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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.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Podcast Movement announced two keynotes - Tom Webster will give a preview of The Podcast Landscape 2026, while TINK Media's Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt (above) will explain "WTF is a podcast in 2026". Tickets are available here.
  • Podcast Movement has also announced it is to celebrate sponsors and attendees with a billboard in Times Square (upload your logo through the Swapcard app); and "podcast newsletter checkups" with beehiiv through the event.
  • And, Arielle Nissenblatt (who's a licensed NYC Tour Guide) is running a Podcast Walking Tour on the Wednesday - a tour of NYC's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood through the lens of podcasting, storytelling, and New York City history.
• Audacy is to close its podcast hosting and monetisation service, Audacy Creator Lab, on Nov 1. Launched as Podcorn in 2019, which was acquired by Audacy for $22.5mn in 2021, the new "Creator Lab" was announced at Podcast Movement Evolutions in Apr 2025 - making some podcasting companies angry at its marketing tactics. It announced YouTube integration this March. There appear to be just 426 shows hosted on Audacy Creator Lab in the Podcast Index, though you could also take part in the Creator Lab Marketplace wherever you were hosted.
  • The company's website doesn't mention that it's closing yet; and they're still marketing on podcasts: Podscribe reports that Audacy Creator Lab has advertised on 52 shows since Monday.
• A new website builder called Podspun has released a significant update. The tool creates a website from your podcast - but also your social media as well, to keep it fresh. The websites are also built to be visible in AI search as well as traditional SEO.

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• Building in public: the founders of Podsqueeze appeared on Jason Cohen's Smart Bear Live, and on his YouTube channel alongside the founder of Castos Craig Hewitt, in a workshop discussing how the company's growth has plateaued, and what they might want to do to continue growing. It's a helpful (and honest) view about producing tools for podcasting.
• This tap has been turned back on... on Monday, we covered The Parent Tap being wrongly kicked off YouTube, and an automated review almost instantly being denied. YouTube has now reinstated the channel, saying "after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service".
• Threads is experimenting with a new interface to share podcast episodes - using a word-by-word transcript. It looks nice; these appear to be tests that aren't yet available to most users.

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• Quince is buying more podcast ads than anyone else, says Magellan AI - spending $7.5mn in July. BetterHelp and Amazon spent around $5.4mn. Meanwhile, Hero Bread, Accenture and Lululemon were the biggest movers and shakers. Magellan AI has a free webinar on Sep 10.
• Crooked Media has acquired the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast - kind of. Its founder Nate Silver sold the brand to Disney; but was laid off in 2023. The podcast podfaded in March 2025 along with the website. Variety reports that the new show will be named Still Counting, and will feature the former hosts and data journalists.
• Podcast Movement NYC's Swapcard is up and running; so if you've already bought your tickets, you'll be able to log in and make connections.

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• The full schedule for Podcast Movement NYC has been published on the website. There are announcements still to come for the keynote sessions. We're told that the event will be using Swapcard, as previous years, so you'll have an app to plan it all. Tickets are still available.
• Podbean podcasters were given a shock this week, as the company rolled out new filters to its download analytics "designed to identify and filter AI and crawler-related traffic" - but the change marked all downloads from Apple Podcasts as invalid, causing a significant decrease in reported numbers to its customers. Podnews has seen data from some podcasts showing hundreds of plays on Apple Podcasts Connect, but apparently zero downloads to Apple Podcasts in Podbean's analytics dashboard during the same time period. One support email says: "We recently pushed an update to mitigate disingenuous traffic from accessing podcasts on our side. Unfortunately, this inadvertently also affected the genuine traffic reporting. It has been advised that we rolled back our current update." If a rollback has happened, no change has been visible in the numbers as yet.
  • Podbean is certified compliant with IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines v2.2, and was last certified in January. However, it seems that a company is able to significantly change its podcast measurement toolset without affecting its published IAB Tech Lab certification.
• RØDE released the DS3, a new desktop studio arm. It's capable of holding a microphone weighing 1.5kg, and doesn't need a desk clamp.

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• Top 10 parenting podcast The Parent Tap has been suddenly pulled from YouTube - apparently by an automated tool. With no strikes or warnings, the show was permanently pulled on August 14th, accusing the channel of trying to circumvent a ban: a ban that the channel owner says simply didn't happen. An attempt to appeal the closure was knocked back almost instantly by YouTube, using an automated template. Ryan McDonough, the channel's owner, has opened a petition; and told Podnews: "I poured my heart and soul into building this channel from scratch. In 4 short months, I went from zero to 2.3k subscribers and over 50,000 views with a 150 video catalog. Having all of that wiped out overnight by an automated system is a gut-punch that keeps punching. The fact that I can't reach a human and have literally no idea how this happened is completely beyond comprehension." His show continues on open RSS.
• Fictional TV shows like Only Murders In The Building are giving an image of podcasting that is "at best, a crude simplification, and at worst, a fantasy flatly incompatible with the physics of sound", says a new academic study conducted by Spanish researchers. Writing for Podnews today, one of the authors, Maria Fitó Carreras, says don't believe everything you see on television - and, for the value of the craft, don't let others either.
• Bloomberg is suggesting that YouTube is not happy about creators who are also posting videos on Netflix. YouTube is apparently less likely to promote these shows, will exclude creators from major brand campaign revenue, and may offer "millions of dollars" to retain first-view exclusivity. Tubefilter reports on Bloomberg's paid story; YouTube is said to be reluctant to pay for content, and doesn't want to appear to show favouritism to some creators over others.

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