Podcast Show London announces new speakers

• The Podcast Show London has confirmed new partners and speakers, including Gary Lineker and Jack Davenport from Goalhanger, and Alison Lomax from YouTube UK & Ireland. Also announced as speakers are the team from FlightStory Studio: the team behind Diary of a CEO, Begin Again, and We Need to Talk - who’ll take to the stage with a session called “The Creator Economy is Dead. Welcome to the Era of Creator Entrepreneurs”. Our Editor is also speaking, and you’ll be able to watch the Podnews Weekly Review record live on-stage at the end of the event.

  • The event has also announced many live podcasts, as part of the Podcast Show LIVE festival.
  • Code PODNEWS10 saves money on selected passes to the Podcast Show itself.

• Spotify was down for over five hours yesterday. “Spotify experienced an outage today beginning around 6:20am EDT. As of 11:45am EDT, Spotify is back up and functioning normally,” a spokesperson told Techradar, which live-tweeted the incident.

• Patreon announced live video which will roll out in the next few months. Creators can go live through the web, or via the Patreon mobile app. Podcasters earnt $472 million on Patreon last year, the company says. You can support Podnews on Patreon.

• Lex Friedman is running a paid webinar on Apr 30, called Close More Deals with Lex Friedman - we’re promised “bigger deals, better close rates”. Friedman was a chief revenue officer at multiple podcast ad sales companies. Podnews readers get $40 off with this secret link. Shh.

• Media budgets are on a decline, according to a number of indicators, says The Media Leader. Tariff uncertainty is to blame, according to the data.

• Libsyn has announced a 10,000 to 1 reverse stock split. In effect, this means that if you had less than 10,000 shares in Libsyn you no longer own shares, and will get $1.60 cash for each share you owned. The company was suspended from the stock market in Apr 2022 and has decided against re-listing.

• The beers are on Daniel Ek. Over the last three months, he’s sold more than $185mn worth of shares in Spotify. We’d love him to spend 0.000019% of that in becoming a gold supporter of Podnews.

Moves and hires

• Lisa Waks has been hired as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships at AdLarge and the fwd. network. She joins from Westwood One and Cumulus, TED and Scripps, and has been consulting for the company for six months.

Tips and tricks - with Memberful

• What does your podcast look like in Apple Podcasts? If you’re using an Android phone, you can still take a peek: because you can install Apple Podcasts on Android too.

Podcast News - with New Podcasts

Hustle culture doesn’t work in the long run - and in the Slow Living podcast, New York Times best-selling author Stephanie O’Dea teaches how to meet and exceed your personal and professional goals in a slow, steady, and sustainable way. You’ll learn simple steps to streamline and simplify your life; the latest episode is with Deanna Yates, whose family sold most of what they owned to travel the world while working remotely.

In How Much Can I Make?, the podcast talks to industry insiders about their jobs, what the work is really like, and how much they earn. This week it’s the turn of Joanna, a systems engineer working on a space mission. The show’s perfect for anyone exploring new career paths.

In What’s a Podcast? today, an interview with podcast pioneer Adam Carolla. He talks with Oxford Road’s Dan Granger about Audio Magic, Betting on Yourself, Podcasting’s Meritocracy, and more.

Adam Lang and Sean Aylmer, two hosts of the Australian business news podcast Fear & Greed are heading out on a three-day, 380km (235 mile) ride through the Australian outback, trying to raise money for a charity helping kids from rural communities. Just to add to the difficulty, neither of them are bike riders; and they plan to still present the podcast on the way.

You’ve spent your whole life feeling like something’s wrong with you. Here’s a radical thought: what if you’re not broken - just different? Different, Not Broken is a no-filter, emotionally intelligent, occasionally sweary podcast launching this week that challenges the idea that we all have to fit inside neat little boxes to be acceptable. Hosted by L2 (aka Lauren Howard), founder of LBee Health, this show dives into identity, autism, ADHD, gender, work, grief, anxiety and everything in between. There’ll be tears, side quests, and a whole lot of swearing.