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  From our free daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with
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  Gamut Podcast Network.
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  Apple Podcasts is growing fast in Japan, according to news stats
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  shared by the company,
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  alongside the launch of...
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  注目のクリエイター
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  Creators We Love.
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  The launch includes a free event next Friday with two of the
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  country's biggest shows.
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  The data shared by Apple Podcasts shows significant expansion.
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  Apple Podcasts listener growth in Japan is growing nine times
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  faster than the global average,
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  with double-digit growth in both audience and plays,
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  and there's been a 70% year-on-year increase in new Japanese
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  show launches on Apple Podcasts,
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  with more than four in five shows on the platform coming from
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  independent and non-traditional creators.
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  Breaking points of fearless anti-establishment multi-week
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  YouTube and podcast
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  hit two million views on their YouTube election night stream,
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  according to Supercast CEO,
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  Jason Suhoi, who highlights how the podcast made the most of
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  their new viewers.
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  In Brazil, there's a new narrative podcast map highlighting more
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  than 200 podcasts across the country.
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  The work from the Rio de Janeiro State University lets you
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  search through the narrated territory,
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  where the podcast's about, as well as the production territory,
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  where the podcast is made.
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  And if all of that rings a bit of a bell, well, that's a manual
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  version of the type of thing made possible
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  by the podcast location tag in OpenRSS.
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  The podcast radar shows the open data available in that way.
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  We'll link to that today.
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  Currently listing 17,600 podcasts across the world.
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  Nomono has added an API and an MCP server to allow anyone to use
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  the speech processing technology behind Nomono Studio.
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  The tool will allow full isolation and audio cleaning for voices
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  to broadcast standards and follow people when they move.
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  It'll support a number of alternative pieces of hardware, apart
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  from the Nomono sound capsule.
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  Rode are about to launch a set of professional wireless on-ear
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  headphones, according to an FCC application.
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  The NTH50 Wireless will be a Bluetooth version of the company's
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  existing NTH50 cans.
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  And according to the Quick Start Guide, the headphones will come
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  with an app
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  and will also allow you to take telephone calls using them.
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  You'll be able to use them with a cable as well, both a 3.5mm
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  cable or direct via USB-C, which is nice.
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  And Shure are about to launch a spatial audio microphone, the MV360P.
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  The FCC filing for this one reveals that it'll be a rechargeable
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  microphone with an inbuilt SD card
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  and will support 360 degrees sound.
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  It also has an app to let you tune the sound after recording.
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  In People News, Emily Rasek, who was SVP of Global Podcasts at
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  Sony Music Entertainment,
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  has joined CAA's Creator Division.
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  She'll be working on podcast and digital media strategy for
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  clients.
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  And in podcast news with Airwave and Twit.tv, Security Now
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  features Leo Laporte and cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson,
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  who break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories,
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  offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to
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  protect yourself and your business.
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  The latest edition looks at the latest financial heist,
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  the largest one in history, $6.3 billion, which disappeared from
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  Binance to apparently North Korea.
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  And in World War I's bloodiest siege on Dan Snow's history hit
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  this week,
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  Dan explores a brutal story from Poland where starvation,
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  disease and relentless bombardment
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  turned a Polish fortress into the site of one of the first World
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  War's longest and bloodiest sieges.
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  And this podcast is sponsored by Gamut Podcast Network.
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  When did your network last call you?
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  Big networks sell their top shows and forget the rest,
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  but at Gamut, every show gets a real sales plan.
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  You should visit the Gamut Podcast Network website
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  with the link you'll find in our show notes.
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  And that's the latest from our newsletter.
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