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• 🎧Spotify Tests New Features Following DMA Ruling

• 🔥YouTube's Secret Sauce: Recommendations for Podcast Discovery

• 🚨 Navigating The Real Risks Of AI-Audio by Steven Goldstein

• 🌏 Podcast Recommendation: Mother is a question

• 🛠️Podcast Events & Toolbox

🎧Spotify Tests New Features Following DMA Ruling

Spotify tests how its iOS app will change post-DMA. Spotify submitted an update for Apple's approval to display "basic pricing and website information" on its European app and "the bare minimum outlined under the European Commission's ruling in its music streaming case."

🔥 YouTube's Secret Sauce: Recommendations for Podcast Discovery

In recent years, creators have used podcasts more and more, and YouTube is the top destination for podcast discovery, especially among Gen Z listeners. Rene Ritchie interviewed YouTube Chief Product Officer Johanna Voolich about her love of podcasts, the platform's meteoric rise of podcast content, and the future for Creators and listeners on YouTube and YouTube Music.

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🚨Navigating The Real Risks Of AI-Audio

Yes, AI is opening doors to magnificent possibilities for podcasters and changing the world at warp speed. Productivity tops the list with tools for rapid transcriptions, brand safety, content research, and script writing, enhancing how podcasters create and manage content. Leveraging AI to save time and organize is a no-brainer, but worrisome developments are happening with AI - specifically AI audio. 

Just a few weeks ago, the estate of the legendary comedian George Carlin (boy, I miss him) reached a settlement with the creators of a podcast who used AI to impersonate Carlin for a comedy special.

The podcast hosts trained an AI algorithm on decades of Carlin's work without the estate's permission, infringing on copyrights and sparking legal action. The settlement required removing the shows and prohibited the use of Carlin's voice or likeness without estate approval, highlighting the copyright challenges AI poses. This case underlines the need for clear guidelines and ethical standards in using AI to mimic individuals dead or alive. [ Read more - Steven Goldstein]

• Today marks ten years that Acast, the biggest independent podcast company in the world, has been at the top of the podcast industry.

• The IAB UK and PwC 2023 full-year Digital Adspend report examines digital advertising spend. The study found that digital advertising grew 11% to £29.6 billion last year. Download the full report for highlights, formats, and sector breakdowns.

This is an invitation into the depths of mothers’ hearts, minds and stories. Join best friends Julia Metzger-Traber and Tasha Haverty as they crack open definitions of motherhood and listen for the unspeakable through playful, intimate conversations with mothers from all walks of life. Mother is a Question is a portal into the kaleidoscopically different and yet universal experiences of what it means to mother.

Not another chat show sharing practical advice from the daily frontlines of mothering, but a space to live in the questions, and enlist the existential and poetic wisdom of those who mother. What would the world be if we took mothers’ questions and their wisdom seriously?

Tasha and Julia, both mothers of babies and small children– sleepless and overwhelmed, renewed and disjointed, transformed and confused – are seeking wisdom from all directions. But rather than expecting any final answers, each question opens up many more. The hosts’ own friendship dynamic–with their sometimes contrasting fascinations and struggles in motherhood–guides each episode, fed by a flow of listeners’ reflections and stories shared on the show’s “heartline,” a voicemail box, exploring that episode’s central question.

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• Cintia Gabilan has joined the Interactive Advertising Bureau as Vice President of the IAB Media Centre, which oversees the IAB Podcast Upfront.

• Podcast Group Therapy: How to Promo Swap. Promo swaps are an easy, seamless, and time-friendly way to partner with other podcasts and effectively grow your audience. Join us to understand the power and versatility of promo placements!📅 Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 9:00am🚀 TINK🎫  $100/person for a 1-hour group session📍 VIRTUAL

• RESONATE: How to Sell, Write and Produce your Audio Fiction Series. This webinar from the award-winning audio fiction creator Asa Merritt will give you the professional and creative tools you need to break into this exciting field. 📅 Thursday, April 25 3pm PT / 6pm ET🚀 Soundpath🎫 Free📍 Virtual Online

• TPA Presents: Video in Podcasting: Should you do it? If so, how? - Arielle Nissenblatt (Descript) takes us through a lively, interactive 60-minute session unpacking the challenges and rewards of video in relation to podcasting. She’ll take your questions and provide insights into what it all means and her obsession with Beluga Whales.📅 April 30 | 12pm ET / 9am PT🚀 The Podcast Academy🎫 Free📍 Online

• Podcast Creator Summit - Are you a D.C.-based podcaster looking for tips and tools of the trade? Are you looking to meet other podcasters and expand your network? We are pleased to announce that nonprofit public media organization PRX –– one of the world’s top podcast publishers and public radio distributors –– will host the Podcast Creator Summit at WAMU’s studios📅 Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 9:00am🚀 PRX 🎫 Free📍 WAMU Black Box Theater and Community Room 4401 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20008

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• Katie Paterson of Podcast Host claims that only 8% of independent podcasters enter podcast awards. Here’s why

• In an exclusive preview of "The Sports Audio Report," which will be produced in collaboration with Edison Research and GroupM, Melissa Paris of SiriusXM provides this and other information.

• Jeff Vidler wrote a good article about What We’ve Learned About What Makes a Successful Branded Podcast 

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• 🎙️ Acast - is a podcast hosting service that enables you to publish, share, and earn money from your podcasts.

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• 📼 Tubebuddy - is a complete tool for YouTube channel management and growth.

• 📹 VidIQ - is a website for learning that focuses on offering video tutorials and analytics to aid users in expanding their YouTube channels.

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