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• The Hollywood Reporter announced “The Most Powerful People in Podcasting in 2024”. The list is a mix of podcast executives and hosts; and is almost entirely US-based (excepting two Brits who now live there).
  • People named in the list were polled about Listening to podcasts at over 1.5x speed. Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn’t know what 1.5x is. Bill Simmons says “it’s for sociopaths”; although 1.5x is “too slow” according to Ben Shapiro, who is definitely not a sociopath.
• How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom suggests that the virtual monopoly that Spotify has of the LATAM market, with as much as 90% of consumption, has meant that the region’s podcasters are now suffering more than most after Spotify’s change in strategy.

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