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Buzzsprout launches an iOS app. The latest from podnews.net with CoHost: podcast analytics

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and audience insights.

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Buzzsprout has released an app for iPhone, allowing Buzzsprout customers to manage their

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podcasts wherever they are.

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An Android app is coming soon, the iOS app which is free is in the App Store now and

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Buzzsprout sponsors the Podnews Weekly Review.

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YouTube Music has fired around 50 staff looking to unionize at the exact moment when they

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were in a meeting with Austin City Council asking for their help.

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"There are less than 50 of us at YouTube Music, so to be supported by the city of Austin

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and also our allies in the labour community, give us the motivation to keep this fight going."

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"Not to interrupt, but they just laid us all off."

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"Oh."

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"Yeah, they just laid us all off, our jobs are ended today, effective immediately."

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"Wow."

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"I'm sorry your time has expired."

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Well, whatever that sounds like, Google denied that they were fired, saying that they were

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contractors, and the contract had ended, and that they needed to negotiate with their employer.

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But the National Labor Relations Board has said twice that workers are jointly employed

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by both the contractor, Cognizant, and Google.

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The Alphabet Workers Union says Google's action is illegal.

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Spotify For Podcasters increased its lead in February, being used as a podcast host

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by 31.2% of new episodes.

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Behind the scenes, Amazon CloudFront hit a new record, serving 55.65% of all new episodes.

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The most listened-to podcast in the world, the Joe Rogan Experience, has switched podcast

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host from Spotify for podcasters to Spotify's enterprise host, Megaphone.

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Apple Podcasts has fixed its promotional request form, the form has been updated too. A new

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podcast network has launched, building on the knowledge gained by creating a number one

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podcast. The Radcast Network will offer comprehensive, turn-key show production and monetization

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services for both existing and new podcasts.

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World Athletics and VoiceWorks Sport have signed a podcast partnership.

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VoiceWorks Sport will provide audio and visual content production support in what's been

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described as a milestone year for athletics.

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Just Cairo happened over the weekend, we have a full report of the day and full video of

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the event and how much does the BBC pay for a 14-minute podcast?

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More than $6,000 per episode, according to Bill Rogers, and a radio feature will give

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you less than $900.

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In People News, Julia Longoria has joined the Vox network and will be hosting a new show

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later in the year, she joins from WNYC, The Atlantic and The New York Times.

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Now time for some tech stuff, and Apple has reversed its decision to remove PWA web apps

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in the EU. Some podcast app websites like Truefans allow you to add to home screen in the share menu,

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giving a full app-like experience, and Podnews does too, giving you an icon that will

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always show you the latest news.

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We removed Google Podcast links from our podcast pages today: the app closes in some countries

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at some point this month. There's no direct replacement in Android, though YouTube Music will play podcasts via

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RSS feeds and we'll guide you through the process if you hit the YouTube music icon.

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Fountain launched Fountain Radio, a value-for-value powered music jukebox service where listeners

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can choose songs and money goes to the artist.

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Starting on my personal blog, I say that Overcast is designed differently.

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Almost all podcast apps don't appear to have done anything special for the thing you use

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them 99% of the time for, actually playing the podcast. You'll find a link to that in

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our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.

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And do you do a show, and are you enabled for value for value?

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That's from Matt Cundill and you'll find it at podcasting2.org/marketing.

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And in podcast news, In And Around Podcasting is a new show launching today from Mark Asquith,

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a fight against the podcast elite and built to be an accessible inclusive podcast for

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every single podcaster. It allows everyone with an interest in the medium to have a

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fair, open and transparent view on the podcasting industry and how it affects them. It's hosted

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where else - on Captivate.

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Wondery and SmartLess Media launch WikiHole with Darcy Carden today, a game show style

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trivia game. Based on Wikipedia entries, it was launched with a live show in Los Angeles.

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The show is a production of SmartLess Media radio point and aggregate films and it remains

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with Wondery, despite much of SmartLess' slate being signed by SiriusXM earlier in the year.

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Cover Up the Anthrax Threat is a new season of Sony Music and Campside Media's Cover

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Up. The sidebar is the second Daily Mail podcast launch in the last month. Richard Arnold will

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co-host with a set of rotating guest hosts to discuss the stories that have wound up

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on the holy grail of Showbiz - the mail online's sidebar. (We also link to a Chrome

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extension which hides the thing). And 18 years ago, Chilled Music podcast was launched. It

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lasted for exactly 100 episodes, but it's still available today. It's hosted by Ted

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Levine. It's one for headphones if you've got those.

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