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Chartable to close

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  • Exclusive: Spotify is to close the podcast analytics platform Chartable, as part of a re-focus at the company. Chartable users will receive an email a little later today detailing next steps. The tool, bought by Spotify in Feb 2022, offered “SmartLinks and SmartPromos” attribution tools; which we reported in 2022 were to be incorporated into Megaphone. That’s still the plan for Megaphone-hosted customers; though Spotify has also recently announced generally available attribution tools similar to SmartLinks for the Spotify app. Chartable’s co-founder Dave Zohrob left Spotify in July; Spotify’s other purchase at the time, Podsights, was integrated into Spotify Ad Analytics in June last year.

  • The winners of the British Podcast Awards 2024 were announced. Of the podcast-specific awards, the BBC won nine; Acast were involved in five. Audible won three awards, including podcast of the year, which went to Press Play, Turn On.

    • Our award-winners lists include full hosting details and an OPML feed to import all the winners into your podcast app.
  • The winners of the Black Podcasting Awards 2024 were announced too. Lisa Woolfork and her show Stitch Please won three new trophies. PRX shows won eight awards.

Correction: Yesterday, we got a bit confused about connecting Apple Podcasts with your NYT subscription. Just like Spotify, on Apple Podcasts you can connect these, no matter how you subscribed to The New York Times.

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