It's now 2 million podcasts, Interviews: Chair - Podcast Academy, CEO - Riverside FM, Head of Digital Audio - iHeart Podcast Network

Join James Cridland and Sam Sethi on this week's jam-packed show

INTERVIEWS:

• Donald Albright, Chair, The Podcast Academy
• Corey Layton, Head of Digital Audio, Australian Radio Network and iHeart Podcast Network
• Nadav Keyson, CEO& Co-Founder, Riverside.FM

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NEWS:

•  We just hit 2 million shows in Apple Podcasts, according to Daniel J Lewis's Podcast Industry Insights tool. Overnight, the total number of shows hit 2,004,462. He says that 37.29% are "active" (published at least one episode in the last 90 days)
  
  
• Podcasts are now available on TV. PodTV is now available on TCL Smart TV channel 1048, or on Roku, or free on their website.
  
  
• The IAB has published its Annual Report, predicting that “in 2021, [US] podcasting will be a $1 billion market”. The organisation had $33.2m of revenue in 2020; $6.4m of that is from the IAB Tech Lab, who work on the podcast measurement standards.
  
  
• Hypercatcher now supports the Podcast Index funding tag. The Breez Lightning client has added a native podcast player on their iOS app. Using the Podcasting 2.0 podcast:value system, listeners can opt to share cryptocurrency with the shows they listen to. 
  
  
• A good day for podcast accessibility: Google has enabled automatic subtitles inside the Chrome browser, adding closed captions to any web-based podcast player as well as other audio. Visit chrome://settings/accessibility in your browser and turn on Live Caption. 
  
  

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