See you in Auckland in May, the latest from PodNews.net with Magellan AI now analyzing Spanish
podcasts.
The New Zealand Podcast Summit has announced its second year's sessions, an annual hoey
for outer rowers podcasting community.
This year it's scheduled for Saturday, May the 13th in Auckland, speakers will include
R&Z's Tim Watkins, the head of funding at NZ on Air Amy Mills, and the spin-offs head
of podcasts, Jane Ye, you can get your tickets now.
Seven audio workers have been laid off by Vox Media reports, Vox Media's Hot Pod, including
the team producing cover story, Vox declined to give exact figures around 130 people
were laid off in total or 7% of the workforce, and Spotify's also to cut staff this
week, according to Bloomberg.
Pretty so audio made its first upfront presentation on Friday, the company claims it's
the world's second largest audio streaming company, and ranks number one in the Spanish
language.
The release contains a number of data points, its ad revenue grew 43% over the previous
year.
In Germany, the Agma podcast ranker for December was released, Zite Online's What Now, a
news podcast, which published 82 episodes in December, is number one, with 6.8 million downloads
comedy show, Baywatch Berlin, which released four shows, is at number two, with 5.7 million.
Its participating publishers only.
In the Netherlands, there's news from Leven Heramans about a fund for audio production
from the public broadcaster MPO, which was to disappear, and now isn't kind of, and congratulations
to African podcasting group Podbreak for reaching your first year anniversary.
With the Monday, so time for some tech stuff, if you'd like your podcast appearing in
Fountains activity feed, then you need to add a split to your fountain address in your
value block.
Then it can see all your boosts, not just those made on fountain.
Change your username in your URL, you'll find in today's newsletter for the details.
And while we did that, we also added podcast index as a 1% split, Dave and Adam, you're
welcome.
The High Performance Port of Open AI's Whisper Speech Recognition Tool for Apple Silicon
is now available.
It also runs on iOS.
And if you do a live podcast, are you lit?
The live item tag will give your podcast listeners a notification when your show is being
broadcast live, willing to blog posts today, explaining a little more from the point of view
of a radio station.
And in podcast news, behind every catfish, there's the bait, love, jonesa is a new true crime
podcast from the BBC World Service and CDC podcasts, produced by Antica Productions and
Telltale Industries, it launches today, telling the story of an unwitting human face of
a digital con.
Project brazen and PRX have released the sound mystery of Havana syndrome, an investigative
podcast looking at aid debilitating and confounding illness in the Cuban US Embassy.
What caused it?
Could it be caused by noisy crickets or mosquito spray?
Or could it all be a mass delusion?
The slowdown has a new host, the award winning poet and writer, major Jackson, the show
shares a selected poem and thoughtful reflection every weekday, and it's produced by American
public media, in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, and launched in February 2021,
the San Diego news fix has published its last episode.
This podcast is sponsored by Magellan, AI Magellan, AI has added support for analyzing
Spanish language podcasts in the US and Mexico.
The product is already monitoring more than 2000 advertisers to get a demo, just go to
Magellan dot AI slash Spanish.
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