Podverse mobile supports Alby. Libsyn expands to Europe and Canada. Spotify filters music from podcasts. Podnews launches podcastnamespace.org. Oprah protects her trademark and ASA fines Steven Bartlett.

This week's stories discussed by James Cridland and Sam Sethi

• The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against Huel and The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett.
  
  
• We asked Paul Chantler, one of the UK’s media law experts,  how should you keep your host-read podcast ad legal? 
  
  
• Oprah Winfrey’s company has filed a lawsuit against fan podcast Oprahdemics from Radiotopia. 
  
  
• Libsyn is expanding to Europe by acquiring German podcast company Julep Media.
  
  
• The Latino Podcast Listener Report 2022 was published by Edison Research and Elsie Escobar.
  
  
• Spotify is adding additional filter tabs in its app .
  
  
• Podcast hosting company Disctopia has launched its own mobile app.
  
  
• Spotify is testing a method of recording voice comments about a playlist.
  
  
• Edison Research has shared some data suggesting that a quarter of all podcasts are listened to between 6am-10 am
  
  
• In Sounds Profitable with Podsights this week, Tom Webster looks at the problem of churn.
  
  
• Listen Notes is to start its own free podcast host.
  
  
• Podverse mobile lets you connect your Alby wallet and send a boostagram di

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