Top Podcast CDNs by Episode Share (March 2026) Ranked list of podcast CDNs (content delivery networks), based on number of new episodes published

New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.9 million new podcast episodes found in March 2026

livewire.io/podcast-cdns...

Top Podcast Tracking Services by Episode Share (March 2026) Ranked list of podcast trackers (third-party analytics services), based on number of new episodes published

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.9 million new episodes published in March 2026

- some episodes had _eleven_ prefix trackers!

livewire.io/podcast-trac...

Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (March 2026) Ranked list of podcast hosts, based on number of new episodes published

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new episodes published in March 2026

livewire.io/podcast-host...

Buzzsprout Statistics, visualized Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Buzzsprout, the podcast hosting company

Buzzsprout published their public podcast stats for March 2026, so I just updated my post tracking them over time

livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...

If you're running OpenClaw, you probably got hacked in the last week CVE-2026-33579 is actively exploitable and hits hard. **What happened:** The /pair approve command doesn't check *who* is approving. So...

‘The /pair approve command doesn't check who is approving. So someone with basic pairing access (the lowest permission tier) can approve themselves for admin. That's it. Full instance takeover’

old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

iOS 26.5 beta 1 (v2) (23F5043k) just released... #wwdc

v2 ? strange

developer.apple.com/news/release...

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

just realized every single podcaster is going to make some sort of "we're for sale at the right price" joke in their next episode

get ready folks

‘AutoIncorrect’

EmDash Feedback So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to t…

and Matt agrees (of course)

‘It’s all built on open source and web standards. You can run it anywhere; there’s no lock-in.

You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit.’

ma.tt/2026/04/emda...

The Most Powerful People in the World Are Obsessed With Media Again Sam Altman is buying his favorite show, Larry Ellison is buying CNN to merge it with CBS News, Jamie Dimon is toying with launching a venture. It may mark a new era of vanity media owners.

‘It’s a tale as old as time: Are you a corporate titan, unhappy with how you or your company are portrayed in the realm of popular opinion? Good news: You can buy the media.’

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

added:
[headline] IRAN DOWNS U.S. FIGHTER JET
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/i

https://drudgereport.com/

Kicking off the ATP Working Group at the IETF - AT Protocol The Authenticated Transfer Protocol working group has been created at the IETF. Now that we have a charter, we are looking forward to participation from the broader ATP ecosystem.

Pleased to announce that an Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group has been created at the IETF!

Grateful to everybody who participated in the BoF and chartering process. Details on next steps and how to get involved inside.

atproto.com/blog/kicking...

two categories of podcasts:

those where you blast forward through the ad break, then care to fiddle and try to go back and catch everything they said immediately following the ads

and those where you don't care and just pick up wherever you landed somewhere after the break

Livewire Podcast Validator Podcast feed and media validator, including podcast namespace tags.

ooh, first time I think I've ever run into an mpeg-dash enclosure in a podcast feed

validator.livewire.io?validate=htt...

Three examples of social websites from The Verge (Decoder, Vergecast, and The Verge)

Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web:

verge.surf.social
decoder.surf.social
versionhistory.surf.social
vergecast.surf.social
wired.surf.social
404media.surf.social
poweruser.surf.social

‘We’ve always talked about doing this, but it gets pretty messy and complicated if the entities in the bundle aren’t actually a part of the same company’

www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/thre...

'A caricature of a soul artist': Pittsburgh musicians react to AI phenom Eddie Dalton The latest addition to the brave new world is Eddie Dalton, a contemporary soul singer in the classic vein of Otis Redding. Dalton, depicted as a gray-haired...

‘The people responsible are laughing at us. They know where our buttons are and how to push them’

www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/202...

Transistor Statistics, visualized Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Transistor, the podcast hosting company

Just updated my graphs of @transistor.fm 's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of March 2026.

- the mysterious "Other" app keeps gaining share

livewire.io/transistor-s...

at least the "<x> killer" industry lingo is a thing of the past (thank you gen z?)

I joined Google's secret "Flipboard Killer" app when I started there, which was hot stuff for like two weeks (I apologize for my sins @mmccue.bsky.social )

No "killing" in fact ever occurred, such a stupid term

HLS video in podcasts, who's doing what? Keeping an eye on every HLS video in the podcast system

👀 looks like Buzzsprout has their first HLS video episode live in Apple Podcasts (but not yet in the corresponding RSS feed)

since this is their first one, I just added a new entry for them to my analysis post

livewire.io/hls-video-in...

indeed

podcastindex.social/@js/11633091...

5-dimensional apr 1 chess - they got you, someone determined not to be got

cf launches real stuff on apr 1, in the gmail tradition

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed W...

I really like Cloudflare, but god do they have 'foot-in-mouth' disease when it comes to positioning stuff.

Just release something great, and don't call it "the spiritual successor to WordPress", something an over-excited product-manager-brain-in-a-jar might say

blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordp...

and ram is not even one of the options you declare on the trade in calculator - just processor, ssd, and laptop screen size

I guess since that ram is not really extractable off of the Apple chips

you know, I would have expected Apple Trade In prices to rise a bit with the ram situation

128gb m4 max mbp trade in of $1915 seems low considering current ram prices alone

‘We give you the file and the rest is up to you.’

pca.st/9jxjkodd?t=1...

Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly

‘We note that while viable solutions like PQC exist, they will take time to implement, bringing increasing urgency to act’

research.google/blog/safegua...

‘The fact that it’s hard to describe how to improve AI writing is, of course, the exact problem. You can’t put a number on the things it does wrong, and you can’t minimize what you can’t measure. That’s the wall.’