Special Guest Interviews:Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about "A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time"Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting.Top News StoriesExclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search.  Now, a Google search for a podcast no longer shows any play buttons linking to the service or any links to Google Podcasts.Open podcast analytics service OP3 has published its method of calculating downloads, including links to code.Cloudflare has launched Wildebeest, an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server. 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