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Podnews Daily - podcast industry newsSpotify’s Maya Prohovnik: “you’re going to be thrilled”Sponsored by Magellan AI. Find out why CBC relies on Magellan AI for pod-to-pod attribution. Measure podcast growth
People are spending 44% more time looking at Spotify’s app than last year. “The demand for podcast audiences for video is undeniable at this point,” says Spotify’s Maya Prohovnik in an exclusive interview with the Podnews Weekly Review today. “For almost all shows who have switched from audio to video, they're making more total revenue,” she told us; and when questioned on claims earlier in the week that creators lose features when they switch to video, she told us: “I think that's...
2025-04-1804 min
Podnews Weekly ReviewSpotify video - we speak to Maya Prohovnik; plus Crossed Wires and podcast consumptionOur special guest this week is Maya Prohovnik, VP and Head of Podcast Products at Spotify, who joins James Cridland to share insights on Spotify's latest innovations and what’s next for podcasters on the platform.Meanwhile, industry leaders Dan Granger (Oxford Road) and Dan Misener (Bumper) have advocated for an Open Measurement Protocol for Podcasting—a call for interoperable, privacy-conscious standards and a unified taxonomy across platforms.In response, “friend of the show” John Spurlock joins Sam Sethi to introduce his proposed solution: Standard Podcast Consumption (SPC). This new data exchange format aims to facilita...
2025-04-182h 28Podnews Weekly ReviewSpotify video - we speak to Maya Prohovnik; plus Crossed Wires and podcast consumptionOur special guest this week is Maya Prohovnik, VP and Head of Podcast Products at Spotify, who joins James Cridland to share insights on Spotify's latest innovations and what’s next for podcasters on the platform.Meanwhile, industry leaders Dan Granger (Oxford Road) and Dan Misener (Bumper) have advocated for an Open Measurement Protocol for Podcasting—a call for interoperable, privacy-conscious standards and a unified taxonomy across platforms.In response, “friend of the show” John Spurlock joins Sam Sethi to introduce his proposed solution: Standard Podcast Consumption (SPC). This new data exchange format aims to facilita...
2025-04-182h 28
Podnews Daily - podcast industry newsVideo on Spotify slammed; claims rebuttedSponsored by Magellan AI. Did you miss our presentation at Evolutions by Podcast Movement last week? Download it here
“No clear audience gain ... unvetted, untested, and unproven proprietary metrics.” In a piece about video on Spotify, Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta writes: “In its current state, I urge the podcast industry not to take part in Spotify Video and Streaming Audio as it stands to have a massive and long-term negative revenue and reputational impact for those involved.”
Pointing us to a recent blog post from Megaphone (for whom Barletta briefly worked), Spotify said many claims were untrue and...
2025-04-1105 min
Podcasting 2.0Episode 196: Red Neck AirforcePodcasting 2.0 October 4th 2024 Episode 196: "Red Neck Airforce"
Adam & Dave Discuss the ups and downs of the 'industry' and add an appendix to the namespace!
ShowNotes
We are LIT
WNC Jet Fuel
Bitcoin for Podcasters Virtual Summit - Adam Curry and More - YouTube
1700 NA - Our secrets
AC's BBB Live December 16th Antone's
Jim Costello
IRC CLOUD
Questions to... Spotify's Maya Prohovnik
The Subprime AI Crisis
Funding Tag
Episodes.FM
Albyhub
2024-10-041h 27
Podnews Weekly ReviewSpotify's Maya Prohovnik; plus Ross Adams from AcastThe Acast study: https://podnews.net/press-release/consumerismRead Podnews for the full Spotify interview: https://podnews.net/Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net
2024-10-041h 18Podnews Weekly ReviewSpotify's Maya Prohovnik; plus Ross Adams from AcastThe Acast study: https://podnews.net/press-release/consumerismRead Podnews for the full Spotify interview: https://podnews.net/Send James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net
2024-10-041h 18
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | GrowthBuilding Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)Brought to you by Sidebar—Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Wix Studio—The web creation platform built for agencies | LinkedIn Ads—Reach professionals and drive results for your business—Maya Prohovnik is currently Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product. She was employee #1 at Anchor, which was acquired by Spotify in 2019 and now powers more than 80% of all new podcasts created in the world. In 2023, Maya was named one of the Most Important People in Podcasting by The Hollywood Reporter. In today’s episode, we discuss:• How Maya operationalizes “dogfooding”• How to balance data-driven...
2023-09-281h 07
Podnews Weekly ReviewBuzzsprout's Alban Brooke tells us all about their new mid-roll ads platform. Spotify describe RSS as “outdated technology." while claiming they will reach one billion listeners by 2030 and generate US$100 billion in revenue.Special GuestAlban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout. Buzzsprout the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads, letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue).We’re using them - automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads.Show Notes & LinksSpotify had an Investor Day last Wednesday.“Spotify share price slid 55% this year. Daniel Ek said Spotify would grow beyond music, increasing creator tools and moving into audiobooks. This growth, Ek predicted, would take the compan...
2022-06-1048 minPodnews Weekly ReviewBuzzsprout's Alban Brooke tells us all about their new mid-roll ads platform. Spotify describe RSS as “outdated technology." while claiming they will reach one billion listeners by 2030 and generate US$100 billion in revenue.Special GuestAlban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout. Buzzsprout the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads, letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue).We’re using them - automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads.Show Notes & LinksSpotify had an Investor Day last Wednesday.“Spotify share price slid 55% this year. Daniel Ek said Spotify would grow beyond music, increasing creator tools and moving into audiobooks. This growth, Ek predicted, would take the compan...
2022-06-1048 min
Spotify: A Product Story09: Building the future of audioWhat’s Spotify up to next? Tune in to the season finale to hear about Spotify’s plans for the future of audio and the brand new formats that we’re launching today and in the near future. As always, when building something new, we don’t know how it’s all going to play out yet, or exactly what the product strategy lessons will be. But we do know which bets we’re making, and why we’re making them.
This episode features interviews with Spotify insiders Michael Mignano and Nir Zicherman (Anchor founders), Howard Akumiah (Locker Room fo...
2021-05-0537 min
El podcast de Alexsander Olivares09: Building the future of audioWhat’s Spotify up to next? Tune in to the season finale to hear about Spotify’s plans for the future of audio and the brand new formats that we’re launching today and in the near future. As always, when building something new, we don’t know how it’s all going to play out yet, or exactly what the product strategy lessons will be. But we do know which bets we’re making, and why we’re making them. This episode features interviews with Spotify insiders Michael Mignano and Nir Zicherman (Anchor founders), Howard Akumiah (Locker Room founder), and Maya Proho...
2021-05-0537 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastThe Running ManMaya sits down with her buddy Matt Hartman, who does not like dark or upsetting things, to discuss The Running Man, one of Stephen King's most dark and upsetting novels. Listen to learn all about the origin of King's alter ego Richard Bachman, the different kinds of horror, and whether audio books or physical books are better for humanity. There was also a lot of president talk in this episode, which thankfully got mostly cut out. Sorry if we accidentally left in anything about presidents.
Links you might want after listening:
The difference between inevitable...
2020-01-1043 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastDoctor SleepYou've probably noticed that there's kind of a lot of Stephen King movies happening right now... but this is the one you should actually watch. Join Maya, her husband, and special guest The Wolfman as they discuss The Flanopticon (that's what we call the cinematic universe of director Mike Flanagan), the many connections Doctor Sleep has to The Shining (both movies AND both books), and all the reasons why if you think this wasn't a good movie you are wrong.
Some more things for you:
Proof that Maya's mom invented slash fiction: fanlore.org/wiki...
2019-11-271h 06
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastThe Girl Who Loved Tom GordonIt's unclear whose idea it was to read this particular book, but Maya and her pals Ana (a writer, and also a Stephen King first-timer!) and Duncan (a normally reasonable person who unforgivably quit The Dark Tower halfway through) read it, and now you have the chance to learn a lot about everything from baseball to shit weasels. Plus, as it turns out, this story is much more than a coming-of-age story about a little girl lost in the woods... or is it?
Sidenote: duh, tragic endings, how could I forget about Running...
2019-10-171h 20
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastEvery Stephen King MovieBuzzfeed's Louis Peitzman recently decided to watch EVERY single Stephen King adaptation and rank them all in order of worst to best. He patiently explains his strategy and defends his decisions to Maya, who has a lot of questions and, predictably, some unsolicited and uneducated opinions. Look, if nothing else we can all agree that Shawshank is the greatest movie ever made. Right? WE CAN'T?!
All 60 Stephen King adaptations ranked: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/louispeitzman/stephen-king-movie-adaptation-ranking
The Stephen King musical: http://www.ghostbrothersofdarklandcounty.com/
Louis's interview with Stephen King earlier this year: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/louispeitzman/stephen-king-the-outsider-donald-trump-resistance-twitter
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2018-11-121h 07
TLDR Daily with Matt & CoMaya Prohovnik — on em dashesWhen to Use—and Not Use—an Em-Dash
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/when-to-use-and-not-use-an-em-dash
2018-10-2503 min
Tell Me What You’re ReadingEp. #5: Maya Prohovnik - Stephen King!, Detectives & Sci-fiMaya Prohovnik - a Stephen King “Superfan”! + Detective tales and Maya’s “favorite book of all time”, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s sci-fi adventure tale, Children of Time.
2018-10-0422 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastCastle RockMaya gets to watch a few episodes of the new Hulu series CASTLE ROCK early and review them with her pal John, a Stephen King megafan and editor at Den of Geek. Listen to find out about the many, many connections hidden in this show – and why you should stick it out through the first couple episodes to get to the good stuff.
You can read John's review at http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/castle-rock/274797/castle-rock-episode-1-review-severance-spoiler-free!
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2018-07-2258 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastLisey's StoryMaya's friend Kris hates scary stories, so Maya attempts to recommend a non-scary Stephen King book. This does not go as smucking planned.
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2018-06-0444 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastNight ShiftMaya and her friend Joe discuss the Stephen King short story collection Night Shift, which includes such gems as The Lawnmower Man and The Mangler. Joe tries to wrap his head around how Stephen King was writing connections into his stories before he wrote any of his books, and Maya spreads some Stephen King propaganda, and makes up some lies about Owen King's childhood. Also, lots of rats. 🐭
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2018-02-201h 06
Derry Connection: A Stephen King Podcast1922Maya discusses the underwhelming Netflix movie 1922 with Erik, Will, and her mom. Will tries really hard to make #langoliers happen.
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2017-10-2440 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastGerald's GameMaya discusses the new Netflix film Gerald's Game with acclaimed movie critic The Wolfman, who ignites a feud with director Mike Flanagan and obsesses over the Spooky Buddies Cinematic Universe.
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2017-10-1056 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastITMaya's husband Erik, a world famous podcaster, joins the show to talk about all the phallic imagery only he saw in the hit new horror movie, Stephen King's IT. Chapter one. The loser's club.
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2017-10-0345 min
Derry Connection: A Stephen King PodcastThe Green MileIn the thrilling introduction to DERRY CONNECTION: A STEPHEN KING PODCAST, Maya forces her coworkers to talk about whether Stephen King's The Green Mile made them cry or not. (Of course it did.)
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2017-09-2634 min
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast270. Recent Horror MoviesSeth Dickinson, Grady Hendrix, and Maya Prohovnik join us to discuss the recent horror movies Baskin, The Void, They Look Like People, Under the Shadow, Don’t Blink, Circle, The Invitation, and Hush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-08-251h 41Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast268. The Dark Tower Movie ReviewJohn Joseph Adams, Rajan Khanna, and Maya Prohovnik join us to discuss the new movie The Dark Tower, based on the series of novels by Stephen King. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-08-111h 25
HackToStartMaya Prohovnik, Head of Operations, Anchor | EP 147Maya Prohovnik is the Head of Operations at Anchor, a whole new way to experience audio. Maya studies psychology and linguistics before joining a startup called Aviary. There she learnt all about startups taking on several roles and helping the team grow from 8 to more than 30 before it was acquired by Adobe. Maya then ended up joining Betaworks in New York where she helped organize the first (official) Hackers in Residence program. She also helped launch a product called Glitter while she was there. Maya also introduced the duo of Michael & Nir - who were working on app called Anchor...
2017-05-0234 min
Product Hunt RadioProduct Hunt Radio Episode 16 w/ Matt Hartman, Maya Prohovnik, & Brian DonohueDuring my trip to NYC I swung into betaworks HQ to meet a few distant product hunting Twitter friends in the flesh. Matt Hartman (Investments at betaworks), Maya Prohovnik (Community at betaworks), and Brian Donohue (Builder at Instapaper) join me to chat about emojis, GIFs, podcast apps, and also surprised me with a 3D printed Ryan. Looks just like me (http://instagram.com/p/qSOR2jD9f1/)! Listen in. Products mentioned: - Instapaper (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/instapaper) - Save articles to Read Later - Giphy Chrome Extension (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/giphy-chrome-extension) - Respond to emails...
2014-07-2600 min