Guest Interviews

• John Spurlock - Thread.land  
• Matt Medeiros - Castos

Show Notes

• Acast has released the company’s Q2/22 financial report.
  The Swedish company now hosts 66,000 podcasts (a record growth last quarter); the number of listens in the quarter increased 41% year-on-year. 
  
  The company lost $11m in the quarter, though now expects to make EBITDA profit in 2024, earlier than previously expected. 
  
  “The heavy investment phase is now over, " says CEO Ross Adams, noting that the advertising market has been cooling globally.
  
  
• Bloomberg's Ashley Carman’s newsletter launches next month. 
  
  
• Ashley wrote about the world of paid podcast appearances, or what some consider podcast payola. Guests are paying hosts up to $50K for an interview, and the disclosures around that exchange aren’t always clear or even existent.
  
  
• Skye Pillsbury (Frmr contributor, Hot Pod) has launched her newsletter called The Squeeze
  
  
• Want to support podcast:socialInteract with ActivityPub in your feed. Find your podcast on thread.land then DM @johnspurlock the unique prefix url .
  
  
• Congratulation to Josh Chen from JustCast for also adding Alby integration and enabling autofill in Value4Value tag to enable the Alby wallet. 
  
  
• Online studio Cleanfeed has won an Emmy Award for Engineering, Science & Technology.
  
  
• The BBC claims a new record number of weekly users for its audio app, BBC Sounds.
  
  
• All future @SoundsProfNews podcasts will be built with @spoolermedia.
  
  
• Publisher and broadcaster Audacy has bought podcast app Moonbeam.
  
  

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