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On Air Fest celebrates ten years of big moments. Listen · October 22, 2026 · 5.2 minutes to read * Exclusive: On Air Fest is celebrating ten years of the event by celebrating ten years of big moments that have happened at On Air Fest. The event began in the same year as Podnews, in 2017: The On Air 100 lists a hundred moments that have shaped the event and the industry - including Spotify buying Gimlet and Anchor in 2019, YouTube jumping into podcasting in 2022, Netflix's first podcast agreement in 2025, and plenty more. More than two thousand people have been involved; the On Air 100 lists many of them, and the On Air studio box light has remained constant throughout the ten years. Tickets for the tenth On Air Fest are on sale today, for 40% off. * Substack says that "sponsorships will soon be coming to podcasts hosted on Substack", previewing dynamic ad insertion, paid ad-free episodes, and "you'll soon be able to tap into third-party sponsorship marketplaces to fill the ad breaks you mark in your episodes". You can sign up for early access. (We think that Substack means ads, rather than sponsorships - we've asked.) * Meanwhile, beehiiv seems to have leaked that it's about to launch podcast ad monetisation next week. We probably shouldn't mention it until it launches, eh? * Spotify shared its RADAR Creators program class of 2026. Rather than only promote the biggest podcasts, the company also offers marketing, editorial and promotional support to upcoming podcast creators and fresh voices. The company has chosen a number of podcasters from the US, UK, Australia, Spain, Argentina, France, Brazil and the Philippines. * Sarah Koenig, famous to millions of podcast listeners with Serial, is back with a new show that started today. METRO with Sarah Koenig brings listeners stories about New York City, and New Yorkers, every week. * BBC Studios has appointed Ozen.fm to sell advertising for BBC podcasts across Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina... TikTok and iHeart Podcasts announced three new shows... Acast announced a new comedy podcast Places, Dahlingz! promising interviews with Broadway celebrity interviews... and in Colombia, the MDIF has made an investment into Bogotá-based podcast production company La No Ficción. Terms weren't given; the company is using the investment to expand into Spain. * Musixmatch Podcasts is to close. The service launched in 2023 from the music metadata company, offering automated transcriptions, chapters and topic extraction for podcasts. Much of the company's features have been replaced by free AI tools; it'll close its doors at the end of November. * Germany's Podfluencer Awards had an international award this year; and the nominees have just been announced. Fank Gullo, who is nominated, generously writes up the other nominations. * Daniel J Lewis has added a new tool called Podcast Networking Radar in Podgagement. The tool exposes Apple Podcast's recommendation network. * If you're running PHP for anything - like Wordpress perhaps - then hopefully you've updated your PHP installation over the last 24 hours. There are a relatively serious set of security vulnerabilities going round - here, have a... graphical novel explaining them(?) - but you're best doing the update. (Podnews runs five PHP servers for various things. We've updated them all.) * There's a free Podcasting for Business Conference planned for Nov 16-17, with speakers like Dave Jackson, Rob Greenlee and Gordon Firemark. It's virtual, and you can join from anywhere you'd like to be. * On a personal blog, Adam Bowie writes How To Incentivise Your Audience to Skip Podcast Ads. He recommends too many ad breaks; bad audio mastering; or... encouraging your audience to use Spotify. (That "skip-ahead" button won't click itself!) People news - with podnews.net/jobs. * New York Public Radio - the owners of WNYC - has hired Kimberly Watson as Chief Development Officer. * Shannon Quintana has joined RedCircle as Senior Vice President, Account Management. She joins from Oxford Road, and Veritone One. Tips and tricks - with audiencelift. Podcast news - with airwave. Podcasts in the wild. Spotted on a NYC subway train by Podnews reader Odile - some simple, straightforward and good advertising from Spotify, promoting Hot Smart Rich (indie/Megaphone); Baby, this is Keke Palmer (Wondery/ART19); House Guest (indie/Scott Evans); Lemme say this (Higher Ground/ART19); The Rewatchables (Spotify's Ringer/Megaphone). It's great to see Spotify (market cap $108bn) support creators in this way. In entirely unrelated news, here's Apple's market cap; and a guide to buying subway advertising.

September 10 brought one newsletter hire and a GitHub incident report. beehiiv adds three journalists to its creator network, GitHub documents a Kimi K3 outage, and the indie web stays quiet - no launches worth covering today. Published September 10, 2026 Some days the indie web ships a dozen new tools before lunch. September 10 was not one of those days. What actually shipped. beehiiv announced it's adding Peter Greenberg, Dana Harris-Bridson, and David Covucci to its Media Collective - the company's network of creators, publishers, and brands using its all-in-one publishing platform. The announcement landed September 9 and frames the move as an expansion rather than a product launch. beehiiv positions itself as infrastructure for newsletter operators, so hiring recognizable names signals growth, but it's not a feature you can install or a tool you can fork. GitHub published its August 2026 availability report on September 10, documenting one incident that impacted customers configured to use the Kimi K3 model. The report is operational - service health, uptime percentages, incident timelines. It's the kind of transparency users expect from a platform vendor, but it's not a launch story. No new API, no beta feature, no tooling drop. That's the whole list. Where the launches weren't. I ran searches for indie hacker builds, solo-founder announcements, and open-source project releases. The results came back thin: unrelated coverage, a few press releases for enterprise SaaS companies, and zero evidence of the scrappy, build-in-public energy that usually fills Product Hunt and Hacker News on a Tuesday. No new CLI tools. No "I built this in a weekend" posts with working demos. No GitHub repos crossing 1,000 stars overnight. The usual channels were quiet or running on momentum from last week's shipping cycles. This happens. Not every day delivers a wave of grassroots product drops. Sometimes the builders are in the middle of a sprint, or the interesting work is happening in private repos, or the launches are queued for later in the week when traffic is higher. What this means for the roundup format. When the research turns up one newsletter hire and one availability report, there are two honest options: pad the post with speculation about what might be coming, or acknowledge the gap and keep it short. Brainrot Creations is going with the second one. The beehiiv move is real but narrow - it signals the company is staffing up its creator network, which matters if you're already in that ecosystem or thinking about starting a newsletter. The GitHub report is table stakes for a platform vendor; it's good practice, but it's not news unless the outage was severe or the root cause was novel. Neither story supports 800 words of analysis. Why today felt slow. A few structural factors make September 10 a statistically quiet launch day: * Post-Labor Day lull: U.S. builders often batch launches around long weekends or the start of the month. September 10 sits in the dead zone between those cycles. * Apple event shadow: The Verge is hosting a livestream after an Apple hardware event, which tends to suck attention away from smaller announcements. Indie builders know this and time their releases accordingly. * Mid-sprint timing: Many open-source projects and solo founders ship on Fridays or over weekends when they have uninterrupted blocks of time. Tuesday catches people mid-week, mid-commit, not yet ready to tag a release. None of this is new or surprising. Launch cadence is lumpy. Some weeks you get five AI infrastructure repos hitting 1.0 in 48 hours. Other weeks you get a hiring announcement and an uptime report. What comes next. This post stays short because the material is short. When the indie web picks back up - probably later this week - Brainrot Creations'll cover it properly. Until then, the honest play is to document what actually happened on September 10: not much, and that's fine. If you launched something today and it didn't surface in the search results, drop a link and Brainrot Creations'll check it out for the next roundup.