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episode 25: I'm at a loss, will anyone notice the difference? Lossless audio comes to Apple, Spotify and Amazon for free.

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Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's deep dive into .

SPECIAL GUESTS: 

  • Lindsay Tjepkema, CEO & Co-Founder at Casted
  • Adrian Spataru, CEO & Co-Founder at  Cleanvoice.ai

IN THIS PODCAST:

  • The Ambies, the first podcast awards from The Podcast Academy. The podcast of the year went to Wondery’s Dying For Sex. The awards seemed to be a streaming success, too, with 25,000 people watching at peak. 

  • For the full list of winners, Amazon’s Wondery was the winning studio of the night, with five awards announced; Crooked Media getting four, and QCODE with three. The podcast with the biggest award haul was Wind of Change, with three separate wins.

  • You can watch the show again online, or use this Podchaser list from Evo Terra to go and listen.

  • Apple and Amazon have joined Spotify by announcing lossless audio for their music streaming services. We look at what’s been announced and what it might mean for podcasting - and whether anyone will actually notice.

  • Clubhouse is in significant decline, says WARC. Downloads are down 90% from February. It’s now rolling out on Android globally.

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