Financial results for Acast, Audacy and iHeart; Vizzy enriches podcasts; and Sam goes to the pub

Welcome to EP 1 of Podnews Weekly with James Cridland and
Sam Sethi.

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Special Guest:  Nic Ivanov - CEO Vizzy.fm


Vizzy, a web-based podcast enrichment platform, is looking
for early adopters to use its tool. Images, chapters and links
can be added to podcasts, and are viewable using Apple Podcasts,
Overcast, Podcast Addict and others.



Top Stories:


Acast released its financial report for Q3/22

Amazon Music Prime users, and Amazon Music Unlimited, now has
thousands of ad-free podcasts from Acast

The Podnews Daily podcast is on Amazon Music. Here’s how to
add yours.

The Fediverse is so much bigger than Mastodon says Castopod.
(Castopod has been connected to Mastodon since April 2021) …Dave
Jones has also pointed out that this is where cross-app comments
live, so it’s a good opportunity for podcasting.


If you’re one of the many people making the leap to Mastodon,
you might be interested in MastoFeed, a tool to share new
episodes of your podcast.



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James is  @jamescridland@podcastindex.social 


Sam is @samsethi@podcastindex.social

Podcast hosting company Libsyn - the first in the world -
turns 18 tomorrow. Founded by Dave Mansueto, Matt Hoopes,
Marty Mulligan, and Dave Chekan on Nov 5, 2004, here’s
the back story and, rescued from the web,



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