Special Guests: Rob Lowenthal - Spotify/MegaphoneSharon Taylor - Triton DigitalDarby Dorras - ListenTom Billington  - The Podcast ShowNews: Acast released Q1/23 financials.  Acast now hosts more than 100K registered podcasts globally and they’ve also exceeded 100mn monthly unique listeners. They have now paid more than $250 million out to their creators since Acast began.Amazon Music is paying some Australian listeners AUD$5 (USD$3.39) in vouchers just for listening to a podcast on the platform. Amazon quietly acquired Snackable, an AI platform.The Podcast Show 2023. You can still buy tickets for the event - the code PODNEWS will get you a discount.Bumper looks at ways to look at Listen Time as a method to measure your audience’s engagement with your podcast. Podcasting on YouTube is a flop so far, reports Ashley Carman in her newsletter.NewsGuard, a “news reliability data service”, has announced its entry into podcasting today. Support the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @joinpodfans Lightning/NOSTR: ⚡james@crid.land and ⚡sam@getalby.com Mastodon: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net