

Podcasts are go (on YouTube) (kind of); and interview with Captivate's Mark Asquith
Mar 24, 2023
01:17:22
Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global)
News:
- YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!”
- YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metrics
- Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups
- LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six month incubator pilot for nineteen shows
- Spotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership focused on diversification and discoverability”
- Audiobooks are now available to Spotify users in Canada
- Spotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity Fund
- PodX Group expands further in Europe by acquiring Suomen Podcastmedia, Finland’s largest podcast company
- 10 million accounts on Mastodon
- Curiocaster adds support for Alby Wallet
- Dave Jones has started work on the #guidresolver: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolver
- Kevin Finn from Buzzsprout talked about adding a simple PodRoll
- WordPress.com acquires an ActivityPub plugin
- Over the last 90 days, podcasters have received at least $35,548 in “value4value” streaming sats and boosts.
- Reid Hoffman’s new podcast Possible. - www.possible.fm
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