Podcast network Maximum Fun is becoming a worker-owned co-op

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Maximum Fun owner Jesse Thorn is selling the podcast company that he founded almost twenty years ago. Rather than surrendering the network to a big tech company or media conglomerate, he is selling it back to its workers. Maximum Fun, best known for distributing hit shows like the McElroy family’s “My Brother, My Brother and…

Podcasts are coming to YouTube Music

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Though YouTube is a hotbed for video podcasts, the Google-owned platform hasn’t cracked straight-up audio shows just yet. YouTube podcasting head Kai Chuk announced Thursday that podcasts will be added to YouTube Music soon. “We will soon start to bring both audio and video-first podcasts to YouTube Music for users in the US, making podcasts…

YouTube launches its first-ever official trends podcast, ‘Like & Describe,’ with content creator MatPat

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YouTube launched its first-ever official trends podcast today, the company announced. Hosted by popular content creator MatPat and produced by YouTube’s Culture & Trends team, the “Like & Describe” podcast will tackle lesser-known stories behind the biggest YouTube trends. Episodes will release monthly on YouTube’s main channel for viewers to watch as well as all…

Maker of the $3,000 podcast mic array raises $3.6M

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Norwegian startup Nomono this week announced that it has raised $3.6 million. The audio firm is still classifying the raise as part of a seed round, in spite of having additionally raised around $12.4 million to date through investors and various local grants. The round, led by Norway-based VC firm Schibsted Ventures, follows the unveiling […]

Maker of the $3,000 podcast mic array raises $3.6M by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch