Scott Waxman tells us why books and podcasts fit together? Hala Taha tells us why promoting your podcast with an audiogram maybe a waste of time? Amazon buys exclusive rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ podcast. Libsyn5 is live to all users.

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GUESTS: 

• SCOTT WAXMAN // HALA TAHA

NEWS:

• Spotify takes Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s podcast ‘into its own hands’ after the couple produced NO content for a YEAR.
  
  
• Spotify picks Joe Rogan over Neil Young
  
  
• Stephen Fry has launched a new podcast exploring the brain. The podcast is exclusively on Audible.
  
  
• Amazon Buys Exclusive Rights to ‘My Favorite Murder’ Podcast. 
  Amazon Music and Wondery will offer new episodes of the podcasts for a week before they are available on other services.
  
  
• Libsyn has put its new user interface, Libsyn5, live to all users.
  The new interface is easier to use, and features 'social scheduling’ and support of the locked tag.
  
  
• Exclusive: The free and open-source podcast solution for you to self-host, Castopod has reached v1.0, and now has a website of its own.  The podcast platform includes open comments, video clips, anonymised analytics, and wide support for the new podcast namespace. It’s available for download today.
  
  
• Podcast hosting company Castos has added customisable podcast website themes.
  CEO Craig Hewett will be a guest on the show next week. 
  
  
• Captivate launch Automated Show Notes.
  Mark Asquith will be a guest on the show next week.
  
  
• Anchor podcasts are unplayable in some podcast apps.
  Overcast CEO/Developer Marco Arment, added, in a tweet to Anchor: “It’s been two weeks that you’re serving malformed files, breaking media players, and losing the audiences of your customers. Do you care about this medium at all?”
  
  
• Ross Mathews and Nikki Boyer are co-hosting The Ambies, the second annual Awards for Excellence in Audio run by The Podcast Academy. They’re the co-hosts of Dying for Sex, the winner of the 2021 Podcast of the Year; the ceremony is on March 22 in Los Angeles, and live online.
  
  
• Castopod joins Spotify, Podchaser and Podnews in adding copious amounts of JSON_LD to podcast pages.
  
  
• this podcast (@seetee.io) is putting their boost messages onto their website. (If you’ve an Umbrel running Helipad, http://umbrel.local:2112/boosts is a JSON feed that might help)  Gigi will be a guest on next weeks show.
  
  
• NEW Boostergram Icon from Benjamin Bellamy.
  
  
• Acast has launched Acast Amplifier, a podcast incubator to discover the next generation of UK podcasters. You’ve until Mar 25 to enter. 
  
  
• Learn about Nakamoto Consensus and Neutrino’s 
   

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