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Making their way to the exit? The latest from podnews.net with Podcastle - create edit publish and grow

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We start with an exclusive story for you today

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Spotify is no longer a member of the IAB,

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having quietly ceased its membership in the last three months. After we made a press inquiry

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Spotify's Megaphone, Chartable and the Spotify for Podcasters host formerly known as Anchor

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were removed from the published list of compliant companies for podcast measurement. They last underwent certification in 2020.

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A Spotify spokesperson told Podnews that they're taking a pause and will evaluate a formal membership later this year.

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You can read their statement in full in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net

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They're the largest global digital audio advertising company with ad-supported revenue last quarter of

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$533 million. They're bigger than Sirius XM, iHeart, Cumulus, Audacy and Acast although all those other companies are

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IAB members. Well, we'd like to carry views from the rest of the industry about the news later this week

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I'm [email protected] or you can hit the boost button if you have something to say

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Meanwhile podcast hosting company Podbean has also been removed from the list of IAB compliant companies

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They were last certified in 2020 the IAB's compliance certification guide

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states that a company must submit for certification at least once in the past 12 months

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Last week Libsyn was recertified under the IAB podcast measurement guidelines.

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Captivate and Buzzsprout were last certified under version 2.0 in 2020,

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but both companies are in the process of recertification. We're told the IAB doesn't publish the costs for undergoing podcast measurement

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certification, so we have, and you'll find those in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net

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Meanwhile Realm has selected Flightpath as an ad revenue optimization tool.

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City University of London is looking for a podcaster in residence.

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The position is open to early career practitioners with under five years of professional experience.

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The university is also offering scholarships and bursaries to UK based students in a program funded by Spotify and Goalhanger.

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Spotify have written about how the company approaches safety and from the archive Dan Misener has written about Jimmy and the magic pizza shop:

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it's a parable on why he feels it's important to have measurement guidelines that we all agree on

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We appreciate your support which allows us to better resource our independent journalism around podcasting

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You can be like Dots and support us too - and thank you if you will - at podnews.net/support

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In people news: if you want to work on one of the top 15 podcasts in the UK,

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Global is looking for an executive podcast producer for The News Agents. You'll find that at podnews.net/jobs

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Time for some tech stuff, and you can now follow your favorite podcast on the fediverse - Mastodon Pleroma and similar.

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It's a website called podcastAP which will help you find the automated accounts.

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You can even upload OMPL to it.

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We're now rate limiting our podcast pages after significant sustained crawling from ip addresses belonging to Microsoft.

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You, and they, can download a complete podcast database from the Podcast Index anyway.

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Extra costs for us have been quite substantial. They've cost us well over 750

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dollars. If anybody's got Bill Gates's address we'd appreciate it.

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Spotify has support for chapters - well Podlove's chapters anyway.

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We link to a show with chapter points in it hosted by RSSBlue.

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Truefans got a good magazine article write-up in the City University of London alumni magazine.

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And open podcast analytics service OP3 has added a new API and renamed one. They're also looking for translations.

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And in podcast news: in Podcasting 2.0 with Adam Curry and Dave Jones, the CEO of Truefans Sam Sethi is guest this week.

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After controversial comedian Jimmy Carr made a controversial joke that caused controversy in the press,

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he's the latest guest on Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps today.

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Carr has a new Netflix special out, what a coincidence given his controversial joke that we mentioned earlier.

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He talks cancel culture, outrage archaeology, and the joke that will end his career.

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The Price of Paradise is new today from Wondery: the true story of two women who found themselves on the opposite sides of the same battle.

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Dog parks are important public spaces. argues a new podcast called Dog

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Parkology and on the Media Voices podcast this week

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I talk about running a newsletter and the podcast industry apparently I say there's a tale of two industries at the moment

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There's the US which is probably overheated, and then there's the rest of the world, where slow and steady wins the race.

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Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast called New Podcast Trailers

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And we're sponsored by Podcastle. Create edit publish and grow your podcast all in one collaborative AI powered platform.

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Make your voice heard with Podcastle - you can find a link in the show notes.

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