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Podcast Movement has announced a set of meetups - in Las Vegas on Apr 15, as well as May meetups in Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, and a June meetup in Orlando.
In Chicago, WBEZ is to lay off 14 staff, in part resulting in a reduction of its podcasting unit. It will stop making what it calls its “non-newsroom” shows, including Nerdette and When Magic Happens.
In the Netherlands, research company Kantar has published research on “optimal impact” from podcast advertising. The company suggests that you don’t need to advertise on a large number of episodes to get results.

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Berlin Podcast Week has been announced for Sep 10-15. Visitors can expect “a wealth of expert knowledge on topics such as AI, reach and monetization”.
Realm is partnering with the Austin Film Festival to sponsor its 2024 Fiction Podcast competition.
An email you’ve probably already seen: “On April 13, starting at 6:00 am PDT, Apple Podcasts Connect will be unavailable for up to two hours.” (That link will convert the time to where you are.)
- Something in Apple Podcasts experienced an outage yesterday, according to the Apple status website. It seemed part of a bigger problem at Cupertino.
Apple exerted editorial control over Jon Stewart’s podcast, he claimed on The Daily Show on Monday. His Apple TV+ show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, ran from 2021 to 2023.
Audioboost, an Italian audio tool that turns web pages into audio, saw a doubling of its network in 2023, the company says. It’s also seen growth in its collaboration with branded podcast company Podcastory.
Sharing podcast episodes is weird, writes Juha-Matti Santala. Who wants to point them towards episodes.fm, a service that gives links to share individual episodes?
You’ll never guess the podcast app the New York Post recommends as a replacement to Google Podcasts... until you realise the entire article is tagged with affiliate links.

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Innovation Minutes, a (normally) German-language podcast, interviews our Editor, James Cridland, today on the landscape of podcasts in Europe, the US and beyond. It was recorded a few weeks ago at Radiodays Europe in Munich - and yes, this episode is in English, because James ist zu faul Deutsch zu lernen.

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