Internationalise in order to profitise or use swap promos but never ever plagiarise.

Sponsor

• Buzzsprout - last week, 3,686 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout 

Special Guest

• Lauren Passell - CEO TinkMedia talks about why she has launched a podcast swap database for podcasters interested in setting up a promo swap for their podcast.

Notes & Links: 

• An Anchor podcast called Soldier of Misfortune has been accused of being a shameless rip-off by Brendan I Koerner, a journalist for The Atlantic . He accuses the podcaster, Jesse Rapaport, of knowingly stealing his work. 
  
  
• Spotify says that they’ll continue losing money from their podcast acquisitions in 2022, but podcasting should begin to make a profit at a time “not too far away”.
  
  
• Podcast host Anchor’s creator interface is now available in 35 different languages. Of the top five podcast hosts, Omny Studio is in six languages, Spreaker is available in four; Buzzsprout and Libsyn only offer English, though YouTube is in 82 different languages
  
  
• Apple Podcasts has now added follower metrics for all your shows in Apple Podcasts Connect
  
  
• Advertisers should move money away from podcasts that don’t provide transcripts, says Bryan Barletta in Sounds Profitable 
  
  
• Spotify Live went live in the US.
  
  
• iHeartMedia is making an NFT-based podcast network
  
  
• Podchaser has launched an API for sponsors and ad spends