James Cridland: The future of podcasting on YouTube: the latest from podnews.net with Podcastle - create,
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Johanna Voolich: When I say podcast, the OGs will think back to hand-coding media containers and RSS.
What does it mean for a video platform like YouTube?
James Cridland: Joanna Voolich, Chief Product Officer of YouTube is interviewed by Rene Ritchie today and
her conversation is written up in YouTube's blog.
Voolich talks about YouTube's vision of podcasting on the platform being an eyes-optional experience
and confirms that YouTube does not plan to publish RSS feeds.
She does though look suspiciously as if she knows more than she can say when talking about
whether YouTube might augment audio-only podcasts with AI visuals of its own.
Acast is celebrating its 10th birthday today with a number of video messages from podcasters
and events across the world.
We have a few of the videos on our website linked from our show notes and our newsletter
at podnews.net.
IAB UK has published a digital ad spend report for 2023.
The report is behind a login wall, but Adelicious reports that it says podcast advertising in
the country grew 23% year on year to 83 million pounds.
That's 103 million US dollars.
Digital audio as a whole grew 12%.
We think that makes the UK market seven times smaller than the US.
In Japan, Otonal Inc and the Asahi Shimbun Company have jointly released a survey of
podcast usage in Japan.
The data shows that one in three Japanese people aged 15 to 19 listens to podcasts every month
and overall 15.7% of Japanese adults listen to podcasts.
PodJourney, a coaching platform has launched.
The platform is a collaboration between Gemini13 and coaching platform My Journey Technologies.
During quarter 1.24, Podmatch paid $58,116 to podcasters, says founder Alex Sanfilippo.
If you're a student in the US, Canada or the UK, Blubrry is offering 50% off their podcast
hosting plan.
Amplify Media's Steve Goldstein points out the risks of AI audio in a blog post that
we'll link to today, and the founders of investment podcast acquired Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
are raising a fund to invest in growth stage companies.
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