The Podnews report card: your views on podcast platforms

What type of podcast is most sellable? The answer is in Sounds Profitable this week, with Caila Litman looking through more Good Data. More than 4,100 people get Sounds Profitable every week - you should subscribe.

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• Today, Podnews is launching the first annual report card for the podcast industry. Requested by some of the platforms themselves, we’d like your views - as publishers or as listeners: what you like, and how they can improve. We’ll compile the results, and give comprehensive data to each of the podcast platforms. Please give your views here before Mar 1.

  • We’d also appreciate it if you’d share this with others. The more thoughts the better.

• New controls are coming to the Apple Podcasts app. According to users with the iOS 15.4 beta, you can filter episodes based on played, unplayed, downloaded or saved. You can also now browse by season. As with any features in beta, they might disappear before release.

• Dan Franks, co-founder of Podcast Movement, will be on The New Media Show today, live at 3pm EST, with Rob Greenlee and Todd Cochrane. You’ll be able to watch live.

• The finalists of the Shore Scripts fiction podcast contest have been published. The winners will be announced on Mar 5.

• After the company released the Black Podcast Listener Report last year, Edison Research is holding a networking session to get your feedback for the next report. It’s on Mon Feb 28.

  
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• Tyler Moody looks at the recent Podtrac data for publishers, and works out per-show numbers. We overlooked that this data also includes This American Life's total download figures for that one show: 12 million downloads in January.

• Tonight at 7pm ET, our Editor James Cridland will be on Podcasters Live, talking about industry trends in 2022 and international growth.

• Now - fill in our report card. We’d be very grateful.

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Jeff Vidler from Signal Hill Insights is in the latest Broadcast Dialogue podcast, talking about research about attitudes towards Joe Rogan and Spotify’s editorial policies.

In the CAVE: An Ethics Podcast is new today. The show explores the changing ethical questions that we face in contemporary life, from AI carrying out medical diagnoses, to how robots may change the way we live. From The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, it’s produced by Piccolo Podcasts.

The Great Fail returns for season two today. The show won “Best Entrepreneurship” in AdWeek’s Podcasts of the Year; it looks at the greatest success stories of the most prominent and prolific companies, brands, and people - and what led to their demise. If you love true crime and stories of massive failures, we’re told you’ll love it.