Live captions for every podcast in Google Chrome

• A good day for podcast accessibility: Google has enabled automatic subtitles inside the Chrome browser, adding closed captions to any web-based podcast player as well as other audio. Visit chrome://settings/accessibility in your browser and turn on Live Caption. Here’s what it looks like; it’s English-only for now, and works on Mac, Linux and Windows - it’s coming soon to ChromeOS. The same service is available on selected Android phones.

• Spotify India is advertising podcasts on their latest TV ad.

• Aaron Mahnke has been podcasting for six years this week; and as he tweets, his first show got just 9 downloads on the first day. It took four months for him to be able to give up his day job.

• “One big change we expect is that, due to an increased awareness of user privacy and new data laws — alongside Google retracting third-party cookies — the industry will no longer target ads based on user data. Instead, advertisers will serve messages to listeners based on context — something we’re pioneering at Acast with tools like AI-powered keyword ad-targeting.” - the UK’s PressGazette interviews Acast CEO Ross Adams.

  
  Sep 2 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Triton Digital released their new US Podcast Report for February. The #1 publisher is NPR; but Triton Digital, which is owned by iHeartRadio, does not measure iHeartRadio, the #1 publisher according to Podtrac. (Incomplete: participating publishers only)

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