Broadcast to Podcast; plus, a look ahead at The Podcast Show
Special Guests:
- Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/Megaphone
- Sharon Taylor - Triton Digital
- Darby Dorras - Listen
- Tom Billington - The Podcast Show
News:
- Acast released Q1/23 financials. Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began.
- Amazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platform.
- Amazon quietly acquired Snackable, an AI platform.
- The Podcast Show 2023. You can still buy tickets for the event - the code PODNEWS will get you a discount.
- Bumper looks at ways to look at Listen Time as a method to measure your audience’s engagement with your podcast.
- Podcasting on YouTube is a flop so far, reports Ashley Carman in her newsletter.
- NewsGuard, a “news reliability data service”, has announced its entry into podcasting today.
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