Special Guests: Tom RossiSean GlynnJordan Harbinger Show NotesGoogle tells us that Google Podcasts carousel links in Google Search (which the company said will go away at the end of this week) are being replaced with a new feature. Over a thousand Buzzsprout podcasts are using the subscriptions feature, according to Buzzcast. It was announced in late January. UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round. The investment will be used to accelerate growth with strategic partners, and to establish the company’s own network of originals.Dan Misener from Bumper says, 54% of the Apple Podcasts top 200 had trailers, and 50% of the Spotify top 200 did too.What makes a chart-topping podcast? Rephonic says that top shows tend to be weekly; tend to skew male in audience.Dave Jones has added a new Podcast Index API output of feed and episode value blocks.Cloudflare announced Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible serverHindenburg 2.0 is launching shortly.Podverse (New Version) supports value-for-value streaming for videos.Podnews Live - Manchester 13th June -  Save the Day! (0:00) 10 Feb(1:16) Google and podcasts(7:37) Interview: Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout(20:57) Interview: Sean Glynn from Novel(32:40) Trailers(36:32) What makes a #1?(38:35) Interview: Jordan Harbinger(43:25) YouTube and Freakonomics(45:29) People News(46:57) The Tech Stuff(1:05:14) Announcing Podnews Live(1:07:07) Boostagram Corner(1:10:30) Sam and James's weekSupport 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