Podnews Weekly Review

The last word in podcasting news.

Every Friday, James Cridland and Sam Sethi review the week's top stories from Podnews; and interview some of the biggest names making the news from across the podcast industry.

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with Elsie Escobar - the tools podcasters need to succeed

We're co-hosted by Elsie Escobar today, while Sam is away. Here's more about Elsie:* The E League Mentorship: https://elsie.link/eleague-podnews * Multimodalee

July 03, 2026 • 1:20:39

How podcast advertisers know more about you; and Dolby Atmos comes for podcasting

(This uses Buzzsprout's CoHost AI summary. Buzzsprout is our sponsor.)We question whether Netflix can make podcasts work without chasing YouTube’s time-spent game, and we map where premium video fits in a world built on niche audio. We ...

June 26, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 26 • 1:20:46

Metrics, Measurement and Money - for indie podcasters and not-for-profits

Losh Moodaley's article: https://podnews.net/article/beyond-the-cpm-podcast-advertising We test whether a 30-second threshold actually changes podcast stats, then pull apart why the definition of a “play” gets slippery on...

June 19, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 25 • 1:33:51

Locked On Podcast Network turns 10, and do podcast listeners skip the ads?

We discover how the Locked On Podcast Network got going, and dive into more details about the new YouGov report showing how listeners consume podcast ads. Plus, plenty more.

June 12, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 24 • 1:36:42

Captivate's monetisation in the US; and the BBC gets more involved in Crossed Wires

Sam and James chat with Brian Conlan and Mark Asquith about Captivate and DAX US working together to monetize more podcasts; and to Dino Sofos about this year's Crossed Wires festival in Sheffield.

June 05, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 23 • 1:59:45

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James, Sam, how's it going? This is Alvin from Bud Sprout. All right. So in the Pod News Weekly Review Inbox, you've got this great stinger, uh, Boostigram, Super Comments, Zaps, Fan mail, Super Chat, email. And I hope you have space for one more because we just launched voicemail for fan mail. So listeners can now send voice messages straight to a podcast like I'm doing right now. Uh then you'll be able to read the transcript of what I send. You can listen to the audio. You can download the audio and use it in your podcast. I've always loved those end of the year episodes that you do with the wrap ups, uh, where you get all the supporters to send in uh audio messages and then you play them on the podcast. And my hope is that this will make it easier for other shows to do something similar. Thanks for everything you do, and thanks for a great show. Talk soon.