Captivate CEO Mark Asquith talks about the global acquisition and their future. Castos CEO Craig Hewitt talks about supporting Value4Value and why it's a better model than advertising for podcasters

GUESTS: 


Mark Asquith co-founder and MD of Captivate.FM talks about
their acquisition by Global and what's next for Captivate and how
the line between radio and podcasting has blurred?


Craig Hewitt founder and CEO of Castos talks about the latest
version of their platform and their upcoming support for
Value4Value and why advertising is not the future for podcast
monetisation.  



NEWS: 


Google is randomly switching podcasts in its app to point to
pirated copies with ads. Jason Calcanis noticed his podcast,
All-In, mysteriously had ads in it; Google’s Danny Sullivan
replied: “we appear to have mistakenly pointed to a duplicate
version of the podcast”


Buzzsprout’s data suggests that the Google Podcasts app is
losing market share, from 2.6% to 2.3% in the past
year. 



Buzzsprout’s global stats for January, calculated to the
IAB standard, show the company hit 100 million monthly
downloads for the first time.



A website using Google Fonts has been fined for breaking
GDPR privacy rules, since it leaked the visitor’s IP
address to Google without their permission. Podnews phased out
use of Google Fonts for privacy reasons more than two years
ago.


When publishing a show to Spotify, you are now reminded to
read the platform rules; though not to explicitly agree to
them.



SiriusXM has launched AudioID. 

The BBC says it saw a total of 257m podcast downloads
globally last quarter. That would make it the #3 podcast
publisher in the world.TECH: 



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