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Experiments in spatial audio, the latest from PodNews.net with Climb of Oz, the podcast for

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healthy food and a healthy planet.

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The New York Times has shared its experiments with spatial audio, which let you move your

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head or your device to hear the audio recording from different angles.

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The team has produced a project website with recording tips, mixing details and distribution

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information. It uses Dolby Atmos or Mac One.

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Acast has just launched a self-serve platform for podcast advertising.

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The platform allows brands of any size and budget to start advertising for as little as

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$250.

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Spreaker has just launched a programmatic ad quality tool called Magda, which automatically

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checks ad categories to make sure they're accurate.

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It was successfully trialed during the midterm elections by audio boom.

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It's called the machine augmented guard for dynamic advertising, but also the somebody

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who works at Spreaker called Magda, who was the first to work on ad quality control.

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The blast mic is a high quality, lossless audio microphone that they say lets you go live

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from anywhere or record and while asleep download a WAV to your editor.

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The company calls it a professional radio broadcast studio in your hand, and we've got

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a discount code if you want one. We'll find that in our show notes and our newsletter at PodNews.net.

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For the first time, a majority of national marketers and media agencies are advertising in

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podcasts. According to a new study in the US, cumulus media and signal hill insights released

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the podcast download Fall 2022 report, an in-depth study of podcast listeners and advertisers

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nearly one in three listeners, say they prefer podcasts with video, which shows work on

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Patreon, and which don't. Refonic has calculated the most successful podcast as on the platform to discover the most

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popular categories with Patreon subscribers and where the opportunities are.

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Apple Podcasts announced the winner of the 2022 Apple Podcasts Award, the Slate Podcasts

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Slowburne, Roe vs. Wade, was selected by the Apple Podcasts editorial team in the US.

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Six new episodes, exclusive to Apple Podcasts, off-slowburne, also announced yesterday, in

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a pleasing coincidence.

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A number of shows disappeared from Spotify yesterday, it was a bug which they've since

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rectified. Apple says podcasts don't need email addresses in their RSS feeds anymore to combat spam,

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but the Canadian podcast awards isn't having it.

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The removal of email addresses from RSS feeds isn't one we agree with or will support

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the organization says in an email, adding, we do not have any plans at the moment to support

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feeds without contact information. Buzzsprout, Podbean and Canada's Transistor are among

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those who have removed email addresses by default from feeds. The way forward is to use

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a verification code instead.

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Pushkin Industries is to partner with production company Little Everywhere, which will

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co-produce season through the dream, and will jointly launch a finance show early next

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year. I hope media is to launch a new slate of comedy podcasts, and if you don't mind,

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I'm a personal supporter of EFF, which defends digital privacy, free speech and innovation,

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and this week, all donations to EFF will be doubled, so you should go and support them

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at EFF.org.

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In people news, Josh Yamuda has been announced by Trident Digital as its new director of

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partnerships, programmatic marketplace. He was programmatic manager at a target spot, and

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before that, programmatic specialist, Zack Sis, and Australian podcasters, Hamish Nandy,

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have signed a multi-year extension with listener. Their podcast will also be played on hit

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radio stations across Australia throughout December, as their summer holidays breakfast

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show. And in podcast news, Money with Ben and Pete is a brand new show from Hope 103.2, a Christian

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radio station in Melbourne in Australia, the show is your weekly payoff of fun, financial,

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banter, and new from the EW scripts company, verified full disclosure, is the story of

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what happens when US law enforcement officials routinely fail to track dishonest and

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disreputable police officers disclose their misconduct in criminal cases and hold them

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accountable. It launched yesterday and has produced a public, searchable database of dishonest

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police officers. This podcast is sponsored by Climate Wars. I'm of course is a podcast for eaters who are

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trying to navigate the complex relationship between healthy food and a healthy planet.

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Hosted by journalists Tamar Hassel and Mike Grunwals, they explore the complicated, confusing

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and surprising relationship between food and the environment from postscript media, listen

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to Climate Wars, wherever you get your podcast. And that's the latest from our news.

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