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- Apr 1: In Jul 2023, podcast host Podbean was running deceptive Google ads that looked as if they were the websites of their competitors. Sadly, Podbean is displaying a poor grasp of ethical behaviour again: with ads seen yesterday that are passing off as links to RedCircle, Transistor and Captivate. These ads are against Google ad policy and may be against US law. We have again contacted Podbean; and again, they haven’t responded.
- Mar 31: The Podnews Daily podcast is now celebrating hitting more than 40,000 downloads in one day: which looks brilliant but unfortunately, 90% of those downloads are seemingly automated downloads from Android phones, with traffic related to Google News’s audio briefing. We’re not the only people to see spurious traffic from Google News; Google have told us they are investigating, but we’ve heard nothing more (and if they’re really investigating, we’d have thought it would be helpful to ask us for logfiles). We’ll have more on this story later this week.
- Mar 28: Are you in Indonesia or Malaysia? Do you have an Android phone with an account that’s registered in that country? We’d love to ask you a question about what you see in one of the Google apps, to help us with a story. Please could you hit reply and let us know if you’re in the country?
- Mar 18: YouTube is adding a dedicated “Podcast” tab on the main screen of its Android TV app, thus highlighting more podcast content to YouTube’s biggest number of users - TV is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the US. As with its podcasts page on the web, though, it contains plenty of content which appears to have been automatically marked as being a podcast, including news reports.
- Mar 12: The Moonshot Podcast launched this week at an event at SXSW. The show focuses on Google X, the innovation lab within Google owners Alphabet, and some of the ideas it's spawned - self driving cars, wearables, robots, computer systems that code themselves, Internet balloons, laser internet, wildfire prediction, and so much more. It's hosted by Google X's Astro Teller, who is Captain of Moonshots for the company.
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