Podcasts are go (on YouTube) (kind of); and interview with Captivate's Mark Asquith

Special Guest: Mark Asquith - MD Captivate (Global)

News: 


YouTube announced that “podcasts are a go!”

YouTube’s Creator Insider has produced a video announcing the
company’s new podcast features and metrics

Facebook is shutting its audio channels in groups

LinkedIn has launched the LinkedIn Podcast Academy, a six
month incubator pilot for nineteen shows

Spotify and NPR are detailing their new partnership in a post
highlighting how the two companies are “forging a new partnership
focused on diversification and discoverability”

Audiobooks are now available to Spotify users in Canada

Spotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity
Fund

PodX Group expands further in Europe by acquiring Suomen
Podcastmedia, Finland’s largest podcast company

10 million accounts on Mastodon

Curiocaster adds support for Alby Wallet


Dave Jones has started work on the #guidresolver:
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/guid-resolver


Kevin Finn from Buzzsprout talked about adding a simple
PodRoll

WordPress.com acquires an ActivityPub plugin

Over the last 90 days, podcasters have received at least
$35,548 in “value4value” streaming sats and boosts.


Reid Hoffman’s new podcast Possible.  -
www.possible.fm




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