{"podcast":{"title":"Podnews Weekly Review","slug":"podnews-weekly-review-1333070","podcast_index_feed_id":1333070,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1538779.rss","website_url":"https://podnews.net","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/h0w7hpcbjj7237mrrbhi6dshp83v?.jpg","author":"James Cridland and Sam Sethi","episode_count":299,"summary":"The last word in podcasting news. Every Friday, James Cridland and Sam Sethi review the week's top stories from Podnews; and interview some of the biggest names making the news from across the podcast industry. Winner, \"Best Podcasting Podcast\", 2025 Ear Worthy Awards Support the show at https://weekly.podnews.net - or hit the boost button! Sponsored by Buzzsprout: start podcasting - keep podcasting!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T12:22:05.332394+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podnews-weekly-review-1333070"},"episode":{"title":"Spotify's new features; and why did BIPOC Podcast Creators close?","slug":"spotify-s-new-features-and-why-did-bipoc-podcast-creators-close","published_at":"2026-05-29T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podnews-weekly-review-1333070/spotify-s-new-features-and-why-did-bipoc-podcast-creators-close","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podnews-weekly-review-1333070","url":"https://op3.dev/e/www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/19257420-spotify-s-new-features-and-why-did-bipoc-podcast-creators-close.mp3","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/19257420-spotify-s-new-features-and-why-did-bipoc-podcast-creators-close.mp3","summary":"Send James and Sam a message or voicemail We pick apart Spotify’s investor-day announcements and ask what its AI-first roadmap means for podcast creators, monetisation, and trust. We also talk to the co-founders of BIPOC Podcast Creators about why the community is closing and what the industry loses when creator support dries up. • Spotify’s “time well spent” metric and what it tries to reframe • The “500 million video podcast” claim and why measurement matters • Real-time ...","meta_description":"Send James and Sam a message or voicemail We pick apart Spotify’s investor-day announcements and ask what its AI-first roadmap means for podcast creators,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5753,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/podnews-weekly-review-1333070/episodes/spotify-s-new-features-and-why-did-bipoc-podcast-creators-close/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podnews-weekly-review-1333070/spotify-s-new-features-and-why-did-bipoc-podcast-creators-close.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}