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- Elsie Escobar has announced that she has left Libsyn. Inducted into the Podcasting Hall of Fame in 2017, she had worked for Libsyn for almost nineteen years. We reported on the sudden closure of The Feed yesterday, which she had been hosting since July 2013. “I feel immense gratitude and pride — for the people, the lessons, and the legacy we co-created.”
- CoHost launched the New Listener Metric in its podcast analytics service. The new metric measures the number of unique listeners tuning in for the first time, allowing publishers to track genuine audience growth.
- Advertisers using Amazon DSP now have access to iHeart’s streaming audio portfolio, after a deal between the two companies.
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