The Frontier

Andrew Goldsmith, Mike Wooler, and Craig Eastwood launched Everywhere to monetize creators across audio, video, social, and live events. The company functions as a commercial sales house taking a revenue share rather than charging agency commissions.

Caloroga Media developed Linnet, an AI-powered production studio currently in closed beta. James Cridland explains the platform handles everything from script writing and music mixing to video editing and hosting uploads.

James Cridland highlights a significant year-over-year decline in monthly traffic for top networks in Podtrack's August ranker. NPR dropped 15 percent, iHeart lost 15 percent of its audience and 20 percent of downloads, and Libsyn fell 50 percent.

James Cridland refutes claims that most podcasts are dead. While a marketing survey of 20,000 feeds showed high inactivity, a full search of the Podcast Index shows 20 percent of its 4.7 million feeds updated within the past year.

The Twit podcast network transitioned its hosting from self-managed Cashfly bandwidth to Triton Digital's DAX. James Cridland explains this transition enables Twit to directly manage dynamic ad insertion across its catalog for the first time.

Acast appointed Liv Sandberg as European regional leader, uniting its European operations under a single head. Sandberg, who previously ran TikTok in the Nordics, is scheduled to start her role in early 2027.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, who oversees Pocket Casts, has been placed on mandatory administrative leave by the board of directors. Mark Davies will step in as interim CEO following Mullenweg's recent legal disputes and staff departures.

Airwave is expanding its executive team by hiring Sam Hofnagel as VP of Revenue Operations and Jim Lally as VP of Partnerships. The network plans to transition all of its sales operations in-house by the end of the year.

The search for the oldest active podcast host reveals Dominic Chianese, who is 95 years old and 26 days older than fellow 95-year-old host William Shatner.

Goalhanger's live event, The Rest is Fest, sold 26,000 tickets, showing the strength of the UK live market. The publisher also claimed three of the top five spots in Edison Research's Q2 UK podcast ranker.

Apple announced the folding book-style iPhone Duo, priced at $1,999, set for release on October 23. The company also introduced a Siri Recap feature for Apple Watch that continuously records audio to summarize a user's day.

Apple launched an upgraded embeddable web player that supports video playback and progressive streaming. James Cridland notes that while it reports analytics to hosts, plays from this player will not populate in Apple Podcasts Connect.

Red Seat Ventures integrated Barometer's contextual analysis technology directly into its hosting platform. This allows advertisers to target specific episode topics across the platform's 40 hosting clients.

Sam Sethy announced that TrueFans is testing Network Pages, a feature allowing creators to build collaborative, genre-specific networks. Creators can invite others based on location or genre to aggregate metrics and negotiate larger ad deals.

Stripe launched Profiles, a landing page system resembling PayPal.me. The platform allows peer-to-peer connection to bypass traditional card fees, presenting a potential funding option for podcasters using funding tags.