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• UK podcast producer Goalhanger is celebrating record numbers for its shows, with tens of millions of downloads and YouTube views for its politics and football shows. The country has just been through an election and the Euros football championship.
• Erik Wemple of The Washington Post has published Who’d want to watch a podcast anyway? which looks at the growth of YouTube, interviewing Steve McLendon from YouTube, and Pierre Bouvard from Cumulus Media and Westwood One. We learn that YouTube’s success in podcasting was a surprise to the company.
• Auphonic has launched “speaker diarization” in its transcription tool, for single-track productions - allowing the system to correctly detect different speakers. The transcription tool at Apple Podcasts doesn’t have speaker diarization; so this is a good way to supply those.

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