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Media (14)

• James Cridland says French audio has become a mass-market medium, with 58% of people reporting that they start content on one platform and finish it on another, a pattern Audion and YouGov describe as liquid content.
• James Cridland says Podpoll 26 found that 72% of Australians move between audio and video, and that men and women both prefer listening to podcasts.
• Mike Hurley says Design in California launched on June 2 with a $40,000 Kickstarter goal and raised $311,000 from more than 3,400 backers in a month. It funded in an hour and passed $100,000 within a day.
• Mike Hurley credits Relay’s decade-long relationship with an engaged Apple audience, launch timing around Apple events, and established trust for the campaign’s reach. Consultant Glenn Fleishman advised on campaign presentation and rewards, including member discounts that Hurley says worked well.
• Mike Hurley says Kickstarter proceeds cover platform and consulting fees, physical rewards, editing, image licensing, research, and fact-checking. The show will retain advertising, while Relay continues to earn through both ads and memberships.
• Mike Hurley says Relay had stopped launching shows because adding more titles brought less return and more complexity. The Kickstarter campaign offers a selective way to fund a new show, but he says it will not work for every project or every pair of hosts.
• Flightcast lets publishers transfer existing YouTube catalogs to Spotify and potentially monetize them through Spotify’s program. James Cridland says eligibility depends on audience scale and the feature costs $100 per month.
• James Cridland says The Diary of a CEO became YouTube’s most-subscribed podcast and passed one billion views that year. A quarter of a billion views used non-English audio tracks, showing the reach of multilingual versions.
• Sam Sethi praises the Independent Podcast Awards and highlights a 97-year-old host whose War Hall: A Theatre of the Mind explores wartime dance halls. The overall winner was Maria Passingham’s Great Days Out on the Bus.
• Sam Sethi says Buzzsprout’s starter kit turns a few answers about a podcast idea into name suggestions, a description, cover art, and categories. James Cridland says RSS.com has gathered free podcasting courses into a searchable learning center with completion certificates.
• James Cridland says RSS.com added listener voicemail that sends creators an email when feedback arrives. Parasocial, a podcast app, added inline, full-screen, and picture-in-picture video playback across Apple devices.
• James Cridland says podcast feeds are being copied across hosting services, including about 1,700 shows at Spreaker. Podcast Index published daily look-alike-feed data; more than 290 of the top 500 flagged feeds were on Spreaker.
• James Cridland says PodProtect, created by Lisa Lacey, monitors podcasts for unauthorized copies and impersonation, with sign-up options for individual shows and networks.
• Sam Sethi says TrueFans is adding live HLS support and a radio page, extending its audio and video service with live streams.

Social Media (2)

• Sam Sethi cites Adam Mosseri’s case for recommendation feeds, while James Cridland says following still matters and algorithms can help people find relevant industry content. Cridland links Australia’s proposed algorithm-free social media option to political pressure and argues the rule could weaken Instagram.
• Sam Sethi says Meta is now offering some YouTubers up to $500,000 to post videos on Instagram, despite Adam Mosseri previously saying the platform would not pay for full-content podcast exclusives.

Models (2)

• James Cridland says Muse.ai has launched an AI-generated education podcast, raising the prospect of automated shows competing with human-made work. Cridland accepts short, narrowly scoped automated updates but objects to AI replacing substantial human creative work.
• James Cridland notes the launch of a faith-based chatbot trained only on the King James Bible, making biblical text its sole information source.

Agents (2)

• Triton Digital completed an automated audio-ad purchase in which AI agents found inventory, negotiated terms, and booked the campaign. Sam Sethi says coordination took minutes rather than days; James Cridland argues lower transaction costs should support higher ad prices, not more ad clutter.
• James Cridland describes SpotsNow’s free SuperAgent as a tool for podcast ad buyers and sellers: it can find shows for a target audience and build a campaign plan, using the company’s MCP server.

Coding (2)

• Sam Sethi and James Cridland distinguish AI-assisted coding from AI-generated creative work: Sethi uses Claude Code to diagnose performance issues, while Cridland uses AI to extend SQL queries but wants humans to shape user experience.
• Sam Sethi says creators value publishing workflows that send edited video directly from tools such as Descript to YouTube, avoiding a download-and-upload step. He says TrueFans customers have asked for integrations with Descript and Riverside.

Enterprise (1)

• Sam Sethi says Microsoft, JPMorgan, and other banks have cut back on third-party AI over cost or productivity concerns. He says Revolut has stopped using Claude and third-party OpenAI tools and built its own NVIDIA servers and language models.

Open Source (4)

• Sam Sethi says publisher and network feeds can aggregate shows through RSS, letting apps such as TrueFans present a network’s catalog and combine audience activity to strengthen advertising deals. He describes network feeds as an established idea now gaining clearer structure.
• Mike Hurley describes Relay as an independent, technology-focused network that backs open RSS, puts audio first, runs its own publishing system, and sells ads in-house. He credits that independence with helping the company remain viable.
• James Cridland says the RSS lock tag can deter casual copying by preventing imports on services that honor it, though it cannot stop someone from downloading audio and copying a feed. He says the industry still needs a practical code of practice.
• Sam Sethi says a French hosting company objected to its customers’ shows appearing in TrueFans, although Sethi says the app indexed public RSS feeds and did not alter or redistribute them. After the company requested removal, Sethi removed all 126 shows, prompting complaints from their creators.

History (2)

• Mike Hurley says Design in California grew from a successful Apple-history episode on Upgrade. He and Jason Snell chose Kickstarter to pre-sell memberships and commit enough resources to make a researched, long-running show rather than launch a short trial.
• Mike Hurley says Design in California’s research has surfaced details unavailable in published histories: the Computer History Museum’s historian reviews scripts, and former Apple staff have supplied corrections and firsthand information about the iPod and Steve Jobs’s departure.

Big Tech (1)

• James Cridland argues Netflix is adding mobile short-form clips and podcasts because YouTube is taking attention from traditional streaming. He says Netflix has lacked a major hit and views the new features as a response to competitive pressure.

Privacy (1)

• James Cridland says Safari now blocks resolution infrastructure that combines browsing signals to infer household traits for advertising. He argues the change protects privacy and could favor services such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts, which have direct relationships with users.

Payments (1)

• Sam Sethi says TrueFans holds optional micropayments for unclaimed podcasts and notifies creators; if a creator does not claim the show within 30 days, the payment is returned. He also sees X402 as a payment layer suited to transactions between AI agents.

AI Infrastructure (1)

• James Cridland says AWS warned that one CloudFront distribution had reached 9,097,585 requests against a 10-million-request limit, without identifying which of his 15 distributions triggered the alert.

Nutrition (1)

• Sam Sethi says orange wine became fashionable after Michelin-style restaurants began serving it. The hosts also discuss the growth of alcohol-free drinks among younger consumers, while Cridland says Guinness 0% is alcohol-free.