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Special Guest

• Harry Duran talks about how he found a sponsor for his new podcast, raising $9k before launching  

SubStack

• Substack is moving into podcasting - “but better”. The platform also lets you podcast for free

YouTube

• YouTube is the third most popular podcast platform in America
  
  
• Should your podcast be on YouTube? Rephonic crunch the data: revealing that for English-language shows, it could well be worthwhile. The Podfather thinks it's a waste of time.
  
  
• Dan Misener analyses the different types of podcast on YouTube
  
  
• Jeff Vidler from Signal Hill Insights calls YouTube “the elephant in the podcasting room"

Acast

• Acast published its annual report. The company saw net ad sales grow by 73%; while it almost doubled the loss of last year
  
  
• Alberto Betella has suggested a podcast:verify tag, designed to removed the need for podcasters to expose/spam their email addresses in RSS feeds.

BBC

• The hosts of one of the UK’s biggest podcasts, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are to take their film review podcast to Sony Music Entertainment
  
  
• Worth Reading Is talent in control - Matt Deegan

Other

• Podmachine has been launched - a tool to grow and edit your podcast for you
• Headliner has launched Eddy
• Dave Jones writes What is Podcasting 2.0 all about?
• Podchaser launch their 3rd annual Reviews4Good program
• Daniel J Lewis is celebrating 15 years in podcasting
• Castopod 1.0.0-beta.12 is up! Grab your Castopod on https://castopod.org
  
  

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