Podnews Weekly Review Spotify reach 500m MAU's. Podcasts appear in YouTube Music, Ofcom says the number of Brits listening to podcasts has flatlined.
Apr 28, 2023
01:20:43
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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%.
- The Podcast Survey 2023 has been released by Ofcom, the UK media regulator. Ofcom just publishes the raw tables of data; It suggests that the number of Brits listening to podcasts hasn’t changed in the last twelve months.
- Our podcasts in Asia series goes to Indonesia.
- The latest version of Hindenburg PRO 2 (build 2522) now exports SRT files.
- Podverse has added speaker names to transcripts on its web player.
- Podfriend v2 will support the 'podfollow' feature.
- The podcast:valueTimeSplit tag has been proposed by Alex Gates.
- Ausha has announced it has added AI to its platform.
- Nathan Gathright has written a blog post called “Examining Update Frequency.
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