Spotify rolls out call-to-action cards

• Spotify has added call-to-action cards for podcasts for advertisers in the UK, Canada and Australia. Launched in the US in Jan 2022, here are details about how they work. They demonstrated the new cards at The Podcast Show.

• Breaking: At The Podcast Show, Audio UK has just launched a new partnership agreement template to make it easier for independent podcast and radio producers to work on projects together. It’s been prepared by legal experts.

• At The Podcast Show, podcast equipment manufacturer Focusrite teased an upcoming partnership with Acast. “The companies will collaborate on forthcoming projects designed to empower and better serve their mutual podcaster audiences”. We’re promised more details next month.

• The Podcast Show 2023 will be 24-25 May, in the same location in Islington.

• iVoox has announced a set of new monetisation options for publishers on the popular Spanish-language podcast platform.

• Transistor has launched Transistor Websites, a way to “generate beautiful podcast websites for free”. Here’s ours.

• Sounder has released a new import tool to help podcasters move to the platform.

Moves and hires

• Skye Pillsbury is to launch a new podcast newsletter, The Squeeze. She was the original writer for Inside Podcasting, and also wrote for Hot Pod.

Podcast News - with Lemonada Media

From Lemonada Media: No One is Coming to Save Us, the hit mini-series from Lemonada Media, is back as a weekly podcast covering America’s childcare crisis and the people who are crushed by it. Every Thursday, Gloria Riviera examines what’s broken in the system and how we can work together to fix it. Presented by Neighborhood Villages.

Western Edition has a new season this week, looking at the past, present and future of the Chinatown neighborhood in Los Angeles. A story of community resilience, and racial discrimination, it launched on Tuesday.