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- 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.
- Broadcast-ready AI-voice production tool AudioStack has been upgraded to use a multi-agent system "that reasons through a brief before producing anything".
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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.
- 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.
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