There are now 2 million podcasts
Kim Gorga

There are now 2 million podcasts

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  • We just hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcasts, according to Daniel J Lewis’s Podcast Industry Insights tool. Overnight, the total number of shows hit 2,004,462. He says that 37.29% are “active” (published at least one episode in the last 90 days).

  • How do podcast prefix analytics work? Bryan Barletta looks into the tech used by companies like Podtrac, Podsights, Chartable and Blubrry, in Sounds Profitable this week, sponsored by Claritas. Subscribe here


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  • Podsights has announced a $4m funding round. (They had a previous funding round of $1.5m in Jan 2020). The analytics company, which has a team of 15 people, is profitable.

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