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"Hot Pod" is on hiatus. The latest from podnews.net with Podcastle. Create, edit, publish and grow.

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"Hot Pod", one of the longest-running newsletters about podcasting, is to suspend publishing.

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Lead reporter Ariel Shapiro has announced that her last week, with its owner,

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the Verge, will be next week. Deputy Editor Jake Kastrenakes adds,

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"We won't have a new writer in place by next week, so we're planning to put 'Hot Pod'

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on hiatus while we figure out the next steps." The publication's writers, Ariel Shapiro,

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Ashley Carman and Nick Quah, have been a vital part of the industry since 2014,

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and inspired podnews to produce this daily newsletter in 2017. We hope the publication's back soon.

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"So in October last year, Steven posted on LinkedIn that he had ambitions to launch a podcast network,

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which was really an open call for anyone to contact him that felt they could add value to

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the podcast media industry, and I think it was about 1am that Georgie and I saw it,

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and we just WhatsApp'd one another, and we pulled together an email that I guess summarised a little

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bit about us, and then you can imagine our surprise when a couple of days later, because we included a

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hyperlink to schedule a meeting yourself, and a couple of days later, I was in a co-working

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space with Georgie and I must say I screamed."

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The Podnews Weekly Review this week has an

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interview with Georgie Holt and Christiana Brenton of Steven Bartlett's new company Flight Studio,

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plus an Indian podcast app and a news sales company based in New York. You'll find the

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Podnews Weekly Review wherever you found this podcast. The Podcast Standards Project met

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recently in Los Angeles. Sam Sethi was made Chief Evangelist. The group has been meeting regularly

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since its launch. Podnews will help with press coverage, but won't be in the group to allow

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discussions to be made without the press being present, because who wants that? Your paid for

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Substack podcast is now available to listeners using Spotify, the companies have announced. It's

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part of Spotify Open Access, which brings premium podcast content from across the web to Spotify

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users. At an awards event last night in a foggy Toronto, Quill was one of the winners of the

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Canadian Business Innovation Awards 2024. Congratulations to Fatima and her team. The

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awards celebrate trailblazing companies that are pushing their industries forward and challenging

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the status quo. Details of the 2024 IAB podcast upfront have been released. The invite-only event

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is in New York and online on May 9. The shortlist for the publisher podcast awards have been

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announced. Winners will be announced on June 12 in London, and in a good idea, each award category

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has a playlist to listen to the nominations. Acast has posted four takeaways from Podcast

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Movement Evolutions, and can you help a study for the University of Amsterdam? Chance Dorland

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is investigating how users perceive the features of different social audio platforms for an academic

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paper on how such features lead to distinct user experiences. He's looking for about an hour of

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your time. There's a link in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. And in podcast news,

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We Disrupt This Podcast is a new show from the Peabody Awards in partnership with the Centre for

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Media and Social Impact, focusing on industry disruption through some of today's most powerful

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and compelling television narratives and talking to the critically acclaimed creatives who are

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reimagining the world and tackling the big issues that move us forward. And the apple and the tree

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is a brand new podcast series launched today celebrating the universal truths, secrets, joys,

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and pain between a parent and their child. Each episode invites listeners into the hearts and

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homes of a different family as they sit down to discuss something they've rarely, if ever,

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approached before. It's hosted by Vogue Williams and is a DMG media production.

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Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast called New Podcast Trailers,

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and we're sponsored by Podcastle. Create, edit, publish, and grow your podcast all in one collaborative

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