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Podcast listening is growing globally, Spotify advertising and subscriptions are expanding internationally but why is no one checking the content is factual, not breaking copyright and has a license to use it?
Podnews Weekly Review
English - November 18, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBNews Commentary News Technology weekly review sam sethi james cridland australia usa Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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NEWS:
There are now more than 1,000 channels in Apple Podcasts. Podnews has discovered 293 paid subscription channels so far.
Audiobooks are coming to Spotify - the company is to acquire Findaway, an audiobook distributor. Findaway will “enable Spotify to quickly scale its audiobook catalog”. It’s experimented with audiobooks before: adding classic books, and a bespoke category for spoken word. (There are already more than 3,900 audiobooks on Spotify).
Medium is getting into audio, acquiring audio-based learning platform Knowable. Warren Shaeffer, co-founder of Knowable, will join Medium as the Vice President of Audio. (Evan Williams, Medium’s CEO, was co-founder of Odeo, an early podcast company.)
Oprah Winfrey was on Clubhouse, but only 23,000 people listened.
Meanwhile apps or logins are no longer required to listen on Spotify Greenroom. And - gen
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