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 'been acquired' by a new company, Muse Group.
  
  
• The Australian part of Podcast Day 24 will be an in-person event in Sydney NSW on June 7, it’s been announced. The conference announced its first set of speakers this morning; it’s part of a 24-hour event in Australia, Europe and North America.

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