Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Your subscribers shouldn't be someone else's email list. 🔒 Other platforms keep the keys to your audience—their payment info, their contact details, their loyalty. Supporting Cast hands them back 🔑. Build a business you actually own. A community to connect BIPOC creators through education, networking and partnerships, BIPOC Podcast Creators has announced that it is closing. The co-founders announced that the closure is partially driven by capacity and time constraints, but also reflects the structural challenges of sustaining community-driven work in the current content creator landscape. “The industry benefits enormously from communities like ours, but the infrastructure to sustain them long-term requires arduous work and significant financial investment. And frankly, it’s not enough to ask our creators to pay to make up this difference,” said co-founder Maribel Quezada Smith. VeePod has launched dynamic 3D branding for any video podcast, particularly useful for product placements and logos, as well as busy podcast publishers. The toolkit will be demonstrated at The Podcast Show later this month. Yesterday, we reported on what we called Spotify's "video lock-in". This story was based on screenshots of Podigee's implementation of Spotify's video distribution API, which we erroneously attributed to Spotify's own UX: we're happy to make that distinction clear. What's a little less clear is the extent of the lock-in. Spotify denies that creators are permanently "locked in" to using a Spotify API feed if they opt for video distribution in this way, though the company has confirmed that changing your feed back to RSS requires manual work from both the podcast hosting company and from Spotify itself. From others, we hear that this reversion process may remove comments, reviews, and video files from your podcast; and we also understand that following our story yesterday, Spotify has contacted all partners to clarify messaging about this process. Not that any of us would know - at least two podcast hosting companies have told us that the whole API is under a non-disclosure agreement, and that they are prohibited from speaking about it. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.Classifieds - your job or ad here🎯Are you getting new clients from your podcast?💰 — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth & listener to client conversion strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.Build an impactful podcast PR campaign — What is podcast PR, really? Learn how to craft relationship-driven campaigns (not cold pitches) with Arielle Nissenblatt & Kathryn Musilek. Real case studies — leave with a PLAN. May 14th, online.Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, Mowpod, The $100 MBA, The Podglomerate, Cloud10, Cohost, Sounds Profitable, Libsyn, RedCircle, Simplecast, Audiohook, audioBoom, Podscribe, PAVE Studios, The Content Creator's Accountant, Magid, Jar Podcast Solutions, Awesound, We Edit Podcasts, Acast, Podpage websitesSilver supporters: Audacia Audio, Gamut Podcast Network, Bumper, Goalhanger, Sounds Debatable, Nomono, Magellan AI, Ausha, The Podcast Haven, Jonekiri, Compliance Podcast Network, PodAnalyst, Red Seat Ventures, Frequency, Castbox, Locked On Podcast Network, Podcast Movement, Blubrry, Araeya Media, Podium , Voxtopica, Huberman Lab, SoundStack, Tink Media, Truefans, Companion Arts, ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Aust, The Roost, POW PR, Health Podcast Network, Headliner, Lemonada Media, Transistor, Rephonic, Sonic Influencer Marketing, Jam Street Media, Rhapsody Voices, CreatorX, Double Elvis Productions, Diversion Podcasts, Podcast Partnership, Content10x, Cleanfeed, Podigy, School of Podcasting, Adopter Media, Revolver Podcasts, Lower Street, Signal Hill InsightsOur supporters pay for Podnews, so everyone can read it. Join them today.