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Squadcast. Record remotely in studio quality. Doja Cat and Ice
Spice are on the first edition of Close Friends Only, the first
podcast from Instagram. The branded show has the two icons
diving deep on Instagram from crazy memes to content from
creators they love. It's produced by Sunny Side Up in
collaboration with the Unwell Network and it's out tomorrow.
Announced earlier this year, Linkfire has placed its linking
tool live for podcasters, giving you one link to share for your
show. Uniquely, it offers access to Apple Podcasts Analytics.
It's the only third party to do so. We'll link to what a link
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.com. Wiser Than Me, hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, was named
Apple Podcasts 2023 show of the year. Captivate launched support
for Apple Podcast subscriptions. They joined Transistor, which
announced support last week. Lydia Polgreen, the former
managing director of Gimlet Media, has criticised Spotify
for cancelling heavyweight and stolen. If you can't make a go
of it with these incredible shows, you are simply bad at
podcasting, she wrote on threads. She's since deleted the
post. Meanwhile, Dan LeBertard, a sports podcast host, claims
that Spotify is junking up the numbers and the numbers are
gerry-riched. After a conspiracy theory from a fan that Spotify
is deliberately holding back sports shows that aren't from
the ringer. Podcasting is coming to South by Southwest with Vox
Media partnering with the conference to provide an
official podcast stage. A number of popular shows will be brought
to the stage next March. Embedded players from listen
notes were pre-loading audio until yesterday against IAB
guidelines. That meant that when your browser loaded a page
containing an embedded player, it downloaded the audio in full,
which appeared as a valid download in podcast analytics
without you listening to it at all. After Pod News reported it,
listen notes has quickly fixed the issue. It's been a year
since Acast launched the company's self-serve ad
platform. The senior director of product has looked back at the
last year in a
campaign, and 15% of revenue comes from host-read
sponsorships. It was the first form of advertising for 40% of
podcasters on the platform. A former Pushkin Industries
employee has written about her experience at the company and
why she left. She says the people who are ultimately making
the decisions are not the people who know how to make shows.
Willing to that today in full, Revolver Podcasts and Adori are
working to produce podcast fast TV channels on the Roku
platform, highlighting multicultural podcasts, and
Pocketcasts has published a guide to moving from Google
Podcasts using an OPML feed. The company is offering a 50%
discount for your first year of Pocketcasts Plus. Thank you to
Mark Ramsey and Charles Spivey for becoming our latest personal
supporters. Based in Portland, Mark Ramsey makes podcasts for
companies like Wondery and iHeart. He is an excellent
thinker about all things audio. Charles Spivey, or perhaps it's
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them and support us at podnews .net slash support. And in
podcast news, Tyler Goodson has died. In 2017, he pleaded guilty
to burglary and theft of items from John B. Macklemore, the
focus of the popular podcast S -Town. Goodson was shot and
killed by Woodstock police after a standoff. Former Bibb County
District Attorney Michael Jackson said, unfortunately, he
kept living a colorful life. He was 32. The latest episode of
Lawfully Creative, hosted by lawyer Annabel Galberti,
features me as a guest. I share my knowledge on the strengths
and weaknesses of the podcast sector and my background in the
audio industry. On the town with Matthew Bologna, Bloomberg's
Ashley Carmen talks about the state of the podcast industry
and its struggle to reach profitability despite its growth
and what they call the murky metrics for success. The show
was a Spotify original made by the ringer and puck. The
greatest true crime story is ever told is new from iHeart
Podcasts and Diversion Audio, hosted by true crime writer Mary
K. McBrayer, who will walk the audience through the most
riveting true crime stories ever told. Not only are those stories
deeply researched, but many episodes often include
interviews with authors and experts on the cases. And the
Murder in Boston podcast from the Boston Globe started
recently. The newspaper interviewed the host, Atrian
Walker, about how the podcast was put together. Trailers for
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