Acast raises $19.5m, Wavve updates free tier, interactive audio drama
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Acast gets a further $19.5m in funding (it’s already had $13m) to help it expand. The money comes from Swedish investors, and the FT reports that this makes over $70m sunk into podcasting in recent weeks. “The company claims 56 million listens per month — a “listen” is defined as an audio segment that’s listened to for at least 60 seconds.”
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PRX plans more Podcast Garages, their small hire-by-the-hour podcast studios and incubation spaces.
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Podcast search engine Listen Notes gets profiled by Lifehacker.
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Nice piece focusing on the average number of podcasts listened-to per person per week, which is currently just five. Rick Balzen reckons it will end up being “near a dozen”.
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Wavve - a tool that lets you post snippets of your podcast on social media with a fancy waveform thing, just upgraded their free tier.
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Video - the BBC are creating interactive audio drama for smart speakers. Here’s Nicky Birch explaining more at Next Radio.
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Comedy Central announces it’s getting into podcasting.
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Podtrac release their monthly stats for US podcasts. This American Life at #1. “Name witheld at publisher request” at #16. #mysterious
