Podnews Weekly Review

Special Guest: Sanden Totten, Kids Listen

News: 

• Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week.  You can sign up for free here
  
  
• Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools...

Special Guests: 

• Steven Bell
• Elisa Shearer

• Spotify is stopping platform exclusivity for some of its Gimlet shows
• Starting on June 1, Chartable will no longer provide confirmed plays and episode consumption data from Apple Podcasts
• Spotify has also announced it’s closing Heardle
• Spotify has struck a deal with Jellysmack, the creator company that works with stars like MrBeast and...

Special Guests

• Ami Thakkar  - The Podcast Academy, Board Member
• Staffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-Founder

News: 

• YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now. 
• Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report. Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%...

Special Guests: 

• Chris Quamme Rhoden on Acast's work in the Podcast Standards Project.
• Nick Hilton talks about host reads.

News: 

• Spotify for Podcasters posted its second-highest share of new episodes, growing 13% since January. 
• Spotify for Podcasters is rolling out the company’s monetisation programs, Automated Ads and Ambassador Ads, to more countries...

Special Guests: 

• Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/Megaphone
• Sharon Taylor - Triton Digital
• Darby Dorras - Listen
• Tom Billington  - The Podcast Show

News: 

• Acast released Q1/23 financials.  Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began...

Special Guests:

• Mark Asquith -  Captivate 
• Oscar Merry - Fountain
• Martin Mouritzen  - Podfriend 

News: 

•  The New York Times released its standalone Audio app
• Spotify’s AI DJ launches in UK and Ireland
• The US podcast ad market is now worth $1.8bn, according to new data from the IAB and PWC. The IAB predicts the market will be $3.9bn by 2025...

Special guest: the audience

Live from The Podcast Show, Sam and James look back at the week's podcasting news.

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