Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show about Apple subscriptions and Facebook's entry into podcasting with the help of Spotify. NEWSApple Podcasts is adding paid Podcasts Subscriptions in May. As a podcaster, you can set your own price for your own show.Apple Podcasts will take a 30% commission of the subscription price for a subscriber’s first year, dropping to 15% for additional years. Podcasters can set pricing, and availability, by country. Apple Podcasts is available in 170 territories.Paid podcasts are hosted by Apple, not by your podcast host. Apple Podcasts will not give you access to any personal data about your paid subscribers, like their emails or names.The launch of the new Apple Podcasts Connect tool has been plagued with bugs and technical issues; and has impacted other apps. We would recommend NOT logging in at this time.Many podcasters say their shows have completely gone missing within Apple Podcasts and third-party apps that use Apple’s API.Our theory: All shows transferred to the new system appear to automatically have their RSS feed removed from Apple’s public API. One way for third-party apps to continue operating is to use PodcastIndex.Apple Podcasts Connect also changes your categories, too.Within the next few months, the Facebook app will include a podcast player, as part of Buzzsprout Podcast hosting and a whole lot moreSupport the show Website: weekly.podnews.net Email: weekly@podnews.net Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @samtalkstech Lightning/NOSTR: ⚡james@crid.land and ⚡sam@getalby.com Mastodon: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support This podcast supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps