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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Podcast ad revenue is increasing

James is back from Europe; and we chat about why podcast ad spend is rising. Plus...• Libsyn RSS namespace for ad slot availability and why it feels odd in public feeds • Goalhanger’s newsletter strategy as a membership product ...

October 09, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 41 • 55:04

In full: Dave Jones from Podcast Index; and Inception Point AI's final controversy

Sam and James talk about a new podcast interview with Inception Point AI; and Sam discusses with Dave Jones of Podcast Index about the future of podcasting.• Patreon removing per creation memberships and what that breaks for seasonal cr...

October 03, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 40 • 1:52:05

After Podcast Week; and a chat with SupaPass

Sam and James look at Podcast Week, and the highs (and lows) of the week in NYC. Plus, Sam catches up with SupaPass, to learn more about the membership platform.If your podcast app supports it, we're in video this week.

September 27, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 39 • 1:52:44

From Podcast Movement NYC, 2026

There's a really good reason why this show is just one minute thirty seconds long. Listen to find out!We'll catch you next week. And Happy Birthday, Sam Sethi

September 18, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 38 • 1:39

Everywhere Launches A New Way To Monetise Creators

We talk with the founders of Everywhere about building a sales and monetisation layer for creators whose audiences now span podcasts, YouTube, social, and live. We also scan the week’s podcast industry moves, from AI production tools and shifti...

September 11, 2026 • Season 4 • Episode 37 • 1:08:01

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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.