Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global)

News:

YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!”
YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the company’s new podcast features and metrics
Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups
LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six month incubator pilot for nineteen shows
Spotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership focused on diversification and discoverability”
Audiobooks are now available to Spotify users in Canada
Spotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity Fund
PodX Group expands further in Europe by acquiring Suomen Podcastmedia, Finland’s largest podcast company
10 million accounts on Mastodon
Curiocaster adds support for Alby Wallet
Dave Jones has started work on the #guidresolver: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolver
Kevin Finn from Buzzsprout talked about adding a simple PodRoll
WordPress.com acquires an ActivityPub plugin
Over the last 90 days, podcasters have received at least $35,548 in “value4value” streaming sats and boosts.
Reid Hoffman’s new podcast Possible. - www.possible.fm

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Podcasts are go (on YouTube) (kind of); and interview with Captivate's Mark Asquith