All the nominees for the podcast categories, including the new video categories.
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Exclusive: We’ve a full list of the podcast nominees for the 30th annual Webby Awards, before anyone else. For the first time, the awards have dedicated categories for video podcasts. iHeartMedia has sixteen nominees, Audible has ten; and both SiriusXM and Wondery have six nominees each. The winners ceremony will be on May 11.
Beehiiv is “making a push into podcasting”, says Semafor. For more information, we’ll be talking to Beehiiv’s CEO, Tyler Denk, in the Podnews Weekly Review this week for all the details - once the embargo has been lifted.
Branded podcasts are great - but once someone’s listened, they don’t necessarily connect with your brand until the next episode. Until now - JAR Replay launches today: a way to retarget those listeners again while they use other apps, to keep your brand and your message fresh in their mind.
Buzzsprout is rolling out a new addition to its “fan mail” service. Just by hitting a link in the show notes, your listeners can now record and send a voicemail. Try it here.
If you think there’s too much talking and noise in podcasting, then Thee Quaker Podcast has just released a whole hour of silence. Recorded in a historic Quaker Meetinghouse using a multi-mic spatial audio setup, it’s an hour of silent worship to disconnect from the noise of the internet.
A large pan-European broadcaster and podcast producer, Bauer Media Audio has launched its Rayo app on Android Automotive, into initial markets of the UK and Portugal.
Puerto Rican newsletter Tropical Podcasting has completed a three-part series on women in Spanish-language podcasting.
What is the history of video podcasts? Justin Jackson of Transistor highlights that video podcasts were demonstrated by Steve Jobs in October 2005; but Apple lost interest in video since 2012 - until now.
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Podseo, the SEO platform that shows podcasters which shows link to theirs in Apple’s “Listeners Also Liked” section, analyzed 263,859 active English podcasts using this unique dataset to reveal how recommendation algorithms actually work.
The encouraging finding: 56% of active podcasts don’t appear in any recommendations yet—you’re not behind. Apple’s 15-recommendation limit creates natural asymmetry: popular shows like “The Diary of a CEO” receive 4,000+ recommendations but can only recommend 15 back.
Using Podseo’s recommendation tracking data, we identified 149 distinct audience communities and discovered 35,218 podcast pairs that recommend each other—golden signals for collaboration. Podcasts in the same cluster share significant audience overlap, making guest swaps and feed drops substantially more effective than random outreach.
Podseo’s “referral podcasts” feature tracks your position in this hidden network in real-time, showing which podcasts recommend yours and helping identify collaboration opportunities that actually convert.
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