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Podcast Movement has announced a set of meetups in Las Vegas on April the 15th as well as May
meetups in Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, and a June meetup in Orlando. Details linked
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James Cridland: WBEZ is to lay off 14 staff, in part resulting in a reduction of its
podcasting unit. It'll stop making what it calls its non-newsroom shows including Nerdette and When
Magic Happens. In the Netherlands, research company Kantar has published research on optimal impact
from podcast advertising. The company suggests that you don't need to advertise on a large number of
episodes to get results. Berlin Podcast Week has been announced for September the 10th to the 15th.
Visitors can expect a wealth of expert knowledge on topics such as ai reach and monetization. Realm
is partnering with the Austin Film Festival to sponsor its 2024 fiction podcast competition.
You've probably already seen this email from Apple but just in case you haven't: on April the 13th
starting at 6 in the morning pacific daylight time, Apple Podcasts Connect will be unavailable for
up to two hours. You have been warned - and something in Apple Podcasts experienced an outage yesterday
according to the Apple status website; it seemed part of a bigger problem at Cupertino, but then
they turned everything off, turned it all back on again, and it all worked. Apple exerted editorial
control over Jon Stewart's podcast, according to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on Monday.
His Apple TV+ show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, ran from 2021 to 2023. Audioboost, an
italian audio tool that turns web pages into audio, saw a doubling of its network in 2023 the company
says. It's also seen growth in its collaboration with branded podcast company Podcastory. And, you'll
never guess the podcast app the New York Post recommends as its replacement to Google Podcasts
until you realize that the entire article is tagged with affiliate links. Yes, it's Amazon Music, so
they say. And in podcast news Innovation Minutes, a normally german language podcast interviews
our editor James Cridland, that's me, today on the landscape of podcasts in Europe the US and beyond.
It was recorded a few weeks ago at Radio Days Europe in Munich: that episode though is in english
because James ist zu voll deutsch zu lernen. Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast
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