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- The world’s funniest podcast festival returns this October. With the largest lineup in the festival’s history, The Cheerful Yearful will take place from September 28 to October 28 in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Dublin and New York.
- Is video the future of podcasting? It depends, writing for Podnews today, suggests Loch Moodley – the hidden economics of the price of visibility means you might consider calculating your own video limit: When does it make sense to add video so that it starts funding itself?
- In December 2024, the BBC World Service conducted an investigation into harmful health misinformation on Steven Bartlett’s podcast and focused on Thomas Seyfried’s claims. keep an eye on Flightstory reports that Diary of a CEO Thomas Seyfried is welcomed back in an episode released on July 16, which also serves to raise funds for Seyfried’s work. Seyfried claims that chemotherapy and radiotherapy are little better than medieval quackery, and that the real way to beat cancer is the ketogenic diet – claims that listeners could do significant harm to if they followed them without actual medical advice.
- Bartlett quietly announced a commitment to fact-checking on-screen in November 2025 – but, these notes are invisible to audio listeners, and there are no links to any documents in the podcast episode notes. In the YouTube video, there is a link marked "independent fact check"But it’s been truncated, and it doesn’t work.
- an article in The Sunday Times Yesterday noted that his show is close in size to Joe Rogan’s. Flightstory’s PR company told us this "Steven Bartlett’s CEO Diary received 86 million views in May, nearly three times more than the 35 million logged by Joe Rogan’s podcast over the same period. DOAC also added more than one million new subscribers during that window, while Rogan remained stable." Today’s iPaper also has a paid article by Nick Hilton, titled "How Steven Bartlet Fooled the World"Which highlights recent guests, questions his continued establishment acceptance, and notes that Bartlett has, curiously, turned off comments for his podcast on Spotify.
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