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- May 13:
Thank you to Podbean, who return as a gold supporter today. Podbean is an easy and powerful way to create, promote and monetize your podcast - everything you need for a successful podcast. It's companies like Podbean, and every one of our supporters, that pay for Podnews to keep journalism free: no paywall, no super-secret Slack space, just open for everyone, just like podcasting should be. You can be like Podbean and become a supporter yourself.
- Mar 10: Podcast hosting company Podbean has abruptly pulled its dynamic ad insertion tool across the whole of Europe. No notice was given; the affected countries imply that there is a concern with GDPR compliance. The company launched PodAds in 2019. “We rely on dynamic insertion,” one customer told us, “and without prior warning, this has a huge impact on us”. The company told Podnews that the decision was "based on a combination of evolving global privacy regulations and a shift in our internal product focus."
- Jan 9: Podbean and The Daily Wire have both renewed IAB v2.2 certification. Audion, Mediastream and Podtrac are still on v2.1.
- Nov 3, 2025:
There were 1.5mn new podcast episodes in October. In terms of podcast hosts by episode share, 29.5% of them were hosted with Spotify; Spreaker is at #2 with 18.5%; and Buzzsprout is at #3 with 10%. In the top ten, heritage brands Podbean (#4) and Libsyn (now #9) posted their lowest-ever numbers for the fifth month in a row. Transistor overtook Libsyn to a record high; RSS
.com (who overtook Libsyn last month) and Simplecast are also on record highs. - Oct 2, 2025: Livewire published its podcast hosts by episode share data for September, based on all 1.5 million episodes published that month. At #2, Spreaker jumped from 15.2% to a record 17.1% (they’re the company Inception Point AI uses for its wholly AI-generated shows); the #3 Buzzsprout saw a record share of 10%. Simplecast (#6), RSS
.com (#7), Transistor (#9) and Captivate (#10) are also sitting on record highs. However elsewhere in the top ten, heritage brands Podbean (#4) and Libsyn (#8) posted their lowest-ever numbers. - Oct 2, 2025: Livewire published its podcast hosts by episode share data for September, based on all 1.5 million episodes published that month. At #2, Spreaker jumped from 15.2% to a record 17.1% (they’re the company Inception Point AI uses for its wholly AI-generated shows); the #3 Buzzsprout saw a record share of 10%. Simplecast (#6), RSS
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