Buzzsprout’s Review of the Year

• Buzzsprout has published its 2022 Year in Review, as a YouTube video. Adam Curry, Jake Shapiro, and our Editor all make an appearance; and there are plenty of links in the description. Recommended!

• Ashley Carman has also written a review of the year in her newsletter; as has We Edit Podcasts; while Pacific Content has published its annual forecast for podcasting in 2023, as has our current sponsor CoHost and Quill

• Spotify is showing off its LA studio complex, with plenty of pictures of the podcast studios in a blog post. Meanwhile, if you don’t spend the big bucks advertising on Spotify, this is what you’re missing.

• Adnan Syed has been hired by Georgetown University as a programme associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.

• Anypod is a search engine for your podcast. It seems to use semantic search to delve deep into content.

• Podchaser has rolled out a new privacy policy. It’s a complete rewrite of the former policy; notably, adding “we may also share your personal information with other companies within the Acast group”.

Have a great Christmas! See you on Monday.

Podcast ads in the wild

If you were watching Google carefully on Dec 1, you’d have seen the above Google Doodle celebrating the work of Gerald “Jerry” Lawson. There’s a video about him on Google, including the artwork, by Arthur Lin, from the Dorktales Storytime podcast episode about Jerry Lawson. Neat!