Podnews

James Cridland

Podnews is a daily update with global news for those involved in podcasting and on-demand audio. It launched in May 2017.


Podnews’s newsletter currently has 32,900 subscribers, and our website’s articles have been viewed 2,752,320 times over the past month. Get it free here. or see our news archive. Additionally, this story might be in the Podnews Daily podcast, which had a unique audience of 76,847 last month.


Podnews is read by senior podcasting industry management, including CEOs and divisional heads. Email subscriptions include users within:


  • podcast producers (eg PRX, BBC, ABC, Gimlet, NPR)
  • ad marketplace (eg Acast, AdvertiseCast, Triton Digital, Adswizz, Whooshkaa)
  • hosting companies (eg Libsyn, Buzzsprout, Blubrry, Omny Studio, Podbean)
  • advertising industry (eg Oxford Road, Veritone, Magellan AI, Ad Results Media)
  • others involved in the industry (eg Apple, Edison Research)
  • podcast listeners and fans


If your story was about a podcast, and it has a trailer, we might feature the trailer audio in our New Podcast Trailers podcast for a short while. If you need to grow your audience further, we’d also recommend our friends at Audiencelift.


Selected business stories are covered weekly in the Podcast Business Journal, which has 11,465 subscribers.

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Podnews is curated by James Cridland. With over 28 years in the radio and online business, in 2005 James helped launch the first daily podcast from a UK radio station and the world’s first radio station streaming app, and has been operating online publications since 1993. He offers a truly international view: a Brit, living in Australia, working for companies across the world including North America. This daily newsletter is a unique opportunity to contextualise the international podcast landscape.


James is an accomplished public speaker, and is available to speak or moderate at your next event.

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