Acast's SVP Marketing, Comms and Brand, Lizzy Pollott talks Interchangeable Ad Slots, Keyword and Conversational Ad Targeting and The Obamas join Acast. Plus it's Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month!

Special Guests: 

• Lizzy Pollott  -  SVP Marketing, Communications & Brand
• Nina Robinson - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions 

News:

• Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast. Shows were previously with Spotify.
  
  
• Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month! 
  
  
• Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episodes
  
  
• Spotify is claiming the company now has 5.3m podcasts
  
  
• Spotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live on April 30, 2023
  
  
•  A new library called Transcriptator has been published
  
  
• Martin Mouritzen is also hinting at a new version of Podfriends coming out soon
  
  
• RSSBlue is looking to add Podping support 
  
  
• Why support alternateEnclosures? Because if you do, podcast hosts, you could save up to 87.5% of your bandwidth bills
  
  
• Cross-app comments are now available on the Podcast Index website. 

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