Send James and Sam a message or voicemailJames and Sam look into this week's podcasting news, including the show pulled by YouTube.• YouTube removing a top podcast with no warning, then reinstating it • The risk of building a show on third-party platforms and automated enforcement • Why we think a podcast needs an RSS feed to be a podcast • YouTube reportedly paying creators to avoid Netflix and the coercion angle • Newsletters as the best real estate in podcasting and why platforms are piling in • Acast partnering with Kit versus all-in-one creator platforms like Beehive • Spotify Megaphone issues affecting ad campaigns and DAI reliability • Podbean analytics filters mistakenly wiping Apple Podcasts downloads • The whack-a-mole problem of bots, crawlers, and imperfect measurement • Podcast 2.0 building blocks gaining traction: person tags and location tags • Podcast Radar as a map-based discovery tool and why rich location data matters • Threads experimenting with transcript-synced audio posts • Listener mail on Megaphone support and hosting fit Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.netFediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.socialSupport us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/supportGet Podnews: podnews.net