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• A new study into audio consumption in France, by Audion and YouGov, has highlighted that digital audio is now a mass-market medium - and suggests that the concept of "liquid content" is part of the country's consumption patterns. 58% of people in the country say that they've started content on one platform and finished it on another. The data also shows that YouTube dominates digital audio in the country; and that the morning commute is the peak consumption time.
• Got a YouTube channel? Why isn't it on Spotify, asks Flightcast, which has launched a new tool to enable all YouTube creators to automatically get their content onto Spotify video. The YouTube-to-Spotify tool is available today, and could mean that YouTubers can earn money from Spotify as well, subject to the company's eligibility rules.
• Today (today!) at 4pm Eastern - the Podcast Professionals Association is running an Inspire & Inquire session with our Editor, James Cridland. It's usually for members, but Podnews readers are also welcome: please join us; it's free.

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• The Diary of a CEO has become the most-subscribed podcast on YouTube, overtaking Joe Rogan.

• So far this year, the podcast has achieved more than 1 billion YouTube views. But, 261 million of these were using audio tracks other than English, according to YouTube Studio data. International audiences have become a significant part of the show's growth, Bartlett's company says.
• Ukranian President Zelenskyy was a recent guest. Also - Mark Cuban, James Talarico, AI skeptic Ed Zitron, and Seth Godin.

• One of the oldest podcasts has been painstakingly rebuilt from scratch. Adam Curry's Daily Source Code is back on the internet, produced by Christopher Isene who has restored the complete archive, and added transcripts and chapters to every one of 863 episodes. The full website is here.

• It's always worthwhile watching Steve Jobs demo podcasting for the first time, playing an episode of the Daily Source Code before he stops it, really, really quickly for some reason.

• Captivate has renewed its certification for the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines. It's now certified to v2.3, and is now additionally certified for the Ad Delivery metric.

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• Is PodcastOne close to being acquired? The company says it has had "multiple" people interested in buying the company; and has formed a special committee, and retained a financial advisor, to examine them. This is after one of its shareholders sent PodcastOne a letter telling them to retain an investment bank or strategic advisor, saying that its shares were undervalued. The company's shares are up around 50% on the news, and are currently around $2.59; in May they were trading at over $5, though.
• SiriusXM reported its Q3/26 financial results. Podcast ad revenue at the company grew 20% year-on-year; though the company doesn't qualify how much that is. Video and "social podcast advertising" more than doubled. The company says it has had some "supply constraints" within podcasting.
• On Air Fest has unveiled the first set of speakers for its tenth anniversary edition. It's in Brooklyn, Feb 23-25.

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• Goalhanger's The Rest Is Politics US has announced a live stream covering the Nov 4 mid-term elections. Expect it from midnight Eastern. The show also did a live show in November 2024.
• Podcast hosting company RSS.com has launched a learning center with a set of courses to cover podcasters of every stage. They're all free, wherever you're hosted.
• Another interesting podcast app - Static Radio (on iPhone and on Android), which gives eight radio stations made up of independent podcasts (direct from the RSS feed, of course). Everyone hears the shows together at the same time - and it has a "bulletin" to allow creators to promote their own thing. Co-founder Brendan tells us: "A show feels like it has a room full of people in it, not just you and your headphones, and you might stumble onto a show you'd never think to search for."

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• A brand new podcast app for iOS promises to help you discover new shows you'll like. Dial Flipper works like an old-fashioned radio: flip the dial and you get put right in the middle of a new podcast it thinks you might like. (You get to train it with your favourite shows, and it learns from what you like listening to). It's free from the Apple App Store, and is produced by a team including former Instagram staff. (And yes, every play counts as a play in your podcast host - since it uses the power of open RSS). English-language only for now. Nous supposons qu’ils en sont vraiment désolés.
• Acast released its Q3/26 financial results. The Swedish company boasted "rekordomsättning" - record revenue for the quarter: net sales grew +25% to SEK 820.3mn (around US $80m) with the US market growing +54%. It also posted nearly $5mn in profit. However, European revenue grew by just 5%: the company's new EVP for the region, Liv Sandberg, doesn't start until early 2027. Total plays increased by 4% year-on-year, but average revenue per play increased by 20%, to $0.07. There's more detail here.
• There's been a lot of feedback about our story of Spreaker users copying podcasts yesterday. One reader says: "What a relief to see the article ... I've been dealing with this repeatedly. We make kids audio, and the ads that they run on our stolen IP are for products for use by adults." ... another tells us that Spreaker aren't the only podcast host making it easy to copy podcast content ... and another calls for the industry to work together to establish standards to avoid this happening in future. Spreaker has said, and done, nothing since giving us a statement.

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• Exclusive: Podcast hosting company Spreaker is, we believe, enabling wholesale copyright theft for podcasts - letting people copy other, well-known shows, host copies of them, and sell ads in the stolen audio. We discovered how easy it is to copy someone else's show on Spreaker; saw how few checks the company does to enable monetisation; and found that there are more than 1,700 shows duplicated on Spreaker at the moment, from publishers like PodcastOne, Vox Media, Goalhanger and SiriusXM. We have all the details in a special report.

• As we were working on this story, we were contacted by Lisa Lacy. Someone had copied her podcast, and five days later the copy was already charting. In her story for Podnews, she gives five steps to protecting your podcast; and she's founded a service called PodProtect as a direct response to her experience.

• Netflix has a new person who'll be overseeing podcasts on the platform, reports Bloomberg: and, excellently, it's someone who knows the industry inside-out. The appointment of Steve Wilson - a former Apple Podcasts, QCODE and Daylight Media executive - has been confirmed by Netflix.
• Riverside unveiled a major update - adding "agents" to give creators a virtual production team. The four agents play the part of a producer, editor, clipper and marketer, all of whom are directed by the human creator throughout the podcast production process.

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• Sanderson Jones made a podcast. People liked his podcast, but he didn't really make any money from it, so he stopped doing it. But, as you'll hear in the latest episode of Hyperfixed, his podcast didn't actually stop. Someone else hacked his podcast account, switched his podcast host, cloned his voice... and just carried on making shows for him. His voice - his podcast - but saying things he'd never say in real life.

• As you'll hear in the show, the scammer moved his podcast to RSS.com where it earned $1,293. After Hyperfix got involved, RSS paid that money direct to Sanderson - it was his show, after all - and helped transfer the podcast back to him. All's well that ends well, we guess?

• Airwave has launched an in-house advertising sales operation. The company says it's the next stage of Airwave's growth, and creates a more direct connection among the network's creators, advertising partners, and sales team. It now represents more than 120 million combined monthly views and downloads.
• Edison Research at SSRS posted the top 50 podcasts in the US for Q3/26. Joe Rogan remains #1; the highest new entry is StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson. The research includes all podcasts in the US.

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• After we noted an episode of WTF being visualized for YouTube, another fan favourite podcast has been adapted for the platform - this time, a horror story from Tenderfoot TV's Radio Rental has made it to YouTube... in LEGO bricks. The release comes as a new season of Radio Rental kicks off today.
• And speaking of video, Apple Podcasts launched "The Greatest Stories Never Seen" - short original video clips that highlight four shows available in video on the platform. The shows promoted are: Acast's Toni and Ryan, Wondery's Baby, this is Keke Palmer, iHeart's Las Culturistas, and the indie House Guest. The videos are being promoted on the Apple Podcasts Instagram feed (90,500 followers).
• Spotify published its Q3/26 financial update. In a welcome turn of fortune, ad revenue was up +10% year-on-year, led by "strong growth in automated biddable sales channels" - and "podcasting growth was led by sponsorship gains within our Owned and Licensed portfolio". Ad revenue accounts for only 10.7% of total company revenue - and ads are half as profitable as premium subscribers. The number of premium subscribers grew +9% to 306mn. The newly-introduced skip-ahead button seems to be not mentioned to investors.

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• Exclusive: On Air Fest is celebrating ten years of the event by celebrating ten years of big moments that have happened at On Air Fest. The event began in the same year as Podnews, in 2017: The On Air 100 lists a hundred moments that have shaped the event and the industry - including Spotify buying Gimlet and Anchor in 2019, YouTube jumping into podcasting in 2022, Netflix's first podcast agreement in 2025, and plenty more. More than two thousand people have been involved; the On Air 100 lists many of them, and the On Air studio box light has remained constant throughout the ten years. Tickets for the tenth On Air Fest are on sale today, for 40% off.
• Substack says that "sponsorships will soon be coming to podcasts hosted on Substack", previewing dynamic ad insertion, paid ad-free episodes, and "you’ll soon be able to tap into third-party sponsorship marketplaces to fill the ad breaks you mark in your episodes". You can sign up for early access. (We think that Substack means ads, rather than sponsorships - we've asked.)

• Meanwhile, beehiiv seems to have leaked that it's about to launch podcast ad monetisation next week. We probably shouldn't mention it until it launches, eh?

• Spotify shared its RADAR Creators program class of 2026. Rather than only promote the biggest podcasts, the company also offers marketing, editorial and promotional support to upcoming podcast creators and fresh voices. The company has chosen a number of podcasters from the US, UK, Australia, Spain, Argentina, France, Brazil and the Philippines.

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• Spotify has launched Spotify Memberships, an enhanced version of its premium membership tool for podcasters. It's available to eligible podcasters hosting with Megaphone or Spotify for Creators. You can see the feature in Two Hot Takes.

• This isn't a new feature - called "Podcast Subscriptions", it's been available since Apr 2021 within the US, and as of Nov 2021 became available in 34 countries. The product was originally free, with a plan to charge 5%. The rebranded "Spotify Memberships" costs 10% - but adds a clearer in-app subscription process, member badges for comments, and different membership access tiers. Creators can download member email addresses, too. Here is Megaphone's support doc with more information.

• Has Netflix forgotten about podcasts already? In its Q3 financials, podcasts weren't mentioned at all in the shareholder's letter, nor the earnings call, nor the investor video interview which they posted on, er, YouTube. Netflix revealed revenues were up +12%, but that's the lowest growth in three years. The company, which recently fired its global content chief Bela Bejaria and its movie boss Dan Lin along with laying-off 6% of its staff, acknowledged concern about view-hours growth in the US and Canada - but the things that were supposed to help with that, podcasts, didn't get a mention.
• The winners of the Signal Awards were announced. There are 1,226 recognised podcasts, and 465 gold winners. The Listener's Choice Awards received more than 260,000 votes.

• Meanwhile, the nominees of the 2026 Astra Podcast Awards were announced by The Hollywood Creative Alliance. Among this year’s nominees are Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, SmartLess, Crime Junkie, and The Daily.

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• Marc Maron's show WTF has resurfaced a 2011 episode with Norm Macdonald - this time, in visual form on YouTube. The show closed in October last year, but this two hour long episode is "animated, by humans," says host Marc Maron - including additional information and photographs from the recording, but without actually animating the main interview. It's well worth a watch as a different, and sustainable, way to visualise.

• Other non-video visualisation examples include this BBC World Service show (visualised by 1UpMedia); HBO's Ricky Gervais Show, or Liquid Studio's visualisation of the Podnews daily podcast - a final episode of which will be published today as part of a week-long pilot.

• Bumper has produced a free tool that allows podcasters to "share your engaged views" with potential advertisers. YouTube changed how views are calculated in August - with less than a week's notice - to show a bigger number, which doesn't adequately reflect engagement. It's a two-minute job to connect your YouTube channel, and then produce a nice page that shows views and engaged views, which you can securely share. We hereby expressly permit you, our readers and supporters, to see our YouTube views and engaged views.
• Podcasts in Africa out-engage global benchmarks: but are priced far lower, according to a new report. The "geography discount" means that the shows, which generated more than $900,000, would have been worth more than $2.3 million if they were priced at the rates in the US, UK or Australia.

• In 2023, Will Page asked why is all the podcast money in the US?

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• In the US, one in four podcast listeners say that a candidate's podcast appearance might influence their vote. That's according to new data from Sounds Profitable, released today ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

• The Sounds Profitable data also suggests that podcasting is nearly evenly divided along party lines in terms of number of consumers. However, in terms of time spent listening, independents spend more time with podcasts according to new data also recently released from Edison Research.

• Jake Shapiro from Apple Podcasts is the guest for the PodBiz podcast this week, talking about HLS ads within Apple Podcasts. His appearance "coincides" with the show becoming available in HLS video for the first time in Apple Podcasts, via Acast.

• Shapiro notes that "HLS ads are both audio and video". Apple Podcasts will soon start charging advertising networks an impression-based fee for dynamic HLS ads - a charge which Podnews understands has slipped until early 2027. When it does, the company will be charging whether the user is watching or only listening.

• While Acast's Podcast Pulse might suggest that podcast consumers use both audio and video, in Australia, PodPoll 26 - released today - asked a better question: "how do you prefer to consume podcasts"? Overwhelmingly, podcast consumers prefer to listen, the data shows: 60% saying they preferred audio, while only 23% say they prefer to watch podcasts. The research also shows that 50% of Australians are regular monthly podcast consumers: the first time in this study. We've more numbers from it here.

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• Another two podcasts are making it to a streaming service - this time, from PAVE Studios. PAVE Studios’ original video podcast Clues and a new show, Mother Knows Murder, will stream on Disney+ and Hulu, it's been announced. "It's the first of many places we expect these stories to go," said the founder and CEO Max Cutler.

• Meanwhile in Australia, podcast publisher Mamamia is to make it to Samsung TV Plus as a streaming TV channel. Dan Barrett's Always Be Watching was at the announcement. The company says that 30% of its consumption is via video.
• And in the UK, Samsung TV Plus has added a Trevor Noah channel, which contains segments from What Now? as well as his standup routines.

• The inaugural SONARR Awards were held last night in Sydney NSW, Australia. Of the 33 awards presented, 22 went to independent creators. We've a full list of the winners, and pictures from the night.
• Podcasting now has almost a billion listeners worldwide, says new global research from MIDiA Research. YouTube leads in almost every territory, with 32% market share globally, and added 27 million users in 2025, suggests the research. Apple Podcasts ranks fourth, and added just 2 million.

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• Fans trust the creators they listen to as much - or more than - their own friends, according to new research released today. The data, from SmithGeiger commissioned by Wondery, also suggests that clips are almost twice as effective as word-of-mouth in bringing new viewers to a show. 71% trust their favorite creator over social media influencers, too. The report is a free download.
• First look: Podcast ads are getting more targeted - Triton Digital announced the integration of Datonics audience data into its ad platform. The company suggests ad-buyers will gain the ability to target precisely and reach new audiences.
• Is Apple Podcasts appearing correctly in your podcast statistics? Listen to a podcast episode using Apple Podcasts (without auto-downloading it first), and it appears to make three download requests - two marked bytes=0-1 which the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines v2.3 say should be disregarded: the only one that counts is the one marked "AppleCoreMedia" - which hasn't been used by Apple Podcasts as a user-agent since Mar 2023.

• (To check the user-agent, we used our guide here. We're running iOS 27.2 beta; but this behaviour was also present in the public release of iOS 27.)
• The IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines v2.3 were made final on Sep 29.

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• Liquid Studios - headed up by CEO Jeanine Wright - has released a new website revealing its strategy, and launched a new content-transformation pilot with Podnews. As a pilot, the Podnews daily newsletter will be visualised and produced for video by Liquid Studios, to our own specification - no AI images, the voice is our Editor's own, and the video is reviewed by a human before publishing. Wright said: "A daily news bulletin is one of the tightest turnarounds in podcasting, which makes Podnews a real test, not a demo." You'll see it in on our YouTube channel, as well as LinkedIn and in selected podcast apps.
• Audioboom released a positive Q3/26 trading update. The company posted a record Q3, with 17% revenue growth, and posting a profit of US $5.6mn. The company says it will use its cash balance of $6.7mn, and available capital, to "lead the inevitable consolidation within the podcast industry".
• Apple launched a set of new smart-home products, including the $299 Apple Homeview, a device with speakers and a screen. That device has Apple Podcasts pre-installed on it, but doesn't contain an app store - so no full access to Spotify, Overcast or other podcast apps. It will support the CarPlay standard, however, so playback from your iPhone is possible. (It won't be available in the EU). Stephen Robles has more.

• Apple is also kicking off a new advertising campaign promoting the use of Safari, including video ads and a website. We're looking forward to the promotion of the Apple Podcasts app in this way.

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• Fiction podcasts are rarely served well by existing podcast apps - which is where Bard comes in: a new podcast player just for audio drama. Significantly expanded categories, a focus on human-generated shows, better episode navigation, and a clearer link to Patreon and Ko-fi links to help creators produce self-sustaining work. It's free on the Apple App Store and on the web - and Android is coming soon. Sorry - we're told fans of Joe Rogan will be disappointed.
• Freakonomics Radio published a new episode focusing on podcasting - particularly, "the strange economics of this thing we do". Guests include Will Page, the former Chief Economist at Spotify; Jeanine Wright, formerly of Inception Point AI; and Jenna Weiss-Berman from Paper Kite Productions (who refers to Inception Point AI as "the devil"). Meanwhile, Podcast Advertising Playbook interviews Christiana Brenton from Steven Bartlett's Steven.com about the rise of the creative entrepreneur.

• (When we listened to Freakonomics Radio, from a Brisbane IP address, we very much enjoyed the selection of ads intended for Ireland.)

• The Ankler posted its inaugural Future of Entertainment 25 - a list of the people "reshaping the rules of the entertainment business". YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, TikTok and Roblox make it to the top platforms (no Apple, then?); UK podcast company Goalhanger also makes an appearance.

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• Exclusive: The Castro podcast app has been bought by Maple Media, according to its Apple App Store listing. Maple Media is a company that buys apps, and acquired Player FM in April 2020; acquired Podkicker in July 2020; and acquired Breaker in Feb 2022. Castro was acquired by Dustin Bluck in Jan 2024 from its previous owners, a VC company called Tiny. We've reached out to him for comment, but on a company blog, Bluck recently posted a reflective piece about independent podcast apps, which are - in his words - "dying".

• Indie podcast apps are part of what makes podcasting great; but they do appear to be in decline. For a keynote at The Podcast Show London, Podnews analysed downloads in the UK for the last three years. In 2024, 38% of downloads were to independent podcast apps; by 2025 that had fallen to 36%; and in 2026, just 31% were to indie podcast apps. A cut of podcast ad revenue in return for better analytics might help - otherwise, the only differentiator for an indie app might just be ad-skipping.

• It's emerged that Apple acqui-hired some of the team behind Huxe, an AI "podcast" app, in June. Huxe has closed, but its website is still visible - the service made "podcasts" from your email, calendar and anything else you wanted, and you could ask it to generate you a personal "podcast" about anything. If you think it sounds similar to Google's NotebookLM, you'd be right: Huxe was founded by former Google developers who worked on that project. Apple's deal lets them make job offers to specific employees, and allows them a licence to use the technology.
• Former Guardian journalist Marina Hyde has partnered with Goalhanger's Goalhanger X division to launch a new platform called Always On. She will host a YouTube show, and will write on Substack. While she will continue to host The Rest is Entertainment, the release doesn't mention podcasting, other than suggesting that there may be "further audio formats" in the future. It's the first launch from Goalhanger X, which describes itself as "building creator-led media businesses around distinctive personalities - spanning publishing, video, social, audio, membership, live and IP, rather than being tied to a single platform."

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• Exclusive: Podcast ad load is "flashing a yellow light", suggests new research. The Podcast Study 2026 will reveal in a webinar next Tuesday that the majority of podcast listeners - 54.8% - suggest that there are already too many ads in podcasts: and only 8.6% say that they would tolerate more ads to keep shows free. The research also suggests that social media is three times more effective at helping listeners find new podcasts than ads in other shows.
• Joe Rogan has renewed his agreement with Spotify. He last renewed in Feb 2024, and the show returned to open RSS and YouTube shortly after (and also, we're told, started carrying midrolls at this time). The agreement is thought to be worth $250mn, a figure denied by Spotify last time round; but someone with knowledge of Rogan's numbers and the ad revenue he attracts suggests that it's a profitable deal for Spotify. Podscribe suggests recent shows have contained 15 ads (an 8% adload).
• The winners of the International Women's Podcast Awards were announced. Presented by Tink Media, Freedom Needs a Soundtrack won two awards.

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• Global ad spend is to grow by 11.9% this year, according to new data from WARC Media. Online audio should grow +9.9% to $16.6bn globally this year, and a further +7.5% next year. The market research company also says that Amazon, Alphabet and Meta will take a combined market share of 59.7% of all ad revenue (excluding China).
• Spotify is to expand access to audiobooks to make then virtually global, covering more than 180 markets. Some additional countries will get twelve hours of audiobooks free; however across much of Africa and Asia, access will require a paid add-on. Users will "find books next to their music and podcasts", reports TNW.
• SiriusXM has signed Serialously and 10 to Life - two true crime shows from Annie Elise. They were with Audioboom.

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• Apple Podcasts has published its 2026 edition of Creators We Love in Australia. The list is made to celebrate and spotlight the trailblazing Australian voices who bring Apple Podcasts to life. Apple Podcasts describe this year’s cohort as delivering "endless entertainment, mind-expanding education and deep community for their audiences". Shows are the ABC's All In The Mind, Mamamia's Mamamia Out Loud, Dyl & Friends from Clubby Sports, Steph and Laura from Shameless, and the indie show Pop Culture Parenting.

• In June this year, Apple's list in the UK was all video shows, and all by Acast: promotion for a favoured format and a favoured publisher. At a time where Apple Podcasts is dropping country-specific recommendations, in our opinion it's a relief to see that Apple's new list in Australia is not merely a thinly-disguised promotion for a podcast publisher and format, and instead appears a genuine list of creators. Only one show is in video!
• Selected creators get promotion within Apple Podcasts in Australia, and will be featured in Apple stores across the country. There is no promotion of these shows on paid-for media outside of Apple properties, however.

• Only 2% of time listening to audio in a car is to podcasts, according to Canadian research. Signal Hill Insights released Audio on the Move, research showing that streaming services are rapidly catching up to AM/FM listening. One in four minutes spent listening to audio is done in a car in Canada.

• The research also shows that only a tiny minority like AI-generated content, like podcasts or music.

• Ausha launched video distribution to Apple Podcasts. The podcast host also supports YouTube.

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