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episode 52: Happy 1st birthday to us! What will Spotify do with its big M&A war chest, Castamatic 8 supports Value4Value and Lisa Laporte CEO of TWiT tells us how to run a successful podcast network.


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  • Lisa Laporte - CEO -  TWiT.tv
  • Franco Solerio - Founder & Developer -  Castamatic

NEWS: 

  • Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding. The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows and plans to move into new markets.

  • $78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding

  • Spotify CFO Paul Vogel says the company has $3.5bn in cash for acquisitions. Speaking at a conference in Boston MA, USA, he said: “Podcasting was this business that for 20 years didn’t change — it was a simple RSS feed — no way to do anything different”. (Paul - podcasts are 18 years old).

  • Matt Deegan writes about making your audio business acquirable, looking into more detail into Spotify CFO Paul Vogel’s announcements.

  • Netflix and Spotify have “come together” to launch a Netflix Hub on Spotify. It includes playlists for Netflix s
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