Podnews Weekly Review - Podcast ad revenue is increasing

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James is back from Europe; and we chat about why podcast ad spend is rising. Plus...

• Libsyn RSS namespace for ad slot availability and why it feels odd in public feeds
• Goalhanger’s newsletter strategy as a membership product and audience data hub
• smart TV growth for podcast consumption and why smart speakers still fail discovery
• Canadian in car listening data plus listener resistance to AI hosts
• AI agents clipping shows, MCP servers, and how micropayments could change access
• blocking scrapers with WAF rules and the limits of user agent based controls
• Spotify audiobooks expansion and the attention competition inside major apps
• human written certification for books and the wider provenance problem
• bot driven streaming fraud as a warning for future podcast monetisation
• app and hosting updates including transcripts, video tools, and evolving person tags

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