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Spotify enhances chapter support for podcasters

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  • Exclusive: Spotify appears to have enhanced chapter support within the Spotify podcasts app. Nic Ivanov, founder of Vizzy, notes that there’s a new Chapters section in an episode page, and chapter marks and titles within a new player which is rolling out to both iOS (above) and Android. However, Spotify isn’t supporting either ID3 embedded chapters, nor chapters via the new podcast namespace: instead, Spotify uses timestamps in the episode description, much like YouTube. See these chapters in action on Spotify in the Decorating by the Book podcast, which Vizzy has helped build.

  • Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast report that December’s average podcast advertising rate was $23.57 CPM, a drop of 4% month-on-month. The company’s release also gives an average CPM rate in 2022 of $23.87, which was 2.4% higher than 2021's $23.30.

  • With Deezer? There has been a data breach at the French-owned music and podcasts service, affecting 229m accounts. Have I Been Pwned has sent out notifications today. Your data is probably compromised even if you only used the service to add your podcast there.

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#1 in Apple Podcasts
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#1 in Spotify
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Over the last week, 162,578 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 2.0%). source

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