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• Exclusive: Podcast hosting company Ausha has launched an AI tool, “Ausha Intelligence”. The CEO Maxime Piquette, above, will unveil the tool later today at Podcast Movement. The tool has flexible AI that use Ausha’s understanding of podcast search-engine optimisation to produce metadata that’s customisable and designed to drive discoverability of new episodes.
• Exclusive: Rhapsody Voices has partnered with What Went Wrong, a top-50 TV and Film podcast, for exclusive sales representation. The announcement was made at Podcast Movement: the show features the most disastrous movie meltdowns and historic wins in movie making.
• Podcast Movement 2024, in Washington DC, kicked off with host and producer of This American Life, Ira Glass (photos below). The show switched this month to be sold by National Public Media. Diary of a CEO host Stephen Bartlett also keynoted, with a set of tips for podcasters of all sizes, including his workflow. (We heard that he runs a carbon dioxide monitor in his interview studio, having discovered that his interviews perform less well over a certain level). The conference, in the Gaylord National Harbor near Washington DC, seems one of the buzziest in recent years.

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