Podnews - iVoox sees more growth in 2021

• Spanish-language podcast platform iVoox has published its 2021 financial report. Now twelve years old, the profitable company claims over 70 million episodes and more than 700m listeners. Income from subscriptions and advertising doubled during 2021. The company also spends half a million euros a year (US $545,000) on R&D.

• Another of the BBC’s biggest podcasts is to end. The 21-year-old film review from Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode will have its last show on BBC Radio 5 Live on Apr 1, but “will be back”, according to the show, which was very clear to point out that it was ending “on 5 Live”. Footballer Peter Crouch is taking his 5 Live show to Acast.

• High data prices are responsible for holding podcasting back in Africa, claims an article in Balancing Act Africa.

• Bleav podcasts are heading to the radio: with an hour-long showcase on more than five hundred SportsMap stations in the US. The Bleav Hour will air tonight at 7pm ET.

• Fireside Chat has a new app icon. The website now promotes video, rather than audio. Co-founder Falon Fatemi is speaking at Podcast Movement Evolutions.

• YouTube has removed an episode of the Nelk Boys podcast with former President Donald Trump, after Trump broke YouTube’s election integrity policy by falsely claiming the US election was changed by widespread fraud. The podcast is still on Spotify and Apple.

• Podcast startup Kaleidoscope has raised $3.5m in funding, the founders have told Axios in a paywalled article. The company has signed a six-show deal with iHeartRadio; it was created by Oz Woloshyn, an author and podcaster, and Mangesh Hattikudur, a former SVP at iHeartRadio and co-host of Part-Time Genius.

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• Oscar Merry has suggested Lightning Comments as a potential solution for cross-app commenting: using “boostagrams” as a method of sending comments. We like this idea; and the spec is simple enough for us to code it; so, you’ll find a “comments” section on every update in Podnews’s web version. You can also see those comments in the Fountain app.

  • We are also, as of today, permanently supporting the socialInteract tag for Twitter (and will probably pull in those comments to the page, too, at some stage).

• PodKast is a new podcast app for KaiOS, the mobile OS for developing countries. Watch for it using PodKast at the end of the RSS user-agent or audio user-agent.

• The Lava app, and the iVoox app, are currently not sending any useragent for its RSS scraper. MTN’s AudApp sends the generic axios/0.21.4 useragent for RSS and audio. AudioWave sends AmazonCloudfront as a useragent for RSS. We’ve requested all these companies help us by fixing their useragents.

• Moving away from Apple Podcasts? There’s no OPML export any more, so how do you do it? Nathan Gathright posts a Twitter thread including using the Shortcuts tool to achieve it.

• Want to host your website and your podcast for free on someone else’s computer? Here’s how to host your podcast and website using IPFS.

• Boostagram Corner: we’re grateful to you for sending us messages with your boosts, which you can now read on the Podnews website. Over the last week, Adam Curry send 5,000 sats saying just “great episode” - we like boosts like that - and points out that pirated copies of his podcast appear regularly on Spotify. Got something to say? Hit the boost button in your podcast app, like Fountain.

Tips and tricks

• How to promote your podcast before it’s live: Rachel Corbett recommends a trailer, for one thing

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Tagline ▸, a podcast about the making of great ads, returns for a second season. Produced by the Clio Awards, this season will cover classic advertising from Apple, Bud Light and Dove. - read more

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