Why's everyone going proprietary? Is it time to change the name podcast? Is James really one in a billion? And what's the secret sauce for creating a hit podcast?

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Editor of BBC News Podcasts. Creator of the award-winning
Brexitcast, Americast and the daily Newscast.



NEWS: 


Spotify's proprietary video podcasts system is "a dumpster
fire", says Drew Linsalata, the host of The Anxious Truth. Even
though Anchor gave this podcaster early access, it took six days
for his podcast's episode to be correctly available on Spotify,
during which Anchor support didn't return his emails. 



The BBC has launched BBC Podcasts Premium exclusively on the
proprietary Apple Podcasts subscription system, and only in the
US and Canada. The service will include "exclusive shows" (which
are also available free in the UK). The BBC Podcasts Channel is
available everywhere; the Premium bit only shows up in the US and
Canada. All BBC shows are commercial-free in the UK; the
corporation still blocks its shows from Google
Podcasts. 


Bradley Tirpak is the new CEO of Libsyn. A professional
investor, he's been Chairman of Libsyn since August 2020, and a
director since October 2019. The company had been without a CEO
for over 14 months. 


Libsyn's AdvertiseCast has released average CPM rates for
October, showing an average of $23.30. The data is up from
September's $23.13, and up 92.3% year-on-year.
 

Amazon Music has announced a "synchronised podcast
transcripts" feature. It's only available in the Amazon Music
app, only in the US, and only for recent episodes of Amazon
Original and Wondery shows. It's going to be opened to other
selected shows shortly; as far as we can tell, it's a proprietary
solution with no link to the



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