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The CRTC is coming

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from somewhere above New South

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Wales in Australia, the latest from our daily

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newsletter at podnews .net.

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In what the media regulator calls

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a major step forward, but others

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call an attempt to crush free speech,

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Canada's CRTC has moved into regulation

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of podcasts. The new rules

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ensure online streaming services

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make meaningful contributions to

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Canadian and indigenous content. Says

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the government, the CRTC requires

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all online services with

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more than $10 million in revenue

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that operate in Canada and offer

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podcasts to register with

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the government before November the 28th.

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Regulation says it applies to all

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streaming services that operate in Canada,

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not those physically based there. We're

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asking the CRTC what an online streaming

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service is. Is it podcasts

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or is it wondering? And

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what operating in means? Do

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you have to have employees in Canada or

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just content available there? We're also

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asking what sanctions are liable

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should a company not register by

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November the 28th. The CRTC

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has not responded to a request that we

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made over 24 hours ago. The

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journalist Glenn Greenwald calls it

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one of the world's most repressive online

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censorship schemes, but

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Toronto Sun has also posted criticism.

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Now we think that the Canadian radio market

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is the most regulated in the Western world

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and it's no coincidence that it's also one of

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the worst performing radio markets

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with dwindling audiences and poor

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finances that are worse than any other country,

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but all of the large owners of Canadian

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radio also own lucrative mobile,

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cable and television licenses, so

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they never speak out against the CRTC's rules

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unless the regulator threatened those parts

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of their companies. Canada, we think,

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deserves better, but it's unlikely that

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it'll get it. In

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other news, Adam Bowie has written more about

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Edison podcast metrics after listening to

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our interview on the podcast weekly review, perhaps

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helpful for web apps and embedded players willing

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to how to detect failed requests

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via web extensions today. The

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Italian podcast audience continues to

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grow according to Ipsos, 39 %

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of 16 to 60 year olds, and

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now listening to podcast monthly, that's about 11

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.9 million people. Spotify

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for podcasters saw a significant increase

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in market share by episode according

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to LiveWire's data, but the data

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also says that it's improved accuracy and

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it's unclear what those improvements are. All

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podcast tracking services decreased, however

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this is again due to improvements in

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accuracy, so they say, but

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the number of episodes hosted on Amazon CloudFront

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hit a new record. And

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Buzzsprout saw a drop for Apple podcasts

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and Spotify downloads. Google podcasts

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posted its best ever download share

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of 3 .5 % on the platform,

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just in time for it to close. And

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in people news, the developer of podcast at

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Podverse, Mitch Downey, has quit

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his day job and will be working on

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the app full time for the next three months.

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And yes, in case you haven't already realized, owing

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to delayed flights, this is a

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truncated edition of PodNews. Today

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we're back to full force tomorrow. And

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