Special Guests:  <ul><li><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzy-pollott-016a7417/'>Lizzy Pollott</a>  -  SVP Marketing, Communications & Brand</li><li><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninarobinson01/'>Nina Robinson</a> - CEO & Founder Soundtruism Productions </li></ul>News: <ul><li><a href='https://podnews.net/press-release/acast-higherground'>Podcasts from Higher Ground are to be sold and distributed by Acast</a>. Shows were previously with Spotify. </li><li><a href='https://tinkmedia.co/adopt?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-03'>Happy Adopt-a-Listener Month!</a>  </li><li><a href='https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-03'>Spotify for Podcasters increased its share in March to 23.1% of all new episodes</a> </li><li>Spotify is claiming <a href='https://podcastindex.social/@js/110126454358403091?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-03'>the company now has 5.3m podcasts</a> </li><li><a href='https://musically.com/2023/04/03/spotify-shuts-down-clubhouse-app-spotify-live/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-04'>Spotify is to shut down its Clubhouse-clone, Spotify Live</a> on April 30, 2023 </li><li> A <a href='https://github.com/stevencrader/transcriptator?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-03'>new library called Transcriptator has been published</a> </li><li>Martin Mouritzen is also hinting at a new version of Podfriends coming out soon </li><li>RSSBlue is looking to add Podping support  </li><li>Why support alternateEnclosures? Because if you do, podcast hosts, you <a href='https://james.cridland.net/blog/2023/alternate-enclosures-in-rss/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-03'>could save up to 87.5% of your bandwidth bills</a> </li><li><a href='https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-04-03'>Cross-app comments are now available</a> on the Podcast Index website. </li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1538779/open_sms">Send James & Sam a message</a><a rel="payment" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support">Support the show</a>Connect With Us: <ul> <li>Email: <a href='mailto:weekly@podnews.net'>weekly@podnews.net</a> </li> <li>Fediverse: <a href='https://podcastindex.social/@james@bne.social'>@james@bne.social</a> and <a href='https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi'>@samsethi@podcastindex.social</a> </li> <li>Support us: <a href='https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support'>www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support</a> </li> <li>Get Podnews: <a href='https://podnews.net'>podnews.net</a> </li> </ul>

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