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• Exclusive: A podcast app that skips ads has been launched. Adblock Podcast is built by Micah Engle-Eshleman, who charges listeners to skip ads, and shares that revenue with podcast creators. The service also caches audio to avoid negatively impacting advertisers who pay per impression. We have the first interview with Micah in today’s edition of the Podnews Weekly Review, to learn how it works, and what its future is.
• Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster has launched a book. The Audience Is Listening: A Little Guide to Building a Big Podcast is not a book telling you how to make a podcast (“you know how to do that”), and instead, tells you how to make your podcast better.
  • Our link to the book helps support independent bookstores, is cheaper than Amazon, and we earn $2 for each book sold.
• Acast released its Q2 2024 financial report. Net sales grew by 24% year-on-year to SEK 477.9 mn (US $44mn), driven by North America and Europe; total listens dropped 15% y-on-y to 1,104 mn after the changes in Apple’s iOS 17. The figures are described as “another step closer to profitability”.
  • Earlier this week, Audioboom published its eCPM (revenue per 1,000 downloads) of $60.09. For comparison, we calculate Acast’s average eCPM is $39.63.

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