Alone: A Love Story, a popular podcast, will be adapted into French and Spanish by Acast and CBC in order to reach new listeners.

As part of a new partnership with longtime partner Acast, CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster, has released French and Spanish versions of its award-winning podcast series Alone: A Love Story. Acast will host, distribute, and monetize the adaptations in new markets around the world after being trusted with this important launch due to its extensive global network.

The first episode of the weekly podcast Seule: Une histoire d'amour in French and Sola: Una historia de amor in Spanish is now available on all podcasting platforms. On Wednesday, November 8, the complete seasons will be accessible. In collaboration with Radio-Canada, Studio Ochenta created the adaptations.

“It’s an honour to expand our trusted partnership with the CBC,” said Heather Gordon, Managing Director, Canada at Acast. “Alone beautifully illustrates that our common experiences as humans connect us with one another, and it is important for Acast to support CBC in bringing the story to more people than ever before.”

Named by The Atlantic as one of the 50 Best Podcasts of 2017, Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise, who wrote, performed, and produced the series. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier — while using raw honesty to tackle personal subjects often labeled as shameful and taboo by society.

“We’re always looking for new opportunities to make our content more accessible to audiences here at home and around the world,” said Arif Noorani, Director, CBC Podcasts. “Acast is the ideal partner for this initiative, and we’re thrilled to collaborate with them to share this beloved series with a broader international audience."

Acast will make Seule: Une histoire d’amour and Sola: Una historia de amor widely accessible to listeners by distributing the shows across all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and wherever else audiences get their podcasts.

Additionally, listeners to the French- and Spanish-language adaptations will be able to hear sponsorships and ads from relevant advertisers in their respective markets. Brands and agencies can purchase ads, sponsorships, and integrated branded content partnerships that make use of Acast’s pioneering dynamic ad insertion technology, which allows advertisers to reach audiences using conversational targeting, first-party data targeting, listener demographics, location, and more.

French-speaking audiences can now follow and subscribe to Seule: Une histoire d’amour on all podcast platforms.

Spanish-speaking audiences can now follow and subscribe to Sola: Una historia de amor on all podcast platforms.

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