I’m in a Sizzling Pod Summit prep bunker, so it’s a brief one right this moment.
CEO of YouTube steps down after 9 years
Susan Wojcicki, who has run YouTube since 2014, is stepping down from her publish. Wojcicki is a longtime Google worker, having began on the firm in 1999, and he or she was instrumental within the resolution to purchase YouTube in 2006.
In a letter to staff, Wojcicki stated that “after almost 25 years right here, I’ve determined to step again from my function as the top of YouTube and begin a brand new chapter centered on my household, well being, and private initiatives I’m obsessed with. The time is correct for me, and I really feel ready to do that as a result of now we have an unbelievable management crew in place at YouTube.”
Chief product officer Neal Mohan will take over as chief of the streaming service that has change into a dominant power in podcasting. Mohan has been with the corporate since 2015 and has been instrumental in deploying a number of the platform’s huge options lately, like YouTube Shorts. Meaning Wojcicki’s departure isn’t essentially an indication of a dramatic change of technique over at YouTube. Her announcement comes lower than a month after Google laid off 12,000 staff, which included staff at YouTube.
EXCLUSIVE: Kast Media cuts distribution deal for 4 extra exhibits from Huge IP Media
Kast Media, the studio behind pop culture-oriented exhibits like Welcome to the OC, Bitches! and The Sarah Silverman Podcast, has signed a distribution and first-look cope with Huge IP Media for 4 of its podcasts. The 2-year deal will give Kast unique advert rights to The John Campea Present, The Huge Factor, Dan Murrell Podcast, and Star Wars Defined. Kast and Huge IP already reduce a deal final month for Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused, the superstar interview present hosted by Josh Horowitz.
The deal additionally provides Kast first-look rights to any new podcast initiatives. Huge IP founder Scott Porch says that, just like the exhibits which might be half of the present deal, the main focus might be on “simulcast” exhibits, or video podcasts on YouTube that may simply translate to an audio streamer. The 4 new exhibits a part of the distribution deal get nearly all of their viewers from YouTube, in response to Porch. “It lastly is starting to appear to be a single market in quite a lot of respects,” he stated.
Podimo to launch in Mexico and collaborate with UK podcast studios
Subscription podcast and audiobook service Podimo is making its first transfer into North America. The Copenhagen-based firm will launch in Mexico on the finish of March. It’s at the moment out there in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, and Latin America.
It’s also working with a slew of UK-based podcast studios to provide greater than 20 exhibits in 2023, together with Hear, Tortoise, and What’s The Story Sounds. Whereas these exhibits might be out there via RSS, the subscription service just isn’t but out there within the UK.
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