The Ambies nominees announced, Will Spotify overtake Apple?, Interview with Kal Amin Sounder, Women's History Month

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INTERVIEW:

-  Kal Amin - co-founder and CEO of Sounder.FM, a podcast
management and monetisation platform, has raised $2.15m in a seed
round.  They've raised $4m in the past 14 months


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NEWS:


The nominees for The Ambies, the awards for excellence in
audio, are to be announced today at 12pm, New York Time.
Podnews.net have a full list with analysis tomorrow: if you’re a
Podcast Academy member, you’ll get a vote to choose the
winners.


eMarketer claims that Spotify will overtake Apple Podcasts by
US total listeners (if not downloads) this year. No methodology
or source for this data is given, though. Meanwhile, The Hustle
publishes “Spotify’s plan to monetize podcasts, explained”.



Who owns who in podcasting? Evo Terra and Anne Baird have
published a list.


Google has unveiled a new audio codec, called Lyra, which the
company describe as a “high quality, very low bitrate speech
codec”. How low is “very low”? Just 3kbps. There are some
examples to listen to; the company plans to make it open
source.


The Podcast Index is now publishing their full podcast
database index on IPFS, updated every 24 hours. (Listing 1.3m
podcasts, today’s dump is a 192MB .tgz file, which expands to
647MB. You can use DB Browser for SQLite to examine it).



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