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New AI editing

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tools, the latest from our daily newsletter

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at podnews .net. The

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AI podcast editor Resound,

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launched out of Resonate Recordings, announced

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new tools to automate your podcast

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workflow. Resound will now

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automatically mix and master your

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podcast, detect filler sounds, trim

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audio manually, detect long

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silences and preview instantly.

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It's available to start for free. Spotify

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is to make more than 150 ,000

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audiobooks available to Spotify premium

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subscribers. These audiobooks

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are available to users in the UK and Australia

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today. With the US coming later

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this year, subscribers get 15

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hours of listening of audiobooks

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included per month. Who

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is supposed to register for the upcoming

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Canadian regulation of podcasts? The

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CRTC tells us online

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services that operate in Canada and

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offer podcasts, such as Apple

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and Spotify. The regulator adds,

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the CRTC will not censor content

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Canadians listen to and watch online.

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You will be able to continue to listen to

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and watch the content of your choice. The

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goal is to better support Canadian

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and Indigenous content and ensure

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it's available on radio, TV and online

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streaming services. Libsyn's

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advertised cast unveiled its September 2023

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podcast ad rate. The average

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cost per thousand rate was $22 .91.

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That's up 3 .8 % month on month.

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The company also highlighted their brand safety

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tools from ComScore. YouTube

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Music is adding auto downloads

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for podcasts. Google Podcasts,

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which is to be replaced by YouTube Music, has

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this feature already. Podcast

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data tool Refonic now estimates

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cost per podcast ad. Works

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out which podcast accepts sponsors

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or advertisers and has now imported

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Spotify charts alongside Apple.

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Podcast One is to translate its

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podcast into Spanish, starting with

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a Spanish translation of True Crime podcast

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Bad Bad Thing. The company

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is using technology from Rask AI.

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TED has launched TED in Chinese

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worldwide. It's a Chinese version

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of the TED podcast. The company is

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working with Acast to host and monetize

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the show, which includes Mandarin Chinese speakers,

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as well as 30 iconic TED talks

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dubbed into Chinese by professional

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voice talent. Blue Wire

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has announced a strategic partnership with

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Sounder to offer brand safety

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and suitability tools, including ad

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targeting to advertisers. And

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Acast has released data following a

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podcast ad campaign for a haircare

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product, which achieved a 43

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% increase in intent to

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purchase. The activity included

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fully branded episodes and sponsored

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stories. In People

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News, Adam Curry was recognized

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with a Lifetime Achievement Award

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at the Spark Media Insight Conference

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Awards. The awards also gave

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out a number of awards for Christian podcasts.

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And VoiceWorks Sport has hired three

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new senior people to the company's team,

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Ruth Fitzsimons, who used

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to work at Audio Boom and Podfront UK.

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She joins as head of International, Chloe

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Yates, who's ex Sony Music as a count

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director and Laura Davies, who's

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ex Bower Media and Wireless Group as podcast

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relationship manager. And

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in podcast news, a new season of What Had

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Happened Was has been announced by Talk

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House and Stony Island Audio, open

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Mike Eagle. We'll focus on the life,

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legacy and legendary catalogue of Ahmed Questlove

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Thompson. It's America's

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most controversial, protected and lethal

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industry, Guns in

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the Gun Machine from WBUR,

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which launches today. Find out how America

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was forged by the gun industry

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on a new podcast series from

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WBUR and The Trace. Bestselling

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author Amy Chan has released Breakup

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Bootcamp, a podcast based on her

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Harper Collins book, Breakup Bootcamp,

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The Science of Rewiring Your Heart.

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The podcast is from Cake Media. About

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a Boy, the story of Vladimir Putin

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is new from Odyssey and Park. It's

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a five -part documentary series exploring

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the forces that shaped Russian

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President Vladimir Putin's childhood,

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and why it's critical to understanding what he

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might do next in the war against Ukraine.

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In 1889, two female

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journalists raced each other around

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the world, one for Cosmopolitan, one

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for the New York World, one going east,

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one going west. A race around

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the world, based on the true adventures of

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Nelly Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, is launched

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today. Will they make it under 80

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days? And who will come first?

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And surviving El Chapo, the twins who

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brought down a drug lord, is back for

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a new season today, from their wives to

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their children. The decision by Jay

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and Pete Flores to go to the cops

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drastically changed the lives of

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everyone around them. This

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season focuses on the consequences of their decision

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to bring down the infamous drug lord, it's new

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from Lionsgate Sound and

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