Special Guests: 

• Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/Megaphone
• Sharon Taylor - Triton Digital
• Darby Dorras - Listen
• Tom Billington  - The Podcast Show

News: 

• Acast released Q1/23 financials.  Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began.
• Amazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platform. 
• Amazon quietly acquired Snackable, an AI platform.
• The Podcast Show 2023. You can still buy tickets for the event - the code PODNEWS will get you a discount.
• Bumper looks at ways to look at Listen Time as a method to measure your audience’s engagement with your podcast. 
• Podcasting on YouTube is a flop so far, reports Ashley Carman in her newsletter.
• NewsGuard, a “news reliability data service”, has announced its entry into podcasting today. 

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