Scott Waxman tells us why books and podcasts fit together? Hala Taha tells us why promoting your podcast with an audiogram maybe a waste of time? Amazon buys exclusive rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ podcast. Libsyn5 is live to all users.

GUESTS: 


SCOTT WAXMAN // HALA TAHA



NEWS:



Spotify takes Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s podcast ‘into
its own hands’ after the couple produced NO content for a
YEAR.


Spotify picks Joe Rogan over Neil Young



Stephen Fry has launched a new podcast exploring the
brain. The podcast is exclusively on Audible.



Amazon Buys Exclusive Rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’
Podcast. 
Amazon Music and Wondery will offer new episodes of the
podcasts for a week before they are available on other
services.


Libsyn has put its new user interface, Libsyn5, live to all
users.
The new interface is easier to use, and features 'social
scheduling’ and support of the locked tag.


Exclusive: The free and open-source podcast solution for
you to self-host, Castopod has reached v1.0, and now has a
website of its own.  The podcast platform includes open
comments, video clips, anonymised analytics, and wide support
for the new podcast namespace. It’s available for download
today.


Podcast hosting company Castos has added customisable podcast
website themes.
CEO Craig Hewett will be a guest on the show next
week. 

Captivate launch Automated Show Notes.
Mark Asquith will be a guest on the show next
week.


Anchor podcasts are unplayable in some podcast
apps. Overcast CEO/Developer Marco Arment, added, in
a tweet to Anchor: “It’s been two weeks that you’re serving
malformed files, breaking media players, and losing the
audiences of your customers. Do you care about this medium at
all?”


Ross Mathews and Nikki Boyer are co-hosting The Ambies, the
second annual Awards for Excellence in Audio run by The Podcast
Academy. They’re the co-hosts of Dying for Sex, the winner of the
2021 Podcast of the Year; the ceremony is on March 22 in Los
Angeles, and live online.



Castopod joins Spotify, Podchaser and Podnews in adding
copious amounts of JSON_LD to podcast pages.


this podcast (@seetee.io) is putting their boost messages
onto their website. (If you’ve an Umbrel running



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