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Spotify Wants To Be a Better Podcast Player
Summary Spotify is enhancing its podcast features, recommending new episodes on the Home screen just like it currently does with music. A new “Following” feed for podcasts organizes new episodes from subscribed shows for easy viewing. Creators can now link to other Spotify content mentioned in podcast episodes, and use emoji reactions on comments. Ever since Spotify added podcasts, it…
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Spotify made podcast play counts public — creators didn’t like it
Spotify announced earlier this month that podcast creators and listeners would get a new data point: how many plays an episode has gotten. The idea, according to Spotify, was that listeners could discover new shows they hadn’t heard of, enticed by this new public measure of fandom. Podcasters did not see it that way. Since the announcement, podcasters, especially those…
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Trump White House appeals to right-wing new media with ‘Podcast Row’
On Thursday, several conservative podcasters were invited to the White House to participate in Podcast Row, an event meant to engage alternative media by granting them hours of unprecedented access to senior Trump Administration officials. The White House intends to make this a recurring event. “Bringing in new media outlets has obviously been a priority of this administration and we…
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Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast
Google is testing an experimental AI feature that creates a personalized podcast using your Search and Discover feed history. The Daily Listen feature in Google’s Search Labs is rolling out to Android and iOS users in the US according to 9to5Google, and works similarly to the Audio Overviews feature for Google’s NotebookLM project. Daily Listen references search data and Discover…
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9 Podcast Planning Templates You Can Download Right Now
From brainstorming ideas to booking guests and outlining show topics, there’s a lot of work involved with planning a podcast episode. Podcast planning templates can help you keep track of sponsors, manage your editing and production process, and even map out promotional content once your episodes go live. These are some of my favorite free options for beginners, seasoned hosts,…
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The NSA’s podcast will have you listening in on them this time
The National Security Agency (NSA) will start sharing stories about some of the agency’s past missions in a new podcast. Dubbed No Such Podcast, the podcast will initially focus on foreign signals intelligence and cybersecurity in the first two episodes, both of which will be available to listen to starting tomorrow, September 5th. For years, the work of the NSA has…
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