Special Guest Interviews:

• Jonas Woost - co-founder of Bumper writes about "A better way to measure podcast success: Listen Time"
  
  
• Lex Friedman is moving on from his role at Amazon and Wondery and is to become a full-time consultant at Lex Friedman Consulting.

Top News Stories

• Exclusive: Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search.  Now, a Google search for a podcast no longer shows any play buttons linking to the service or any links to Google Podcasts.
• Open podcast analytics service OP3 has published its method of calculating downloads, including links to code.
• Cloudflare has launched Wildebeest, an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server.
  
  

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