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• Edison Research at SSRS released the Top 50 Podcasts in the US for Q2 2026. bill simmons podcastWhich is now streaming on Netflix, has jumped 17 places to enter the top 25 for the first time. British podcast the rest is history Entered the top 50 for the first time. (SimpleCast Host 17, MegaFon Host 16, OmniStudio 4, ART19 and AudioBoom 3, FlightCast, Acast, Blueberry, Libsyn, WNYC and WideOrbit 1)

• Even though Netflix won’t reveal how well its podcasts have performed, one clearly has done well: The Rest Is Football has been renewed by Netflix for the next Premier League season.

• “No categories for videos. Or ads. Or AI.” That’s the title of the NYC Podcast Awards, now open for entries. Entries for the second season of the awards start at just $75.

• PodcastPilot is a new tool to help record multicam podcasts – providing a ready-made, synced timeline for Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut, each taking an hour off production. The app’s developers are looking for testers for the software, which runs on any Apple Silicon Mac.

• The SONARR Awards in Australia have announced their 2026 judges.

• PressLaunch, a press release distribution network for podcasters, has launched: and it’s free until mid-August (after which it will cost $59). It sends your release to verified media contacts, adds it to an RSS feed and publishes it online. (Submitting your news to Podnews is always free).

• Hilite is a new audio editor within your browser that aims to make it easier to start podcasting – it lets you edit audio as if it’s a text document, enhance the audio, and even includes a podcast hosting service. The tool was known as Shanda Studio, launched by Dumi Mabena and Paul Kassar, and has been in development for just over three years.

  
  

• PodToBook.ai, a platform that turns podcasts into books, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. Since its launch, it has published over 100 books.

• Guardian BBC podcast highlights buried. This is what a host of the show says His home has been targeted as a result of his reporting … sportspro There is a paid article about Goalhanger that is probably worth reading if you want to pay for it

• Happy 7th Birthday to Tink Media.

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• “Forget streaming payments. Streaming payments won’t work. It’s over.” I am speaking Podcasting 2.0 This week on the Podcast, Adam Curry and Dave Jones said they would be shutting down the podcast index “Lightning Node” because it was costing more to run than it was earning, and urged podcasters to focus on a cleaner, simpler way of support. podcast:funding tag. As of today, Podnews has a simple, clean payments page through Stripe linked to the funding tag of our RSS feed.

• Podbean is the latest podcast host to offer what it describes as “HLS video information in the podcast RSS feed” – which we assume is support for the optional enclosure, which allows compatible podcast apps to access the video version.

• In BuzzSprout’s implementation of video podcasting: the company’s “magic mastering” still runs on the audio version, with dynamic compression and background noise cleanup still applied to the audio. We’ve seen dramatically different audio quality in shows that have switched to full-time video; We suggest this is a good thing for any podcast hosting company to consider.

• Drea is the latest iOS podcast app that promises to remove ads. it’s free; It downloads episodes to your phone, and uses both cloud LLM and audio fingerprinting to figure out where the ads are. This is the first ad-removal tool we’ve discovered that correctly removes host-read ads on our daily shows without any false positives: which is impressive. In our tests, the app is using a user-agent to pretend it’s Apple Podcasts. Podcasts/4025.610.1So it would be almost impossible to block it (unless we start considering some kind of request signing by apps). “I wanted to eliminate the possibility of the podcast host/distributor being able to identify which download requests are coming from my app, so that they can’t block them,” the developer told us.

• In July 2025, Felix Wolf published a thesis for his MSc on the topic of identifying advertisements in podcasts, which is published by the University of Hamburg. It used transcripts and machine learning – but only found 60% of the ads.

• Podkit is a new API for podcast search, metadata, chapters, and transcripts. It “launches at $15/month versus the $75+ fees of most competitors.” It also has a free tier, and it works with AI agents through MCP.

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Guest Christopher Balfe of Red Seat Ventures Channel with Peter Kafka – We’re told it’s “a broader conversation about where the manufacturer’s business is headed – and where value is actually being created.”

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