Spotify reach 500m MAU's. Podcasts appear in YouTube Music, Ofcom says the number of Brits listening to podcasts has flatlined.

Apr 28 2023 • 1hr 20m

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Send us a message!Special GuestsAmi Thakkar - The Podcast Academy, Board MemberStaffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-FounderNews: 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.Support the Show.Connect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @joinpodfans Lightning/NOSTR: ⚡james@crid.land and ⚡sam@getalby.com Mastodon: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net

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@meremortalspodcast

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May 1 2023

With all those weird names you were trying to pronounce it's time you started picking up a second language. Will a 'Noticias de Pod' be coming soon? 🙏

@nathangathright

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Apr 29 2023

Thanks for adding updateFrequency to the Podnews RSS feed! I hope it proves a nice progressive enhancement that doesn’t require all hosts to get on board before apps make it available to listeners.

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Apr 28 2023

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