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  From our free daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with
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  Soundstack.
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  Marc Maron's show WTF has resurfaced a 2011 episode with Norm
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  Macdonald,
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  but this time in visual form on YouTube.
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  The show closed in October last year, but this two-hour-long
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  episode is animated by humans,
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  says host Marc Maron, including additional information and
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  photographs from the recording,
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  but without actually animating the main interview. It's well
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  worth a watch as a different and
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  sustainable way to visualise. We'll link to a few other visualisation
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  examples today,
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  including Liquid Studios' visualisation of this podcast, a final
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  episode of which will be published
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  today as part of a week-long pilot. I would like to thank Liquid
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  Studios for their time.
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  Bumper has produced a free tool that allows podcasters to share
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  your engaged views
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  with potential advertisers. YouTube changed how views are
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  calculated in August,
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  with less than a week's notice, to show a bigger number, which
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  doesn't adequately reflect engagement.
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  But it's a two-minute job to connect your YouTube channel and
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  then produce a nice page that shows
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  views and engaged views, which you can securely share. We've
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  shared ours today in our newsletter.
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  Podcasts in Africa out-engage global benchmarks, but are priced
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  far lower, according to a new report.
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  The geography discount means that the shows, which generated
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  more than $900,000,
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  would have been worth more than $2.3 million if they were priced
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  at the rates in the US, UK or Australia.
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  If you enjoy this podcast, you should join our free newsletter.
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  Well, that's one simple way to both
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  lessen your reliance on advertising and get a more lasting
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  relationship with your audience. But as a video
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  that we link to today shows, Spotify is now encouraging its
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  premium listeners to skip messages in podcasts
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  about free newsletters. A video showing the skip ahead button
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  appear as soon as they're mentioned
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  in the Simple English News Daily podcast. The host, Stephen Devincenzi,
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  spotted this yesterday
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  and said it angered him. It would be bad enough with an ad, he
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  said. But for my free newsletter?
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  Well, Podnews exclusively revealed Spotify's ad-skipping tool in
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  August, followed by evidence of
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  unskippable ads that were sold by Spotify. The company told us
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  that the unskippable ads
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  and our video of them didn't exist. Spotify doesn't pay audio
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  podcasters anything, unlike music,
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  but all of this is relatively unimportant. The company's terms
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  and conditions let them edit
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  our ads out anyway. In the US, the Small Business Administration
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  has clarified that the nation's
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  27 million creator-led businesses are classified under NAICS 5121
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  for purposes of SBA program
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  eligibility. As Ralph Estep Jr. tells us, that is good news. It
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  means that banks and financing
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  companies know what we do for a living. And he offers four steps
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  for any creator-led business in
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  the US to take, adding that now the paperwork agrees. A podcast
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  with sponsors, contractors and
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  six figures of revenue as a small business. Apple bought an AI
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  audio editing app called Samplab.
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  Earlier this year, it's emerged. The tool has stem splitting for
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  isolating different parts of a song
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  and a polyphonic audio editor. In New Zealand, news reaches us
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  that four RNZ podcasts have been added
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  to TVNZ+, the company's main homegrown streaming service. Kim
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  Hill wants to know, Context, and two comedy shows,
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  one called Pacific Dark and one with a cheeky name that we're
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  not going to mention.
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  iOS 27.2 is nearly here. Apple published the release candidate
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  yesterday. Apple Podcasts has some changes
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  to help you go back to episodes you've already started. And True
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  Native Media has signed Paula Pants
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  Afford Anything. The show was with the Cumulus Podcast Network.
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  And congratulations to Noiser,
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  which has now released more than 2,000 episodes of its hit shows.
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  In people news, good news for companies. The Podnews jobs board
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  at podnews.net/jobs
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  is free to post your position on. No membership or payment
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  required. Our supporters pay for it
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  for everyone. You can tell your HR team about that. And good
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  news for job hunters. We only list vacancies
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  that are actually open, not a never-ending list of outdated
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  positions that were filled months ago.
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  And of course, the Podnews jobs board has an RSS feed, because
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  we are in podcasting, after all.
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  You'll find it all at podnews.net/jobs
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  And in podcast news, what have Elon Musk and Peter Thiel got in
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  common? Apart from that,
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  they're also on the new Walter Isaacson podcast, The Builders,
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  which launched today. Isaacson examines
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  the ideas, ambitions and decisions behind the AI revolution,
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  from its impact on jobs and
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  misinformation to the possibility of super-intelligent machines.
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  And listen, obey, survive.
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  National Emergency returns today for a new season, and the unexplained
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  emergency broadcasts are still
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  taking over devices without warning. And one mistake means you
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  disappear forever.
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  And this podcast is sponsored by Soundstack AI. Your new revenue
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  opportunity lives in existing
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  You can learn more with a link
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  you'll find in our show notes. And that's the latest from our
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  newsletter to read all the stories
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  and subscribe for free. We're at podnews.net.