Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Just two days left to fill in the Podnews Report Card. It should take ten minutes, and is our chance to feed back to the big platforms - Apple, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube etc - what we really want. It's our fifth year of doing this; and we've helped make big change. We can make more: with your help. 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, w

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Not long left to fill in the Podnews Report Card. We've already got time with the team at Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music to go over the results; and we're unveiling the results in full at The Podcast Show in London. Your voice deserves to be heard. 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. > > > Read more of today’

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more.Not long left to fill in the Podnews Report Card. Please do! Your voice deserves to be heard. 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 re

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more. 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. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here

Sponsored by Podscribe. Radio just got measurable! Podscribe is bringing in digital-style measurement to one of the hardest channels to measure. Verify where ads aired with airchecks and track performance with attribution. Read more. 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. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad hereGrow Your Sho

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. 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. Bumper has launched The Bumper Score, a new tool "built to close the trust gap between podcast listenership and advertiser confidence". The company suggests that the next $1 billion in podcasting starts with better data; the tool uses verified metrics to give a simple score for strong verified reach. It will be free to all podcasters; you can join the waitlist now. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds -

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot.Hey! Have you filled out the Podnews Report Card yet? Not long left to make sure you get your voice heard. Over 20,000... bots have filled it in, but we've deleted all those, and we'd like more humans. Please, if you've a spare few minutes, help us with your thoughts. And thanks. 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. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. 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). > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Business Sc

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. RØDE made a number of announcements at the NAB Show. Sonaura, a tiny microphone technology component, will be part of upcoming new microphones from RØDE. New products announced (but coming soon) are squarely aimed at the video podcast world: RØDELink II, a new wireless microphone system; LPA1, a new low-profile studio arm ("for precision placement without visual obstruction"); DS3, a desktop studio arm; and PodMic Flag, a bespoke flag for the PodMic to put your podcast logo on. RØDECaster Studio will be an "edit like a Word doc"-type editor, with automatic um/er removal and AI editing. And RØDE Capture, a mobile phone recording app, will finally be available for Android phones. Podcast agency Caspian Studios made a number of layoffs - roughly half the workforce has been impacted. It was Caspian's third layoff in three years. Headliner has announced it is to make its video podcasting tools free. The announcement coincides with Headliner's eighth birthday. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Business School workshop is for you! Join us for this 4-day virtual workshop April 21st-24th.Good Podcasts Grow. Great Ones Scale — Even chart-toppers need smarter growth. AudienceLi

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. Audioboom released a trading update for Q1/26. Revenue is up +30% year-on-year to another record of $22.5mn; the company made $4.8mn profit (up +41%). However, Audioboom describes video - up +70% in views - as "lower-yield"; revenue per thousand downloads is down from $60.83 to $45.10 as a result of more video and more downloads within the UK, which historically monetises less well than the US. The company recently signed Crooked Media and true-crime show RedHanded. Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster is running a free webinar today at 2pm ET, looking at Audio Primes: the people who listen to podcasts. The report, sponsored by RSS.com, look at podcast consumers who prefer audio, not video: and "they defy every stereotype you might have about them", we're told. You can sign up free, here. Which are the best true crime shows - for advertisers? Where are the ads in those shows working the best? Oxford Road has released data today from ORBIT which draws from more than $1.6bn in campaign data. The research shows that advertisers are timidly investing in the genre; and not properly committing. "The nuance of this genre rewards those who explore it." > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. Is podcasting being flooded with AI slop? For new shows, it seems that normal, human-made podcasts are now in the minority, according to the Podcast Index. Visible on the Podcast Index's New Feeds Report, at the time of writing it shows only 44.6% of new shows in the last 24 hours were "likely legitimate", with 45.7% potentially produced by AI. The tool spots AI-generated shows by using AI itself. The Podcast Index is now making available a /recent/problematic API, which details new podcast shows that have been marked as spam, phishing, or "low-effort AI", which may help podcast hosting companies and apps curate their feeds. The Podcast Index New Feeds Report also shows that Inception Point AI released 325 new shows on Tuesday: almost one-in-five of all new shows on that day. Hosted by Spreaker and monitored by Podtrac, it's unclear how many Inception Point AI shows have been produced, since the Podcast Index appears to sporadically remove them from its index; we count more than 8,000 still there. Inception Point AI added twenty wellness shows yesterday, marked "WELLNS", in less than 75 minutes. The shows offer AI-generated advice about Codependency, Mental Health, Vaccinations, gambling addiction, anger management, panic attacks, and more. They're all hosted by "Julia Cartwright" or "Dr. Mara Lennox", and start by saying things like: "I want you to know that I'm an AI host, which means I c

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot.Before we begin: have you filled out the Podnews Report Card yet? We'd appreciate your help in sharing it to your colleagues, customers or anyone else who might fill it in. If you want to mention it on your industry podcast, it's at podnews.net/reportcard - and thank you. CBC has released its spring/summer 2026 podcast slate. New podcasts include a comedy podcast hosted by musician Donovan Woods and Tom Power of CBC’s Q - and a new investigative series into an AI tool that claims it's solving crimes. On our story yesterday of the cloned podcasts: podcast lawyer Lindsay Bowen tells us that he believes some of the original podcast owners could have a case for copyright infringement, and either trademark infringement or a violation of the Lanham Act's prohibition against passing off. But he also warns podcast hosting companies and podcast directories need to get their house in order too: "Every hosting platform —or anyone who hosts user uploaded material available in the United States — must have a DMCA designated agent listed in the directory of the US Copyright Office. Otherwise, they can’t claim protection of the DMCA’s “Safe Harbor,” and could be liable for a contributory infringement lawsuit against them." We're sure that Dr Nathan Pali's thinly disguised versions of The Rest Is History are totally above board? At least it's not AI-generated: when we listened to one of the podcasts, we noticed this history podcaster was incapable of pronouncing the word

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. A new podcast studio, Light Knot Studios, is copying the names and designs of 75 successful history podcasts to confuse listeners and attract ad revenue. It was first spotted over the weekend by Dirk from the History of the Germans podcast (using PodSEO, who advertised with us a few weeks ago). He told Podnews: "We all have competition. But, if listeners look for History of the Germans and they stumble on this [visual copy] instead, they'll be confused and will think it's not worth listening to. We're all struggling hard for the first listen. It's very irritating." Legally, this is a little like Coming to America's "McDowell's restaurant". The law against passing off - “stopping one trader from misrepresenting goods and services as being the goods and services of another” - isn't, actually, something that copyright or trademark law covers. Since the audio hasn't been copied, it might be tricky to convince individual podcast platforms to take action. (Our advice about how to report a pirated podcast isn't going to be wholly useful for this). The company is based in New York State. The owner of Light Knot Studios is LinkedByte Corporation, which also runs an audiobook app brand Fable FM and a book summariser

Sponsored by Podscribe. Join us at the Innovation Stage at POSSIBLE! Learn how to buy audio more effectively and drive measurable results with Podscribe’s Matt Drengler. April 29, 12:10 PM ET. Save your spot. How are podcasts doing on Netflix? Independent measurement company Samba TV posted data on Netflix Podcasts, including a podcast ranker. The company says that 13% of Netflix households (that's 10mn households) watched at least 1 cumulative minute of a Netflix podcast in Q1/26. There’s really only one runaway success on Netflix for now - it’s The Breakfast Club, which is responsible for 40% of all podcast views on the platform, and has 3x the views of the #2 title, a Netflix companion podcast for Bridgerton. Almost half of Breakfast Club viewers watch the show within 48 hours of an episode’s release. (Caution: the 13% number above is a figure spanning three months, rather than the usual one-month period. The company only monitors smart TVs, not phones. This doesn't suggest these people watched a podcast for at least a minute, just that in total they've watched at least a minute of podcasts in a three month period.) Exclusive: The Podcast Show London has announced Global and iHeartPodcasts as headline partners for the event next month. This year, Global’s presence will place a particular focus on Global Studios. Exclusive: We reported on the upcoming Podcast Movement NYC in February; but today, in an interview in the Podnews Weekly Review with Bryan Barletta, we discover the pricing for tickets, and more detail about the week-long flagship event. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds -

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. Podcast revenue for Patreon has increased by a third in the past year, up to $629mn in 2025. Patreon has published more details of the shift it's seeing. 47,000 podcasters are now earning income from 7.6 million patrons, the company says. Some of those include you - our many supporters of Podnews through Patreon, which keeps us free for everyone. Thank you. Podtrac released its March rankers. Publishers were up month-on-month (February has 28 days and March 31, so you'd hope so); but many publishers are down year-on-year. Versant is a new publisher to the rankings, at #13. A pop-up bookshop is about to launch in New York City - but it’s the first bookshop in the world that won't sell any books. The bookless bookstore is being opened on May 1 by Audible. In the Audible Story House, you’ll be able to browse audio books, experience Dolby Atmos, find a pop-up café, and more; it’ll be in 260 Bowery. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Pod

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. If getting your podcast discovered is hard, then this new feature might help. Spotify has launched Prompted Playlist for Podcasts, a tool that lets you build podcast playlists just by asking for something - like "Create a podcast playlist with the biggest entertainment news". The tool is available for Premium users in English in selected countries. We gave it a go, and we approve of its top choices. Spotify’s article says that “more than 34 million podcasts are discovered for the first time every week on Spotify” - so anything that helps get new shows found will benefit us. George Soros’s Soros Fund Management is investing into MeidasTouch Network, the owner of The MeidasTouch Podcast. Terms weren't given. The investment company became the largest shareholder in Audacy in February; and invested in Crooked Media in 2022. Fun fact: Soros was described as “the man with the midas touch” in TIME magazine in 1993. He is now. Ausha has expanded its growth suite with Ausha V

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. We’ve seen the data suggesting it’s only the #3 most popular podcast app these days: but Apple Podcasts can still have a real effect when the editorial team highlight shows on its front page. One podcast says it saw 61,000 downloads in a single day after it was promoted. “What I Survived” is an independent podcast from Queensland, Australia, and got an editorial feature on Apple Podcasts at launch. (Our list of all the podcast directories includes the page to submit your show to the Apple Podcasts editorial team). Look at the US podcast charts, and there’s plenty of sports shows in the top 20. But in Latin America - countries like Argentina or Mexico - there are none in the top 200! So, why haven’t sports podcasts taken off in Latin America? There’s plenty of reasons, suggests Genuina Media; the company also has a compelling reason why this is likely to change this year. Never Not Funny, the Jimmy Pardo Podcast, is to celebrate its twenty-year anniversary this Saturday with an eight-hour livestream. The show started in 2006, recorded from Pardo’s dining table; and has produced video episodes since 2008. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎧 ➡️ 💰Podcast Content To Clients Workshop — If you want to use your podcast to attract new clients and grow your online business this Podcasting Busine

Sponsored by Podscribe. Podscribe is heading to POSSIBLE 2026! We’re excited to sponsor one of the year’s biggest marketing events. In Miami? Let’s connect and talk measurement, media strategy, and what’s next for the industry. Good news from TuneIn: after closing podcast submissions in Feb 2024, TuneIn now appears to be accepting new podcast listings once more. You can just use TuneIn's broadcaster portal; the directory has all of our shows there (here's our daily podcast). The directory is the default way into Tesla cars, Sonos speakers and many more places; when we last covered TuneIn in Dec 2024, we revealed mass layoffs at the company; but it was acquired by radio and podcast producer Stingray in Nov 2025. Exclusive: Libsyn and Buzzsprout have signed up with Apple Podcasts to distribute HLS video. Brendan Monaghan, President & CEO, Libsyn, said: “We view video as a natural progression for podcasting — giving creators more ways to engage audiences, deepen storytelling, and grow their businesses. This partnership aligns directly with our vision, as Libsyn continues building a next-gen platform, enabling creators to publish seamlessly across formats, distribute everywhere, and monetize more effectively than ever before.” Alban Brooke, Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout, said: “We’re excited to bring Apple Podcasts video distribution to Buzzsprout. HLS gives podcasters a great way to publish video to Apple Podcasts and makes it easy for people to listen or watch.” All top-10 podcast hosting companies now support HLS video, with one exception: Spotify for Creators/Megaphone. (Users of Triton Digital’s Spreaker can upgrade to Omny

Sponsored by Podscribe. Where did your RON ads actually run? Podscribe’s new airchecks for RON campaigns reveal real placements, brand safety signals, and competitive insights. See what’s new → OpenAI has bought the TBPN podcast, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Financial Times says the purchase price is in the “low hundreds of millions”. If true, it’s likely that this is one of the biggest deals for a podcast in the medium’s history (Joe Rogan’s renewal at Spotify being $250mn in 2024). TBPN has eleven staff, has around 70,000 viewers per daily episode, and is reported to generate $30mn in revenue this year; it will remain editorially independent, the show says in a statement. The live tech show, which is also available as a relatively small podcast, “treats Silicon Valley like a sports league”, says Tubefilter. Newsletter platform Beehiiv has launched a full podcast hosting platform.. It contains full transcripts, distributes to Apple, Spotify and more, and comes with a full website; analytics are built “to IAB standards”, and you can bundle your podcast for paying subscribers to your newsletter; Beehiiv will take no additional fees. CEO Tyler Denk 

Sponsored by Podscribe. Where did your RON ads actually run? Podscribe’s new airchecks for RON campaigns reveal real placements, brand safety signals, and competitive insights. See what’s new → Buzzsprout launched free automatic transcripts for all their hosting customers using a current paid plan. Transcripts appear in Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and other apps. It has a transcript editor to help fix any words before publishing, and (unlike Apple Podcasts's transcriber) will correctly identify different speakers. The company has also overhauled its chapters tool to work within the transcript editor. Buzzsprout has also added a welcome feature to its fanmail service: you can now reply to people who send fanmail text messages to you. That’s in addition to a new voicemail service, which was added this week too. Eddy Cue from Apple spoke with technology podcast TBPN, and the interview is in video in the show on Apple Podcasts. TBPN’s podcast host, Transistor, has posted about the show - and has used an embedded video from Apple Podcasts in its blog, which we didn’t realise you could do. Until now. The shortlist for the Australian Audio Awards has been released. The awards, which are brand new this year, have a number of categories for podcasts. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad herePodcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter