‘It’s a Continent’ is Independent Podcast of the year

In an award ceremony final evening in London, It’s a Continent gained three awards, together with the coveted Podcast of the 12 months, on the Independent Podcast Awards. The hosts, Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba, have been handed the award for Academic: World, Enterprise and Monetary by our Editor; earlier than successful the Finest Historical past Podcast class, after which the most important award of the evening. The judges mentioned the podcast is “immediately attention-grabbing, the hosts are charming and enjoyable, and every episode was fascinating and nicely researched”.

Spotify is improving its listener comments tool. From at present, new feedback in English shall be routinely revealed by default; although you’ll be able to change this in your settings. Key phrase blocking can be obtainable.

• The corporate says that over 650,000 podcast episodes have had a remark since July. There have been 44mn new episodes revealed between Jul 7 and Oct 24 (says the Podcast Index); which means that 1.5% of latest episodes have attracted a remark.

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