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- SquadCast invites you to join their new Slack channel, DM @SquadCastFM if you want to join.
Notes & Links:
- Spotify has launched audiobooks (in the US only). Audiobooks are an extra cost and you’ll be taken to a website to purchase them.
- Spotify has signed a deal with Wattpad to bring Indonesian and Filipino webnovel authors to podcasting.
- Spotify’s video podcasting service is apparently being used to pirate movies
- Spotify’s Chartable, an analytics and attribution service, is to lower its prices by 50%
- Acast is to lay off around 70 people (15% of its staff)
- The Open Podcast Prefix Project has been launched by John Spurlock.
- INTERVIEW: JOHN SPURLOCK NEXT WEEK
- Transistor now supports the Open Podcast Prefix project
- Apple Podcasts wants a website link for your podcast
- Podimo, the European subscription podcast service, has raised €58.6m ($58.5m) in funding. It had previously raised more than $116m.
- INTERVIEW: MORTEN CEO PODIMO NEXT WEEK
- Ivy.fm now supports transcripts, soundbites, and location from the Podcast Index namespace!
- Captivate has just announced v2 of their dynamic content and monetisation engine AMIE
- RSS Blue has added support for Alby and Fountain d
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