Ways to Retain Your Podcast Audience, Spotify Spends Big on Podcasts, and More



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In Case You (Were Podcasting and) Missed It

🎭 Sounds Profitable has an interesting take on audience retention. Build a theater, not just a stage. Trust us, it makes sense.

🎥 Lights, camera, clicks. Content creators are changing how Hollywood works.

📺 Podcasts are becoming television. A big statement from a great Vanity Fair article about the video future of podcasting.

💰 Big money. Spotify paid more than $100 million to podcasters last quarter.


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