Dane Cardiel joins Gumball

Dane Cardiel has joined Headgum/Gumball to become Vice President of Business Development. He was a founding member of Simplecast, which was purchased by SiriusXM 12 months ago. It’s one of a series of high-profile management changes in the industry - more tomorrow.

When it comes to adtech, should you build your own, or buy someone else’s? Bryan Barletta suggests a third way in this week’s Sounds Profitable with Claritas. As ever, you should subscribe.

“We want to keep making more podcasts and keep expanding what audiences we can talk to and how we can talk to audiences”, says Netflix’s David Markowitz in an interview in the Podland podcast later today. Their fiction prequel podcast based on Stranger Things, Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins, is released next Tuesday.

Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi have been confirmed as keynote speakers at Podcast Movement. They’re co-founders of Fireside, a social audio platform currently in closed beta.

Spotify has signed another fifteen exclusive podcasts: in the Philippines. According to Spotify, consumption of podcasts in the Philippines has more than doubled from March 2020 to March 2021.

TV and movie producer Kenya Barris has signed a multi-show podcast deal with Audible.

French podcast host Ausha has launched a networking space, called Club Ausha. It contains rooms for tips, podcast news, and webinars; and a matching room to find guests and cross-promotion partnerships.

For English-speaking podcasters, Audry offers a way to connect with other similar podcasters to arrange cross-promotions and episode swaps. Co-founder Niklas Hildebrand is on Podland later today, talking to Podnews Editor James Cridland.

The latest Latin American Podcast Report has been released by Triton Digital.

Three of talent agency WME’s podcast team speak with Deadline, on the opportunities for creators. Some talent deals now include a share of podcast subscription revenue, they say.

Acast has signed a partnership agreement with a Finnish influencer marketing agency. Asennemedia is responsible for nearly fifty shows.

Podjobs, our jobs board, has integrated Podcast Taxonomy role descriptions into the service. The change now makes it easier for job hunters to understand job roles, and easier for people posting jobs to ensure the description is correct.

Celebrities aren’t ruining podcasting - they’re opening them up to a wider audience, says Josh Adley of production company Listen, which produces celebrity podcasts.