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- Aug 7: Amazon Music has launched a new AI-powered feature for podcast discovery. Topics, available in the US only, are based on automatically extracting things spoken about in podcasts from transcripts, “alongside human review”. It appears to only work across top podcasts for now.
- Aug 5: The Audio Production Awards has announced a “Pay What You Can” scheme, supported by Amazon Music and Wondery. The scheme offers free entry to the awards and to the ceremony, for those who otherwise would not be able to do so due to financial constraints.
- Apr 29: Three US presidents are united on an episode of SmartLess available today. Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes were joined by Presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton in New York City. The episode was available early on Amazon Music and Wondery+. The show switches to SiriusXM later this year.
- Apr 26: Is RSS good for the environment? Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music are, according to Earth Notes, particularly bad at polling podcast RSS feeds very often, just in case someone’s published a new episode. (Our own RSS stats also show the size of the problem).
- Apr 23: Novel has a new CEO: Craig Strachan. He joins from Amazon Music, where he was Global Head of Podcast Industry.
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