Good Morning Podcasters! Alby Wallet API delivers Value 4 Value. Hosts RSS.com and Castos deliver integrated wallets. Podchaser API delivers transcripts. Podcast Index delivers descriptions and Spotify delivers Q2 financial results.

Guest Interview


Alberto Betella - CTO RSS.com



Show Notes


Podcast host RSS.com is to announce integration with Alby
this week: enabling value 4 value for thousands of podcasts.
You’ll be able to activate and link your Alby account with your
podcast in RSS.com’s dashboard.  RSS has produced a video
showing how it works on their platform


Monetize your @CastosHQ podcast with @getAlby and
@PodcastindexOrg value4value tag!  Castos has produced a
video showing how it works on their platform


Full List of  New Podcast 2.0 Apps  

Full List of Podcast Hosts


Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition by Acast.
Podchaser announced this week that developers can now pull
episode transcripts from the Podchaser API.  In this beta
release, developers can retrieve JSON transcript files of
episodes from the top 5k podcasts.  



Spotify published its Q2/21 financial report. which
out-performed market expectations. Ignoring currency
fluctuations, ad-supported revenue (including podcasting) is up
31%; the platform now has 4.4m podcasts. “The number of
(monthly active users) that engaged with podcasts grew in the
substantial double-digits Y/Y and per user podcast consumption
rates continued to rise,” though no numbers were given.


Does podcasting have a privacy problem? Writing on his
personal blog, our Editor highlights what the GDPR actually says,
whether you can do privacy-friendly geo-targeting, and where
things might be an issue. 


Was the much-loved comedian and actor Robin Williams the
first podcaster? We’ve unearthed some compelling evidence that
shows that yes, he might well have been.


The British Podcast Awards 2022 winner’s ceremony took place
on Saturday. Podcast of the year was



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