New features for the RØDECaster Pro

• Popular audio mixer The RØDECaster Pro has new beta firmware, allowing more functionality for the sound pads like switching cameras, a MIDI function and an ASIO driver. Grab it here - the company warns you not to use it for critical projects quite yet.

  
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• Patreon has raised $155m in a new funding round. The funding values the company at $4 billion.

• Facebook is testing Hotline, a Clubhouse-like service. Meanwhile, it’s emerged that Twitter thought about buying Clubhouse for $4 bn.

• The Student Podcast Contest from the New York Times is open for entries from today. You’ve until May 18.

• Spotify has quietly deleted more shows from the Joe Rogan Experience.

• Spotify has also announced a set of new original shows for the Indian market.

• A service called The Podcasting Playbook has launched: a dashboard for your podcasting workflow.

• Headliner suggests advertising your podcast in newsletters. It covers eight newsletters with 'affordable or free advertising options’.

• The IAB has released its annual Ad Revenue Report for 2020. Digital ad revenue grew by 12.2% in the year. The report os only available for IAB members.

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

• A good place for data about audio, the Westwood One Insights blog, is now available as a newsletter.

Podcast News - With Toyota Untold

Whether you’re a commute driver or a racetrack drifter, the relaunch of Toyota Untold brings the world of cars, and their stories, down to street level.

COLD has returned for a new season, this time focusing on the murder case of Joyce Lynn Yost.

Fuelling Around, a UK motoring podcast, returns for a second season on April 21. It’s presented by Jason Plato and Dave Vitty.

Podcasting Essentials has Pacific Content’s Steve Pratt as guest this week.

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