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• Podcast growth agency Bumper has announced the Bumper Dashboard, a measurement tool that combines podcast data from a number of different sources. It allows Bumper’s clients to see numbers of verified listeners, total listen time, and more statistics across platforms. Curious to know what it looks like? We were given access - see what we learnt about Podnews podcasts in the Bumper Dashboard.
• The Hollywood Reporter announced “The Most Powerful People in Podcasting in 2024”. The list is a mix of podcast executives and hosts; and is almost entirely US-based (excepting two Brits who now live there).
  • People named in the list were polled about Listening to podcasts at over 1.5x speed. Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn’t know what 1.5x is. Bill Simmons says “it’s for sociopaths”; although 1.5x is “too slow” according to Ben Shapiro, who is definitely not a sociopath.
• How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom suggests that the virtual monopoly that Spotify has of the LATAM market, with as much as 90% of consumption, has meant that the region’s podcasters are now suffering more than most after Spotify’s change in strategy.

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