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Sam is the CEO of Truefans and the co-host of Podnews Weekly Review. Along with James Cridland, he talks with podcasters about their companies and career […]

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Threads saying the quiet part out aloud. They never cared about the Fediverse. It was a good way to get people to sign up and cheer them on. This is a typical Meta bait and switch strategy. Start open or promise open and then switch to their proprietary […]

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December 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
1/3 - This weeks episode of Podnews Weekly Review is out - it’s a bumper episode and early Christmas present, featuring over 26 Senior executives from the biggest companies in podcasting giving their highlights of 2025, and their predictions for the year […]

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December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@seth Thank you
December 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
2/2 - TrueFans Hosting

We have also overlay the chapter time markers and descriptions so when you hover over the chart you can see where in the episode people drop off or listen more.

We are still in the testing phase before release. Our goal is to show creators the number of plays, listen […]
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December 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
1/2 TrueFans Hosting

When you host with TrueFans we stream podcast episodes in 6 second batches to all apps. It means we know exactly how long people listen and when people stop listening. This is how we plot this NEW consumption chart below.

There is a […]

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December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
YouTube and TikTok marketing have misappropriated the word 'Podcast' as short hand to mean any chat show format, often with two talking heads, be it audio, video or live. And the critical determinant of a podcast is that it can be "distributed everywhere" and that requires RSS.

Sadly I fear the […]
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December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal

YouTube is to let creators on the video platform choose to receive payouts in PayPal’s stablecoin.

The feature is live and, as of now, it only applies to users in the U.S. /cc @dave @james […]
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December 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs /cc @dave @james

https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debuts-ai-personalized-podcasts-to-hook-younger-listeners/
December 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub /cc @dave

https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap
Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
Fallout from Fallout.
www.theverge.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So near yet so far

Triton Digital’s Omny Studio announced support for video podcasting. It’ll let you produce an RSS feed with video, and automatically produce an audio RSS feed from it if you need that; and dynamically-inserted ads will come soon, we’re told. This is in addition to using […]
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December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
hey @merryoscar - well done for the launch of fountain video hosting.

Just to let you know we tested your new video hosting and the good news is worked on TrueFans.

Link:
https://truefans.fm/tftc-a-bitcoin-podcast/69305256bd34be429a53554a

We are a few […]

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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
1/3 - In Podnews Weekly Review, our special guests are Kendall Breitman talking about Riverside's new podcast hosting service and Russell Harrower telling us all about PodToo's new Cloud Infrastructure Service.

1. Riverside announced the launch of its […]

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November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
1/2 - TrueFans Hosting.

Today TrueFans took one step closer to opening the doors to our new hosting service.

Now in your creators dashboard you can see:

1. The total storage size for the episode you uploaded #transparency

2. The amount of data we […]

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November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
1/3 - ANNOUNCEMENT: TrueFans Hosting has launched.

I am very excited to announce TrueFans is ready to launch our new hosting service. We have been working on this for a while.

TrueFans is turning podcast hosting on its head. TrueFans has built the […]

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November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
1/3 Just pre-ordered these two new books coming out in November.

The first is "Notes on Being a Man" by Scott Galloway - 5th Nov.

The lack of attention to the growing masculinity crisis has created a void which is now being dangerously filled by the […]

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November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
When will Alby make topping up my Alby Hub simple. The whole process is so jargon based and geeky. Not something normal people will understand or trust. It feels like it just for the Bitcoin bros. Complexity is failed simplicity.
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Finally turned in Spotify Lossless Audio and Video. Was the wait worth it Let’s see if this makes any difference.
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
1/4 - On this week's Podnews Weekly Review, we talk about:

1. Does podcast advertising really work? Most people skip the ads when they can but advertisers still keep paying, even when they don't know who listened to their adverts and don't know how long […]

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October 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm thinking about Podcast SEO in an AI world.

SEO = Search Engine Optimisation
GEO = Generative Engine Optimisation

It made me wonder if we need to use JSON-LD markup in our app to help Google discover like they do with Product Snippets.

So we use […]

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October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Netflix Inks Deal With Spotify to Stream Video Podcasts. Spotify video podcasts will soon appear on Netflix.

The two companies have announced a partnership to bring a select number of podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix’s platform […]

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October 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I have just finished an interview with @ChadF

We spent time discussing the issues and concerns he currently has with podcasting 2.0 micropayments, wallets and protocols.

This interview will be on this Friday's Podnews Weekly Review.

@adam @dave @james
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Why are Spotify running recruitment ads for ICE??? Time to leave. Left TikTok after IDF ownership. Mastodon maybe the only FREE social media space left

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn75o7J/
October 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I am pleased to say TrueFans now supports the following Lightning methods in the Value Tag - Keysend, LNAddress and SecureRSS (L.402) as well as Direct to Node for all podcasts

/cc @james @adam @dave
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1/3 - On this weeks Podnews Weekly Review our special guest is Rox Codes the co-founder of Flightcast, a new video first podcast host, built with Steven Bartlett.

They have taken the tools that built The Diary Of A CEO, and turned them into a software platform you can use.
October 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM