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 podcasters. 
  
  
• JustCast added support to  episode level value-for-value namespace!
  
  
•  AudiWave have added support  PodcastindexOrg - People, Location, and Transcript support to the iOS app
  
  
• The PodLP app has had a new release for KaiOS, adding a season filter (just like Apple!), and configuration improvements.
  
  
• First look: Popular podcast app Overcast is to release a redesign today. 

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