Newsletter service Substack is the latest free podcast host

Newsletter service Substack is the latest free podcast host

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!-- LINKCHECK|20230830|403|https://www.reddit.com/r/Earwolf/comments/k8yquh/hollywood_handbook_and_chef_kevin_announced/|| --> There’s a new, free, podcast host in town - newsletter service Substack is now allowing creators to host paid and free podcasts. There is no cost to host a free podcast. We’ve added Substack to our podcast hosts page, and this Github repo. Patreon and Acast announced a collaboration last month.

The Tech Stuff - with the Podcast Index

  • The new “podcast” namespace is now used in almost 100,000 feeds - 97,458 across 7 different hosting platforms, with two more hosting companies currently committin g developer time to implementing it. These stats were gathered from the Podcast Index database and cross-verified against the public hosting feed stats at ListenNotes.

  • Wish your listeners would just slow down for a minute? There is a new proposal for the “podcast” namespace chapters format to include an optional “speed suggestion” within a chapter. This would be a way for podcast apps which allow faster playback speeds to slow down to normal speed during certain segments (like intro and outro music) so as not to distort them.

  • AntennaPod now integrates with PodcastIndex as a search provider.

  • The proposed “location” tag in the “podcast” namespace has undergone significant revision over the past two weeks, and now has broader consensus toward adoption.

  • Benjamin Bellamy wrote an article about how to record a podcast with multiple remote guests using Linux.

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