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Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories, referred to as "The Everything Store". Amazon has been described as a Big Tech company. Wikipedia
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- Jun 26: Jacob Reed and Me has just finished its first season: with host Jacob Reed finding answers to life's biggest questions by finding other people called Jacob Reed. He tells us: "In one episode, I learned enough about Economics to write an Economics book and sell it on Amazon. In another, I started a band called the Jake Reed Quartet... with three professional musicians all named Jacob Reed."
- Jun 23: Is Netflix's podcast strategy paying off? Writing in Puck ($), and reported in Awful Announcing, Matthew Belloni suggests that "multiple (Netflix) company sources have told me that podcast engagement numbers on the whole are low." Belloni adds that "no video podcast has charted on Nielsen's weekly top 10".
- Jun 19: Amazon delivered the most amount of money in podcast advertising in March, says Magellan AI - they spent $7.7mn, according to the company's top spenders list. Genting New York, a gambling operator, is the biggest new spender this month, spending almost $2mn.
- Jun 12: iHeartRadio, Amazon Music and Acast's Podchaser also had this kind of spam in their directory, says the committee's report. Jellypod, an AI-generated podcast tool, is highlighted as one of the tools used to publish this content. We've covered efforts to remove spam shows like this in the past (like this, back in 2022, and the Podcast Index's work more recently). In our opinion, this isn't a Spotify problem - it's an industry-wide issue, that we should be working together to combat. It shouldn't be hard to automatically share potentially problematic feeds across the industry: and to highlight podcast hosting companies who fail to adequately moderate their users' content.
- May 18: Libsyn has appointed Todd Pringle as Vice President of Product. "Pringle will lead product strategy and development across Libsyn’s growing suite of publishing, distribution, monetization, and advertising solutions". He joins from Amazon Music Podcasts, Stitcher and Deezer.
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