'It’s a Continent' is Independent Podcast of the year
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- In an award ceremony last night in London, It’s a Continent won three awards, including the coveted Podcast of the Year, at the Independent Podcast Awards. The hosts, Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba, were handed the award for Educational: World, Business and Financial by our Editor; before winning the Best History Podcast category, and then the biggest award of the night. The judges said the podcast is “instantly interesting, the hosts are charming and fun, and each episode was fascinating and well researched”.
- Spotify is improving its listener comments tool. From today, new comments in English will be automatically published by default; though you can change this in your settings. Keyword blocking is also available.
- The company says that over 650,000 podcast episodes have had a comment since July. There were 44mn new episodes published between Jul 7 and Oct 24 (says the Podcast Index); which suggests that 1.5% of new episodes have attracted a comment.
- Spotify is to launch an ad exchange in the US. The initial focus on the Spotify ad exchange will be video.
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