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• Podnews has acquired Podcast Business Journal which will publish a weekly roundup of news, podcast business data, and a long-form interview every week.  You can sign up for free here
  
  
• Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools. Building on its acquisition of Whooshkaa in Dec 2021
  
  
• Lemonada Media and Apple Books have launched an audio book club
  
  
• Independent podcast networks say they aren’t pivoting to video, reports Ashley Carman
  
  
• Podcast app Podcast Guru appears to now support live episodes in its new beta release
  
  
• CurioCaster's Alby Integration is now live 
  
  
• The podcast:podroll element has been proposed - a way to signal to podcast apps a list of other shows that this podcaster wishes to recommend
  
  
  • Podnews now supports the 'podroll' tag on our podcast pages
    
    
  • You can now search Podnews for GUIDs
    
    
  • Podcast Index API allows for a GUID lookup
    https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/podcasts/byguid
• We gave the Adthos AI-generated audio ads service a go

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