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How to mark your podcast on YouTube as a podcast
There's one thing that can make all the difference to your YouTube podcast... and that's to mark your playlist as a podcast. Here's how.

How I make... Podnews
What tools are used by Podnews every day to produce the newsletter and the podcast?

How to do loudness: the LUFS and LKFS FAQ for podcasters
What are LUFS and LKFS, and why is Apple asking for -16 of them? This article helps with understanding loudness levels for your podcast, and how to achieve them.

When Things Go Wrong: How To Navigate Negative Feedback in Podcasting
Effective tops for effectively dealing with negative feedback based on our experience helping podcast hosts, business leaders, and others promote and protect their brands.

How to get the most out of OP3’s free podcast analytics
OP3's downloadable analytics make it really powerful. Here's how.

Spreaker is enabling wholesale copyright theft for podcasts
Just how easy can one company make it to copy someone else's work - and earn money from it?

Someone Copied My Podcast. Five Days Later, It Was Already Charting.
Lisa Lacy tells us that an unauthorized copy of her podcast appeared on Spreaker, spread across podcast directories, and raised serious questions

Podcast apps, privacy, and GDPR
We explain how podcasting works, and exactly how much data you're sharing.

Podcasting 2.0: Why It’s Not Fringe Anymore
If it is, argues Mike Dell, the fringe is getting pretty crowded.

The Half-Truth: What Fictional TV Series Don't Tell You About Making a Podcast
Don't believe everything you see on television, says María Fitó Carreras. And, for the value of the craft, don't let others either.

Review: Make Noise, a creator's guide to podcasting and great audio storytelling, by Eric Nuzum
A podcasting book that doesn't focus on the technology. Music to my ears.

Review: The Spotify Play, by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
A review of 'The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance', by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud

Review: Hindenburg PRO v2 - with transcription editing
I test drive the new version of the audio editor I've used for the last five years

Review: the iRig Stream Mic Pro
A good sound, a strange connector, and a feature some might find useful

Review: Nomono Sound Capsule
We test this in-the-field recording kit. Is it for you? And if not - then who is it for?

The history of podcasting in the UK
How did podcasting get going in the country? And is it really just about the BBC?

Google Listen - Google's pioneering Android podcast app
The first podcast app from Google was, perhaps, the most ambitious. We look at the history of Google Listen - and what v2 might have looked like.

The history of the word 'Podcast'
Who invented the word? And who was responsible for getting it used by the community? A full history, with audio, looking at the words used for on-demand audio via RSS.

The Story of the First Podcast Feed
When was the first podcast feed produced - and what is the history of the first podcast?

The Last Yard - the blog post that started it all
The original blog post from Adam Curry that gave birth to podcasting

The Nigerian Podcasting Ecosystem: Africa's Largest English-Language Audio Market Takes Shape
223 million people live in Nigeria: and the podcast industry there could be massive. But 'could be' isn't 'is', says Tony Onwuchekwa.

The Persian Podcasting Industry: An Analysis of the Iranian Audio Market
Anahita Davoodi writes that podcasting has exploded into a massive cultural force in Iran over the last five years.

Podcasting offers novel ways of media reporting in South Africa
Johannesburg-based podcast production studio Volume got creative, using WhatsApp to shed light on how media startups in South Africa were reporting on the toughest parts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The podcast market in Latvia
The country where YouTube rules; where podcasters work together, and around 20% listen every month

The State of Podcasting in Latin America
By 2027, there will be more podcast listeners in Latin America than any other region in the world.

Is the Australian APRA mini-licence a way for podcasters to licence music?
This Aussie music licence says it covers podcasting. So does that mean you can use music in your podcasts?

Podcast recommendation newsletters
Looking for some new podcasts to listen to? Here are some of our favourite recommendation newsletters.

Github repositories for podcast app and website developers
From badges to user agents, there are a lot of regularly updated community Github repos out there.

Our podcast sample
We mention our podcast sample quite a bit here. What is it? And why isn't it a perfect sample?

Podcasting events in your calendar
How to add our calendar to your phone's calendar (or your desktop, too)

Vietnam: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Vietnamese podcasting market, its history, and what shows will work there

Indonesia: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Indonesian podcasting market, and what shows will work there

Korea: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Korean podcasting market, and what shows will work there

Japan: a podcasting deep-dive
A deep dive into the Japanese podcasting market, and what shows will work there

Understanding podcasts in East and South East Asia
A focus at East and South East Asia - what podcast listeners are consuming, and what content works in a part of the world with twice the population of the US and a fast-growing podcast market.

Podcast host migrations - who's moving where
Which podcast has moved where? Who is the podcast host most podcasters are moving to? We have all the data, continuously updated.

Podcast app user-agents
We wondered what user agents were being used by which apps. Here is details of the resources that exist to help with that.

Additional RSS namespaces
RSS namespaces extending podcasting

A list of all podcast hosts
Looking for a podcast host? Here are all of the podcast hosts we see in our podcast pages.

Podcast availability indicator
Wondering how complete the Spotify, Stitcher, Luminary and Google Podcasts catalogue is? We run the figures on some recent podcasts. (This page is constantly updated).

How will my advertising in Podnews work?
Average clickthrough rates and open rates, because you asked

Our Editorial Policy on Gated Content
Why we don't link to gated content, and how we can help you further

Submissions and Disclosures
How to submit stories to Podnews; and our relevant editorial disclosures

Sponsored articles on Podnews
All the information about link insertions, dofollow links and article placements on this website

Advertising and supporting Podnews
Want to support us - or get your company's name out there? Here are the options at Podnews.