten years ago.
- The winners of the 2026 Asia Podcast Awards were announced during Podcast Day Asia, an integral track in the event. The day, hosted by our Editor James Cridland, also featured speakers from across the region.
- Radiodays Asia and Podcast Day Asia will be in Taipei, Taiwan, next year, in August.
- Exclusive: Award-winning comedy podcast And That's Why We Drink is to enter a new chapter: it's been announced that Christine Schiefer is to step away from hosting duties in October to concentrate on the ParaPods network. Em Schulz will continue hosting, alongside a set of guest hosts.
- True crime has overtaken comedy as the most popular podcast topic in the US, according to Edison Research. In 2019, the genre ranked fifth among weekly podcast consumers.
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4 min - Podcasting in 2026 is “beyond audio”
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- Speaking at Radiodays Asia today, Ron Baetiong from Podcast Network Asia highlighted the difficulty of earning revenue from traditional podcasts in the region. 80-90% of media budgets are already allocated, he said; audio podcasts are among the many things fighting for the 10% left. "It's hard to build a business when you're begging for scraps". Instead, he highlighted the opportunities beyond audio: YouTube videos, TikTok's longform podcasts - which even for Philippines-specific shows gets six-figure viewing numbers - and clips; and focusing on integrated branded content rather than ad spots, which is easier to sell. He claims 10x audience figures and significantly higher revenues after refocusing on video.
- Also speaking in the same session, Clive Dickens, the CEO of consultancy Meliora, spoke out in favour of premium AI personalities, of the type used by Inception Point AI and others. He suggested that we should stop talking about AI slop - pointing out that humans have been producing human slop for years, giving quiz shows as an example.
- In Japan, the #1 podcast, Coten Radio, contains no ads. The history show is paid-for by its listeners, with more than 10,000 listeners paying ¥1,000 (US $6) or more every month; plus around 100 companies who pay ¥50,000 (US $313) or more each month. Naoya Nishiyama from FUBI Inc spoke at Radiodays Asia earlier today; and also shared details of a podcast that the company makes with Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi Shinjirō, 小泉進次郎のポッドキャスト. The Q&A show is an hour long, but is also released as a series of clips for each answer: those clips reach so many more people that they've stopped driving people back to the full episode. "The clips are the show", Nishiyama said.
- Podcast Day Asia is tomorrow in Jakarta, Indonesia. The day will be hosted by our Editor.
- In the UK, a new creator monetisation platform, Everywhere, has launched. The company has been co-founded by Andy Goldsmith, Mike Wooller and Craig Eastwood, who have worked at Adelicious, Audioboom, DMG, and Global.
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5 min - One click to get into 16 podcast directories
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- Over 70% of active podcasts aren't in all the podcast directories that they could be. That's the surprise discovery by podcast host Buzzsprout: which has redesigned its directory submissions process to add your podcast to 16 directories in just one click. In the two weeks since launch, the company says that more than 5,200 Buzzsprout podcasts have added at least one directory where they weren’t listed before.
- We've a list of all the directories you might want to be in.
- East Coast Studio was just celebrating its Cassette Culture podcast's finalist spot in the UK's Independent Podcast Awards, when Spotify pulled the entire podcast from its platform - for ten weeks. Why? Spotify pulls shows with lots of music - even if you have a licence (it's in the terms) - and Spotify's robots disagreed with the music in just one episode of this show, yanking the whole lot. Host Martin Franklin warns us not to rely on one particular platform: and be careful which embedded players you use.
- "YouTube did us all a favour", says Dan Granger, discussing the recent changes to its play metric on his LinkedIn page. "It felt like a kick in the pants," he said, but he added "by introducing a fresh load of chaos and confusion into the marketplace, they’re inadvertently proving exactly why we need across-the-board standardized metrics." Meanwhile, Dan Misener suggests that the new YouTube play metric has essentially doubled the numbers, according to data seen by Bumper.
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- In Australia, LiSTNR has partnered with Flightcast to power its podcasting distribution, including video. More than 150 shows will move onto Flightcast, which was launched by Steven Bartlett and Rox Codes in Oct 2025 - it's the company's biggest customer yet. LiSTNR is run by Australia's largest commercial radio company SCA: they currently use Triton's Omny Studio for podcast hosting.
- Triton Digital and radio playout provider RCS have announced programmatic audio advertising for broadcast radio: allowing broadcasters to monetise traditional radio advertising with the same automatic, data-driven workflows used in podcasting. The companies are both owned by iHeartMedia, which operates more than 860 radio stations across the US.
- Audio internet advertising in Australia grew by 6.6% in FY26, according to new data from IAB Australia. The market grew to AUD $353mn - (US $252mn). Podcast advertising was AUD $40mn (US $29mn) for the quarter ending June 2026, up 13% year-on-year.
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