Special Guests

• Ami Thakkar  - The Podcast Academy, Board Member
• Staffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-Founder

News: 

• YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now. 
• Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report. Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%.
• The Podcast Survey 2023 has been released by Ofcom, the UK media regulator. Ofcom just publishes the raw tables of data;  It suggests that the number of Brits listening to podcasts hasn’t changed in the last twelve months.
• Our podcasts in Asia series goes to Indonesia.
• The latest version of Hindenburg PRO 2 (build 2522) now exports SRT files.
• Podverse has added speaker names to transcripts on its web player. 
• Podfriend v2 will support the 'podfollow' feature.
• The podcast:valueTimeSplit tag has been proposed by Alex Gates.
• Ausha has announced it has added AI to its platform.  
• Nathan Gathright has written a blog post called “Examining Update Frequency.
  

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