It's now 2 million podcasts, Interviews: Chair - Podcast Academy, CEO - Riverside FM, Head of Digital Audio - iHeart Podcast Network

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INTERVIEWS:


Donald Albright, Chair, The Podcast Academy


Corey Layton, Head of Digital Audio, Australian Radio
Network and iHeart Podcast Network


Nadav Keyson, CEO& Co-Founder, Riverside.FM



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NEWS:


 We just hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcasts,
according to Daniel J Lewis's Podcast Industry Insights tool.
Overnight, the total number of shows hit 2,004,462. He says that
37.29% are "active" (published at least one episode in the last
90 days)


Podcasts are now available on TV. PodTV is now available on
TCL Smart TV channel 1048, or on Roku, or free on their
website.


The IAB has published its Annual Report, predicting that “in
2021, [US] podcasting will be a $1 billion market”. The
organisation had $33.2m of revenue in 2020; $6.4m of that is from
the IAB Tech Lab, who work on the podcast measurement
standards.


Hypercatcher now supports the Podcast Index funding tag. The
Breez Lightning client has added a native podcast player on their
iOS app. Using the Podcasting 2.0 podcast:value system, listeners
can opt to share cryptocurrency with the shows they listen
to. 


A good day for podcast accessibility: Google has enabled
automatic subtitles inside the Chrome browser, adding closed
captions to any web-based podcast player as well as other audio.
Visit chrome://settings/accessibility in your browser and turn on
Live Caption. 




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