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• Acast released Q1/23 financials.  Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began.
• Amazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platform. 
• Amazon quietly acquired Snackable, an AI platform.
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• Bumper looks at ways to look at Listen Time as a method to measure your audience’s engagement with your podcast. 
• Podcasting on YouTube is a flop so far, reports Ashley Carman in her newsletter.
• NewsGuard, a “news reliability data service”, has announced its entry into podcasting today. 

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