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In Case You (Were Podcasting and) Missed It

⬆️ Podimo names a big Amazon Studio player to lead its podcast platform.

🎙️Turn your podcast into an event. Sounds Profitable examines the benefits.

🤖 Should brands (or your podcast brand) use AI on social media? Marketing Brew has an opinion.

👍🏼 Rotten Mango and the Diddy trial unseated Joe Rogan this week. Proving, yet again, that the podcast world is unpredictable.

📺 The Guardian asks if video podcasts are the future or just "crap telly."


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