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• Buzzsprout has launched video distribution to Apple Podcasts. The company is charging $30/month for plans that include video (down to $25/month when billed annually); the plan allows up to 6 hours a month of content to be uploaded. The new pricing page also includes a multi-podcast plan; all plans come with transcript generation. Buzzsprout doesn't, yet, support Spotify video.
  • We believe Buzzsprout is the first podcast hosting company to make video on Apple Podcasts generally available. Hosting with other companies is either invite-only, or for enterprise clients.
• Magellan AI announced an expanded partnership with iHeartMedia to offer broadcast radio attribution to advertisers. The attribution will be available for advertisers working with iHeartMedia.
• The Parapod Podcast Awards, recognizing excellence across the rapidly growing paranormal podcasting community, have opened for submissions. You've until September to enter; the awards also announced four special honors for 2026.

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• Apple announced its Q2/26 fiscal financial results. Services revenue, which includes revenue from premium Apple Podcasts subscriptions, reached an all-time high of $31 billion, up +16.3%. The word "podcast" wasn't mentioned in the conference call; though it is available as a podcast - Apple Quarterly Earnings Call. (Weirdly, that podcast isn't on Spotify...)
• Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster gives his detailed thoughts on a rumoured merger between SiriusXM and iHeartMedia. If you wanted detail and proper analysis, and even some hot corporate finance talk, you want this post.
• How does your podcast get featured on Spotify? On Monday, we spoke with Spotify's Lizzy Hale for the official answer. Yet, a UK reader of Podnews spotted a feature for "Podcasts to help save the planet" appear in their app, which might point to an alternative way. Highlighted were podcasts from TEDxLondon, the BBC World Service, and a science podcast from Fresh Air; but the #1 slot was given to a podcast called Heart of the Wild, which is, in its words, "hosted by Dianna Colasurdo, a London-based media executive and passionate animal enthusiast". This show is too small to appear in either Rephonic or Podscribe, so we're impressed that it got the prime position in the Spotify carousel. On LinkedIn, we discover a possible reason why: Dianna Colasurdo is the Government Business Lead... at Spotify.

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• I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want - I want three new video-capable podcast studios. Acast has upgraded its studios in Stockholm and Oslo, and Acast's new video podcast studio in Woolloomoolloo in Sydney has officially had it's first guest: none other than Sporty Spice herself, Mel C, in a new episode of The Mitch Churi Chat Show out today.
  • Acast has also made a number of key hires in Sweden: Otto Jorméus joins as Content Director, while Gustaf Angelin has been hired as Video and Podcast Producer.
• An email to Captivate customers suggests that the podcast hosting company will launch Apple Podcasts video "from next week".
• Following Libsyn's announcement that they now support Spotify video distribution, the company has also announced that all Libsyn creators can upload up to 100GB of storage per month for video files (and the Pro plans have no limit). "It's really important to us that our creators can lean into video in a way that makes sense for their show, without overly restrictive limitations," a spokesperson told us. Their audio upload limit is unchanged.

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• The POSSIBLE conference is taking place in Miami. Here's a glimpse in video form. Among the speakers were Black Effect's Charlamagne the God, being interviewed by iHeart CEO Bob Pittman for a live recording of Math & Magic. The two started the conversation with rapid-fire personal questions, with Charlamagne revealing Jay-Z is his favorite artist of all time, before moving into a wide-ranging discussion on how influence is built in a media landscape shaped by constant content, platform fragmentation, and AI-generated everything. The audience also heard from Liz Plank, the host of Boy Problems, about Gen Z masculinity.
  • The real star is clearly today: the Innovation Stage will be the host to Matt Drengler from our title sponsor Podscribe, showing how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results. 12.10pm ET.
• Libsyn has announced that it can now distribute video to Spotify, and that video functionality is available across all Libsyn hosting plans.
  • Submission to Spotify uses the Spotify Distribution API, which was announced in January. Spotify video distribution is available on Libsyn plans starting at $25/month. All Libsyn customers can still upload manually on Spotify's website.
  • "Video functionality" refers to MP4 video episodes, which the company has always made available (and is supported in apps like Pocket Casts and Apple Podcasts); though the company gives a limited amount of monthly storage for uploads - 162MB for the $8 plan, or 540MB for the $25/month plan. (the company has confirmed this is for audio only; all non-Pro customers get 100GB of video storage per month.)
  • The latest episode of The New Media Show is an interview with Brendan Monaghan, the President and CEO of Libsyn, where he talks about Libsyn's future. This episode's video file is 3,198MB (48MB per minute).
• Spotify released its Q1/26 financial report. Auction-based revenue (the Spotify Ad Exchange and Spotify Ads Manager) is now nearing 25% of all ad revenue, which declined -5% year-on-year and -25% q-on-q. The company now has 761 million monthly active users (+12% y-on-y), and paying subscribers increased +9%. Shares fell 14% after a disappointing income forecast.
  • The slides show how comparatively insignificant Spotify's ads business is, with gross profit from ads contributing just 8.4% of total profit. Gross margins for each suggest that ad revenue is also around half as profitable as premium subscriber revenue.
  • Meanwhile, Spotify's audiobooks service is not really having much impact to audiobook listening, says some new research; Mediavision suggests that audiobooks only represent 5% of listening on the service, a quarter of that of podcasting.

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• The Black Effect Podcast Festival took place over the weekend in Atlanta GA, USA. The event featured live podcast recordings, panel discussions spanning the business of podcasting, a pitch your podcast booth, the Black Marketplace and more. The day contained a number of similar themes, says a piece in the Saporta Report - be yourself, stay consistent, create with purpose, and explore the growing ways that artificial intelligence can support that work.
• Amazon's Wondery has acquired the rights for The Oprah Podcast. No terms were shared; the deal also includes the rights for the full archive of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Winfrey's Book Club, among other things.
• Red Seat Ventures has announced a multiyear partnership with live comedy podcast Kill Tony. Expect the opportunity to get ad-free versions using Supercast; and the show will be in video on Tubi, FOX One, as well as YouTube.

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• How can you get your podcast promoted by Spotify? Today, Podnews speaks with Lizzy Hale, Spotify's Head of Podcast Editorial. The company has dozens of people based all over the world, watching for shows to highlight, and guiding Spotify's recommendation systems to reflect cultural moments. In an interview, Lizzy tells us how they aim to "give more creators a real shot at being discovered".
• SiriusXM and iHeartMedia are in talks to merge, reports Variety. The news was initially the subject of a set of reports by Bloomberg ($).
  • From a podcast point of view, merging the two would mean one network with 3,422 shows; representing around 207 million downloads+views a month. Spotify would remain bigger, suggests the Podscribe ranker - but that's only until SiriusXM starts representing YouTube's audio advertising later this year. Both iHeart and SiriusXM have, of course, significant radio businesses. RadioInsight suggests a merged company will be a juggernaut.
  • SiriusXM obfuscates its podcast revenue by including Pandora in its data, but earned $2.1bn revenue from that business unit in 2025 (25% of overall revenue). iHeart earned $563mn from podcasting in 2025 (14.5% of overall revenue).
  • The deal would force the hand of the UK's Global (the owner of DAX and Captivate). In 2020, the FCC allowed iHeartMedia to be 100% foreign-owned; and through its investment arm, Global owns 32% of iHeartMedia. On Mar 5 this year, the FCC allowed an application from iHeartMedia that Bahamas-based Global Media & Entertainment Investments Ltd’s shares could be transferred to the UK-based Global Media Investments Limited.
• 233 million people live in Nigeria - so podcasting could be massive in the country. As Tony Onwuchekwa writes for Podnews today for another of our market focus articles, 88% of Nigerian podcasts are in English; but almost a third have either podfaded or are on pause. The Nigerian Podcast Index has more data on shows produced in, or for, Nigeria; and highlights where the industry is strongest.

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• Spanish-language podcast app iVoox has unveiled its first ever TV ad, which will run on Mediaset TV channels across Spain. We've added English-language captions to the ad, which you can see here. We don't remember covering a TV ad for a podcast app ever - (though TuneIn and Audible have done a few). Very welcome.
• Can't be bothered to record a short promo for your podcast? Why not use an AI avatar to do it for you? That's what Cleveland.com decided to do - with possibly predictably negative comments, suggests sports website Awful Announcing.
• It's easier to get new shows into Apple Podcasts; but that also means it's easier to push spam into it - Apple Podcasts (and, therefore, many other apps that rely on the Apple Podcasts directory) is being flooded by spam, like the Temu codes we link to today (via John Spurlock). These shows are hosted on Spotify for Podcasters, Acast, RSS.com, and Ausha.

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• The Tribeca Festival has selected a sci-fi podcast, The Dolos Project, for its audio line-up. Podnews has first sight of the new video trailer, which begins in the aftermath of Earth’s nuclear annihilation. From a remote space station, co-pilots David and Sarah, alongside their AI companion SAI, may be the last remnants of humanity. The show is from Marcus and Megan Bagala, who have worked for top shows for DC (DC High Volume: Batman), Marvel, Star Trek: Khan, Gimlet, Spotify, and Wondery.
• The most streamed podcast of all time on Spotify over the last 20 years? It's probably not a surprise to learn that it's The Joe Rogan Experience. But what might be a surprise is that German-language podcast Gemischtes Hack is at #2; and The Daily is at #6. The company released its full "most streamed of all time" lists. Taylor Swift is #1 music artist; but doesn't have the #1 streamed album (she's there at #8).
• Podtrac's global multi-channel podcast ranker was released for March. The biggest mover is The Adam Mockler Show from MeidasTouch Network. The global ranker measures audio podcasts, video podcasts and podcast clips on Insta, TikTok and YouTube.

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• First look: SiriusXM has been announced as the exclusive advertising representative of YouTube audio advertising in the US. This is a significant addition to SiriusXM Media's portfolio, which will now be able to reach 255mn monthly listeners - almost 90% of all US adults 13+.
  • SiriusXM also released data from Edison Research, showing that around 74% of US adults 13+ consume YouTube audio, or engage in listening-first behaviours on YouTube. The data also says that 45% consume YouTube content with static visuals; 48% listen while video is minimised or in the background.
• Sounds Profitable released new research on "Audio Primes" - the people who listen to at least 75% of their content as audio. That's 22% of podcast consumers; and they're younger and more educated. While they choose audio for podcasts, Audio Primes also - surprisingly - consume more video as well. The full report, sponsored by RSS.com, is available as a free download.
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• Exclusive: We've the podcast winners for the 30th Annual Webby Awards. Podcast Company of the Year went to iHeart Media. Best New Podcast is Goalhanger's The Rest Is Science. Good Hang with Amy Poehler won four awards, while The Jamie Kern Lima Show won five awards for an episode with Michelle Obama. We've a full list of the winners before anyone else.
• Another streaming service is to get podcasts. Fox One has announced eight new podcast shows will be available on the platform, sourced from Fox News Media and Red Seat Ventures.
• Is Alex Cooper's podcast network feeling a little under the weather? In a paywalled article for Bloomberg, Ashley Carman tells stories of high employee turnover, alleges bad behaviour from CEO Matt Kaplan, and, cites Podscribe's numbers to describe a failure of the Unwell Network to produce a hit other than Call Her Daddy.

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• It's six years since the launch of The Podcast Academy. In an in-depth look at podcasting's membership organisation, we examine how it's doing in terms of membership, the state of its finances, how important The Ambies are to the organisation, and a mysterious change at the top that has left some people wondering what happened. Read our story in full.
• Edison Research at SSRS published the top 50 podcasts in the US for Q1/26. What effect has Netflix had on this chart? The Breakfast Club rose from 15 to 11; it's the clear leader on Netflix. The Bill Simmons podcast - removed in full from YouTube in favour of Netflix - has also risen from 49 to 42. The highest new entry is The Ramsey Show. Edison Podcast Metrics asks about podcasts, not about platforms - so will include shows wherever people consume them.
• Acast published its annual report for 2025. It posted sales growth in North America of +60% in the year; overall, sales grew by +29%. Bringing in a total of $274mn in revenue, the company posted an overall loss of -$12mn. The company has 429 full-time employees (up from 364 last year).

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