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episode 20: Acast's SVP Marketing, Comms and Brand, Lizzy Pollott talks Interchangeable Ad Slots, Keyword and Conversational Ad Targeting and The Obamas join Acast. Plus it's Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month!
Special Guests:
- Lizzy Pollott - SVP Marketing, Communications & Brand
- Nina Robinson - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions
News:
- Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast. Shows were previously with Spotify.
- Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month!
- Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episodes
- Spotify is claiming the company now has 5.3m podcasts
- Spotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live on April 30, 2023
- A new library called Transcriptator has been published
- Martin Mouritzen is also hinting at a new version of Podfriends coming out soon
- RSSBlue is looking to add Podping support
- Why support alternateEnclosures? Because if you do, podcast hosts, you could save up to 87.5% of your bandwidth bills
- Cross-app comments are now available on the Podcast Index website.
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