Acast’s Aussie $31mn payout


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It how many australian dollar redo's the latest from Podnews.net with squadcast record remotely in studio quality acast Australia and New Zealand have revealed that the company has paid 31 million australian dollars, or 20 million U. S. Dollars, to local podcasters since the company launched there in August 2017. Spotify's 2023 rapped appears to have highlighted how many people had their Spotify accounts hacked. Looks like in May a lot of accounts were hacked and were playing Lil Dirk, a Chicago based drill rapper, whatever that is. In May his album had three times the plays that Taylor Swift did. Elsie Escobar and Libsin are releasing a prediction video at 08:00 a.m. Eastern time today. Among those interviewed, our editor, James Cridlin. That's me.


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We link to it today from our show notes and our newsletter@PodNews.net as well as a little review of YouTube's new podcasts index page in Australia and the it doesn't yet have one in Japan. And frankly, Japan isn't missing much, as you'll see in our show notes and our newsletter@Podnews.net. Joe Casabona is halfway through a podcast advent calendar with insights, freebies and tips delivered daily to your inbox. Podcast discovery website Great Pods has shared the most viewed reviews from the last year among the top ten, a strike force five archetypes and diary of a CEO. And last week we mentioned podcast AI, a tool that automates much of your podcast production, noting that it got $25,000 in funding from the founder university.


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In September, the company got a further 100,000 from Jason Calcanus's accelerator launch time for some tech stuff, and substack now has a video episodes feature. They've not called it a video podcast feature because the video doesn't make it to the RSS feed, so you won't be able to watch it in video capable podcast apps like Pocketcasts or Apple Podcasts. And you can only watch it in the iOS substac app for some reason. Apparently Android people don't like video. Now you might see different people telling you that Google Podcasts is to close in April 2024, and that's not quite true. That's its US closure date. Only the rest of the world get to keep it for a little longer. Anyway, we'll link to the migration details today and an example of the OPML file it spits out so you can test it.


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