Happy 1st birthday to us! What will Spotify do with its big M&A war chest, Castamatic 8 supports Value4Value and Lisa Laporte CEO of TWiT tells us how to run a successful podcast network.

 Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi   

GUEST:

Lisa Laporte - CEO -  TWiT.tvFranco Solerio - Founder & Developer -  Castamatic

NEWS: 

Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding. The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows and plans to move into new markets.

$78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding

Spotify CFO Paul Vogel says the company has $3.5bn in cash for acquisitions. Speaking at a conference in Boston MA, USA, he said: “Podcasting was this business that for 20 years didn’t change — it was a simple RSS feed — no way to do anything different”. (Paul - podcasts are 18 years old).

Matt Deegan writes about making your audio business acquirable, looking into more detail into Spotify CFO Paul Vogel’s announcements.

Netflix and Spotify have “come together” to launch a Netflix Hub on Spotify. It includes playlists for Netflix shows and additional audio.
Buzzsprout
Podcast hosting and a whole lot more

Support the show

Get in touch with our weekly review of all things podcasting!

Website: weekly.podnews.net Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @samtalkstech Boosts: ⚡[email protected] and ⚡[email protected] Mastodon: @[email protected] and @[email protected] Donate: ⚡James and ⚡ Sam

This podcast supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps

Sponsored By: Buzzsprout