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- Oct 11: Podcast Addict was removed from Google Play, again, this time for apparently violating the “Violent Extremism” policy. It seems to have been restored, though the app’s AdMob account is yet to be reactivated. The app is one of the most popular for Android - and has a history of being blocked and restored from Google’s app store. Earlier this year, it was blocked for having an alarm clock.
- Oct 9: Is a new Google service flooding podcast apps with spam? Calling them “a threat to the podcasting community”, the podcast directory Listen Notes has made a NotebookLM Detector, to spot shows made by Google’s NotebookLM. So far, it’s detected more than 280 shows which have been made using the AI tool. “Notebook LM has made it easier to mass-produce low-quality, fake content”, says Listen Notes founder Wenbin Fang; though The Spectator’s Sean Thomas suggests that AI may “make the podcast bro irrelevant”.
- Sep 27: Google’s NotebookLM - which (in part) lets you create a podcast-like experience from uploaded articles, like this, has added a built-in YouTube uploader, and better sharing tools. Since it’s a Google product, we assume it’ll be closed in three years; but it’s an impressive tool in the meantime.
- Sep 18:
Pocket Casts is to support transcripts, according to 9to5Google. We think this will be limited to shows providing their own transcripts, using the
podcast:transcript
tag. - Sep 2: Both Spotify and Apple Podcasts saw increase in download share for Buzzsprout shows last month. (Pocket Casts has almost doubled year-on-year.) iOS has increased over Android: possibly a knock-on effect from the end of Google Podcasts.
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