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A new exclusive, for Spotify, the latest from PodNews.net, with critically acclaimed, highly addictiveCBC podcasts.Broadcaster Louis Thoreau has signed an exclusive deal with Spotify.The show is the latest high-profile defection from the BBC.His podcast Grounded was the most popular podcast on BBC Sounds in quarter-two 2020.Michelle Obama is also doing an exclusive, but an audible, original, and exclusive to thatplatform.The light podcast starts in early March, the Obama-owned production company Higher Groundsigned the deal with Audible in June.Last month, Buzzsprout saw a market share growth of almost a percentage point, accordingto John Spurlock's Live Wire, RSS.com overtook evokes to become the number nine biggestpodcast hosting company, as measured by total new episodes published, megaphone overtookSoundCloud, to reach number seven.Lipsins advertised cast reports a significant drop in average podcast cost per thousandrates for January at $22.28, the average rate in its marketplace is down 12% year-on-year,and is the lowest figure for 23 months.Rob News' editor, James Critlin, that's me, is confirmed to be speaking at podcast movementevolutions this year, I'll be sharing the results of the PodNews report card.It's your yearly opportunity to have your say about podcast platforms and apps, and youcan enter today should only take a few minutes, PodNews.net slash report card.43% of Black Americans say they have listened to a podcast in the last month.That's five points higher than the total population, according to new data from SXM Media,Mindshare, and Edison Research.The data was released in the Black Podcast listener report.Amplify Media's Stephen Goldstein says that podcasting is doing fine, thank you, in a blogpost that we link to today.Twitter has announced that all free access to the Twitter API will end on February 9.Without announcing pricing or usage detail, it's likely to break many cross-postingtools and services.You can follow PodNews by searching for updates at PodNews.net in Mastodon and othercompatible platforms, where we'll continue to keep you updated.And podcast branch club looks at podcasts, focusing on aging.In people news, Robby Ashcroft has been announced as managing partner a free turn entertainment.He joins from Densu's The Story Lab, which funded news shows.Libcyn has made a new Spanish office for Julep Media.They've hired a country director, a partner manager and a country director for the Germanspeaking countries.Stephen Hough has been made head of international at Libcyn.Soundstack has hired Scott Klass as Chief Marketing Officer, Bill Feichtman as VP of Financeand Tony Lycon as head of product.Putting the right experienced people into place is always step number one, said CEO JohnStevenson.And Ray Harkins, who works in podcast strategy at iHeart Media on the West Coast, leavesthe company on Friday.He's taking a moment to check out what else is happening in the podcast space.And in podcast news, right back at year launched yesterday, it's the first podcast fromAmnesty International Canada and introduces listeners to frontline activists creatingunstoppable lasting change in Canada and beyond in black history month.And you need a new show to listen to, new podcast trailers is available in your favouriteRSS podcast app and contains trailers from lots of new shows.You'll find it at podnews.net slash trailers.This podcast is sponsored by CBC Podcasts, new seven-part series Love Genessa is climbingthe International Charts, joined host Hannah Adjala on a wild journey to find a womanwhose images are used as bait in global catfish schemes.Love Genessa is from BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts, produced by Antica and TelltaleProductions.And that's the latest from our newsletter to read all the stories and subscribe.We're at podnews.net.