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Guest Interviews



John Spurlock - Thread.land  


Matt Medeiros - Castos



Show Notes



Acast has released the company’s Q2/22 financial
report.The Swedish company now hosts 66,000
podcasts (a record growth last quarter); the number of listens
in the quarter increased 41% year-on-year. 

The company lost $11m in the quarter, though now expects to
make EBITDA profit in 2024, earlier than previously
expected. 

“The heavy investment phase is now over, " says CEO Ross Adams,
noting that the advertising market has been cooling
globally.


Bloomberg's Ashley Carman’s newsletter launches
next month. 



Ashley wrote about the world of paid podcast
appearances, or what some consider podcast payola. Guests are
paying hosts up to $50K for an interview, and the disclosures
around that exchange aren’t always clear or even
existent.



Skye Pillsbury (Frmr contributor, Hot Pod) has launched
her newsletter called The Squeeze

Want to support podcast:socialInteract with
ActivityPub in your feed. Find your podcast on thread.land
then DM @johnspurlock the unique prefix url .


Congratulation to Josh Chen from JustCast for
also adding Alby integration and enabling autofill in Value4Value
tag to enable the Alby wallet. 



Online studio Cleanfeed has won an Emmy Award for
Engineering, Science & Technology.


The BBC claims a new record number of weekly users for its
audio app, BBC Sounds.

All future @SoundsProfNews podcasts will be built with
@spoolermedia.


Publisher and broadcaster Audacy has bought podcast app
Moonbeam.



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