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3 US presidents walk in to a room... the latest from podnews.net with Podcastle: create, edit, publish and grow.

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Do you guys have an apparatus, a mechanism whereby you can contact one another like this without anybody connecting to that phone?

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It's called a smartphone. Do you have one of these?

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3 US presidents unite on an episode of SmartLess available today. Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes were joined by presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton in New York City.

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The episode was available early on Amazon Music and Wondery Plus, the show switches to Sirius XM later this year.

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In the UK the true crime awards took place, the BBC's Vishal took two awards for best podcast community and impact for change with a list of all the winners linked from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.

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Red Circle has seen a 38% growth in downloads since announcing Open Wrap, a scalable technology for host read ads.

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A BBC presenter has had her likeness cloned for an ad for insect repellent. The advertiser appears to have been the target of a scam.

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With YouTube booming, podcast creators get camera ready according to the New York Times, and Buzzsprout has made improvements to its Buzzsprout ads product, allowing advertisers to approve individual podcasts.

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Time for some tech stuff, and Pocket Casts has added support for Websub and Podping so new episodes should appear almost instantly as soon as you published them from a Websub or Podping compatible podcast host.

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"Got bored" says Ryan Morrison on LinkedIn "and decided if I could make a podcast player in an evening". He did, it's called Podplaza, it's in PHP and JavaScript and we link to the code today.

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Is Apple's Messages app the new podcast player? Not really, but it does play podcasts. If you send somebody on messages, a link to a podnews news page, for example,

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and it'll render with the image, the headline and a little audio button which when pressed plays the linked audio and it looks quite neat.

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It uses the OpenGraph audio meta tag which is supported in the Messages app on iPhone and Mac OS. Captivate has rolled out support for it, Podpage also supports it for any podcast episode page as do we.

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And in podcast news, Global's The Sports Agents is now sponsored by Tesco Mobile, the company has announced the sponsorship last six months. The show which launched in February already has over a million downloads but a few more wouldn't matter because every little helps.

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Gloriously Unready, back for a new season today from Charlotte Foster Podcasts, aims to bridge the gap between public perception and the private struggles and victories of transgender people. The show was shortlisted in the Independent Podcast Awards last year

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and Candy is Dandy. The Candy Review podcast is approaching its two year anniversary. The show that has covered candies from Snickers to Toblerone and peach rings. It's a show that gives a candy's history and a review.

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They're aiming to test more international candy so let's hope they can manage a Kinder Surprise without suffocating from the "too dangerous for America" toy inside.

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Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast called New Podcast Trailers and we're sponsored by Podcastle. Create, edit, publish and grow your podcast all in one collaborative AI powered platform.

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Make your voice heard with Podcastle. You'll find a link in the show notes. And that's the latest from our newsletter to read all the stories and subscribe we're at podnews.net.

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