Google removes/adds podcasts; Tom Rossi on Buzzsprout subscriptions; Sean Glynn on Novel; Jordan Harbinger

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Special Guests: 

• Tom Rossi
• Sean Glynn
• Jordan Harbinger 

Show Notes

• Google tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are being replaced with a new feature. 
  
  
• Over a thousand Buzzsprout podcasts are using the subscriptions feature, according to Buzzcast. It was announced in late January. 
  
  
• UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round. The investment will be used to accelerate growth with strategic partners, and to establish the company’s own network of originals.
  
  
• Dan Misener from Bumper says, 54% of the Apple Podcasts top 200 had trailers, and 50% of the Spotify top 200 did too.
  
  
• What makes a chart-topping podcast? Rephonic says that top shows tend to be weekly; tend to skew male in audience.
  
  
• Dave Jones has added a new Podcast Index API output of feed and episode value blocks.
  
  
• Cloudflare announced Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server
  
  
• Hindenburg 2.0 is launching shortly.
  
  
• Podverse (New Version) supports value-for-value streaming for videos.
  
  
• Podnews Live - Manchester 13th June -  Save the Day! 

(0:00) 10 Feb
(1:16) Google and podcasts
(7:37) Interview: Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout
(20:57) Interview: Sean Glynn from Novel
(32:40) Trailers
(36:32) What makes a #1?
(38:35) Interview: Jordan Harbinger
(43:25) YouTube and Freakonomics
(45:29) People News
(46:57) The Tech Stuff
(1:05:14) Announcing Podnews Live
(1:07:07) Boostagram Corner
(1:10:30) Sam and James's week

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