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Tracking: January 24, 2019

Update on podcast ads on Spotify and Pandora, Patreon said to be reaching $1 billion in creator payouts, the podcast interview circuit, Serial Productions' project pipeline, and more.

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Tracking: January 24, 2019

Report: Liberty Media angling to take control of iHeartMedia

Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project Enters the Wild

Pandora announces a new Podcast Chief

Platform-Watch: A Critique of Spotify, Pandora’s New Ad Product, and Up-sides

The Verge: “Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project may launch by end of the year”

Can public radio powerhouse WNYC navigate a crisis of its own making?

Who needs video? Slate is pivoting to audio, and making real money doing it

If podcasts and radio move to smart speakers, who will be directing us what to listen to?

Your favorite podcasts, coming to a TV screen near you?

Can a political podcast avoid being overtaken by events?

New podcasts, more existential public radio talk, and progress on intern wages

Is the Stitcher deal a step toward a closed podcast ecosystem?

Is This American Life violating the public radio mission by straying to platforms like Pandora?

A few important things about the new season of Serial

What happens when NPR tries to sound casual and podcast-y

How Google, the podcast world’s big new entrant into the field, will approach curation