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- Nov 2: After our piece about Spreaker last week, which appears to be enabling its users to steal other podcasts to earn money, the weekly Podcast Index catalog snapshot (and our specific query for Spreaker shows) indicates that Spreaker has managed to clean up just 72 shows from its list. There are now 1,706 shows in Apple Podcasts from Spreaker that are also available on Apple Podcasts from another podcast hosting company; including podcasts originally from NRJ, History Hit, NBC News, Audacy, Vox Media and more. The iHeart-owned company appears to be doing little to clean up its act (hardly surprising: they earn 41% from the advertising they inject into stolen shows).
- Oct 27: Exclusive: Podcast hosting company Spreaker is, we believe, enabling wholesale copyright theft for podcasts - letting people copy other, well-known shows, host copies of them, and sell ads in the stolen audio. We discovered how easy it is to copy someone else's show on Spreaker; saw how few checks the company does to enable monetisation; and found that there are more than 1,700 shows duplicated on Spreaker at the moment, from publishers like PodcastOne, Vox Media, Goalhanger and SiriusXM. We have all the details in a special report.
- Oct 14: Vox Media has announced a partnership between Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Kara Swisher. It'll start with a special series, High Stakes, focused on the midterms, which releases today within On with Kara Swisher.
- Aug 25: Signings and launches: Vox Media Podcast Network launched Monday Music Club with Will Anderson. Each week, Anderson will explore the stories behind iconic songs, legendary artists, and the creative forces that have transformed music and culture ... HeadStuff Network added The Seán Chorus, a brand-new weekly podcast hosted by Cork-born ornithologist and wildlife sound recordist Seán Ronayne ... Amplitude Media Partners have signed the hit true crime podcast Criminology. The show is nine years old, and has more than 400 episodes.
- May 27: Supporting Cast has become, it claims, the first podcast subscription platform to deliver gated, subscriber-only podcast video on Spotify. The company launches the new feature with two shows - Libero, a football podcast, and Legacy, a history podcast. Partnerships with Goalhanger, Vox Media, Jim Harold's Campfire, Filmspotting and Betches Media will follow later this quarter.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter