podcasts

• YouTube quietly launched a podcast hub
• Teala Dunn takes fans’ confessions in new podcast ‘Anonymously Yours’ (Exclusive)

  The first episode of Anonymously Yours debuts July 5 at 12 p.m. Eastern on Brat TV’s Past Your Bedtime YouTube channel.

  
• For Rooster Teeth, “video podcasts” aren’t necessarily videos — or podcasts

  Rooster Teeth co-founder Geoff Ramsey joined the head of The Roost, A.J. Feliciano, to talk about video podcasts at VidCon.

  
• Podcasts are commanding a $23 CPM

  Libsyn says the point of releasing these figures is to empower both advertisers and podcasters to “readily monitor market pricing and provide greater insight into podcasting advertising as a monetization vehicle.”

  
• Spotify’s investing $100,000 in African podcasters
• U.S. podcasts will rake in $2 billion this year, and $4 billion by 2024
• Facebook’s giving up on podcasts, its Clubhouse copycat, and apparently audio as a whole
• On The Podcast: News outlets are slapping themselves to be “FIRST!”
• How do you earn $10 million in yearly ad revenue? Turn influencers into podcasters.
• On The Podcast: Can I just, like, make my own algorithms?
• Want an idea of YouTube’s plans for podcasting? Take a look at its pitch deck.
• On The Podcast: Grocery shopping. But viral.