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June 23, 2025A new CEO for Acast
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Greg Glenday has been announced as the new CEO for Acast, after Ross Adams announced his resignation. Adams will continue as a strategic advisor; he’d been with Acast since 2014 (moving from Spotify and Capital Radio), and had been CEO for eight years.
Glenday joined in Aug 2023 as part of a raft of US appointments. He’d joined from Shazam, iHeartMedia, Lightbox and Undertone. You can read an interview shortly after he joined Acast, in our sister publication the Podcast Business Journal.
Spotify’s video podcast program isn’t a big hit with podcast networks, says Digiday, saying larger networks are “wary”. However, creators seem keener, with YMH Studios suggesting they’re earning 5x the revenue from Spotify than YouTube, and Ryth earning more than double.
Meanwhile, The Times of London reveals (in a paid-for article) that Spotify “has a porn problem”, after stumbling upon “everything from lascivious critiques of skin flicks to audio erotica and reels of ASMR sounds”.
And, Daniel Ek’s sales of Spotify shares? He’s used that money to invest in Helsing, an AI-driven military drone company. “I’m sure people will criticize it and that’s OK,” Ek told The Financial Times in a paid piece. Among other clients, the company is making drones for Ukraine.
Almost one in five of us eat to our favourite podcast or music, according to data from YouGov. 18% listen to music or podcasts while eating lunch; 16% over dinner. Half of us eat lunch alone.
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June 20, 2025“Another 374,000 flights” - the cost of adding video
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The yearly environmental effect of Spotify integrating video into its music platform could mean an increase in carbon emissions equivalent to an extra 374,000 flights between Paris and New York, according to a new study. Video is significantly more energy-intensive, says carbon management company Greenly, because screens need to be on and lit, and video uses increased data and processor power.
The study notes that adding video to an audio-only platform means over 50x more carbon emissions every hour. The study only measures Spotify’s music platform, and not podcasting: but video podcasting on Spotify, and on YouTube, will mean additional energy use.
Pocket Casts has added transcripts to its web player. “Some podcasts include their own transcripts which are available to all users. And if they don’t, as a Plus or Patron subscriber, you have access to auto-generated transcripts!” Here is an example from our daily update, showing named voices.
The third biggest news podcast in the UK, Politics Joe has put its video podcast behind a Patreon paywall. The audio version will remain free for all. The company said that its dependence on YouTube was a business risk; and that its audio version was earning twice as much revenue, despite attracting half the audience. The company claims to have attracted 350 paying subscribers in just five days, each paying £8 (US$10.50) per month for access.
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June 19, 2025Podcasts now mainstream in US, UK… and Australia
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The Infinite Dial Australia 2025 was released by Edison Research and CRA, showing that podcasting is now a mainstream media in Australia, joining the US and UK. 52% of Australians listen to a podcast every month, beating the UK (51%), and approaching the US (55%).
The data also shows that more than a third of Australians listen to podcasts in the car, compared with 50% who are music streaming, and 84% listening to the radio.
Meanwhile, the Digital News Report for Australia was also released from the University of Canberra. Among the data held in the report is a chapter on podcasting: 9% of Australians say they use podcasts for news in the past week (that figure rises to 16% for 35-44 year-olds); and among news podcast listeners, 82% say that podcasts help them understand issues better than other types of media; and 59% are willing to pay for news podcasts - the highest figure in the world (the US is at 46%).
Apple Podcasts appears to not be ingesting transcripts for new shows. We’re sure they’ll fix it soon.
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June 18, 2025People “don’t want to just listen”: YouTube’s Mohan
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“Having podcasts hosted on YouTube and having the algorithm find new audiences for you every single day turns out to be really, really powerful, no matter how big of a podcaster you are.” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan spoke with The Ankler CEO and Editor in Chief Janice Min to an invitation-only crowd at Cannes Lions yesterday - where he suggested that video is central to podcasting’s growth. “People actually don’t want to just listen to podcasts, they want to watch podcasts, they want to watch this conversation happening... Video was a really big bet, that turned out to be true.” The full interview will be carried in The Ankler today; Mohan is keynote speaker today on the festival’s main stage.
Using downloads for measurement is a business liability, argues podcast growth company Bumper in a blog post. Downloads are decreasing for many podcasts - yet, downloads are largely disconnected from actual podcast consumption: and technical changes, like Apple varying their automatic podcast downloads algorithm (which they did in mid-2023), represents a risk for any podcast publisher. They, as you might expect, recommend the Bumper Dashboard; but irrespective of that, the argument makes sense.
Talking of the Bumper Dashboard, here’s what the Podnews Weekly Review looks like over the last six months. We’ve seen significantly higher plays in YouTube since tweaking our Headliner template to add captions and chapter points.
PodcastOne has renewed its sales and distribution agreement with A+E Networks. The five shows represent 160mn total downloads.
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June 17, 2025News podcast consumption examined
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The Digital News Report 2025 from the Reuters Institute is being launched as we send today’s update. One part of the data focuses on the changing landscape for news podcasts across countries, looking specifically at the US, UK and Norway to add further context.
The data suggests that YouTube is the main access point for news podcasts in the US - in the country, 15% access a news podcast weekly. One fifth (22%) of their US sample say they saw news or commentary from Joe Rogan in the week after the inauguration (and 14% from Tucker Carlson).
The percentage of weekly news podcast listeners in the UK is half that of the US. Interestingly, in the UK, Goalhanger’s The Rest is Politics is quoted as the #1 news podcast, with Global’s The News Agents at #2 and PoliticsJOE at #3. The BBC only appears at #4 and #5, with Americast beating Newscast.
The winners of the Publisher Podcast Awards 2025 were announced. The podcast of the year went to Political Fix from the Financial Times.
The fiction podcast app Apollo shut down last month, it’s emerged. “We’ve poured our hearts into building a space for fiction podcast lovers”, said the founders in an email, ”and while we’re incredibly proud of what we created, we haven’t been able to grow the listener base enough to sustain the service long-term.”
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June 16, 2025Classy new San Diego sports doc
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An innovative new show from Message Heard, COPA90 and iHeartPodcasts launches later this week - San Diego FC: Behind the Flow. It starts as a documentary-style sports podcast, looking behind the scenes at the newest team in Major League Soccer; but the show will then transition into a sports talk show covering the rest of SDFC’s first ever season.
A new, virtual, summit has been announced for Health Podcasting. The Health Podcast Summit will take place on Oct 1-2, with a number of industry leaders as speakers. The summit coincides with Health Literacy Month, and it’s free to register.
Audio monetisation company Audion has released a study showing that adding audio ads in video increases brand recall. Video is often consumed without actively viewing the image, and therefore the audio message in ads reaches both video and audio users.
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June 13, 2025Spotify loses Trevor Noah to SiriusXM
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Spotify has lost one of its big shows. What Now? with Trevor Noah will become a SiriusXM podcast from July 1. The show, announced two years ago, was the first from Spotify not to be an exclusive, and heralded a new strategy for all the company’s podcasts. Noah’s $4mn deal was highlighted as “more equitable” for Spotify than previous content deals for the company. What Now? this week is an interview with Jon Stewart.
The winners of the 2025 Women Podcasters Awards were announced. You can watch a slickly-edited video of the whole event (our Editor appears about seven minutes in). The event returns in November.
JAR Audio has named Libby Liburd’s MUVVAHOOD as the winner of its 2025 Emerging Women in Podcasting Pilot Competition. The UK-based writer and performer takes a hard look at the stigma surrounding single mothers. “Proud single mum with a story to tell — what’s not to like?” said JAR Audio’s Chief Creative Officer, Jen Moss.
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June 12, 2025Spotify supporting Podcasting 2.0 for transcripts
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Spotify is adding podcast transcripts for many shows to its app, and the feature seems to have had a significant roll-out - even the Podnews Weekly Review (here’s what the auto-transcripts look like). Spotify will automatically produce transcripts of shows, but will now let creators upload their own transcripts using the industry-standard VTT or SRT files (which adds time-synching and named speakers). (We’ve yet to get that feature working for our show, though).
If you host your podcast with Spotify for Creators, Spotify now supports publishing those transcripts using open RSS standards - using the Podcasting 2.0 podcast:transcript tag, which is compatible with Apple Podcasts, Pocketcasts, and other apps. Creators will have to opt-in to make them available. It’s the first time that Spotify has supported a new, open, RSS feature like this. So - we thought we’d publish a special show on Spotify for Creators as a test, and while the RSS feed includes the new podcast namespace, sadly transcripts haven’t yet been enabled for our show. But let’s wait and see.
But - will Spotify support ingestion of creator transcripts the other way - using the podcast:transcript standard in the RSS feed from any podcast hosting company? “No timeframe to share at this time!” is the answer from a helpful Spotify spokesperson. That is not a “no”.
Local podcasting could be the next big leap for the industry, says Mathew Passy, writing for Podnews today. “Your neighborhood pizza shop isn’t sponsoring The Daily. But they would support a show with listeners in their delivery zone.”
iHeart Australia’s Corey Layton is given a full interview by Radioinfo. He’s the company’s Head of Audio.
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June 11, 2025“Overblown”: YouTube is not dominating podcasting
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No, YouTube isn’t dominating podcasting, says Paul Riismandel from research company Signal Hill Insights, showing plenty of evidence that the majority of podcast consumers are still using an audio-first platform most often; and that “it’s time to tone down the discourse”.
In April, we shared this data from Podtrac, which appears to back up the point - for consumption, rather than people, YouTube is not #1.
Libsyn has made its Automatic Podcast Ads programmatic advertising available for all podcasters, removing the previous required minimum of 2,000 downloads. The company says that creators have complete control over the categories of ads that run. There’s a revenue calculator to see how much you can earn. Other companies have also dropped minimum requirements.
Tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams are “to launch a video podcast on X”, says AdWeek.
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June 10, 2025Apple’s announcements include more for podcasting
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Apple made a number of announcements at WWDC. Among those relevant for us in podcasting:
Apple Podcasts will add a new “enhance dialogue” feature in playback, just like independent apps like Overcast and Pocket Casts have had for some time. The description is “Amplify just the voices in an episode for clearer listening”.
Apple Podcasts will also offer more playback speeds - anything between 0.5x and 3x. More importantly, the app will let you save your preferred speed per show - again, a feature already present in other apps. Overcast’s Marco Arment jokingly reacted by saying “I’m screwed”; but it should be noted that Apple Podcasts still lacks silence-skipping, a key feature of Overcast.
The “Browse” button in Apple Podcasts has been renamed “New”. “Discover the best of what’s new and what’s popular in podcasting”.
The new themeable icons perhaps mean that Apple Podcasts won’t always be “the purple app”. (Probably will be by default, though).
In other audio-related news, newer versions of Apple’s AirPods will be upgraded to add “studio quality audio recording” - good for interviewees who insist on using AirPods to chat with you.
iPadOS 26 will include audio input controls allowing you to choose different microphones for each app.
If you’re listening to a podcast using AirPods while you’re in bed, the audio will pause when you fall asleep.
And finally, there’s an animated now-playing widget for the lock screen, and if we’re really lucky, it might work with podcasts in the future maybe.
Exclusive: Former US Navy Seal Shawn Ryan is working with IRONCLAD on a new audio docuseries due for release later this year. The podcaster, who hosts the Shawn Ryan Show with Cumulus, beat Joe Rogan’s show to #1 for a time last year, and was also contacted by the person suspected of the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion.
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