Will Superfans pay extra to come into a Spotify Green Room or Twitter Space? Should Apple buy Clubhouse? Interviews with Will Page, Author of Tarzan Economics and Charles Van Winkle, Senior Software Engineer, Descript.

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SPECIAL GUESTS: 


- Will Page - Author of Tarzan Economics, Visiting Fellow
at The London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE) and Former Chief Economist at Spotify and PRS
for Music.


- Charles Van Winkle - Former Senior Computer Scientist II
at Adobe Systems and now Senior Software Engineer at
Descript 



IN THIS PODCAST:



 Twitter Spaces is now available to (almost)
everyone, on iOS and Android, if you have more than 600
followers.


 Apple’s Podcasts Connect still isn’t allowing
new podcasts from some users.


Apple Podcasts iOS 14.5.1 app has changed the way it displays
episode notes, it no longer supports HTML links.  


The new iOS 14.5.1 Apple Podcasts app now takes hours
to deliver new episodes to your listeners.


 Spotify’s recently-acquired Clubhouse-like
service, Locker Room, is to be called Spotify
Greenroom. 



Headliner has integrated with “Megaphone by
Spotify”.


Cleanvoice is a new service promising to automatically remove
all those “uhhhh” words from your recordings. It’s $3 a shot, but
could save quite some time in editing.


 Ximalaya has filed for a US IPO. The largest online
audio platform in China (with spoken-word and music content), it
has 250m monthly users, and 5.2m active content creators.


 JustPod’s Yi Yang newsletter about podcasting in China,
is also available in English.


Free editing software Audacity has '



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