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Send James and Sam a message or voicemail

GUESTS:  

• James O. Boggs
• Andy Bowers

NEWS: 

• Spooler's "dynamic, real-time audio" publishing system launched last week. According to an analysis by John Spurlock, on its first day, Spooler helped The Refresh from Insider to produce five editions of their podcast. 
  
  
• A new podcast platform, Spooler, has launched. It's founded by a who's who of podcasting, including CEO James O. Boggs, formerly Head of Podcasts at Apple; CCO Andy Bowers, co-founder of Slate Audio and Megaphone; CTO Dan Benjamin, founder of Fireside·fm and the 5by5 podcast network, and Exec Producer Kerry Donahue, former EP at WNYC. 
  
  
•  Amazon has released Amp, a “live radio app” seen as their version of Clubhouse or TwitterSpaces. 
  
  
• It’s available in the US for iOS users only in a waitlist; it’ll enable you to DJ your own music show (with “tens of millions of licensed songs” they say), and you can take callers, too. Amp’s website is live, and you can download the app to join the waitlist.
  
  
• YouTube is offering podcasters up to $50,000 to film their shows and paying podcast networks up to $300,000, according to Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman.
  
  
• TikTok on the clock, but the party don’t stop: except, says Rephonic, podcasters are ignoring TikTok. Twitter is significantly over-represented across all podcasts, the company summarises; but TikTok has by far the highest average number of followers.
  
  
• Is TikTok getting into podcasting? TikTok is hiring for someone to work in their “Podcast Operation” in Sydney NSW, Australia.
  
  
• TikTok is launching its own music marketing and distribution platform, SoundOn
  
  
• How many podcasts use chapters? About 1.22% of all episodes, says new data from John Spurlock’s Livewire. ID3 tags within MP3 are the most popular method.
  
  
• A cross-app specification that could be added to the Podcasting 2.0 namespace.
  
  
• Justcast adds support for Seasons and you can pick the season from a list, and create a new one on the fly.
  
  
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