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Spotify has launched enhanced podcast discovery tools to its app,
including recommendations on the home screen for users who love
podcasts.
It's unclear how the recommendations are chosen.
The company has also added a threaded view to its proprietary
comments
and a new following view within the app.
Sports betting website FanDuel.
FanDuel, America's number one sportsbook.
Was the number one podcast advertiser in April, according to
Magellan AI.
Corporate advertising for Google.
Google is helping Americans innovate in ways both big and small.
Makes it to number 13, the highest spend increase last month.
The independent podcast forum planned for June the 16th has been
postponed.
More details in our newsletter.
39% of UK adults consume podcasts every week, according to the
Infinite Dial UK,
which was released in full yesterday by Edison Research.
Headliner has added a chapters field for its app,
so you can ensure that chapters appear in full-length YouTube
videos.
You can see it working in the Pod News Weekly review this week,
along with newly added captions as well.
Audio magazine Good Tape has issued a call for pitches for issue
three,
the threats issue.
Podcast host Transistor has introduced a new podcast website
theme called Beacon,
designed specifically for churches and faith-based organisations.
In the week that Pocket Casts added support for creator
recommendations through Open RSS using the Podroll tag,
Spotify has launched its own proprietary creator recommendation
tool,
which they call linked content.
Spotify has also launched limited control of its own proprietary
tool for managing guest information.
Ignoring the People tag, it only lets you remove false positives.
Spotify scored the lowest for its support of open standards in
the Pod News report card earlier this year.
In People News, Good Tape magazine has a new editor, Phoebe Lett,
who joins from an 11-year career at the New York Times.
The founding editor, Alana Hope Levinson, has moved on.
And in podcast news, Queen's podcast is from Airwave,
and it features Katie and Nathan pairing cocktails with amazing
women of history.
Currently, the show's looking at Catherine Parr,
the last wife of Henry VIII, who survived the king and gets
married again.
We learn the legacy she left.
It's with Airwave, and we thank them for their support this
month.
And on the Podnews Weekly Review this week,
we chat with ACAST about the company's new smart recommendations
tool
and talk HLS video as a potential way forward for video over
Open RSS.
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