When Algorithms Pull The Plug On Creators - the YouTube Faustian Pact

About this episode

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James and Sam look into this week's podcasting news, including the show pulled by YouTube. • YouTube removing a top podcast with no warning, then reinstating it  • The risk of building a show on third-party platforms and automated enforcement  • Why we think a podcast needs an RSS feed to be a podcast  • YouTube reportedly paying creators to avoid Netflix and the coercion angle  • Newsletters as the best real estate in podcasting and why platforms are piling in  • Acast partnering with Kit versus all-in-one creator platforms like Beehive  • Spotify Megaphone issues affecting ad campaigns and DAI reliability  • Podbean analytics filters mistakenly wiping Apple Podcasts downloads  • The whack-a-mole problem of bots, crawlers, and imperfect measurement  • Podcast 2.0 building blocks gaining traction: person tags and location tags  • Podcast Radar as a map-based discovery tool and why rich location data matters  • Threads experimenting with transcript-synced audio posts  • Listener mail on Megaphone support and hosting fit  Support the show Connect With Us:  • Email: weekly@podnews.net • Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcas