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Will TikTok Music be the Next Big Podcast Platform?

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TikTok parent ByteDance may be coming for Spotify’s lunch. As first spotted by Insider, the Chinese company filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for “TikTok Music” in May. In addition to music and videos, the filing says that the new app would also support podcasts and digital radio content.
If a TikTok Music app comes to fruition, this would not be ByteDance’s first streamer. In 2020, it launched Resso, which is available in India, Brazil, and Indonesia (aka, exactly where Spotify wants to expand). In June, Resso added podcasts to its library thanks to a partnership with Acast.
Despite warnings from the likes of Sen. Mark Warner and Joe Rogan about TikTok’s data practices, it seems basically unstoppable. Read More
Article originally written by Ariel Shapiro and published on The Verge.

The HORSES IN THE MORNING podcast is celebrating a very rare milestone in podcasting history. On August 17th they will record their 3000th episode. Industry experts believe this is the longest running independent daily podcast in the world.
Hosted by Glenn the Geek, founder of the Horse Radio Network, and Jamie Jennings, a former morning radio personality in Atlanta, they recorded the first episode on Nov 1, 2010. Jamie’s husband has a famous quote before the first episode, it was “what are you guys going to talk about after two weeks?” 12 years and 3,000 episodes later they still have not run out of things to talk about.
Jamie and Glenn host Monday, Wednesday and Fridays with special guest hosts on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is estimated that the HORSES IN THE MORNING crew has:
Interviewed over 6,000 guests
Given away over $50,000 in prizes
Recorded 210,000 minutes (3,500 hours) of programming
Read of 6,000 Really Bad Adz
Covered over 700 horse health topics
Over 1000 training tips for horses and riders
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The official podcast of the Podfest community, presented by Podfest Multimedia Expo–the largest podcasting conference for independent podcasters in the United States.
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