Like London buses, you wait ages for one new podcast app and three come along at the same time. We talk with Chris Messina about NEW YouTube, Spotify and Twitter podcast apps coming soon.

SPECIAL GUEST:  Chris Messina

NEWS:

YouTube:



Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration,
monetisation and analytics for podcasts.  Despite no
announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk,
at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week


YouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly
with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube.com/podcasts
(a URL that doesn’t work, yet)



 Spotify: 


Spotify is working on a brand new podcast interface.
Spotted by Chris Messina, who posted a screen recording
archived by Podnews here, the new interface adds a
dedicated Podcasts tab, vertical scrolling, and
live captions for all shows. 


Want to play with the new Spotify interface for
podcasting? It’s already on your phone. On an iPhone or iPad,
open Safari, visit spotify:internal:podcastclips and you’ll go
straight there. /via @chrismessina



SiriusXM:



Freakonomics Radio is to become a radio station on
SiriusXM. 


RØDE has launched its first-ever set of headphones. i.e the
NTH-100s 


Podimo has bought Dag en Nacht, the largest podcast publisher
in the Netherlands. 



Sonnant has launched new AI-powered tools for audio and
video monetisation. 


Dave Jones from the Podcast Index has posted about WebSub,
and why “it doesn’t scale well”. The Podcast Index is using a
system called PodPing.


There has been an update to the socialInteract tag.



RSS.com have proposed a new tag to
remove the need for the iTunes: email tag used to spam po



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