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Podcast hosting company RSS.com has added HLS video podcasting for Apple Podcasts that you can earn from. Video ads will run automatically, and creators can receive 70% of the revenue - with no audience threshold. The “Max” plan offers unlimited video and audio podcasts, and is available now.
Audible has unveiled a new global brand campaign, “Stories that Speak to You”. It’ll start running next week in eight different countries.
“As more privacy models are rightfully coming into play and tamping down on some of the data, we’re already ready for that, whereas other media are now going to have to do the kind of technology we’ve already built.” Jim Ballas, the President of Measurement at Magellan AI, is the special guest on PodBiz this week, the podcast that looks at the money in podcasting.
The New Media Show last week interviewed Barry Krantz, the CEO of Blubrry. He suggests that hosting, storage, and delivery have become commodities. The competitive difference now comes from the tools, services, support, analytics, workflows, distribution options, and human expertise built around the infrastructure.
Semafor covers Spotify’s new “Skip ahead” button after we broke the story last week. Net Influencer also covers it. Meanwhile, Net Influencer also covers Caloroga Shark Media’s contrarian push into short-form audio and Eurowaves takes a look at the podcast market in Finland.
What goes around, comes around - TubeStream “turns any YouTube channel into a podcast”.
Gate32 transcribes audio and video to text, wthout it leaving your browser. It uses WebGPU; the code is public and auditable. (Could be handy for podcast hosting companies?)
Or, audio-tldr will run a transcript on a video or audio file, and then summarize it for you. (Could this power show notes?)
“I look at what AMP wants podcast app developers to do in support of advertisers. Then I look at what podcast app developers are actually doing with advert skipping. One of those will win out. And, it isn’t the one that requires tons of first party data collection/reporting and the taking on of privacy liabilities.” - so says Dave Jones of the Podcast Index.
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The Inner Edge: Leadership, Self-Mastery, and Reinvention for a New Era comes back for season 3 this week. On this season, Janet Ioli, executive advisor do Fortune 100 Companies explores the 7 hidden traps that sabotage leaders in the workplace. Each episode lays out the trap, how it actually sounds and looks like in real life, and how to break the cicle - and become an inspiring leader.

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