Podnews Weekly Review

Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global)

News: 

• YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!”
• YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metrics
• Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups
• LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six month incubator pilot for nineteen shows
• Spotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership focused on diversification and discoverability”
• Audiobooks are now available to Spotify users in Canada
• Spotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity Fund
• PodX Group expands further in Europe by acquiring Suomen Podcastmedia, Finland’s largest podcast company
• 10 million accounts on Mastodon
• Curiocaster adds support for Alby Wallet
• Dave Jones has started work on the #guidresolver: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolver
• Kevin Finn from Buzzsprout talked about adding a simple PodRoll
• WordPress.com acquires an ActivityPub plugin
• Over the last 90 days, podcasters have received at least $35,548 in “value4value” streaming sats and boosts.
• Reid Hoffman’s new podcast Possible.  - www.possible.fm
  
  

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