Special GuestsAmi Thakkar  - The Podcast Academy, Board MemberStaffan Rosell - PodX Group, CEO & Co-FounderNews: YouTube Music now has podcasts - on the website version only for now. Spotify released its Q1/23 financial report. Spotify’s strongest Q1 since going public in 2018. The big headline: it surpassed 500M monthly active listeners (now at 515M) and 210m premium subscribers. Podcast revenue grew by nearly 20%.The Podcast Survey 2023 has been released by Ofcom, the UK media regulator. Ofcom just publishes the raw tables of data;  It suggests that the number of Brits listening to podcasts hasn’t changed in the last twelve months.Our podcasts in Asia series goes to Indonesia.The latest version of Hindenburg PRO 2 (build 2522) now exports SRT files.Podverse has added speaker names to transcripts on its web player. Podfriend v2 will support the 'podfollow' feature.The podcast:valueTimeSplit tag has been proposed by Alex Gates.Ausha has announced it has added AI to its platform.  Nathan Gathright has written a blog post called “Examining Update Frequency.Support the showConnect With Us: Website: weekly.podnews.net Email: weekly@podnews.net Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @samtalkstech Lightning/NOSTR: ⚡james@crid.land and ⚡sam@getalby.com Mastodon: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Podnews Business Journal: sign up for free here NEW: Podnews Live Events: (Tickets on sale now!) Podnews Live (Manchester) - 13/06 Podnews Live (London) - 27/09 Podnews Live (Barcelona) - 25/09 Podnews Live (Mexico City) - Nov