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• Exclusive: Podcast hosting company Spreaker is, we believe, enabling wholesale copyright theft for podcasts - letting people copy other, well-known shows, host copies of them, and sell ads in the stolen audio. We discovered how easy it is to copy someone else's show on Spreaker; saw how few checks the company does to enable monetisation; and found that there are more than 1,700 shows duplicated on Spreaker at the moment, from publishers like PodcastOne, Vox Media, Goalhanger and SiriusXM. We have all the details in a special report.
  • As we were working on this story, we were contacted by Lisa Lacy. Someone had copied her podcast, and five days later the copy was already charting. In her story for Podnews, she gives five steps to protecting your podcast; and she's founded a service called PodProtect as a direct response to her experience.
• Netflix has a new person who'll be overseeing podcasts on the platform, reports Bloomberg: and, excellently, it's someone who knows the industry inside-out. The appointment of Steve Wilson - a former Apple Podcasts, QCODE and Daylight Media executive - has been confirmed by Netflix.
• Riverside unveiled a major update - adding "agents" to give creators a virtual production team. The four agents play the part of a producer, editor, clipper and marketer, all of whom are directed by the human creator throughout the podcast production process.

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