Podnews Weekly Review

Guests: 

• Leo Laporte - Twit.TV
  
  
• Todd Cochrane - Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value", a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to natively support value4value. 
  
  
• Brett Spencer & Sandy Warr - City, University of London has announced the UK’s first dedicated MA in Podcasting and a Centre of Podcasting Excellence

News:

• Spotify released the company's Q4/22 financial update. In an earnings call, Daniel Ek admitted "In hindsight, I probably got a little carried away." We carry a longer quote from Ek about podcasting below. 
  
  
• You can hear this clip in Podnews Extra 
  
  
• UK podcast company Novel has secured a £5mn ($6.2mn) Series A investment round. The investment will be used to accelerate growth with strategic partners, and to establish the company’s own network of originals. 
  
  
• Exclusive: Podnews today starts a series of articles about podcasting in East and South East Asia. 
  
  
• Alby has released details about its partnership with Blubrry.

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