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• Happy New Year! Take a note to update your podcast feed's copyright notice to say "2026" rather than "2025" when you next publish an episode. (You don't have to use a date, but if it's there, you probably want it to be correct, and in our experience, most people forget it's there in the first place.)
• In November, Third Coast, which organises a podcast festival and competition, announced that it had transitioned to being a voluntary organisation, after financial pressure. It sent out an update yesterday, confirming that the competition will take place in 2026, and that the archive will be maintained.
• As you might expect, Podnews can't afford a Getty account for images. Nor, it seems, can Spotify - which published an episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast with a watermarked image from the Getty Images website. Spotify has since found the $375 for the picture they wanted. The company made US $1.5bn profit in Q3/25 alone.

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