Podcast Index
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Latest news
- Jul 11: Podcast Movement announced the first set of confirmed sessions for the event in Dallas next month. And - Podnews can add news of one more speaker: none other than the “podfather”, Adam Curry, who is returning to Podcast Movement thanks to SoundStack. The co-inventor of podcasting, the Podcast Index and Podcasting 2.0 will be on the company’s stage on August 19th.
- Jun 5: Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, which was removed from Spotify after he called for Dr Anthony Fauci’s beheading, is back on the platform after an almost five year ban. The show had remained on Apple Podcasts and the Podcast Index. It self-hosts. (Apple is now able to remove specific episodes from its directory; it wasn’t in 2020).
- Apr 15: Aaron McQuade writes: “PWAs dont get enough love, so I created a little web app for installing any podcast as an app on your phone.” The code is open source and uses Podcast Index.
- Mar 18: Michelle Obama’s new podcast is called IMO. EurWeb reports on a UK podcast called In My Opinion, the hosts of which are grumpy at the same name being used. They have trademarked the name - but only in the UK. The Podcast Index has 261 shows called “my opinion”, 75 shows called “in my opinion”, and 30 called “IMO”.
- Jan 31: PodcastOne is to switch hosting to Amazon’s ART19. It had been using the relatively unknown Nox Solutions as a podcast host. The Podcast Index suggests Nox Solutions hosts around 1,277 shows - 1,077 of which are with PodcastOne and Launchpadone.
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