Spotify reach 500m MAU's. Podcasts appear in YouTube Music, Ofcom says the number of Brits listening to podcasts has flatlined.

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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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