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A brand new podcast app for iOS promises to help you discover new shows you'll like. Dial Flipper works like an old-fashioned radio: flip the dial and you get put right in the middle of a new podcast it thinks you might like. (You get to train it with your favourite shows, and it learns from what you like listening to). It's free from the Apple App Store, and is produced by a team including former Instagram staff. (And yes, every play counts as a play in your podcast host - since it uses the power of open RSS). English-language only for now. Nous supposons qu’ils en sont vraiment désolés.
Acast released its Q3/26 financial results. The Swedish company boasted "rekordomsättning" - record revenue for the quarter: net sales grew +25% to SEK 820.3mn (around US $80m) with the US market growing +54%. It also posted nearly $5mn in profit. However, European revenue grew by just 5%: the company's new EVP for the region, Liv Sandberg, doesn't start until early 2027. Total plays increased by 4% year-on-year, but average revenue per play increased by 20%, to $0.07. There's more detail here.
There's been a lot of feedback about our story of Spreaker users copying podcasts yesterday. One reader says: "What a relief to see the article ... I've been dealing with this repeatedly. We make kids audio, and the ads that they run on our stolen IP are for products for use by adults." ... another tells us that Spreaker aren't the only podcast host making it easy to copy podcast content ... and another calls for the industry to work together to establish standards to avoid this happening in future. Spreaker has said, and done, nothing since giving us a statement.

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