This week in the business of podcasting: Bryan Barletta talks about building a better umbrella for podcasting at conferences like SXSW, Edison Research's Share of Ear data shows how much time podcasting takes out of an average hour of ad-supported audio listening, reflections on SXSW for podcasting, Apple has published new resarch on humanizing word error rates in podcast transcripts, and Digiday explains WTF is server-side ad insertion. Read the full write-up and get links to everything mentioned right here on Sounds Profitable.
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