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Acast Launches Smart Recommendations: AI-Powered Podcast Ad Planning

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

Acast, the world’s largest independent podcast company, today announces the launch of Smart Recommendations — an AI search engine that allows advertisers to find their perfect podcast audiences in seconds, simply by describing who they want to reach. Its aim is to supercharge how podcast advertising is bought and sold, making campaign planning faster, smarter and more effective.
BBC Sounds and Crossed Wires podcast festival strike major partnership to program extensive free Fringe line-up

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

Press Release · May 29 2025BBC Sounds and Audible have joined forces with Crossed Wires, the UK’s biggest podcast festival, taking place in Sheffield between 4th-6th July 2025. All weekend, fans will be able to attend special live shows featuring some of the BBC’s most popular podcasts and radio programmes, including Football Daily, Newscast and Evil Genius with Russell Kane – all of which will be recorded for BBC Sounds.
Acast’s Smart Recommendations launched for ad buyers

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

3:28 Acast has launched its first AI-powered tool (that’s Acast Intelligence to you): Smart Recommendations, an AI-powered podcast ad planner. The tool takes natural language to allow advertisers to turn a desire to reach, for example, “men living in capital cities in Australia interested in craft beer” into a curated set of podcasts to advertise in.
Anne of the Island - Librivox

1 week ago | podnews.net | L.M. Montgomery |Karen Savage

Keep up to date with Podnews for podcasting news, jobs and events every day Podcast GUID: d49e3cdd-37e5-51fd-9c08-0b027d8665ffThis podcast doesn’t have a trailer. Apple Podcasts has a specific episode type for a trailer, which also gets used by many other podcast apps: but there isn’t one correctly marked in the RSS feed from the host. The main podcast description seems quite short.
Quill Announces Winners of the 2025 Quill Podcast Awards

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

Press Release · Chicago, IL, USA · May 28 2025After thousands of nominations, votes, and a final judging round led by industry leaders, Quill, a podcast agency specializing in branded podcasts, is proud to announce the official winners of the 2025 Quill Podcast Awards. Now in its fifth year, the Quill Podcast Awards celebrate excellence across the podcasting industry, from independent creators to branded content.
New LiSTNR documentary podcast exposes shocking truths about Australia's fertility industry

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

Press Release · May 28 2025What lengths would you go to have a child? Would you be comfortable finding sperm on Facebook? How would you feel finding out you might have 700 siblings? The latest season of the award-winning Secrets We Keep podcast, By Any Means, dives into the ‘wild west’ of the fertility industry, unpacking the ethical dilemmas and personal stories behind sperm donation, egg donation, and surrogacy.
PodSummit YYC 2025: Canada’s Podcast Event Returns to Calgary This September!

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

Press Release · May 28 2025PodSummit is set to bringing together the brightest minds and most innovative voices in Canadian podcasting on September 19th - 20th, 2025, at The Grand in Calgary, Canada. This two-day event promises to be a transformative experience for podcasters of all levels, from seasoned professionals to newcomers eager to dive into the world of audio storytelling.
Is better video podcasting coming to open RSS?

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

3:20 Is better video podcasting coming to independent podcast apps? In a post on LinkedIn, The Podcast Standards Project says that it’s been discussing a better solution for supporting video using open RSS. The solution overcomes many of the issues highlighted by our Editor in a personal blog post last year; it might even allow dynamically-inserted video advertising, too, and it can also provide better consumption data, while being significantly cheaper to serve than existing examples.
Podsqueeze Launches New AI Clip Generator to Compete with Opus Clips

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

Podsqueeze, the bootstrapped Portuguese company focused exclusively on serving the podcasting industry, has just launched its new AI Clip Generator, designed to help podcasters instantly identify and repurpose the most engaging moments from their episodes. The new tool uses proprietary AI to automatically detect 5 to 10 top-performing clips from both video and audio-only podcast episodes.
New York Festivals 2025 winners announced

1 week ago | podnews.net | James Cridland

4:34 The New York Festivals Radio Award winners were announced for 2025., which include podcasts as well as radio shows. Broadcaster of the year was CBC/Radio-Canada. The Lever’s investigative podcast Master Plan was awarded the prestigious National Press Club Award. Nick Quah chats with YouTube’s Tim Katz (“a vice-president who oversees partnerships across different sectors — news, civics, health, education, kids’ content — including, now, podcasts.”).