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January 07, 2026Are listeners overwhelmed by too many ads?
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Two days ago, we covered a company that is copying podcasts to remove the ads, and then selling access. Glenn Rubenstein at Adopter Media covers the story, suggesting it raises a question of why tools like this may gain traction. "PodcastAdBlock didn't appear because people don't want to hear ads. It appeared because some shows are starting to cross an invisible line with their listeners," and suggests a path forward that podcast networks can make to improve the listener experience. (It's one reason why we run our "Having a bad DAI" feature, where we highlight ways we can improve - try the bottom of Jan 2 for an example).
We learn today that PodcastAdBlock's "24/7 support" email address is now bouncing back.
Exclusive: Sounds Profitable has hired its first-ever Head of Communications, Molly DeMellier. She will oversee all global communications functions, including media relations and marketing, for Sounds Profitable and Podcast Movement. She previously worked with Sundaze PR and Acast.
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First look: CBC has launched its Winter 2026 slate of podcasts. Many of the broadcaster's biggest shows have new seasons planned, including Uncover, Personally and Someone Knows Something.
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January 06, 2026Global acquires sports content studio The Overlap
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In the UK, Global have acquired a majority stake in The Overlap, one of the world's most popular football and sports destinations with more than 38 million monthly views on YouTube. The Overlap was founded by footballer Gary Neville, and recently acquired broadcasting rights for the German Bundesliga. The news comes in a World Cup year, after the launch of Global Studios and Sport by Global last October, and Global's acquisition of The Fellas Studios. No terms were given.
Exclusive: Imagine a podcast containing lots of deeply unimportant things. The 1922 Western Softwood Lumber Grading Rules, for example. Or, one containing the 1954 Singer Sewing Machine Manual. Deeply Unimportant has launched today from Dallas Kachan, a former Canadian national news anchor who now wants you to pay no attention at all to what he's talking about - to stop your brain from focusing on everything else that's happened today. The latest episode goes into 45 minutes of boring and unimportant detail about the CSC 1972 International Convention for Safe Containers - and long, all-night episodes, are available for premium subscribers.
The Nigerian Podcast Index has been announced - a definitive, independent record of Nigerian podcasts, according to the founder, Tony Doe.
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January 05, 2026A million-dollar copyright infringement?
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Exclusive: A website called PodcastAdBlock is using AI to copy popular podcasts and resell them without the ads. Shows from publishers like Spotify, NPR, the New York Times, Slate, iHeart, and New York Magazine are all promoted on the website. We've taken a full look at the product, and how much it might be costing us.
In India, The Economic Times discovers that some guests pay a fee between US $15,000 and $30,000 to be interviewed on "some of India's most-watched podcasts", and these paid appearances are rarely disclosed to audiences. That's against the law in India (and against FTC rules in the US).
Podscribe published its rankers for December 2025. Amazon was the biggest advertiser; Audacy has returned as a top ten publisher; and the top five podcasts remain unchanged.
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January 02, 2026Podcast creation was up in 2025
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Listen Notes says that there were 198,488 new podcasts published in 2025. That figure was 198,280 in 2024, so is ever so slightly up year-on-year. The number of new podcast launches are actually much higher than that - the data refers to new podcast feeds rather than new podcasts: many new launches re-use existing feeds from older shows.
And, Livewire says there were 13.2% more podcast episodes published last month than in the month of November. The data also shows Triton Digital's Omny Studio, an enterprise podcast host, has leapt from #9 to #6.
StrawberryData is a new "MVP for podcast and media intelligence that I built to solve a personal curiosity: what are these shows actually saying?". Using semantic analysis, this new analytics engine shows what sort of things podcasts talk about; their ad loads; their words-per-minute, how many times they say the word "um" or "er", and even how many times they swear. Here's the page for Call Her Daddy as one example. It's an interesting tool looking for your feedback.
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January 01, 2026Happy New Year - update this bit in your podcast feed
Sponsored by Lean & Loaf. Your New Year’s Resolutions: lose weight, grow your podcast, hire the best video podcast partner in the industry. Lean & Loaf can help with two of these.
Happy New Year! Take a note to update your podcast feed's copyright notice to say "2026" rather than "2025" when you next publish an episode. (You don't have to use a date, but if it's there, you probably want it to be correct, and in our experience, most people forget it's there in the first place.)
In November, Third Coast, which organises a podcast festival and competition, announced that it had transitioned to being a voluntary organisation, after financial pressure. It sent out an update yesterday, confirming that the competition will take place in 2026, and that the archive will be maintained.
As you might expect, Podnews can't afford a Getty account for images. Nor, it seems, can Spotify - which published an episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast with a watermarked image from the Getty Images website. Spotify has since found the $375 for the picture they wanted. The company made US $1.5bn profit in Q3/25 alone.
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December 31, 2025Where Americans listen most
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Where do Americans listen to audio the most? Not the car - but at home, with a sharp increase in at-home listening since the pandemic, says Edison Research. The company suggests a "new normal" of around 55% of all audio being consumed at home.
Entries for the Women Podcasters Awards go up in price from tomorrow. Fees for nominations and sponsorships for the international people’s choice awards event will go to regular pricing.
The Age of Audio podcast documentary movie is showing at Podfest on Jan 16; and in the AFS Cinema in Austin TX on Jan 18, complete with a Q&A with the director.
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December 30, 2025Which apps support video podcasts?
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Video podcasts have always been available via RSS, and right now there are at least 113,000 podcasts using video in this way. But how many podcast players actually play video podcasts? A new study from Podnews today shows that only 9% of downloads for a typical video podcast would actually show you the video on-screen when you hit play: and some large podcast apps just simply don't support video at all.
Particularly, in our tests, we discovered that by default, video playback in Apple Podcasts is less than a tenth of an inch high on a large iPhone.
Talks .co, a platform that connects podcasters and guests, has launched a new advanced search feature which makes it easier to uncover shows - including whether that show was recently updated or how long they've been podcasting.
John Wordock publishes "26 questions about podcasting in 2026". He'll be at Podfest talking about how to build a YouTube channel. (Psst: if you're a Podnews newsletter subscriber, get money off Podfest tickets)
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December 29, 2025Does video lead to “dreadful listens”?
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Fiona Sturges, writing for The Guardian, writes about "how podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens" - highlighting recent podcasts that contain content that only works in video, while producers "seemingly forget about their listeners".
Roman Mars is among those who shared the piece on social media, commenting "I just think it’s so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show".
Plenty of debate around this in the /r/podcasting subreddit.
How long have you left it between seasons? How about 21 years? Back in early 2004 - even before Apple got involved in podcasts - My Pods Forecast was born - but sadly was also one of the first to podfade, even making it as an example of podfading in a book - Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, by Rob Walch and Mur Lafferty, in 2006. An excerpt from that book also highlights the, er, slightly unusual nature of the how this prediction show does the predictions. The good news is that the pods are unharmed, and My Pods Forecast returned over the weekend.
The host of the show tells us: “So little about what podcasting means is the same as the early 00s; it feels like the culture has wilted. So many corporate partners and metrics to hit. I really want to do this as punk as possible. I think I’m 89 pence (US $1.20) invested so far, for the domain name. I want the internet to be fun again and somewhere you can have a dumb idea and make it happen.”
Driving while listening to a podcast? That's fine, says science. Phone calls? Not so much.
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December 26, 2025Bill Simmons podcast to go live on Netflix
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Spotify's video deal with Netflix will include a live version of The Bill Simmons Podcast, says The Hollywood Reporter. The Sunday episodes will be live starting Jan 11 - the show will stream live at 11.30pm ET (in the US only).
The show has previously been live on YouTube, where it gets around 100,000 views per episode - Podscribe suggests the audio podcast gets almost three times as many downloads. It won't be available on YouTube in full from next year; the Netflix deal is exclusive.
Live video podcasts are also available on open RSS. The feature is supported by a number of podcast hosts, and podcast players.
Everything Everywhere Daily will hit episode 2,000 tomorrow. The daily podcast, which was launched in July 2020, has had over 55 million downloads (and more than 1.3mn in the last thirty days) and has remained a one-person operation, hosted by Gary Arndt, since its inception.
On Dec 24, we covered Deloitte's study suggesting that podcasting is becoming more video-centric. "A familiar mistake is being made", says Doug Downs in a blog post response. "The data does not say that video is replacing audio. What they describe instead is an expansion of formats, not a substitution," he says, adding that we may be misreading what visibility and attention actually signal about long-term listening behavior, habits and memory.
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December 25, 2025Christmas brings a new era for podcasting?
Sponsored by Magellan AI. Happy holidays from the team at Magellan AI
In Germany, Hypecast - which makes software for corporate podcasts - looked back at its year, noting in an email that the company started 2025 saying "we will have to be laser-focused to not get distracted from all the things happening around us" - advice perhaps we could all gain from for next year. The company opened a podcast studio in Berlin in 2025, will expand to video next year, and gave us the present nobody else did: a decent picture for the top of today's newsletter! Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Amplifi Media's Steven Goldstein suggests that 2026 is a new era in podcasting - the year of liquid content, "defined by how audiences behave—not by how the industry wishes they would".
USA Today covers "how to find your next favorite podcast". "Look at the charts," try the recommendations", and "ask AI" are in their list; the example app used is Spotify.
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