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• Ken Miller - CTO Fathom 
  
  
• New podcast app Fathom, designed for better podcast discovery, has been launched on iOS and in-browser.  It promises you can “ask any question and hear answers from your favourite podcasters and their guests.”
  
  
• https://fathom.fm/podcast/podland-news

Show Notes

• Breaking: Apple Podcasts has published details of how search in its app works. The post includes clarification that ratings and reviews aren’t factored into search results; and that the search function searches the show name, channel name, and episode title. 
  
  
• In July last year, Podnews published data showing what metadata different podcast apps use: noting that Apple Podcasts does not search podcast (or episode) descriptions.
  
  
• During Pride Month, Google Podcasts is blocking and hiding some podcast episodes apparently because they use the word 'lesbian’. 
  
  
• Transistor’s Justin Jackson has reported Acast to Canadian law enforcement after the company targeted Transistor customers. 
  
  
• Acast recently targeted customers from Podbean, Captivate, Blubrry and others, using competitor’s logos, and sending

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