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When Algorithms Pull The Plug On Creators - the YouTube Faustian Pact

August 28, 2026 · 1 h 6 min

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James and Sam look into this week's podcasting news, including the show pulled by YouTube.


• YouTube removing a top podcast with no warning, then reinstating it
• The risk of building a show on third-party platforms and automated enforcement
• Why we think a podcast needs an RSS feed to be a podcast
• YouTube reportedly paying creators to avoid Netflix and the coercion angle
• Newsletters as the best real estate in podcasting and why platforms are piling in
• Acast partnering with Kit versus all-in-one creator platforms like Beehive
• Spotify Megaphone issues affecting ad campaigns and DAI reliability
• Podbean analytics filters mistakenly wiping Apple Podcasts downloads
• The whack-a-mole problem of bots, crawlers, and imperfect measurement
• Podcast 2.0 building blocks gaining traction: person tags and location tags
• Podcast Radar as a map-based discovery tool and why rich location data matters
• Threads experimenting with transcript-synced audio posts
• Listener mail on Megaphone support and hosting fit

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