@james reports that @dave is concerned with the amount of AI slop entering the index. In a recent episode of Podcasting 2.0, he says there are already 10,000 AI feeds - flooding into the index and costing it real money. In our new analytics dashboards […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

Threads saying the quiet part out aloud. They never cared about the Fediverse. It was a good way to get people to sign up and cheer them on. This is a typical Meta bait and switch strategy. Start open or promise open and then switch to their proprietary […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

1/3 - This weeks episode of Podnews Weekly Review is out - it’s a bumper episode and early Christmas present, featuring over 26 Senior executives from the biggest companies in podcasting giving their highlights of 2025, and their predictions for the year […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

@seth Thank you

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1/2 TrueFans Hosting When you host with TrueFans we stream podcast episodes in 6 second batches to all apps. It means we know exactly how long people listen and when people stop listening. This is how we plot this NEW consumption chart below. There is a […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

YouTube and TikTok marketing have misappropriated the word 'Podcast' as short hand to mean any chat show format, often with two talking heads, be it audio, video or live. And the critical determinant of a podcast is that it can be "distributed everywhere" and that requires RSS. Sadly I fear the […]

YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal YouTube is to let creators on the video platform choose to receive payouts in PayPal’s stablecoin. The feature is live and, as of now, it only applies to users in the U.S. /cc @dave @james […]

The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs /cc @dave @james https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debuts-ai-personalized-podcasts-to-hook-younger-listeners/

Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub /cc @dave https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap

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So near yet so far Triton Digital’s Omny Studio announced support for video podcasting. It’ll let you produce an RSS feed with video, and automatically produce an audio RSS feed from it if you need that; and dynamically-inserted ads will come soon, we’re told. This is in addition to using […]

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1/3 - In Podnews Weekly Review, our special guests are Kendall Breitman talking about Riverside's new podcast hosting service and Russell Harrower telling us all about PodToo's new Cloud Infrastructure Service. 1. Riverside announced the launch of its […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

1/2 - TrueFans Hosting. Today TrueFans took one step closer to opening the doors to our new hosting service. Now in your creators dashboard you can see: 1. The total storage size for the episode you uploaded #transparency 2. The amount of data we […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

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1/3 Just pre-ordered these two new books coming out in November. The first is "Notes on Being a Man" by Scott Galloway - 5th Nov. The lack of attention to the growing masculinity crisis has created a void which is now being dangerously filled by the […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

When will Alby make topping up my Alby Hub simple. The whole process is so jargon based and geeky. Not something normal people will understand or trust. It feels like it just for the Bitcoin bros. Complexity is failed simplicity.

Finally turned in Spotify Lossless Audio and Video. Was the wait worth it Let’s see if this makes any difference.

1/4 - On this week's Podnews Weekly Review, we talk about: 1. Does podcast advertising really work? Most people skip the ads when they can but advertisers still keep paying, even when they don't know who listened to their adverts and don't know how long […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

I'm thinking about Podcast SEO in an AI world. SEO = Search Engine Optimisation GEO = Generative Engine Optimisation It made me wonder if we need to use JSON-LD markup in our app to help Google discover like they do with Product Snippets. So we use […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

Netflix Inks Deal With Spotify to Stream Video Podcasts. Spotify video podcasts will soon appear on Netflix. The two companies have announced a partnership to bring a select number of podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix’s platform […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

I have just finished an interview with @ChadF We spent time discussing the issues and concerns he currently has with podcasting 2.0 micropayments, wallets and protocols. This interview will be on this Friday's Podnews Weekly Review. @adam @dave @james

Why are Spotify running recruitment ads for ICE??? Time to leave. Left TikTok after IDF ownership. Mastodon maybe the only FREE social media space left https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn75o7J/

I am pleased to say TrueFans now supports the following Lightning methods in the Value Tag - Keysend, LNAddress and SecureRSS (L.402) as well as Direct to Node for all podcasts /cc @james @adam @dave

1/3 - On this weeks Podnews Weekly Review our special guest is Rox Codes the co-founder of Flightcast, a new video first podcast host, built with Steven Bartlett. They have taken the tools that built The Diary Of A CEO, and turned them into a software platform you can use.

@alecksgates quick question is the new updated version of podping available

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2/2 3. Subscriptions Fans pay a monthly monthly fee to support their favourite podcasters. 4. SecureRSS Creators can mark certain episodes or the whole podcast as Premium content and fans have to pay in advance for the content in order to access it. 5 […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

1/2 - Thank you to Rubén Galgo for inviting me to present "The Future of Podcast Monetisation" at Podcast Days in Madrid. Using TrueFans I was able to demo the following 5 new ways creators can earn money. 1. Streaming Micropayments Fans can pay their […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

1/3 - On this week's Podnews Weekly Review out today, our special guest is Neil Cowling, founder of Fresh Air talking about branded podcasts and how they measure engagement and success using attention metrics like 'listen time' rather than downloads […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

This week TrueFans will have completed full support for LNaddress, KeySend and SecureRSS in the value tag method.

For those who heard @adam and @dave talk about CloudFlare's X402 for micropayments. Here is the blog post. https://blog.cloudflare.com/x402/ TrueFans and PodToo have been working on L.402 aka SecureRSS for over 6 months and we will be pushing this out for all TrueFans creators to enable both […]

Congratulations to Soundstack who launched HLS for Podcasting. https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/products/soundstack-launches-hls-for-podcasting @james and I will be talking about what next for HLS on this week's Podnews Weekly Review. /cc @james @adam @dave @mijustin @russell

Did I miss it? Is there no show today? @dave

1/3 - This week's Podnews Weekly Review has three special guests. Our first interview is with Jeanine Wright the CEO of Inception Point AI which has come under significant industry criticism recently after it bragged about producing 3,000 episodes a week […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

1/3 - ADOPTER Media, A Podcast Advertising Agency has called for an industry-standard “majority-AI” disclosure for podcasts. It comes after AI-slop company Inception Point AI bragged about producing 3,000 episodes a week using the technology without human supervision. In this weeks Podnews […]

TrueFans just added a new wallet tab to your user profile. Now you can see all of your payments in and out as well as filter by month or activity i.e play, comment etc.

Downloads, OPML and Private Feeds are all Podcasting 1.0 terms. Listen Time, ActivityStreams and SecureRSS are Podcasting 2.0 terms.

1/2 - Live Video HLS test Every Friday night I listen LIVE to Podcasting 2.0 with @adam curry and @dave Jones. Normally this is an audio only podcast but tonight they broadcast it live as a video but not on YouTube. Instead Dave Jones used a PeerTube […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

@adam @dave ready when you are with the PeerTube HLS, Alt Enclosure, Live Item Tag Test. What could go wrong?

Who wants a beer? James Cridland and I will be in London next week, and if you’re around from 5.00pm to 7.00pm on Tuesday 16 Sep, it would be fun to catch up for a pint to raise a toast to Todd Cochrane and talk all things podcasting. We’ll be at The […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

1/2 - Today TrueFans released a new wallet 'payments ledger' showing podcast creators all the micropayments they've either spent or earned, in one simple view. For example you can see payments when 1. Fans PLAY an episode 2. Fans leave a SUPER COMMENT 3 […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

✊ Am happy to endorse this statement - along with many thought leaders from both #atproto and #activitypub sides of the Open Social Web dev community… https://writings.thisismissem.social/statement-on-discourse-about-activitypub-and-at-protocol/

1/4 - TrueFans Promo Swaps Last week on TrueFans we enabled creators to buy a promotion for their podcast either on our homepage header or on one of the multiple category carousels. e.g technology, comedy, news etc. - see image 1

1/2 - On this week's Podnews Weekly Review our special guest is Barry Luijbregts the CTO & Founder of Podhome. Podhome is a modern podcasting 2.0 host but in addition they have just launched their new podcast app for iOS & Android. We ask Barry what's […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

I'm very much looking forward to speaking at Podcast Days in Spain. Thank you to Rubén Galgo for the kind invite. Clearly @james must have been busy. The event this year has a number of international speakers, including Eric Nuzum, Megan Davies, Todd […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

@james has just published some great photos on Podnews from Podcast Movement in Dallas. https://podnews.net/article/podcasters-in-the-wild-pm25 This is one of my favourites. James with the PodFather. #gopodcasting /cc @adam

1/2 - Rating Last week @james and I talked about the Explicit Tag. I suggested we needed more granularity. i.e 15+ Well it seems there is already a podcast rating tag? RSS Media: Rating - https://www.rssboard.org/media-rss#media-rating Media RSS […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]