As with any new year, so comes inevitable change, i.e things deciding to end things but also begin. This week we share stories on reviving the podcaster hall of fame, new podcasts and a few tales on how not everything lasts and the power of saying no.

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Live Facebook recording.

• Todd: CES show round up
  
  
• Podcaster’s Hall of Fame back on for 2022
  
  
• Podcasting hasn’t produced a hit in years! Welp.
  
  
• Spotify Studio team laid off, last day is Jan. 21.
  
  
• Is podcasting killing AM talk radio?
  
  
• Dana Carvey and David Spade are doing a podcast called Fly on the Wall, an inside look at SNL.
  
  
• Too busy (lazy) to podcast? Use AI. Bert Weiss to use synthetic voice to do promos, liners and podcasts.
  
  
• A new podcast of radio vets swapping stories, Radio Daze
  
  
• Is Facebook editing music out of your podcast?
  
  

Active listening

An interview can be used as a cheap and easy way to entertain your audience, but it requires your participation too to be done well. A question here and there doesn’t cut it.

• Blog Post: How I Use My Podcast’s Twitter Account As a Resource by Jen Thorpe
  
  
• PowerPress 8.7.9 is out now, mostly bug-fixes.
  
  
• Tell us why you should be Podcaster of the Month, submit under Other.
  
  
• Be sure to check out our Facebook Group.  Blubrry Facebook Group and all the other social media platforms. Look for blubrry or blubrry_podcasting.
  

When to say NO!

Question: I looked at my feed and my posts are being cut short and at the end, it has “This post originally appeared on (link to my website).” How do I turn that off?

Answer: It’s a setting in the Yoast SEO Plugin. Go to the SEO menu in your sidebar, click on “Search Appearance” and then click on the RSS tab. Blank out any boxes in there that have any code or text in them. Lastly, save your changes.

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Coming to you this week from the New Media Studio in Coldwater, Michigan and Mike Dell’s World Studio in Traverse City, Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team.

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