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Buzzsprout has launched video distribution to Apple Podcasts. The company is charging $30/month for plans that include video (down to $25/month when billed annually); the plan allows up to 6 hours a month of content to be uploaded. The new pricing page also includes a multi-podcast plan; all plans come with transcript generation. Buzzsprout doesn’t, yet, support Spotify video.
- We believe Buzzsprout is the first podcast hosting company to make video on Apple Podcasts generally available. Hosting with other companies is either invite-only, or for enterprise clients.
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Magellan AI announced an expanded partnership with iHeartMedia to offer broadcast radio attribution to advertisers. The attribution will be available for advertisers working with iHeartMedia.
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The Parapod Podcast Awards, recognizing excellence across the rapidly growing paranormal podcasting community, have opened for submissions. You’ve until September to enter; the awards also announced four special honors for 2026.
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John Spurlock’s HLS Podcast Radar – a list of video podcasts available using the alternate enclosure (which Apple doesn’t, yet, support) notes that Flightcast has begun producing a number of video shows using the tag. It means that it only needs one open podcast RSS feed to deliver both audio and video.
- HLS video podcasting using alternate enclosures are supported by Transistor, Fountain, Disctopia, RSS
.com, Flightcast, and PeerTube. Playback is supported by apps like Fountain, Podcast Guru, Podcast Addict and Truefans.
The Podcast Index has launched a new API endpoint to allow podcast apps to upload the number of total followers of a feed, to enable better recommendations for all.
Livewire reports little movement in the “podcast hosting companies by new episode share” figures for April. The figures don’t include AI slopcasts, described as “text-to-speech” podcasts. The Adswizz tracker and the Podscribe tracker are both on a new record in terms of podcast trackers by total new episodes; and Livewire also publishes a list of podcast CDNs.
There has been a significant rise in downloads from web browsers again in April. Buzzsprout report 21.3% of their downloads came from web browsers in the month – up from 13% in March, and up from 8.7% year-on-year. Transistor, similarly, reports 21.4% of their downloads come from web browsers; up from 15.5% last month, and 5.7% a year ago. (AI scrapers often pretend they’re web browsers, which means that they’re difficult to block; and website owners everywhere are battling significant additional traffic).
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PODNEWS10. - And, another tip for The Podcast Show London – the best coffee: Redemption Roasters. A third of the company’s staff are former prisoners, being trained with the skills they need to gain secure employment. While the national reoffending rate is 38%, the known reoffending rate of the staff who work there is just 0%. It’s a three minute walk from the venue. There’s a beautiful/weird basement and a garden, too. And the coffee is excellent.
- Here’s a full list of every podcast app to get into.
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